Starting September 1st, 2010, DT will undergo a maintenance period of possibly 24-48 hours. We wish we could give you a more specific timeframe, but with our small team here we will need to take precautions.

So in the next couple of days expect to see some DT downtime while we migrate to DT2, after which you can probably expect a few hiccups that we will fix in realtime.

It’s unorthodox but f*ck it, I want DT2 live as much as you do and so I’d rather get an imperfect DT2 up and with your help work out the remaining bugs.

Thanks to all the alpha testers for your initial push, it became clear that DT2 wouldn’t be fun without the whole community so that is the plan.

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DopeTracks is sponsoring a one of a kind Art Exhibition this weekend in collaboration with Sticky Rick and a host of other killer organizations.

3802 Cesar E Chavez, Los Angeles, CA 90063

Street artists from around the globe will be presenting their original works along with music from live bands, food from local eateries. This is an opportunity for LA deetz to do a meetup! See you there!

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The finalists have been chosen. Please visit:

http://www.busabeats.com to find out who they are.

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It’s been almost a month since DT started moderating the forums a little more actively, and I reckon it’s been a success so far. This isn’t science, but I took a little score of posts on the forums in the months before moderation and then over the last month, while there has been moderators on DT.  Here’s what I came up with.

First, I looked at the amount of threads and replies in Shameless Self Promotion and Open Discussion over the last few months (a thread is a topic, like “DT Sports Talk: Lakers vs Celtics”). The amount of posts in open discussion has stayed about the same (around a hundred a month), but the amount of posts in Shameless Self Promotion has gone down from 240 to 160. That slightly surprised me – I thought that it would have gone up in Shameless. But what is really interesting is the amount of replies you get to new threads – people are talking more in the forums: and when I say talking a mean talking with each other, not just shouting into the void. That’s a massive win, right? This is the case in both Shameless and Open.

Then I looked at the nature of the threads posted in Open Discussion. Straight up spam is when people just post self promo on open discussion. This has gone down MASSIVELY. Clever promo is where people don’t just spam but try to create a conversation to help promote their tracks. This has gone up and I see this as a good thing. It means people are still being creative and still promoting, but they are being clever about it.

But most importantly, the amount of real conversations has gone up. This is when people start threads that aren’t about them, and in my opinion, this is the best bit of evidence to suggest that moderation is worth it.

We’ve seen some cool new trends in the forums too – people posting a selection of tracks that they like (and aren’t their own tracks – check this thread out of Amazing beats in the last few days by Filosofey and followed up by Push. Mad props for this – yes there is promo but it’s coming form other people who are recommending other people’s music. That RULES.

So anyway, there are a couple of stats and trends since we started moderating more. Yes, it’s been tough and a lot of you have resisted it but it really is good for the community in my opinion. Some people have been more active than others – the Sheriff in particular has been ruthless and I’m glad for that because we needed to ruffle some feathers. But most people have been cool about it – a lot of you don’t see the moderation in action because most people get a private message from us, change the naughty post… they just accept that they got moderated. That’s cool and on behalf of the moderators, I want to say thanks to people for that.  A lot of people are still resisting it and that’s cool too, because we need someone to watch the watchers. Moderator haters have helped make the mods better, so we thank you for that too.

Peace

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So, I said I was gonna keep you in the loop. Today let’s talk about favorites and what they mean right now on DT and what they’ll mean on DT2.

We’re not a social network on facebook. Let’s face it, we care mainly about MUSIC. So our way of making connections here is choosing an artist you like and making them your favorite.

Many of you may have not have noticed that you can see what your favorites are up to on DT by hitting the Fav Feed tabs in beats and tracks. But that seems to be too hidden. So with DT2 were going to make Favorites more central to your experience. If say I’m a huge BeatHic fan, I’m gonna want to know what new beat he’s been uploading, maybe even what he’s been commenting since he’s always got something interesting to say.

