Big Bang. SBS gayo performance.

Watch "HMC 46" on YouTube

I STILL can't believe they are real. I know they are, I mean I've seen them in the flesh (I need to write about it) but how on the Lord Gods Earth can people like that exist. I will be asking this on my death bed #watchthisspace

ASAP Rocky - Fucking Problem - Drake Kendrick Lamar 2Chainz

This is the happiest, care free ghetto song I have ever heard. I LOVE this, words can't explain. When I hear this, I feel like a smiling thug swinging his gold chain over his leather baseball hatted head with his mates. It's amazing.



Plus Kendrick Lamar and me had a finger twiddling exchange when I saw him at the 1xtra concert (which he freakin killed). Gassed? Very much.

The Weeknd - The Zone ft. Drake

My love for this song is undescribable. All I can say right now is genius. When you're high and you play this song. Your brain is a goood place to be, real good really really good, quite beautiful actually...




Genius. One of the best out there by faarr.

1xtra concert - Kendrick Lamar, Trey Songz, Angel and Wizkid

So I thankfully got tickets to the 1xtra concert where I will be seeing Kendrick Lamar Trey Songz Angel Wizkid.. and Tulisa but definitley know I will be singing out these tunes OMG a space will have to be cleared when this comes on.. Two concert in the space of two months and one of them are BIG BANG. No one knows how excited I am for that one ohhhh myyyyy

James Arthur sings Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams The X Factor...

Fuck off are you serriiiooouuus!!! His voice though what the heeeellll if he doesn't get signed then I don't know what I will with myself

LEE HI (이하이) - 1.2.3.4 M/V

Lee Hi.

She's 16 and can come out with a voice like that... So of course YG had to whip her up because YG is just swag like that #kayneshrug

But I really do love this. Her voice and her smooth jazz like tone goes so well with this type of genre, it's a match made in heaven. It's got that Duffy/Adele vibe to it which I like. There are some adlibs she drops which really shows you her voice and makes you a firm believer that her voice is pretty special. I also loved her in the Epik High (I freakin' love Epik High T__T) song too.

I love the video. As a visual person, I'm BIG on videos and this was just right. Enough going on to make it interesting and give off her concept but not too much that attention was taking away from her in her debut. I especially like that dance move were her and the dancers are in a line doing the bum sway but what can I say I am Caribbean therefore bias, I like bum swaying/movements very much (that sounded so fresh and Borat like)

I like her concept A LOT. You can tell when she grows she will become the resident Vixen of YG. Sultry and smooth with an incredible voice with a attitude and swag that YG are infamous for. Mega Talented + Swag + fierce attitude = YG artist.





YG has done it again. Can't wait to see more from her. And the wait for the new girl group is killing me :'''(

RITA ORA - Shine Ya Light

Gorgeous as ever.

I love it when singers go back to their roots, it makes you see the contrast of them and people from their native area and its sweet how people seem so proud of the artist and the love that the artist still has love and reps that area (same with the Flo rida I Cry video). Although Rita came over to the UK when she was 8 months or something, the link she would of had with her country is still unbreakable after all she still would of had the culture at home and would have gone back to visit fam a couple of times.

BIGBANG Tickets (GIVEAWAY) LONDON

I GOT BIG BANG TICKEEETSSSS OMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG sooooo I got Big Bang tickets for the 14th standing and I want to sell them or give them away to a person comment below if you want one :)

BIGBANG Alive Tour London (no tickets for me)

Right now, I can't tell you how I am feeling. There are soooo many contradicting feelings at the moment but the main one I am feeling at the moment is depression. The tickets sold out in not even joking A MINUTE. I was on the website BEFORE 9am had two computers and TWO phones to call up. By the time I reached the services at 9:02, all the standing were gone. My friend who was also trying for us nearly got them but then ticket master decided to give her the wrong information and she didn't. I am so flipping depressed to be honest. Actually I am appealing to anyone who is selling the tickets for £120 for standing I will buy them. TWO actually. Also, I am going to take time to say this heartfelt comment to Papa YG: BUN YOU. Bun you for having the ability to spot and support such amazing and talented and swagged out and fucking cool people. Bun you for making my feels explode every time I watch something from a YG artist. Bun you for only doing one London show. Bun you for releasing G dragon into the world. Bun you. Bun you, bun you, bun you *sobs* At the moment I am pretty calm. Probably because I knew it was too good to be true. But then when I think of their songs or the faces (particulary GD's) and think other people in MY city will get to see them but not me, the deep depression comes back. I actually considering making a YouTube video to YG and sending a letter to motherf*ckin Seoul for Pete's sake.

