After being crowned Red Bull Big Tune Champion, 14KT joined forces with Bun B to create their new single “The Life.” Check it out here after the jump.
Music Red Bull Big Tune Winner Meets Bun B to Make “The Life”
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Music In the Lab with 14KT and Bun B
Red Bull Big Tune winner 14KT and rapper Bun B flesh out the hotness in front of your eyes.
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Gallery Music Battle of the Beats: Chicago Hosts Red Bull Big Tune Finals
Over the past six years, the formula behind the Red Bull Big Tune producer battle hasn’t been messed with much—two beat makers still face off in multiple rounds to see who has the more crowd-pleasing track. And judging by the 2010 Red Bull Big Tune Finals at Chicago’s Metro, hip-hop heads across the country are still dedicated to showing up and making noise for their favorite beat.
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Gallery Music Red Bull Big Tune Welcomes Black Milk to Chicago
Let’s just get this out of the way: hip-hop shows, more than any other genre, regularly feature an absurd amount of waiting before the headliner you went to see finally hits the stage—often after midnight. Some of the opening acts or DJs you see beforehand might be good and you may even be hyped to have been introduced to them, but when it takes four hours before the main act steps on stage, shit can get old. With this in mind, Black Milk’s last minute, Red Bull Big Tune pre-show in Chicago at Reggie’s Rock Club was as close to ideal as you can get.
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Featured Music Road to 8 Mile: Eminem Judges The Red Bull EmSee National Freestyle Battle
It seemed as though every hip hop fan in Detroit made his or her way down to St. Andrews Hall last night to witness the National Championship of the most talked about emcee battle of the summer —Red Bull EmSee: The Road to 8 Mile. When judges Eminem, Mr. Porter and The Alchemist named 18-year old hometown favorite FowL as the national winner, the crowd of over 1,000 fans went bananas. Hip hop legends Bun B, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Xhibit were among the VIPs that came out to support.
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Featured Music Red Bull Big Tune Winner Frank Dukes Records with Ghostface Killah
This year’s Red Bull Big Tune competition brought together hip-hop giant Ghostface Killah and up-and-coming producer/beat maker Adam Feeney a.k.a. Frank Dukes for a recording session in Red Bull’s $6,000,000 Santa Monica studio. Dukes, whose name is a Jean-Claude Van Damme / Blood Sport reference, is an all-business personality. Seeming comfortable in the studio, he is meticulous, well spoken, and purposeful. His focus and tenacity were tested by fire when Dukes lost in the 2008 big tune finals to Chicago native C-Sick. Undaunted and eager to set the record straight, Dukes returned in 2009 to unleash his wrath on Detroit, winning the national producers competition and earning him the opportunity to work with the MC of his choice.
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Austin TX Gallery Red Bull Big Tune Kicks Off in Austin
What better way to kick off Red Bull Big Tune 2010 than in the middle of SXSW? An increasing amount of hip-hop showcases means more hip-hoppers hanging around 6th St. during the festival than ever. The bonus was that a few people who walked into the narrow confines of The Belmont’s outdoor performance space had no idea about the Red Bull Big Tune battle. So the turn out was both impressive and diverse for the return of the longest running producer competition around.
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Music The Kids Are Sick; The Studio’s Sicker
Built within the sprawling, 100,000-square-foot industrial park that has recently become the new home to Red Bull Headquarters, the company’s own Red Bull Studios is barely two years old and already boasts not only the latest in state-of-the-art recording technology, but also the perfect amount of expertly-designed studio space.
Planning a world-class recording facility which could match the industry’s best was no easy task, so Red Bull wisely enlisted the help of two giants: Troy Germano and David Bell of Studio Design Group, the same masterminds who honed their skills at New York’s legendary The Hit Factory, once recording home to John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and Michael Jackson. It’s a studio that has already earned the 2008 TEC award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in design, as well as acclaim from MIX magazine and some of the industry’s biggest critics. And with good reason: not only does this 3,500 square-foot studio boast an immense tracking room, the latest in Pro-Tools recording technology, an Exigy Monitoring system and top-of-the-line analog gear, but its designers know quality sound is invaluable—thus their custom red-and-blue SSL K-Series mixing board, the last of its prized kind. In addition to this, bands and artists have access to Red Bull Studios’ helmsman/engineering guru Eric Stenman, who has worked with everyone from Dashboard Confessional to Anthrax to Saves the Day.
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Event First Avenue hosts Red Bull Big Tune
First Avenue hosted the first Red Bull Big Tune to take place in Minneapolis. More than 400 people flocked to First Avenue to hear these Minnesotan producers battle it out. One participating producer was a repeat contender….he competed in Chicago last month! Unfortunately, he lost in the first round.
Home of Rhymesayers Records, a new generation of Minnesotans are becoming entranced by the sounds of Freeway, the featured artist of the evening. The crowd went wild when Freeway started performing and adding the “Red Bull” touch even further, Brother Ali joined him on stage and brought the house down.
An unusually mean crowd (Minnesotans are usually so nice….) they picked their favorite from the beginning and booed away the competition until only Nicademus was left standing.
Words by Jennifer Belongia
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Music Nas, Makin’ it Look Easy
Remaining relevant in hip-hop is arguably tougher to do than in any other music genre/culture, but Queensbridge-bred rhymer Nas makes it look easy. When he made his debut on Main Source’s “Live At the BBQ” in ’92, potent lines like, “When I was twelve I went to hell for snuffin’ Jesus,” quickly made Nas an MC you purposely sought out. Like many hip-hoppers in ’94, I remember listening to his debut, Illmatic, on repeat that summer in awe. On top of the first-class productions from DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Large Professor heard on this classic, Nas’ vivid street narratives and raw metaphors unfolded like moving, gritty cinema that you just refuse to stop watching.
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