So with DT2 we’ve introduced a few new things. First, you’ll be able to rank your favorites in anyway you’d like by dragging and dropping them. Second, you’ll be able to decide if you want to subscribe to news from that artist and even configure how much you might want to hear from them.

Great.. ranking favorites has been a much requested feature.. but keeping yourself up to date with that particular artist is what makes them useful. So here’s a screenshot of what will be part of a new section were calling Your Dashboard.

So that’s the update for today, I’ll be revealing more features as they come because there will be a lot of new stuff under the hood and it’s best that you get a little tutorial about how to use the new features. Ok. Back to work.

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I’ve been getting a lot of messages about BusaBeats and understandably so since it’s been a while since we had any news to share. I asked Suzuki to keep me updated and today I finally received word, that they’ve picked their top 10.

The top 10 will receive the instrumental beat they used to deliver their track and will be able to record it proper. Expect the results sometime in the next week or so to appear here and on the BusaBeats page. Thanks to all that entered!

Also, for those wondering about the moderators now dominating the forums, keep in mind they simply wanted to introduce themselves to the community. There is nothing ‘corny’ or ‘newsworthy’ about it. They are offering to help enforce forum guidelines that have existed from day one. In time you won’t notice them, you’ll just notice that topics are in the right place and promo is in the right place. Give it a chance. That’s all. DT is making some moves right now and it’s important that the forums remain a relevant place for discussion, rather than spam bumping or beefing. There will be better ways to promote your music with the intro of DT2 and there is always Shameless Promo section.

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We’ve all heard the rumors.

“Big Foot spotted in mountainous region of Alaska.”

“Strange unidentifiable creature washes up on the Jersey shore”

“Dopetracks is coming out with DT2 Soon”

So much BS out there, we’ve become pretty skeptical.

Truth is, Jeeves, my personal butler is currently typing this post while I dicate from a hammock on the most beautiful Bahaman beach. As my hammock sways in the cool Bahama wind I stare off into the moon thinking about the golden age of DT. OGs abound. FTNS.”

OK, that all sounds lovely, but it’s not the truth. I believe, the golden age of DT is yet to come. Don’t get me wrong, DT will never be like it was when it started, it was small and focused. Everyone knew everyone, it was as underground a movement a movement could be, a global private party. It’s changed considerably since then, it’s had dramas along the way, a sort of shared history. It’s a beautiful thing, but it has to grow up a little.

So a year ago, I made the decision that we were going to take on an ambitious feat. Build DT from scratch. That’s right, from scratch. Now you should know, I’m an optimist, sometimes to the point of delusion especially as it relates to what can be done within a span of time. The challenge was.. rebuild the architecture of DT while still maintaining the soul of DT, keep everything that makes it good and make those things better. Then think about what DT needs and build that out.

There’s an unspoken rule amongst people who develop sites. Don’t publicize a hard deadline. You just won’t make it or you will have to cut corners to meet the deadline. In some way it’s a rule that keeps people from looking like jackasses (I never did say an exact date ) but on the other hand having a deadline keeps the pressure on. Anyways, rather than make excuses for the delay, I’d like to start sharing the process more, something I should have done from the get go. I will keep posting these updates since I feel like were confidently at the end of development. Since this is the first post, I want it to be meaty so here’s the 1st update now instead of later

Update 1
“Running a marathon while trying to tie your shoelaces”
That’s what it’s like to a)develop a new site and manage an existing site (the way it’s supposed to be run) at the same time. DT is a tiny team.

Our challenge was that we were building a new platform, using better technologies but also needed to make sure every piece of data every piece of music was gonna be converted and migrated. So in addition to building the new site we’ve had to develop the software to convert everything from the old site to the new one. Tracks, Beats, Users, Forum Posts, Private messages, dope points…. You suddenly realize that in 3 years of being live, we’ve added a lot of little features we probably take for granted. Over 2 million private messages btw (promo)

Thankfully we completed that a few months ago.

