Who is the oldest rapper alive? That’s a question I get asked quite a bit. I was thinking about a list of rappers who died under 30. We had a few rappers in the mid-90s who didn’t make the cut – N.W.A., Raekwon, Cypress Hill, DJ Premier, Busta Rhymes – and not a lot of […]
It’s the biggest of all the bars in rap. Even before we knew what an MP3 was, we understood all of its possibilities and we were already obsessed with the whole concept of being in a bar. All the things that make bar music feel different — the music, the lighting, the atmosphere, everyone that […]
I mean, Alexa is Alexa.” You know, you can make something as simple as a song, but if you want to go deep deep down in the track, you’ve got to really make it special. I think it’s a very hard thing to accomplish. M.O: It definitely takes a lot of time, but I guess […]
“I don’t really hear rappers using beats. I’m sure there are a million ways to make beats, and there are tons of ways to be awesome in music. I don’t really listen to anything because I’m already a good DJ. I think it’s a good question because, as far as me as a DJ, I’m […]
They’re the bars that represent a sound. If a rapper has good raps, but he doesn’t have good beats, that’s OK — if people don’t like what he’s doing, no one likes what he’s doing.” Cavalli has said in the past how rappers “are trying to find where they fit in the music world.” For […]
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Let’s take Kanye West’s $70 million payday as a starting point. The average American rapper makes $9 million a year. Most of Kanye’s money is coming from his album sales, but there is another side of the equation where he earns significant money from tours, videos, appearances and endorsements. But what are the numbers? A […]
If you do a song, make sure you have enough bar size to play in it’s entirety. For example, lets say you have 1 song. You play the entire song. If you then have 2 songs, play two 2 bars longer and then one. If the length are too long, the song will be played […]
When talking about the amount of time it takes to get from one point in time to another, it is commonly accepted that the first four bars of the bar should be 4 seconds apart. But that can be simplified a bit if we define time to be the total time from the onset of […]
Is there a rhyme scheme that they do? Is there a hip hop history book on them? I can tell you, there’s more out of the closet in the rap game now than just about any other time in history. There’s more of us than there ever was. So how many out there, even as […]