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    Showcase - July 26 - August 2, 2015

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    Finger smelling rappers

    As I wrote about years ago in this article, rappers often have that finger-smelling pose. I don't know why. How is it so difficult to hold the mic? WTF.
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    Showcase - July 20-26, 2015

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    Interviews Recently Winning the Beat This! Competition, He's Still Looking to Elev8te

    Elev8te is all about the music. With smooth beats and a heavy influence from the golden era 90's Hip Hop, as well as other genres such as Soul, Jazz, and R&B, he continues to bang out the beats and work with artists on various projects. He recently won the Beat This! Competition by flipping...
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    So apparently Lil Wayne is a target

    http://uproxx.com/smokingsection/2015/07/young-thug-birdman-lil-wayne-indictment/ They're saying Birdman and Young Thug (I still can't believe these names) tried to have Wayne killed? WTF, what is this, an episode of ID?
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    Elzhi - Someone As Real As Her (1998)

    This is one of the smoothest Hip Hop tracks I ever heard. Really really dope.
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    Key and Peele: Clear History

    LOL I couldn't stop laughing:
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    50 Cent broke?

    He can't possibly be broke! http://pagesix.com/2015/07/13/50-cent-declares-bankruptcy/ According to that, he's doing this so as to avoid paying some woman over a sex tape or something. Still, if he's broke, then he should be forced to wear a dunce cap.
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    Beat This - July 17-18, 2015

    The next competition will be from July 17-18th! See the information below. Signups The signups will be on July 17th at around 8am ET, and end around 8pm ET. Voting will be for 1 day, on July 18th, where the results will be posted the same day. The Signup page is here (it will open up on the...
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    Production Vinyl: The Resurging Relic

    I'm going to be a bit nostalgic here; Hip Hop in the 90's saw a plethora of great music and that is why today people worldwide still talk about it. For those old enough to remember Rap music in the 80's, it also saw a great surge in popularity, resulting in arguably the best era ever. Some may...
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    Showcase - July 13-19, 2015

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    The GZA writes about lost lyricism

    https://medium.com/cuepoint/gza-speaks-the-lost-art-of-lyricism-ee84510e7268 Great read. He's right when he says that rappers today are not even mentioning emcees or lyricism! It's common knowledge that today everyone wants to either portray an image, or emulate something they're not. That's...
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    Akai introduces the next generation of the MPD

    Now with this, I'm very very surprised they're doing this because I can't see why someone would be buying this instead of the Renaissance or Maschine. When they came out with the Ren, I thought that was the direction they were going in because the MPD was never on point like the Ren, especially...
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    Make the Arturia BeatStep Pro the Next Addition to Your Studio

    Prepare to be blown away - Arturia has come out with a really fascinating piece of hardware, the BeatStep Pro. When I first heard about it, it was a bit confusing at first because it looked like a straight up USB controller, when in fact it's so much more than that. What Is It? The Arturia...
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    Ice Cube - "The Wrong Nigga To Fuck Wit" (1991)

    So here we have a really hard track by the one and only Ice Cube. Back in 1991 when this shit dropped, my head exploded. But this is such a dope song because it was a solid follow up to Amerikkka's Most Wanted:
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    Attack of the Beats! - Battle #58

    Episode #58 is up! TRACK LIST: KCee - "Intro Beat" Kyllah - "Bossd Up" Mitenberg - "Psycho" Shuka4Beats - "Real Deal" Tommie Kitt - "Hood Rich"
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    Showcase - July 6-12, 2015

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    20 of the best Hip Hop albums of 1995

    Great list. Not sure about some of the placings but it's good nonetheless: https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-20-best-hip-hop-albums-of-1995-66f6a9915b35 Many of those on that list are easily in my top all time favorites, and it's interesting that they mention Liquid Swords as being a winter...
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    Production Make Better Beats by Listening Carefully When Sampling

    Talk to any Hip Hop producer that uses samples and they will tell you that they're always on the lookout for "that" loop. The one that will make their beat blow up and be one of the best beats anyone has ever heard. It's been done many times before, from the Sugar Hill Gang all the way to...
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    Happy Canada Day!

    To all my fellow Canucks. Word.
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