I’ve been soaking a few years worth of member suggestions about what should be in the new site. Problem is, if you try and pack everything in, you lose the focus of a site and what makes you different. Better to be exceptional at one or two things than mediocre at all things.

I’d like to ask the community that question. See if you can contribute your thoughts in two succinct lines.
One thing you like about DT and one thing that makes it different. Not a laundry list of what you want to see on the new site, but to name those 2 things about the site that exist now. I’m really curious because I’d like to think I’ve figured that out but I want to see if I’m far off and I will be addressing that question in the next post.

Anyways, as Hubus mentioned in the forum. Actions speak louder than words. But hopefully these posts will be interesting to you Deetz. And you will have a better idea of when the legend of DT2 finally appears out of the woods.

Now back to the question:

One thing you like about DT and one thing that makes it different.

MrPink

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As you may know, the edgy animated series, The Boondocks, is returning for its third season on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 11:30PM on Adult Swim. After a two-year hiatus, the show is back, bringing fans the same controversial topics and unapologetic attitude which made creator Aaron McGruder’s original comic strip series a national phenomenon.

The Boondocks features the voices of Regina King (“Southland”), John Witherspoon (“Friday After Next”), Cedric Yarbrough (“Reno 911”), Gary Anthony Williams (“Boston Legal”), Gabby Soleil (“Johnson Family Vacation”) and Jill Talley (“American Dad”). Guest voices this season include an eclectic mix of actors and media personalities, including Bill Maher (“Real Time with Bill Maher”), Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”), Ed Asner (“Mary Tyler Moore Show”), Billy Dee Williams (“Star Wars”), Star Jones (“The View”), Charlie Murphy (“Chappelle’s Show”) and Marion Ross (“Happy Days”).
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I’ve been pleased to see some recent entries into the contest by folks like Gibz, Epick and a few other DT hometown heroes. On the other hand I’m a little disappointed with the turnout. I know for a fact that a few heavyhitters have been sitting out this battle. My only question is WHY? Let’s do some role playing for a sec.

YOU: I’m frustrated with recording online. It doesn’t sound the best, doesn’t represent me to the fullest and I can’t really make my sh*t sound the way it’s supposed to.

ME: You’re in the same boat as everyone else. In a sea of mediocrity true talent will rise to the surface. Plus, if they like your lyrical ideas, they will give you a beat and you will be able to record the finalist entries in a studio if you want.

YOU: What do I need a bike for?

ME: You might not need a bike, but you can sure use the exposure. Look at what Complex Magazine did for last year’s winner. http://www.complex.com/ENTERTAINMENT/EVENTS/Complex-and-Suzuki-Celebrate-Busabeats-in-NYC

Plus, a custom Hayabusa bike from Suzuki is priceless, could be your rainy day asset.

Bottom line is.. I’ve convinced Suzuki to extend the contest for two more weeks so I can see some more entries from DT. I want a member of DT to win this thing, but it’s up to you guys. So get on it… Battle Now

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Were expecing DT to be down for approximately 40 minutes tonight between 10pm and 2am PST.

Need to reboot the servers and do a little maintenance.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

MGMT

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With the passing of Guru yesterday, it seems 4/20 is a little less celebratory than in years past for hip hop heads everywhere.

Just to lighten the mood a little, let’s see who can come up with some dope 420 themed track.

Maybe, just maybe there’s a badge in it for someone.

Right now Trilogy has got the lead.

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Kurupt performed with Tha Dogg Pound at this year’s Paid Dues Festival. Check out all of the performers who are excited to hear Kurupt’s new album “Streetlights” dropping 4/20. Terrace Martin, Jay Electronica, Raekwon and more are ready for “Streetlights”!!

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The nature of sharing content is changing. People used to embed tracks and beats. These days it’s all about posting links on Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. So we’ve added a few options so you can easily share without copying and pasting into facebook etc…

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I was inspired by the new video by MOUF to write a quick post about some of the videos that have been coming out of DT. There’s something about this video that just lifted me. Thre’s no big budget or mad tricks in there, but it just works, you know? So here it is, enjoy.

