Hip-hop as a genre is getting more attention from the music industry in Nashville. A good thing! But not all hip-hop music is the same, nor are the ways in which hip-hop music is made. The old technique (i.e. sampling) is as popular as ever, but in certain aspects, it is different from when it was introduced.
Once a month, a group of producers gathers together to play each other’s tracks they are working on. Music City Producers, based out of Madison, hosts producers of all types of hip-hop and its derivatives: boom-bap, trap, R&B, lo-fi, EDM, trance, club, etc.
Today, we meet some of the producers and talk with them about their music, how they create it and why samples are important to how they work.
We also follow the process of how to use samples to create a hip-hop song. Hip-hop artist M Slago will travel with host Khalil Ekulona as they venture into a record store to shop for vinyl, head back to the studio to listen, and create their own hip-hop track for all to hear.
Guests
- Kamaal Malak, musician, Arrested Development; Artist In Residence at Vanderbilt University
- Jason Rawls, aka J Rawls, hip-hop musician and Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop at Ohio State University
- Corey Parker aka Just Vybes, musician, producer
- Johnathan Harris aka Jon Jyzzle, musician, producer
- Sims Lester, aka The Orbit Sound
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