BIGBANG London tickets = headache

Sooooo desperate to get these bludclart tickets man so tomorrow at 8am I will be up for 9am ticket time LET'S GO.

JLS - Hottest Girl In The World

I don't understand why JLS didn't just go this direction as soon as they debuted instead of teh whole Pop thing. This is a jam and they look so jam doing this. No trying hard to look boy bandy and that. Love it.

The Hallyu wave. And why I am drowning in it. Part 2: Drenched in the wave and why I ain't complaining

So now you know my story of how I got into Kpop, I will tell you why I have stayed in the world. There are a number of things I ADORE about K pop as well as things I'm not so crazy about.


Things I am not crazy about are the things like the sexualisation while doing aeygo and the use of white girls and the lack of divesity, the GETTING UPSET OVER THE STUPIDEST THINGS to name a few issues which an amazing website called Seoulbeats often talk about. (Trust me that website is a daily must read. I don't feel right if I have gone the day without reading.)

But I want to talk about the things that have turnt me down right crazy.


1) The visual side of it

The flashy music videos, the crazy bright colours, the amazing and cool (see I'm using words like cool this is what it has done to me!!) costumes, the beautiful people and there chocolate beautiful abs. Everything is done big and when I say big I mean GRANDE. For a while when ever I watched a western video it just seemed well, just plain...boring. Whenever I watched a kpop video there was so much going on with the loud beats, raps, the constant beautiful solo shots, choreography shots to name a few. I felt like I watched the most amazing spectacle in front of me after a kpop. The fact that different bands have different concepts i.e. SNSD with their cute, Sistar with their girl next door sexy, B.A.P with their tough hip hop, rock attitude which I LOVE. YG and their swag dripping swagged out selves. I think you can tell I am a YG stan but seriously how can people be so Gosh damn talented and COOL like really? Look I just said to words I never say in a sentence but there are no other words to describe them. There are just so. damn. swag. All of them to bludclart even Gummy has a swag and she does ballads like...*wipes tear, takes air*  Videos like F(x) electric shock and Miss A Breathe got me in a tizzy ( I will not even start on Big Bang and 2ne1 videos for all our sakes) It was loud, brash, colourful, full of attitude, hard to ignore and most of all unashamedly Pop! And I loved ( and still do) every minute of it.

2) The people side of it

By this I mean, the Idols themselves and the fan bases. Watching things like 2ne1 TV and variety shows made me realise how amazing they are. The fact that they can be so sweet and nice and calm and when they get on the stage they are just like POW. Like the heeeellll. Their attitudes are just soo fierce and you can tell they are passionate. True preformers. The whole trainees days thing to their debut stories to the audition tapes and behind the scenes just makes me realise how much they work hard for what they have and seeing so much of their personalities is so nice compared to the every now and then appearances you may get on a TV interviews over here. You build a like... well not a personal attachment but you like THEM. Not just their talent. How family-like the company act appear to be (controversial topic) the fact that they do 'family' or 'town' concerts is such a nice change. Here? You don't even clock acts are with a company.  Also with the fanbases, they are such a family like so tight knit and supportive ( most of the time) its so lovely knowing that you are part of one, they are literally like military sections. The fact that if you let slip that you are a K pop fan and you find the other person you hardly know is a k pop fan you act like long lost friends and get lost talking about subjects that seem great to you! It's like you just knoow. Not going to lie sometimes even I'm like woah with some of the fans though.


There are other things as well but I will never stop if I don't stop now. Those are the main things I love about K-pop. Honestly guys if you're not swept up in the wave go and jump in it and explore. You may not like it, you may love it but you certainly will not regret it. Trust me :D.

