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Andrew Noz

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Beat Construction: El-P

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every other week, with Beat Construction, an extension of our column in the magazine, we aim to illuminate the role … read more »

POSTED May 14, 2012 7:15PM IN Beat Construction Comments (6) TAGS: , ,
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Beat Construction: Mike Will Made It

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every other week, with Beat Construction, an extension of our column in the magazine, we aim to illuminate the role … read more »

POSTED April 30, 2012 7:00PM IN Beat Construction Comments (3) TAGS: , , ,
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Beat Construction: Kenoe

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. In some songs, the producer is both the band leader and the band, yet his or her name is often … read more »

POSTED April 16, 2012 11:45AM IN Beat Construction Comments (1) TAGS: , ,
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Beat Construction: KY Engineering

As crucial as the producer is, they’re not the only set of ears in the studio. For this installment of Beat Construction we go further down the hip-hop assembly line to talk to an even … read more »

POSTED April 2, 2012 1:30PM IN Beat Construction Comments (7) TAGS: , , ,
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GEN F: Young Sam

The best trends tend to outlast their shelf lives. In 2009, the limber-legged teenage dance craze known as jerkin took Los Angeles by storm, fueled by appropriately energetic bedroom raps and electro beats. The scene … read more »

POSTED April 2, 2012 9:25AM IN GEN F TAGS: , , , , ,
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Beat Construction: FKi

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. In some songs, the producer is both the band leader and the band, yet his or her name is often … read more »

POSTED March 19, 2012 12:30PM IN Beat Construction Comments (1) TAGS: , , , ,
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Beat Construction: Harry Fraud

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. In some songs, the producer is both the band leader and the band, yet his or her name is often … read more »

POSTED March 5, 2012 12:00PM IN Beat Construction Comments (4) TAGS: ,
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Interview: Ab-Soul

As our recent Black Hippy cover story showed, the Los Angeles rap quartet is a complex compound of several moving parts. None, perhaps, more complex than Ab-Soul. Perpetually hidden behind a pair of shades (he … read more »

POSTED February 27, 2012 7:12PM IN MUSIC INTERVIEWS, MUSIC NEWS Comments (2) TAGS: , , , , ,

Black Hippy: A View from the Center

As Black Hippy, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q rewrite rap’s future. The inauspicious nerve center for Los Angeles’ most promising hip-hop movement is the back room of a residential home at the … read more »

POSTED February 20, 2012 9:02PM IN FEATURES Comments (58) TAGS: , , , , , , , ,
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Memphis Rap: Parting the Dark Clouds

Can Memphis rappers reclaim the sound of their city and still find success? Memphis can feel pretty barren to the uninitiated. Locals tend to herd visitors instinctively, if not to Graceland then to its eerily … read more »

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