Don Dope was one of the DT video pioneers, but the one I’m showing here is with Lady DV from Dopespot. Go check his channel on Youtube, there’s a lot there to be enjoying.

There are a bunch of DT videos – especially form the original mixtape which need a mention, but I wanted to remind people that DT artists are going places – y’all remember Murdoc, right? Here is on the wakeup show with Ahmad and Kanye, totally holding his own…

Last up, Presto has been making mad moves, with a guest spot on the recent Canibus and some serious heat on a regular basis.

I was hunting for a video I saw a while back by Trilogy with him and some fam on the streets of Chicago, but I can’t see it anywhere. Holler at me if you got a link. I also have to mention Wiseguy for being the DT video don, with DT TV and a slew of hot videos, but I think we’ll do something up close and personal to honour that dude.

peace

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First up Double0negro is one of the true DT OG deetz. He’s one of the few deetz that will tell it like he sees it in his comments, and has been one of the most consistent characters on the site, never in silly beefs (erm, like me) or vanity bitching. Dude never says he’s the best or that he is better than people, and has regularly been te voice of reason on DT. So that’s why the Hall of Fame title.

So here’s the story behind this project. About a year ago I was speaking with Flowtron about a crew compilation instead of the next KKRUNCH tape. Well, you know how things go, you start out with good intentions and all, but it never really happened, which was a shame. But then around Christmas time Double0 suggested a mix some of his tracks together. I’ve been meaning to get back up on those kkrunch mixes, so I thought it would be a good way to get back into the groove.

Now Double0 is a fine character in DT history. Dude is 100% freestyle and always has been. I remember the days when he might have 3 or 4 up there on the front page. I didn’t get his style at first. I wasn’t mad into freestyle, because it felt kinda sloppy to me.  But then we worked on a couple of collabos and I was pretty much hooked on his style.

Every other cat sends me a crafted, shaped slab of audio – it’s obvious where the verse and hooks are and its cool, I dig that. But double just gets on the mic and chats for LONG TIME. I think I’ve had ten or twelve minute freestyles from him on several occasions. No verses, no hooks, no punchlines: just straight spitting. Sometimes he’ll fall off, but he’ll get straight back on.

Where as most emcees will get pissed off if you cut their vocals up and edit it, Double actively encourages it. I always think it take huge confidence to be comfortable with that. Even when he doesn’t agree with the edits he lives with it (there are some changes that he suggested for this mix that I was going to do but he ended up posting it before I did them, which I respect a great deal).

So when he sent me around 40 tracks (and that was just a selection of what he’s done on DT) I got busy with it. I swear, I must have spent 3 or 4 days straight going through the tracks, working out what will blend well, where the best lines are. It was driving me a little insane. Originally I wanted to do a 15 minute taster but there ere so many good lines and hot tracks that I found it hard to cut stuff out. The first version was a 45 minute compilation that used about 25 tracks plus a bunch of snippets. But it just wasn’t clicking, you know?

Double emailed me now and again but I only really get a small amount of time to do music and I think he gave up on me. So I started feeling a bit guilty. Last weekend I ‘bollocks to it, I’m gonna be ruthless’ and I tried a really short version with 8 bars for each track in order of tempo. And then I started to get it. The whole thing came together real quick after that. I had to chop out an awful lot of really good stuff. Trust me – go check out the flow on World War 3 and you’ll see that this compilation probably doesn’t even have some of his best lines in my option, but I didn’t want to get into reediting every one of his tracks. This compilation only includes about 20 of the 40 he sent me.

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Anyway, probably more than anyone wanted to hear about this, but it’s been a nice project to work on and I’d like to encourage other people to pull together their output for a year or something to create a body of work. It’s weirdly satisfying. And I want you all to bask in Double0’s talent for a minute. He’s certainly one of my DT favs and I can’t see anyone denying him his place in the DT Hall of Fame.