The Hallyu wave. And why I am drowning in it. Part 1: Toe in the KPOP ocean

So, I am going to talk about my view of THAT genre of music. K Pop. People have asked me how I got into K pop so why not? By the way the grammar is probably going to be disgusting. So tired but need to get this out my system :P

I have been meaning to get back on writing for a while and I am finally doing it and what other worthy subject is there to talk about than K-pop. Okay, so you are probably wondering how me, Coco, who loves RnB, Hip Hop, and Grime among others can get into KP but let's not stereotype let's establish one thing: Good music is good music. Doesn't matter what genre, country person it is from if its good? Its good. Don't get me wrong I have heeell of a lot of love for my UK scene but I like what I like. The fact that there are people (including many I know) are prepared to dismiss music because it's; Rock fan: "Hip Hop. Ew" or  Hip Hop fan: "It's rock man -___-" (or insert any genre and genre fan) or "I don't understand what they are saying" (BTW there IS translation websites tut.) or "But they're white why are they trying to act black (by rapping and dancing well e.g....)" is beyond me to be honest. You're missing out on gooood shit man.





Anyways, my journey into Kpop or dipping my toe into the k pop ocean started when a side suggestion of the most random video I was watching on Youtube came up last year/beginning of this year some time. I've always admired oriental people, I think they're swag is off the hizzy and the fact that they can wear bin bags and still look swagged out ( yeah I said it) than the average person is a one of life's great wonders so obviously when I saw a thumbnail of picture of four HOT girls I obviously clicked that shit. Don't act like you don't click on the thumbnails of dirty looking photos HA! This thumbnail led me to the discovery of Miss A - Breathe.

And I have never looked back. If you look back on the blog, I quickly posted the video of these girls and said if I remembered correctly "say what :O" (I couldn't write what I really felt as I was in Media lesson) but those 3 words and that emotion basically summed up my feeling. What I felt was pure joy, admiration, entertainment and most of all shock. How can these oriental girls be singing some mad catchy song and be pulling out these fierce reggae inspired tunes? Anyways, safe to say I watched that video and the music video and could recite that dance and a couple lyrics after about 2 weeks of watching it non stop EVERYWHERE. But my infamous curiosity was poking at me and I did a lil bit of the good ole Google and found out they were a "K Pop" group ooh okay I thought, if this is what Korean music (btw gangnam style is on the radio, how nuts!?) is then I am SOLD.

So my poking my head through the door into the KP world led me to my second song - the classic 'Gee' by Girls Generation or SNSD. When I say I loved that song even though I was 2/3 years slow on the uptake of that song, that is an understatement. Gee was my muthaf*ckin Jam. Time went by, and after telling my friend that I liked Korean Pop music instead of getting the 'Coco are you serious roll eye' that I was expecting I got a AAAAHHHHHHH SO DO I. After that, no more dipping my toe into the KP ocean, this girl literally THREW me in it. She showed me different songs groups. I was in a ditzy. A new culture, new music, new scene, new way of doing things in one of the countries I admire was making my head whirl but in a good way. Like the way you it does when you see your bias. My friend said to me "Have you seen any boy bands yet?" "Nah I'm still high off Miss A, Sistar, SNSD, and the rest" I think even one time she showed me her biases and I have to say the HAIR and the "gay" looking outfits, make-up etc was a bit like woah, okay but it interested me more than put me off. However time went by my interests went on to other things, or become not there at all.

Rekindling my love for Kpop, was done through Psy. Yes Psy. I was on Youtube about to watch one of my fave comedians (DavidSoComedy <--that guy man) and saw a parody he did. I'm not usually one for parodies but I thought this is David So Comedy so its going to be hilarious. I was right of course and my curiosity poke came back and I decided to look up the original.That led me to the infamous Gangnam style obviously like the rest of the world K-pop or not, fell in love with the tune and I had the horse dance on lock after a day, at this point I was drenched in the wave but still able to hold on to a rock or "reality". So I decided to type in Kpop into Tumblr tag search. One guy, unfortunately I do not remember his name said my back has stopped hurting after watching G dragon One of a Kind  proof GD is a God so I decided to look at that up it was either that or That XX. Let's just say that was the wave that pushed me into the middle of the sea.What I saw was some of the most amazing creations I have seen in my life. I literally got a headache beause I was trying understand what i was seeing, GD in One of a Kind literally made me fall in love. No joke. I don't think I have been the same since LOL. Now GD is my ultimate bias in the K-pop world and in real life. Soo, again my curiosity stick kept prodding making me and I delved deeper into the ocean eventually finding Big Bang, 2ne1 and the rest of YG and learnt about the Kpop industry.

