Hip hop…like old flylo and j dilla and whomever.
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Isn’t the thing like…dead? I feel like I’m the last one to even do this shit.
I’ve got the remnants of my dad’s once huge vinyl collection. When I get a chance to go through those was thinking of I might have to get some of those sounds loaded up on my Model:Samples and have a go at some beats.
Way too much on my plate at the moment to even think about starting that project though.
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You may be the only one in your town, but tons of people are still making boom bap/lo-fi beats/gutter/hood beats/mixtape beats/scene beats/hip to the hop.
Rap/HipHop is the biggest selling genre of all times! Crazy cause growing up we use to get told that our black music was all sorts of negative things!! Including the likes of “techno”, lookitnow! 
Oops forgot to mention the whole UK grime scene! Nuff people from that scene doing their thing!
Oh and let’s not forget about all the yardies making dancehall beats…man I can go on for days about HipHop
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sure isn’t as big as it used to be, but still some people doing it. Mostly beatmakers working with independent rappers
knwxledge still rather active too
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Instrumental hip hop death grips style any1?
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we are due a hip hop renaissance
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Yeah, got what yer sayin. Just thought about the OP too much - mentioning FlyLo and Dilla I thought he meant specifically that type of beats whatever they were called.
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Usually referred to as Experimental lo-fi rap beats.
Plenty of producers, and talent in this genre. Such as to the fact that it is a mainstream take on hiphop.
Artist such as Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat, MFDOOM, Kamasi Washington, guess Deathgrips could also be considered in that group.
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Digital underground very old school it was the hip hop group that gave Tupac his start
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Hip Hop music has been the first choice of many listeners. In this time hip hop music demand has grown.
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I’m leaning heavy on getting back into hip hop production. I do have an MPC and the only thing I’ve really done with it is screw around with flipping samples here and there. Might as well make another go at it.
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some Hip Hop is just classic, Reflectional Eternal - Fortified Live, Sadat X - the Interview, MF Doom, Cypress Hill! but when Flylo came along with the Los Angeles album it was fantastic as it really included some pschedelic electronica alongside the deep beats. That being said Hip Hop is like America’s favorite music and the majority of the mainstream I’m not keen on…
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My two cents :
The “hip-hop beats” thread is way beyond “still going”. It’s not as rooted in Motown and 60s/70s music as it was during the JDilla era, but imo it’s mainly because getting clearance of a simple 3 seconds sample is a pain in the ass, and it costs huge amounts of money. You can go uncleared, but the second the label knows about it, you’re as good as dead. They will sue you for thousands of dollars.
And from what I read, if you’re unsigned, these guys won’t even answer your email.
That said, the hip-hop market, for Paris only in 2020 was worth 19 million euros (We have a very active rap scene in France). It was a bit more for some US cities like Atlanta because they take free streaming into account.
And for JDilla lovers, the amount of people still making BoomBap beats is insane.
Kenny Beats throws a beat battle quite regularly on Twitch, last big prize was 20k$ for the winner, thanks to Splice. The top10 is insane, each time, crazy beats, crazy ideas, crazy producers, mostly unknown guys
If you don’t know his music, he worked with dope artists like Vince Staples, JPEGMafia, Smino, slowthai, Joji
There are A LOT of beatmakers on Youtube now, but Kenny is one of the few that keep it real and rooted in the hip-hop scene. Fun fact : he began his career in electronic music but ultimately decided to become a hip-hop producer.
I listened to that thing more than I’m willing to admit :
Also, my other modern hip-hop producer is Monte Booker. He’s spending a lot of time on Twitch, his creativity is over the roof and the vibe is chill. Go-to Smino’s beatmaker.
Last tape here :
These guys’ Discords are home for a huge amount of producers, lots and lots of discussions, beats reviews, advice etc, and these are only two communities out of many (mostly every beatmaker with a bit of exposure has a Discord these days)
On Youtube you also have Ed Talenti & Simon Servida for modern beats (meaning mainstream and not really rooted in the hip-hop scene), and of course Internet Money for the LA Trap signature sound, but this involves very, very mainstream music.
Oh, and I forgot Ocean :
And Cxdy, the guy has the dankest youtube channel available and is also a multi-platinum producer.
Dope beat :
Youtube (if you’re into dank meme-y stuff like me, but he’s also making fire beats in every single video
Credits : https://genius.com/artists/Cxdy
If you look on Soundcloud, there are plenty of JDilla lovers, and I had to unfollow a lot of people lately because there are just too much Boombap producers who just try to copy 90s producers without bringing something new to the table. The whole “lo-fi chill beat” scene is a complete disaster imo.
Hip-hop has evolved in something way bigger, and it is a huge community today, rooted in practically every subgenre of music available. Thousands of people fight the Youtube algorithm to have a decent rating, so they can be allowed to sell beats on Beatstars.
Finally it’s more than two cents, but I had to react to “Isn’t the thing like…dead?” cuz really, it’s the most huge, vibrant and dedicated community I ever met in the music scene
That said, a few beats I like with a 90s vibe… ish :
A bonus because it’s not 90s but it’s crazy :
And, I also have a Soundcloud playlist filled with really cool stuff if you wanna dig, I just made it public (I discovered some while watching Kenny Beats’ beat battles)
Enjoy
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That was really in-depth. Fantastic knowledge
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Many listeners who like hip-hop music include me. This is a good version of music to enjoy yourself.
This is one of mine I did some years back. Sort of a blind collaboration as Ciphurphace and I still haven’t met to this day.
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