Ok, so who’s up next?

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DT experience some downtime between 9:30AM – 11AM. Our Data Providers complained about a SWITCH problem that they needed to replace and we have been waiting for word that their issue is resolved. SOrry for the inconvenience!

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Most of you on the site will know about the battle with letsbeef.com, but if not, here’s the forum with the heritage. Yesterday both crews posted their beats up and there is no denying that both came with real good game.

The tracks are here: Letsbeef track

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Dopetracks Hit Squad track

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It’s impossible for me to be completely objective – even if I felt I could be objective about the tracks, I’m biased about the DT artists because I’ve been listening to these cats for 3 years and I know what it is they do. The LB cats sounds tight and well polished, but to me it sounds too clean. If I’d been listening to them for years I’d probably feel differently. Nobody can deny that the LB guys have talent and a couple of them are top tier emcees.

Some of you feel that they came off with some pretty typical disses to the opponents, but you have to remember, they haven’t heard the same disses time and time again, and they did deliver them with class. And more than anyting, they psted this on DT, not LB, which is cool. Weird thing is, they have almost the same dope points.

Actually, hell to objectivity, my opinion is that LB had a better beat and mixdown and overall production, but our guys came with mad originality and freshness in the flow in most parts. Epick opened with some insane wordplay (got to hand it to to that dude, he’s got the text) and Stripez was the right guy to close shop… there’s a reason he’s the battle king, dig?

So I think that DT won, but perhaps who won isn’t really the point here – in my opinion, the fact that we’ve had inter-site battle is just cool, but the nature of things determines that we wanna know who won. I really hope this isn’t the end of it. It’s a close call. Some of DT are even saying that LB won on this forum thread, which shows that it’s not clear cut (or that we’re honest or have haters, depending on which way you see it).

Either way, huge respect to LB for bringing this and keeping it cool. They’ve been engaging with the community and bringing some real nice tracks to DT, and I know I have been enjoying all of their tracks. I’m never going to migrate to LB, but I have new found respect for them and they seem like pretty decent guys. Anyone bitching about them just because they are from somewhere else is a fool. Also respect to Epick and Nica for being superb ambassadors for DT and helping to arrange this (likewise Chris from LB).

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Warner Brothers is preparing for the upcoming release of “Clash of the Titans.” For some of you yung ones, “Clash of the Titans” is a remake of the popular classic film recounting the tale of the mortal son of the god Zeus who embarks on a perilous journey to stop the underworld and its minions from spreading their evil to Earth as well as the heavens.

Check out the first “clash” below as hip hop linguist E-40 throws out a challenge to his fans to spit his rhymes better than he can! 40 will help in picking out the winner, who will have to submit their rhyme in video format, who will win some cool E-40 and Clash of the Titans prizes.

E-40 Clash of the Titans Contest:
http://www.ibeatyou.com/user/E40Music

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Congrats Eratik,

Your beat was selected to be included in the 2010 BusaBeats Competition and you will receive a cash prize from DT. Eratik used the samples creatively and made them an integral part of the composition rather than a layer in the beat. There were other great beats in the competition, but Eratik came on top amongst the judging peers. Eratik will be representing DT alongside producers from other walks in the industry. Some real talented dudes and he is joining them. How about we give him a virtual pat on the back and congratulate him. He is after all, part of the family!

This was the winning beat:

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Emcees, the battle for the bike starts in the next day or so.

Get ready.

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WE are hard at work prepping and editing the DT Awards program for this years ceremony which we will stream on the site.

It will go live on Feb 25th. In the meantime, go support your deetz entering the Suzuki Beat Battle!

http://www.dopetracks.com/Suzuki-BusaBeats-Producer-Contest.html

Stay tuned. The show will go up today!

The revolution will be televised.

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So a few weeks ago we posted about Platinum Life, the upcoming online game where players compete and build their careers in a virtual record industry.

