It’s looks like the Homosexuals are getting their very own Superhead! Former MTV executive Terrence Dean is blowing the lid off of a Gay/DL subculture silently festering within the confines of hip hop in a new book entitled Hiding In Hip Hop: On The Down Low in the Entertainment Industry from Music to Hollywood. Terrence will out the lifestyles of prominent gay celebrities of color from hip hop to Hollywood in the book. Read the rest of this entry »
Gnarls Barkley shares the June 2008 double cover of The Source Magazine with N.E.R.D.
Prosecutors are asking that actor Wesley Snipes serve the maximum sentence of three years in federal prison and pay a $5 million fine after being convicted in February for willful failure to tax file returns. Florida U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill says Snipes deserved the full sentence due to his years of “brazen defiance” and “insidious concealment.”
The Levert family has issued a statement on the death of singer Sean Levert. Read the rest of this entry »
Coolio is hosting a new culinary show teaching viewers about “soul food” dishes in new internet-broadcast show Cookin’ With Coolio, which is being aired weekly on MyDamnChannel.com.
HipHop Crunch has put together a collection of tips that you can use the next time you’re recording or mixing some hip hop beats. We plan to add a new tip to this each week, so stay tuned.
Say you got an eight bar beat that you want to use. You might not want to loop that entire passage every time. Perhaps there are a couple of chords that you would like to save for a chorus or something?
Cut, copy and paste! I’m sure you know you can do that if you’ve been playing around with music apps, but how do you do it correctly?
The first thing you’ll want to do is zoom into the waveform rather close and try to make the cut where the waveform neither is on it’s way up or down. Why? Because if it is, you’ll hear a click or pop when you play it back. It’s important that the waveform ends at the same place as the copied part after it begins, and the easy way is to have it “in the middle”, where it doesn’t go up nor down.
Sometimes it seems close to impossible to do this, but don’t worry, there’s a solution for that as well. Many audio applications have something called “fades” (look it up in the manual, they’re done differently depending on the app). Make a very short fade where you have made the cut and the click or pop will disappear.
That’s all there is to it, now go and be creative.
50 Cent’s signing to Shady/Aftermath has topped XXL Magazine’s 100 Biggest Moments In Hip-Hop. The hip-hop mag lists the G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath dream team as “the final piece of the puzzle” that turned 50 into the world’s leading rap star. Other influential moments in hip-hop include: Jay-Z’s show-stopping performance at the Hot 97 Summer Jam in 2001, when he was joined onstage at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York by Michael Jackson. The December 1999 shooting incident at Club New York that landed Diddy protege Jamal ‘Shyne’ Barrow behind bars for a fifteen year bid; the break-up of Jay-Z and Damon Dash’s Roc-A-Fella label in 2004; and 2005’s end to the Nas/Jay-Z beef.
Hip-hop pioneers Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy, and Heavy D. will come together for a performance at Hollywood’s House of Blues on January 27th.