That is more or less, maybe I missed out some details of my journey into Kpop but those are the changing moments I remember of getting caught up in the Hallyu wave.

And to be honest, I am still not out.

Woah.

Alright, I am so sorry I haven't been posting for a while last couple of months have been... a whirlwind to say the least and my energy to do AN-EE-THING has just gone but my recently acclaimed passion (and slightly creepy obsession - yep, I'll be the first to admit) has completety taken over my mind and reminded me about my love for music + opinions again so fingers crossed I'll start writing again. Aand I bet you're wondering what the thing was right, well.. I've been swept up by the Hallyu wave and the current is *pret-ty* strong. Damn you Kpop. And all your gloriousness.

#PressRelease: KINGS OF THE CITY - "No Guts" EP

Part 1, entitled "No Guts EP" showcases the band's Hip Hop roots, mixed with their unmistakable Blues/Rock & Roll edge to produce a unique five tracks. The second installment, "No Glory EP" will be out in September and a launch party for the double EP will be held at Jazz Cafe on Friday 14th September.

Kings Of The City are a Blues/Rock & Roll and Hip Hop Band from London, UK. In the last few months they have toured with Maverick Sabre, performed to a crowd of 20,000 people in Trafalgar Square, received radio support from Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra, TV support from The Box, Q, Flava and Channel AKA and hit over half a million views for their videos on youtube.

The first of many videos forthcoming from the EP is "Mad Men" 

A track marking the band's take on the London Riots one year on. 

The No Guts EP is available now from bandcamp (free for those who want it, you can also donate whatever you wish for the EP) with a full release of the double EP on iTunes in late September.
http://kingsofthecity.bandcamp.com/album/no-guts-ep

No Guts EP Tracklist
01 The Devil
02 Forest of Babylon
03 Haribos
04 Mad Men
05 Dust at the Heel of Horror

The artwork for both installments of the EP is by Reuben Dangoor, an artist best known for his internet viral smash "Being A Dickhead's Cool" and more recently work with Labrinth's first signing, Etta Bond.http://reubendangoor.com/

Kings Of The City headline Jazz Cafe, Camden with support from Obscene Locals and Dub Ratz, September 14th. Event info: http://www.facebook.com/events/159453947512837/. 



Follow Kings Of The City on Twitter @Kingsofthecity

Frank Ocean - Pyramids

The second half of this song is divine. I can't stop listening. RnB is back.

CRO: EASY

D E N A - Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools

IDC this is a banger

God knows this is fate, looking at Olympics trends clicked on some random person twitter, looked at there website they posted in their Bio. I HARDLY EVER DO THAT BTW. Brought to this. Blud. I love this.




Who is this Dena? More research soon

#TweetinBout: Big K.R.I.T. - What U Mean (Explicit) ft. Ludacris

#TweetinBout:

Iggy - Flash

God knows I love this girl

Fancy a New Mixtape?: Hayzee x Dailymovement Vol 2

Fancy a new mix tape in your Itunes?

Click HERE

Hayzee x Dailymovement Vol. 2

                                                                   Tracks:

Frank Ocean - Pyramids

2 Chainz - No Lie ft. Drake

Ab-Soul - SOPA ft Schoolboy Q

Theophilus London - Big Spender ft A$AP Rocky

UZ - Trap Shit V6

Rustie - City Star

Azealia Banks - 212 (FS Green Rework)

Redlight ft Ms. Dynamite - What You Talking About (Abstract Remix)

Full Crate - BumbleBee

Flosstradamus & DJ Sliink - Test Me

Obey City - Fuck Dat Wobble

Flosstradamus - Hood Fantasy

Faze Miyake - Take Off

TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke & Lunice) - Bugg’n

Azealia Banks - Nathan ft Styles P

Ab-Soul - Pineal Gland

D Double E - Bluku! Bluku! (feat. Dizzee Rascal)

CZ - Walk up on

Waka Flocka Flame - Rooster In My Rari

Kanye West - Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz)

RL Grime & Salva - Mercy Remix

Fabolous - Got That Work (Instrumental)

Fabolous - Got That Work

Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)

RL Grime - Art Money

Big Boi & Theophilus London - She Said OK (Feat. Tre Luce)

The Kickdrums - Ridin’ (Feat. Lana Del Rey & A$AP Rocky)

Hodgy Beats - Fordabitches

Rick Ross ft Usher - Touch’n You

Meek Mill - Lean Wit It

Joey Bada$$ - Funky Ho

Nas - The Don

Wiley | Heatwave feat. Ms.D

Doing it for the UK per usual..



