Music Sharing Website, Indaba, Launches Remixing Contest “Red Bull Rhythm & Sound”
Red Bull Rhythm and Sound is an online music contest that gives up-and-coming producers the opportunity to create original music using recordings of Red Bull athletes and Grammy-nominated Lloyd Banks’ vocals from his latest single, “Check Me Out”. Starting September 12th, amateur producers can access Red Bull athlete sound bites – the slicing, slam and thunder of professional play – via a soundboard housed here.
Opting to not read the press release for the documentary 50 Cent: The Origin of Me before watching, it was a mystery whether the film was going to be yet another look into 50’s storied past in Jamaica, Queens or something entirely different. Thankfully this film, which is part of VH1’s “Rock Docs” series, leans heavily towards the latter category.
Though the South spawned such top-notch lyricists as Scarface, Big Mike, 8Ball & MJG and OutKast in the 1980s and 1990s, the region was never regarded as a lyrical hotbed. Lil Wayne is doing his best to correct this wrong.
Dee-1 may be next in line. The New Orleans rapper set the Internet ablaze in late 2010 with “Jay, 50, and Weezy,” an inventive cut where he imagined a conversation he would have with each artist. But rather than just begging to be signed, Dee-1 saluted each rapper before pointing out ways they could help their communities and the rap community.
Virtually instantly, Dee-1 became a rare Southern MC: a rapper known for his lyrics, his creativity and his musical agenda. “When you have a calling and a mission, it doesn’t matter where you’re from,” Dee-1 says today. “I think it’s just all about exposure to people and that’s what I’m focusing on, just getting exposure to people. I think that regardless of me being from New Orleans, being from the South, whatever people might label me as, I think it’s just a connection that people are going to make to my purpose and to my movement. So I don’t think that geography is going to matter.”
In the continuing spirit of our big 2010 send-off, we’d like to present you with another Top 10 list that celebrates the best of what music had to offer this past year, this time in the form of music videos. Some of these are beautifully stunning creations, many of them will cause you to LOL, but whatever their intent, chances are you’ve wasted a substantial portion of your work day checking them out at some point over the last 365 days. We just thought we’d pick the best and put ‘em in one place.
Really digging the latest from Patrick Wolf, “Time of My Life.” It’s been a minute since we’ve heard anything new from Mr. Wolf (2009’s The Bachelor, if we want to get all specific and whatnot) and I for one am very excited about his upcoming album. Lamentably, it won’t be out until May 2011. But, in the mean time, check out the aforementioned single below:
Every week, China Shop talks to a music blogger who is taking part in the new global music community.
For hip-hop fans around the world, few sites deliver a more thorough look at hip-hop culture than HipHopDX.com. More than just a blog, Hip-Hop DX is a complete news portal for hip-hop heads. Meet Jake Paine, the Editor-In-Chief who keeps the site always fresh.
Name: Jake Paine
Age: 26
Location: Philly
Title/Website: Editor-in-Chief, HipHopDX.com