Like dance music hip hop has so many styles and variations. Would be awesome to start a series on it!
id like to hear a freestyle rap session by the sonic crew layered over some beats
[quote]tommyt (26/02/2010)[hr]id like to hear a freestyle rap session by the sonic crew layered over some beats[/quote]
No thank you. British hip hop sucks.
[quote]howiegroove (26/02/2010)[hr][quote]tommyt (26/02/2010)[hr]id like to hear a freestyle rap session by the sonic crew layered over some beats[/quote]
No thank you. British hip hop sucks.[/quote]
LOL have you heard the Next Men ? or the Streets? and what the Whole Grime Underground stuff. boo Howie lol
The Streets are tight, but you guys need to get rid of that Dizee Rascal character. That guy is a dope!
The Streets is very good. But American Hip Hop is so cookie cutter. maybe more garage style hip hop would be nice??? grime or dub?
I love some Underground **** ! man . those Square synth lines are just sick .check this out
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No thank you… Hip Hop definitely not my style.
[quote]jhanner (26/02/2010)[hr]The Streets is very good. But American Hip Hop is so cookie cutter. maybe more garage style hip hop would be nice??? grime or dub?[/quote]
You want some real hiphop, check out the Roots, Jurassic 5, or Dilated Peoples.
Not so cookie cutter dude. I could care less about Lil Wayne and those other cats. Thats just for the radio. Crap, its not even hip hop.
Roots Manuva. Say no more. 
doesn’t matter what type of hip hop fan you are. The production process is really unique. Sampling, drums, patterns, synths etc. Theres a whole another world outside of dance music people
[quote]djnick33 (01/03/2010)[hr]doesn’t matter what type of hip hop fan you are. The production process is really unique. Sampling, drums, patterns, synths etc. Theres a whole another world outside of dance music people[/quote]
I agree
i fully agree.
im about to start watching the dubstep tutorial and i’d really like to see a hip hop one (cubase preferably) in the style of j dilla, pete rock, dj premier etc with loads of sampling techniques (although that may be difficult because of copyright) and then maybe another one on a more west coast vibe (dr dre, daz dillinger etc)
there is a hip hop drum example in the rhytm tutorial on this site. Check it out. It’s not much but it’s the base where you can start from.
I agree! Hip-Hop would be really cool
The thing around hip hop, is that its very very sample based. I know that it might be an issue, but you need to sample other peoples stuff in hip hop. Are you breaking copywrite laws? I think that if you sample a snippet of a song from 1961, and its a super short riff or a brass section, you really think someone is gonna come after you? No way. There is a fine line. Did you make a worldwide hit from a riff that just so happens to be the main lead from the song “Under Pressure” by Queen, then thats a bit different. Also good to toss out using “Superfreak” by Rick James as the main riff for your song. But if you take a small section and freak it… I dont think you have anything to worry about.
So in the end, I’m not condoning it, but know that EVERYONE that makes hiphop samples the **** out of commercially released songs.
[quote]djnick33 (01/03/2010)[hr]doesn’t matter what type of hip hop fan you are. The production process is really unique. Sampling, drums, patterns, synths etc. Theres a whole another world outside of dance music people[/quote]
Oh… I hope I’m not about to re-open a can of worms, but we have had that discussion before!..
Unfortunately SA seems to favor a certain kind of music with the same old 4x4 pumping kick drum aka dance music and related genres (the new one: synth punk sounds to me like most of the other how-to-sound-like-tuts posted in the last year)!
I’m desperately looking for SA to cover anything else but dance music: ambient, space music, psy-amb, berlin school/sequencer based electronica, chill out. I ask only for something with a little melody in it or something with a real groove!..
Anyway I support your request for SA to try to reach out to the paying members of this site that are not into dance music!..
[quote]zenstories (09/06/2010)[hr][quote]djnick33 (01/03/2010)[hr]doesn’t matter what type of hip hop fan you are. The production process is really unique. Sampling, drums, patterns, synths etc. Theres a whole another world outside of dance music people[/quote]
Oh… I hope I’m not about to re-open a can of worms, but we have had that discussion before!..
Unfortunately SA seems to favor a certain kind of music with the same old 4x4 pumping kick drum aka dance music and related genres (the new one: synth punk sounds to me like most of the other how-to-sound-like-tuts posted in the last year)!
I’m desperately looking for SA to cover anything else but dance music: ambient, space music, psy-amb, berlin school/sequencer based electronica, chill out. I ask only for something with a little melody in it or something with a real groove!..
Anyway I support your request for SA to try to reach out to the paying members of this site that are not into dance music!..
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Unfortunately, it might be on the lower end of the list till there becomes more interest in it. There is however, plenty of tutorials on youtube with regards to hip hop. Google works great!
Some hip hop basslines kick serious ***. Deep and powerful, I could see those programming techniques working really well for getting some deep house/tech basslines.