We’ve been talking to the makers of the game about including some DT artists’ music in the mix. Right now representatives from the game company behind it are scouring DT, looking for beats they like. If selected your beat will be chopped up and used in gameplay with full credit and a link to your DopeTracks beat/profile page.

So you are officially warned. You might just get a message that one of your beats has been selected.

We think it’s a great opportunity to get your music and name in front of potentially millions of gameplayers. If you know how popular Mafia Wars is you can only imagine how big a game could be about the crazy hip hop industry world.

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Our friends at WaxPoetics have partnered with Rockstar Games and got 5 artists; Psycho Les (of the Beatnuts), Spree Wilson, Chico Mann, K-Def, & Chin Chin, to make original tracks on the Beaterator app on a Sony PSP. You know Rockstar Games as the people who put out the Grand Theft Auto franchise and you should know WaxPoetics puts out an outstanding publication for real music aficionados. None of us here at DT have a PSP (mine was stolen 3 years ago)… We’d like to know what Deetz think of this app, so if you own a PSP and are willing to shell out a few bucks to try this thing, make some beats and post them to DT (assuming there’s some export functionality!)

Checkout these videos!

Learn about this app from Rockstar’s Website: http://www.rockstargames.com/beaterator/
or visit Wax Poetics website.

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Hubus just posted a cool forum thread: the old school (2007/2008) vs. the new school (2009/2010). I guess technically its mid 2006 to mid 2008 and then from mid 2008 til now to even it up. Go check it here

Double0Negro stepped up to the plate to offer a great selection to get the ball rolling. It’s meant to be 10 emcees, 5 producers, but 12 tracks to an LP sounds right to me, so I’ve included the full 12 that Double0 mentions.

2007/2006 team
Emcees: GHOSAPHAT, MURDOC, GRIPMANE, DUBETTA, DONDADOPEMAN, (daKidStripez) DOTHOLLO, INPHYNIT314, LESBLESD, TRILOGY, HUBUS, PRESTO, STORMIN NORM, HUBUS
Producers: WATKINZ, BEATHICULARHOMICIDE, FRIDAY, DAUNDABOSS, KRISTI KRISIS (thanks man!)

2009/2010 team
Emcees: LogictheDA, SEVEER, CHUCKIE1, MOUF, GIBZ 6. JOEALIAS, PBeezy, MESSO, MONTANA25, CHEESEBURGLAR
Producers: NEEDLES, TWO_AS, POWER_SOL, CHEESEBURGLAR, ZENE

I’m going to suggest a list, but it’s not a case of who is best, it is who would work best as a team. I mean, for example, Sean Price and Mos Def are better emcees than a lot of the Wu Tang, but you’d never change the Wu, would you? (ah shit, that’s a whole new conversation… another time…). So My list is more like – if there was a double CD, with people from the start of DT to mid 2008, and

Old School 2007/2008
Emcees: Spitfire, Murdoc, Trilogy, Hemanifezt, Saphyah, Norm, Don Dopeman, daKidStripz (mDotHollo), Rounds, JusListen, Casino Price

Producers: Beathic, Biggs, Realstyles, Friday, Watkinz (in all honesty, I would put myself, but that’s not gentlemanly)

New School 2009/2008
Emcees: Messo, Corinna, Seveer/HazedCloset, Keyboflow, Lokwan, LogicTheDA, MOUF, Eratik, Hubus, Jacino, Messo, Frost (King of da West, Joe Alias, Wiseguy, hazmat, BBH as an emcee for sure and Presto as guests)
Producers: Sickle, Power Sol (how good is that dude?!), James Cole, Duck alert, Needles (Mozart Jones/ DNG or Harlequin D or DJdee if Sickle/DA have to go to Old School Team)

I’ll admit that a lot of my new school could easily be old school, but that’s partly because they were better more recently (KB, Sickle), and if I’m honest, I kinda missed a lot of good people, so I trust Double0 for the new team. But a lot of old school (tril, norm) are still here and would still get on a new school joint.

