Jermaine Dupri and Brian Michael Cox in the Lab

Great vid of Jermaine Dupri and Brian Michael Cox crafting a pair of beats for Anthony Hamilton's latest project. We get a pretty good glimpse at their workflow. I love listening to these guys studio banter. Very informative. Plus any vid containing somebody chopping and programming samples on an mpc3000 is a good one.

Vanderslice Beats

in this clip, ill producer Eric Vanderslice showcases a few gems.  The SP606 has relatively low key existence but Vanderslice has mastered the unit and manages to use it to twist out his dark, menacing, signature sound.  If you're not up on big homey do yourself a favor and check some of his stuff!

Bink! working on a beat for the MMJB

BINK! X MMJB: Session from Michael Béon on Vimeo.

Bink! workin on a track for the Money makin Jam boys. Bink slappin greatness out of the mpc3000 as always.

Questlove Flips a sample and (SURPRISE) plays drums over it!

Legendary drummer for of the Roots gives you a rare glimpse into his production process. Watch as he uses a beat machine called the drums. He goes on to explains the lengths he has to go to in order to get a Michael Phillips Thomas sample to sound ill. Questo also gives us a good look at his drum-tech as he makeshift-mic's the drums with electric tape. Its great to see the process of people playing live drums over production. Love it

Check out the flip below!!!!



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Mphazes Beatmaking Workshop (Tutorial pt 1)

Amazing Australian based producer Mphazes demonstrates a track during a recent Production workshop he conducted in South Africa. This act of selflessness allowed Mphazes to act as an ambassador for authentic hip hop and explain how we can all share a passion for music that expands beyond nationality, color and creed.

He also took the time out to showcase some amazing beats. Please enjoy!:

Evidence making a beat

Nice lil clip of Evidence (of Dilated Peoples)making a beat that would go on to become "Kindness for weakness" from Dilated Peoples second lp "20/20". Nice to see footage of the ASR-10 being worked on. Very dope machine.

Dwele making a beat...song

Very innovative clip of soulful Motor City genius Dwele creating a conceptual production based video that evolves into a very soulful vignette. Very Creative, but what else would you expect from Dwele.

Ryan Leslie makes "Maybachs and Diamonds"

In this widely viewed video Ryan Leslie effortlessly creates a soulful 80's tinged sound-bed, complete with some amazing analogue synth riffs, for Rick Ross to weave an elegant narrative to.  Very interested to see where this song ends up as it seems to have missed Ross's "Deeper than Rap" and "Teflon Don" lps.

Boola chopping a sample on the 3000

Short but sweet. Boola, (Young Chris, Neef, Beanie Siegal, Freeway, and a slew of other Roc affiliates) chops up a sample in his trusty mpc 3000. Not a whole lot of content here, but I always find it interesting to see somebody chopping on the 3k. Love that machine!

J Dilla Documentary

"J.Dilla: Still Shining" from B.Kyle on Vimeo.

Must see!