ESKIBOY B) A proper #IBIZATUNE.

It's well weird though when you remember him like this though

 

 well...

B.o.B - Both of Us ft. Taylor Swift

BITCHES I AM BACK :D

BITCHES I AM BACK :D New Laptop (Kevin Jnr Jnr.) R.I.P to Kevin Jnr, New music Olympics on the way round the corner What could be better? . . .

Far East Movement - Turn Up The Love ft. Cover Drive

Hold The FUCK Up.

Listen to the beat though :O

AlunaGeorge - Just A Touch

Jesus I love this song.

AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It

My love for AlunaGeorge is a little frightening . . .

Jessie Ware - 110%

AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It

TUNNE




these people are so damn talented

Miguel Broads ADC VOL. 2

Rihanna - Where Have You Been

Okay, I believe in the Illumanti but this video is just :O. The eye choreography I basically hit my friend to tell her to watch. Amazing choreography inspired by the motherland Africa. The cinemeatography was beyond amazing, it was like you were in a fucking dream. And of course the song...

Jeez.. I'm in love.

J. Cole - Sideline Story

The MLK and Coretta lyric #salutes that's deep.

Snoop Dogg - Stoner's Anthem

2 steep 2 steeep, I haven't proper listened to the lyrics (I rarely listen to lyrics until the 6th listen tbh) but this rhythmn is nice



P.S. Wiz is the 2012 version of Snoop. That is all.

My Chemical Romance - "Teenagers" [Official Music Video]

Classic

Skrillex & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley - "Make It Bun Dem" [Audio]

In honour of 4.20 and the national bun a zoot day

Apology for the music

Basically Kevin Jnr (my laptop) is broken and has been for quite a while so I am sorry for the lateness and the lackness of posts :( peak times.

Rita Ora - R.I.P. ft. Tinie Tempah

She is beautiful, her style(or swaggaa) is off the chain as they say, she is a LONDONER (bullet bullet) and most of all she can SING! If youdont believe me search somebody that I use to know cover.

Labrinth - Earthquake Ft Tinie Tempah, Kano, Wretch 32 & Busta Rhymes (O...

BUSSTAAAA he everywhere at the moment and you know what I kind of like it.

Plan B - ill Manors [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Plan B - ill Manors [New Single w/ Lyrics]

Aaaah I have been wating for this. While I was doing my work experince at Film London (this was 2010), this was one of the movies they were working on. I read the script, really dramatic. If you love Kidulthood mixed in with Eastenders you'll love this. It was good, I'll definitley be watching this to see if it was anything like in my head.





Plus the song is sick :D

Miss A - Breathe

SAY WHAT :O

Usher - Climax

Conor Maynard - Can't Say No

Expecting big things from this kid

FEATURE: RecordKingz Interview (Part 2)

RECORDKINGZ: The Interview

What attracted you to start selling records?

Myself and Simon from the creators wanted studio equipment back in the day And at the time we were quite young and had no income, so we had the idea to do a record show in Kingston. We sold out, people seemed to love it almost had no records left. We went out bought new samplers with the funds we got from some old vinyl. Even before then, I can remember being a kid on a BMX trading and swapping records with people from the age of 13. My older brother was a rock n roll DJ and I had seen record dealers coming to my house as a kid. I think my brother and his friend gave me my first record and turntable.

What attracted you to producing?

I was a scratch DJ from the age of about 13 or 14 creating sounds on the turntables , my love just grew and to be honest first time I heard an official 'break beat' as we used to call a break back in the day I was just hooked. I can remember my first break and funk records like Gordon’s war soundtrack and Donald Byrd places and spaces and I also got hooked into Kool And The Gang and James brown productions and that was it nothing has changed I just keep discovering new world genres of music even today

How long have you been doing both for?

Started to DJ as a kid in Kingston on the Cambridge estate around 13 or 14, Moved into beat making at about 17 years old as samples sounds just really fascinated me

When did you start collecting records?

