Bink! and Clark Kent also hold it down by finding key samples, in Mixtape Daily.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with additional reporting by Hillary Crosley, Rahman Dukes, Steven Roberts and Richard Sancho
Swizz Beatz, Kanye West and Clark Kent
Photo: Getty Images/ MTV News
This is Mixtape Daily, so you know the deal: We spotlight the essence of street culture. And when it comes to those behind the boards, it gets no truer than producers who know how to dig in the crates and find a dusty sample that will inject life into a new composition.
These four guys reached deep down, far and wide, to the nether regions of their musical minds to create bangers that became the soundtrack of the past 12 months. Without further ado, we close out our year-end awards by saluting the Top Producers of 2010:
Bink!
Wax Lift: Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?...
By Jayson Rodriguez, with additional reporting by Hillary Crosley, Rahman Dukes, Steven Roberts and Richard Sancho
Swizz Beatz, Kanye West and Clark Kent
Photo: Getty Images/ MTV News
This is Mixtape Daily, so you know the deal: We spotlight the essence of street culture. And when it comes to those behind the boards, it gets no truer than producers who know how to dig in the crates and find a dusty sample that will inject life into a new composition.
These four guys reached deep down, far and wide, to the nether regions of their musical minds to create bangers that became the soundtrack of the past 12 months. Without further ado, we close out our year-end awards by saluting the Top Producers of 2010:
Bink!
Wax Lift: Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?...
- 12/17/2010
- MTV Music News
Bink! and Clark Kent also hold it down by finding key samples, in Mixtape Daily.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with additional reporting by Hillary Crosley, Rahman Dukes, Steven Roberts and Richard Sancho
Swizz Beatz, Kanye West and Clark Kent
Photo: Getty Images/ MTV News
This is Mixtape Daily, so you know the deal: We spotlight the essence of street culture. And when it comes to those behind the boards, it gets no truer than producers who know how to dig in the crates and find a dusty sample that will inject life into a new composition.
These four guys reached deep down, far and wide, to the nether regions of their musical minds to create bangers that became the soundtrack of the past 12 months. Without further ado, we close out our year-end awards by saluting the Top Producers of 2010:
Bink!
Wax Lift: Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?...
By Jayson Rodriguez, with additional reporting by Hillary Crosley, Rahman Dukes, Steven Roberts and Richard Sancho
Swizz Beatz, Kanye West and Clark Kent
Photo: Getty Images/ MTV News
This is Mixtape Daily, so you know the deal: We spotlight the essence of street culture. And when it comes to those behind the boards, it gets no truer than producers who know how to dig in the crates and find a dusty sample that will inject life into a new composition.
These four guys reached deep down, far and wide, to the nether regions of their musical minds to create bangers that became the soundtrack of the past 12 months. Without further ado, we close out our year-end awards by saluting the Top Producers of 2010:
Bink!
Wax Lift: Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?...
- 12/17/2010
- MTV Music News
'As soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one,' ' Cudi recalls of the track, which was featured in 'Runaway.'
By Steven Roberts
Kid Cudi
Photo: Jen McCoy/ MTV News
Along with the striking imagery in Kanye West's "Runaway," people are still talking about the short film's soundtrack. The visual's vibrant colors are paralleled by some of West's best production work. Just ask Kid Cudi.
Cudder was hanging out in the studio one day when he overheard the beat for what would eventually become West's "Gorgeous."
" 'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that "This Can't Be Life" Kanye beat,' " Cudi recalled, referencing the 'Ye-produced Jay-z track. " 'This is that classic 'Ye beat. I want to be on this.' I came up to him,...
By Steven Roberts
Kid Cudi
Photo: Jen McCoy/ MTV News
Along with the striking imagery in Kanye West's "Runaway," people are still talking about the short film's soundtrack. The visual's vibrant colors are paralleled by some of West's best production work. Just ask Kid Cudi.
Cudder was hanging out in the studio one day when he overheard the beat for what would eventually become West's "Gorgeous."
" 'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that "This Can't Be Life" Kanye beat,' " Cudi recalled, referencing the 'Ye-produced Jay-z track. " 'This is that classic 'Ye beat. I want to be on this.' I came up to him,...
- 10/27/2010
- MTV Music News
G.O.O.D. Friday series and epic TV performances thrust 'Ye back into the spotlight.
By Paul Cantor
Kanye West
Photo: Getty Images
Some artists are so hot, they can make up for almost a full year out of the spotlight in just a few short months. Well, at least Kanye West can.
Even though he was featured on popular songs like "Forever," with Drake, Eminem and Lil Wayne, and Jay-z's "Run This Town," 'Ye essentially went into hiding after his infamous run-in with Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs, traveling to Europe to intern at Fendi and, later, Hawaii to begin recording his forthcoming LP, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, due November 22. While he resurfaced with the anthemic single "Power" in late May and its accompanying "Portrait of Power" art installation in early August, it was really the oddest of things — his joining of Twitter — that signified Kanye...
By Paul Cantor
Kanye West
Photo: Getty Images
Some artists are so hot, they can make up for almost a full year out of the spotlight in just a few short months. Well, at least Kanye West can.
Even though he was featured on popular songs like "Forever," with Drake, Eminem and Lil Wayne, and Jay-z's "Run This Town," 'Ye essentially went into hiding after his infamous run-in with Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs, traveling to Europe to intern at Fendi and, later, Hawaii to begin recording his forthcoming LP, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, due November 22. While he resurfaced with the anthemic single "Power" in late May and its accompanying "Portrait of Power" art installation in early August, it was really the oddest of things — his joining of Twitter — that signified Kanye...
- 10/24/2010
- MTV Music News
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