There are a few I thought about long and hard and didn’t include: Inphynit314 is amazing but he works best in his own environment, g hosa was top 3 ever, but he don’t fit my LP, and Double, even though he makes DT classic tracks. JusListen will confuse a few people, but check out the KKRUNCH tapes (#2 and #3) and you’ll see. You gotta have a few Ol’ Dirty types and I got Hemanifezt. Actually remember Big Bad Wolf? I might swap someone for him for that ODB role. Oh, Hannibal Jester. Or Drinkinstein. F*ck.

On production, Motion was one of my best ever, but he goes independent. Hell, Aechdot, Fricasee too and I’d put Saphyah and Casino both in on production, so I’m getting ore for my money with them two. This is hard. OK, Drink, Wolf, Heman, Double0, inphynit, LeoB and HJ, and eternal chronicle on a separate CD, produced by me, Fricasee, Aechdot, Watkinz and Motion. OK?

But who would win when it comes to new school and old school? My head says old school, but right now I would be more excited to hear that new school compilation, so I’d have to go with that. However, if you judge it on record/CD sales, Old School would win, because they have that special class and you’d put JC Pretty on the cover to sell muchas units!

So, what’s your list? And who would win?
Peace y’all.

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I just noticed a forum thread called Ever Get the Feeling You’ve Been Cheated? which was posted by TZone, mainly about the nominations. He is rightly pissed off that his name isn’t in a producer category. But there are a LOT of other important names that are missing in the lists. What does it mean? That people don’t appreciate quality? I think that there is a chance of that. That people didn’t do enough to make sure they got nominated if they wanted to be there? Certainly! JoeAlias is everywhere right now, pushing with tracks every day and he got 6 noms. I say well-fncking-done. Does that mean that he’s top 5 in each category? I doubt even he would say he is.

So, here’s the thing. Every year that the noms come out, people get annoyed and say they are leaving. It’s the same with the DT mixtape and people were pissed at me because they didn’t make it onto the KKRUNCH tapes. Like they are owed something. Since when did DT start giving out free lunches? WE created the awards – not DT (they just helped us by setting up voting) – so we have to make it work. And that is, in my opinion, how we should sort out most of the problems.

Here are the same complaints I see every damn week…

I deserve an award: do you, really? And if you do, why aren’t other people agreeing with you? Did you do enough to demonstrate it? I think MF Doom is better than 99% of hip out there, but I don’t see him in the charts. Dig?

A lot of people in the noms don’t deserve to be there: well, they got voted in and it wasn’t through ghost accounts, because they were checked.

I never get recognition for what I do: firstly, do you really care if a bunch of lames vote your stuff up? I don’t care for a lot of peoples’ opinions on this site, so why do I care if they dope me? I think that we should set up a committee of regular users that can vote up the hot tracks, so that we have a sort of ‘moderators top tracks’ list. No ghost or spammer is going to get on there.

There isn’t enough moderation on the site: no shit. But it is OUR site, so we have a duty to moderate. I remember calling a spammer out and had to live with a world of shit because we’re all too selfish to act collectively. I’m down to sort out a moderation committee if enough people are prepared to put the hours in.

People are ghosting: Yeah, maybe but I don’t see what the point is. You will know if you’ve voted yourself up and what is the point in showing off about being the best if you voted yourself up? Even if Pink made it so that IP addresses were tracked, people could easily get around it. We need some integrity here. We should all know when a lame gets more points than they deserve and call them out. Again, this would be helped if there were a committee of moderators.