Well I can remember buying knights of the turntables techno scratch which must have been 84 - 85, Sugar Hill Label Like Adventure of grandmaster flash, man parrish boogie down Bronx but I had other records from the vinyl bargain bins even before this period

When did you start producing and for who?

In the real early days, myself and Simon from the creators and DJ Dren where called J.A.S. Productions as in Julian, Adrian and Simon. I must have been 17 and those where the fun days going to the studio and creating sounds for the first time shortly after I met E-Tru and MC Delerious from Hackney and Tottenham and over the next couple of years the creators have a master plan record was born on the Blindside label.

Where do you find your records!You may need a whole page for this one Lol, a question I get asked a lot but to give an honest answer I’d say my eye and my ear are more important than where I go diggin’ for vinyl , put me anywhere with old 60s 70s and 80s records and a portable turntable and I can find bangers.

I been in shops where I found 80 records and other people have been struggling to find half a dozen and I start giving them records out of my pile as I feel so guilty they not found the gems. saying that I have been a lot of places diggin for vinyl,  Russia, USA (Around 30 different states), Canada, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland , Belgium , India , Latvia, Norway, Denmark, Austria.

What record have you found that has been so weird and outlandish to the point you've been confused?

Oh that’s easy an Irish folk flute and panpipe folk album which should have been awful by rights but oh was I wrong I don’t even know what made me pick up this nasty looking record.

It looked like Brendan shine or the Dubliners which I’m sure many will love ,but not us Beatheads 'sounds like some crazy Irish hip hop madness mixed with De Wolfe library flavors'

Who was your first ever record producer customer?
Man there was a whole bunch all around the same time, Buckwild and lord finesse where are the insane diggers when I was living out in the states for a while and when I fly in they just find me in a shop or on the street somewhere it was insane they were everywhere digging also DJ Riz 'Flipsquad', DJ Mayhem, DJ Spinna and from the UK we used to sell to I.G. Culture , 4 Hero , Mark Pritchard and a bunch of others.

How did you become established as the man with the beats, what was your journey to that status?
Hanging around Rawkus label in New York was the big break I think and DJ mayhem radio show in N.Y. meeting everyone who was anyone on the rap scene and they used to test me on which samples they were using and id pull peoples cards.

Mos def and Talib wanted to work with us through Hi Tec, who we had met and played our beats too around the same time it was a new York thing and us being kids from London you would never have thought but I suppose the word just spread.

there was no social networks like Facebook and twitter back then that people where using so I’d always jump on a plane and just go meet people which helped me advance my music and get my foot in the door for vinyl , back then I was trading breaks for special hip hop like show vinyl , instrumentals and promos only the artists had.

How did these producers find you or how did you first meet the likes of Just Blaze, Alchemist, Mobb deep etc.
Well I went to L.A. and worked on two songs with evidence one for the creators album and one on dilated peoples  album which I’m sure many don’t realise i have a track on the dilated peoples album expanding man, so the connection with alchemist was made there straight away and alchemist connected me with Mobb deep so its like a chain reaction and i got the pleasure of meeting just blaze later on at his Bassline studio

Who's been your favourite to work with?

Being a Mobb Deep fan and driving overnight to Paris to meet alchemist and Mobb deep in the studio was insane originally it was meant to be a Havoc song , but Prodigy came into the studio kind of said nothing and just picked up the pad and started writing and at that moment the goose bumps kicked in it, almost felt like euphoria as I followed these guys and been a fan ever since they made peer pressure back in 1992.

And what films or TV productions have you worked with?

Anything from the BBC , Hugo Boss , Banksy 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' , Cohen Brothers we seemed to have be lucky there seems our music has gone down well on the TV.

What's your favourite song from your album "Heavyweight"?

I don’t like to choose one to be honest as everyone I worked with on the project was amazing but if I had to choose it would be Mobb deep or Beatnuts.

 What's your all-time  favourite rap song/artist?

I have to mention Marley Marl , Pete Rock , all D.I.T.C. , Dr Dre , DJ Premier,  KRS one and Rakim. For the new generation I’d say Alchemist , Just blaze , Ludacris , Bad Meets Evil.

What rappers are you feeling the most at the moment and why?

For the last 10 years it’s been Ludacris , and I don’t think I’m a massive fan of that style of music but every time I hear him rap it makes me want to smile , Redman has also had that same effect on me over the years.

