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Hip Hop News: Justin's celeb filled 16th birthday party
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Hip Hop News: KY talks The Carter 4 (Lil Wayne engineer)
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KY & Lil Wayne
Recording Engineer Finis White, better known as KY has one of the most important jobs in the music industry. He is Lil Wayne’s right hand man/engineer in the studio, crafting the sound of all the rappers songs. In addition to working with Lil Wayne, KY also works closely with Wayne’s supergroup Young Money. Recently KY spoke to NewLilWayne.com about what exactly he does as an engineer for Lil Wayne and the Cash Money/Young Money family.
“Well an engineer is the person that makes the music sound the way it sounds. A good engineer is a must. You can have a hot song but if it doesn’t sound the way it’s supposed to, it might not come out hot. Also the engineer has to understand the artists that they are working with. Every artist has their own way they record. If the engineer is messing up it throws the vibe off, which in turn affects the way the song turns out. The difference between engineer and a producer. The engineer records the song, the lyrics, tracks, the beat, and gives the song its sound. The producer is the person that puts the song together as far as lyrics and arrangement. The producer is not always the person that makes the beat. In my case Wayne produces all of the songs because he has the vision of what the song should be” KY told NewLilWayne.com.
KY also spoke on his involvement in both the Rebirth and We Are Young Money albums saying “I had fun doing Rebirth; it was something different for me and Wayne. I haven’t done Rock before, so it was fun getting to use different plug-ins and just overall doing new things. Wayne is playing guitar on almost every song. Producers Infamous, Drew [Correa] and Cool & Dre came through big time for us on Rebirth. Drew and Infamous would make tracks on the spot in the studio with Wayne. Cool & Dre just kept dropping off new heat every week. J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League also helped out a lot. They sent me a lot of great tracks as well. Shanell also was a very big part in helping to create Rebirth. She of course wrote the single “Prom Queen” but she helped craft a lot of the project. My favorite tracks on Rebirth are On Fire, Paradice, Drop The World, and Knockout. The Young Money album was fun to make. Everybody would fly down to Miami. We like a big family. Everybody is cool and down to earth. I love the album though because it gave everybody a chance to let people get a look at what everybody can do. Plus I love to work with everybody else besides Wayne, because Wayne already knows what he wants in the studio as far as sound. I get to be more creative with everyone else. I like giving each artist their own personal sound. Kane Beatz and Chase N Cashe did most of the production on the Young Money album. I met both of them in Atlanta before I worked with Wayne. So when Wayne said I need beats I called the best people I knew that had a new sound. I got my first mixing credit on this album also, “Steady Mobbin” that was big for me. My favorite tracks on We Are Young Money are Steady Mobbin, Gooder, Pass The Dutch and Bedrock. Also shouts out to Mike Banger and Jewfro. They were a big help with both projects.”
According to KY one of the main aspects that hurts artists and labels in today’s environment is the fact that music leaks onto the internet everyday.
“I hate when music leaks because of course people love what we doing, but most of the time those songs aren’t done and over at YM we pride ourselves on quality. They would love the songs more if they were done. It’s not really much we can do because they hack emails or people might come into the studio after we leave and get the songs and put them out. We don’t email anymore so it has calmed down a lot but as soon as we do send it out, it’s on the street in less than a week. Another thing is that when songs leak that were going on an album it pushes the album back, because we have to keep making new songs that people haven’t heard, “ KY said about how this affected work with Lil Wayne and Cash Money/Young Money.
KY also spoke about his major role in hooking Lil Wayne and Eminem up with producers Chase N. Cashe for the track Drop The World.
“Chase N Cashe and Hit Boy produced the record. I met them in Atlanta at ZAC’s, they produce for Polow’s Zone 4 imprint. We were in LA in the studio at Westlake. We needed beats. I didn’t have Chase’s number so I hit him on Twitter and got his number. He sent me 4 tracks that night. When we did it we weren’t thinking about putting anybody one it. It wasn’t until about 2 months later Wayne said I’ma get Em on this. When Em sent the verse back we was goin crazy cause he killed it. I think it’s one of the best tracks on Rebirth.”
With the anticipation building for Lil Wayne’s Carter 4, KY said “Of course after Rebirth the Carter 4 is up next, he already has about 20 records for it done already.”
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Hip Hop News: Who will have the biggest rap single of 2010
Everybody is betting on Drake to have the biggest rap single of 2010 but you will never know. Will a new rap artist pop on the scene and top the charts or will a veteran come up with the biggest hit of 2010. We made a little list of the rappers we think could drop the big hit of 2010.