Releasing any material in the future from you or for others?

Most definitely there is a project coming out that chess move cartel and 730 promo putting together , we taking it back to the roots and pressing vinyl again, plus we going to do super high quality digital files none of this low fi mp3 action where half the dynamics in the song are missing including dirt and analog tone.

Any advice for up and coming producers?

Be creative , research how your favourite producers make their music , be original in this day and age the rules are out the door the last beat I made was 144bpm programmed at half time which sounded like a dub step beat with a more b boy head nod feel and samples.

as after all that’s what I do best and you have to play to your strength and not weakness and also put your own spin on it or you won’t stand out from the rest.

also YouTube videos for tutorials on whatever software or hardware you using and yes expect some to be rubbish but even myself have found the solution to my problem there recently

and last but not least get your diggin on , check out that old vinyl for samples and just great music , I mean look a Dr. Dre he collects samples but it’s rare he uses one a lot of the time he replays then or plays over the top of them to make the sound big.

Which song that has been produced using one of your beats is your favourite?

Hard margin, The Music, Heat, Kronkite are tunes I definitely feel proud to have worked on and made.

Where are you based, is there a shop?
www.recordkingz.com on the galactic internet and coming soon on www.chessmovemusic.com

And do you take work experience students. .
no because no one can handle working for me , I’m either a throwback caveman that likes everything done my way or you get verbally clumped or they just enjoy hanging out so much that no work gets done , so i do everything myself and i mean everything and on top of that people forget im a full time parent since 2001

It doesn’t get more major that this.

FEATURE: RecordKingz (Part 1)

RECORDKINGZ: People With The Beats...

Juliano 'The Creator'


Regularly a battle will come up when you talk about Hip Hop like whose better? Hovah or Yeezy, West coast or East coast, who has better content out of all the rappers, who likes Odd Future (btw where is Earl?) and why does Lil Wayne dress like that are common topics but for the producers of the hip hop game one thing is unarguable; if you want to get good and I mean REAL good, rare beats that 1) no one has heard of and 2) will make sure your track is THE shit, there is only one man for the job - Recordkingz’s Juliano Ex 'The Creators'.

Representing the UK (DUNKNOW), this guy has worked and produced with the most talented heavyweights of the Hip Hop industry from G-Unit’s Sha Money and Alchemist, Lord Finesse, Rocafella’s Just Blaze, Beatnuts’ JuJu, Dilated Peoples’s Evidence, D12’s DJ Head, Lik’s E-Swift, Buckwild, Mobb Deep’s Havoc and *takes deep breath* T-Ray from Cypress Hill.

But as well as being a notorious record producer and creator of the record label Creative Entertainment, he now has devoted his life to another obsession and that is collecting rare and deleted vinyl.  Like I said when it comes to finding ‘ardbody beats that aren’t found anywhere else and with clients like the producers mentioned above to prove it, his site is the place to go http://www.recordkingz.com/ which was set up and is maintained with the help of Amy AKA The Record Girl. He has a vast collection from God knows where that consist of “Euro Funk , Samples , Breaks , Library , Soundtracks , Afro , Electronic , Synth , Manga Jazz ,Latin & Brazilian , Psychedelic Rock , Reggae , Old School Rap , Disco Breaks 12", Bollywood ,Disco , World Breaks , Grooves And All Kinds Of Weird And Wonderful Music.” There. From the man himself.

Plus the Record King has a YouTube Channel (#WINNING) where you can see exclusive interviews from his past colleagues like Just Blaze and Alchemist and the producers of beats that YOU you hip hop head are probably listening to. Good times

I have been blessed by being given the opportunity to interview such a notorious talent which he tells me and you the journey he took for him to be able to tell the stories he can today. But if you fancy coming out with the next big song in Hip Hop you know here to holla… Jeez I’m so nice giving you these contacts.

- Click Here for Recordkingz Facebook

(Oh by the way, when the Facebook page reaches 1000 Juliano will give away £100 worth of records to one lucky winner picked at random.)

- Follow Recordkingz on twitter @recordkingz

Click Here out Recordkingz YouTube channel with interviews with Just Blaze, Alchemist, Buckwild and Craig G

http://www.recordkingz.com ( dsicount code: musicalrecords)

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