1- Kanye West
2- Drake
3- Lil Wayne
4- Eminem
5- Flo-Rida
6- Souljaboy
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Hip Hop News: Beyonce photoshoot with Allure
Beyonce has a lot going on right now, a fragrance, documentary and more. Here is her latest photoshoot with Allure.
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Elise 5000 on SPATE Radio Wednesday Jan 20, 2010 5:30pm est
Elise 5000 will be in the building with Holly Hi Def Daniels at 5:3pm est. Jan, 20 2010 To listen live click here for SPATERADIO.com
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Hip Hop News: Wyclef speaks on accusations of shady business
Wyclef took the time to address the rumors surrounding his Yele organization.
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Hip Hop News: Rapper Eve leaves interscope says new album coming soon
Eve is making changes in the new decade. The femcee has left her longtime label and promises a new album in 2010.
The rapper-turned-actress revealed on Twitter Friday (Jan. 15) that she has parted ways with Interscope Geffen A&M Records where she released her first three albums. “Let me tell u what happened with music so ya’ll don’t think I quit,” she told her followers. “Left Interscope, free agent now. Went back in re-doing music. Trust me.”
As for her oft-delayed fourth studio album, the first since 2002’s Eve-Olution, she says it’s coming this year. “Not letting this year pass wit out an ALBUM! Can’t take the non-sense MUSIK.”
A 2007 project Here I Am was scrapped, although it produced the Swizz Beatz-helmed “Tambourine” and “Give It to You” featuring Sean Paul.
While on hiatus, Eve shared that she was going in a new direction with her sound, as evidenced by the leaked Salaam Remi production “Me N My (Up in the Club).” “I’m actually experimenting with this movement called dubstep in the U.K., this underground sound,” she told Jimmy Fallon in October.
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Hip Hop News: SPATE Magazine @ The Benny Negro Show
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Hip Hop News: Wyclef asks for his twitter followers support in Haiti Earthquake
Wyclef took to his twitter account to ask his fans for help with Haiti's Earthquake relief. Clef asked fans to text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to Yele Haiti, his non-profit organization that has provided aid and assistance to the country for over five years.
Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake today, causing widespread damage to the tiny Caribbean country.
To make matters worse there were five aftershocks, including two that were 5.9 and 5 .2 on the Richter Scale in the past hour and more are expected.
Over 2 million people in the main city of Port au Prince have been affected by the impact as the epicenter was just 10 miles southwest from the densely populated capital.
G-Unit rapper expressed concern for his family members on the island.
"Its a sad day for Haiti My thoughts and prayers are with everyone and there families. Bout 2 call my family," Yayo Tweeted.
Numerous homes have been destroyed, a major hospital has completely collapsed and according to the latest reports, the presidential palace also suffered extensive damage.
The last time an earthquake close to this magnitude to hit Haiti occurred in 1751.
A series of tropical storms ravaged Haiti from 2004-2008 and severely damaged the country's transportation infrastructure and agriculture industry, in addition to killing thousands.
Over 70% of the crops were destroyed in 2008 and 22,000 homes were destroyed in that incident, which the country was still recovering from.
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Entertainment News: Beyonce is taking a break
After performing in 110 cities, singing for the Obama’s, creating a new fragrance and performing at private parties, Bey Bey says it’s time for her to “recharge her batteries.”
Beyonce: "It’s definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries. I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again… when I got home, I wrote out a contract with myself. I made a list of everything I want to do that has nothing to do with music. Well, some of it does. But I promised myself that I would not go back on tour or in the studio until I finished these things.
I’m going to do random things. I want to go to restaurants, maybe take a class and see some movies and Broadway shows. I’ll spend more time with Daniel. He’s a wonderful kid, amazing, so smart. And I spoil him, so it’s a lot of work. He’s a 24-hour job.
It will be the hardest thing in the world for me to make myself not do an album and shoot a video and turn it in and say: ‘I’m ready!’ I already have all these melodies and ideas in my head. I have to tell myself: ‘Sit down! Sit down!’"
Beyonce still has to attend and perform the Grammys, then she also have to fulfill two weeks worth of tour dates in South America, so is that really called "taking a break".
Thanks to www.Bossip.com
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Indie Grind Daily: YLS "OMG"
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Hip Hop News: Joell Ortiz says new album coming soon
Joell Ortiz has been on a rampage releasing freestyle after freestyle for the internet. He also recently announced that is long awaited album "The Free Agent" will be dropping in March. The album will be released by E1 music and they are excited about the project. The president says they had a lot of success with his last album.
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Elise 5000 on SPATERADIO.com
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