So, my point is, we can’t moan because (most of us) are grown adults and we should take responsibility. What do you all think? A sort of moderation committee to do the following tasks:
-police forums, crack down on spammers, make sure people don’t ask the same damn question every day
-spot potential ghosts and investigate beat jackers
-work to an informal rota so that we know people are looking in on it each day (but I doubt that it’s very strict)
-share the best new tracks with others and maybe some sort of moderators top track – it would have to be secret who is voting on stuff, but most people will work it out. Again, integrity (look it up, chump).

finally, i been doing a bunch of videos of my 2009 tracks – the new one uses a bunch of war footage and includes Knowledge Born, Presto and Eratik…. have a look on KK’s video channel! And yeah, i’m promoting for the Original Producer award. Like I said, people don’t get free lunch. Peace

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Voting is closed. Result Show will be broadcast on Feb 25th.

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We’ve tabulated the nominations and here’s how we broke down the categories. First, we shot for a limit of 5 finalists per category, but sometimes we had to include more because there were users with equal votes numbering more than 5 in some categories. Also, we’ve added 2 new categories. Track and Beat of the Year. We’ve narrowed down the top 10 for each category based on tracks and beats contributed during 2009 with the most dope points. Voting begins tomorrow, Feb 5th. I’ve shuffled the results so they’re in no particular order.

Best Male Emcee Finalists
Eratik
NicAtein
ShelleyGray
storminnorm
KinEtic
Hubus
MeSsO
dotHOLLO
joealias
LA$E
PRESTO82

DT Soldier Finalists
wiseguy
SickleCellz
storminnorm
gemini6176
DJFlash

Track of the Year Finalists
Hurt So Bad – YoungYG
ShelleyGray: Luckiest Man On the Earth
“”THIS IS MY FAMILY”….track by HARLEQUINN DIAMOND” – storminnorm
“CHRIS RAY & SNOOP DOGG….”TRYNA GET TO YOU” … DJ Flash Presents .. Chris Ray & Snoop Dogg” – DJFlash
MY STYLE” TRACK FEATURING LANDLORD,WISEGUY AND MRS WISEGUY/CASHMOB-CMO RECORDS”
You Wanna Know”….Sexy Shay Beat Produced By: Biggs CAT5 International
WELCOME BACK – DJFlash
“”WELCOME TO REALITY” track by RDS30 – Storminorm”
“BACK ‘N THE DAYZ” ……………….DJ Flash & KingofdaWest ”

Beat of the Year Finalists
CODE RED/ZOMBIES

BROKEN DESTINY – SickleCellz
Specimen
SAND MAN
Raindrops
DOPE DOPETRACKS BEAT/BY MRS.WISEGUY
“**NEW** The Past That Haunts Me (© copyright all reserved-Danielle Holmes-September 26, 2009) NASA 60%”
*NEW* Losing Control(© copyright all reserved-Dani
**NEW***Rage In My Heart (© copyright all reserved…

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We’ve recently been contacted by the makers of the upcoming game called “Platinum Life”
If you have played Mafia Wars you are pretty familiar with the concept of social gaming. In Platinum Life players will become an unsigned musician and work their way up to become a superstar. The game will be available on the web and on facebook.

FROM IGN:
“The basis behind Platinum Life is exploring the life of a hip hop artist from all facets, moving from obscurity to fame and fortune. However, you won’t solely be navigating the pitfalls of contracts and deals by yourself. Heatwave announced today that T.I., the multi-platinum rapper, will act one of the mentors for your created characters, leading you along the way as you establish your career. “His character is where you’re trying to get to; you’re trying to get to the top of your game and not just be a great artist but be a mogul and have your own business and do more than just the performance aspects of the game,” Castoro mentioned. Apparently, T.I. will be one of a number of iconic artists that players will be able to select from (a dozen or so other performers will be announced at a later time, ranging from pop to R&B to gangsta rap), who will shepherd your character as you start out. You might be told to boost your street credibility in one place or another and if you perform tasks from your mentor’s agents, you’ll be given the opportunity to open for them at a show. ”

Check out a trailer.

The game is set to launch shortly, and we’ve been given an opportunity to feature top DT Producers in the game. This means samples of your beats will be played in the game itself with an image and link to your beat on DT. We are still in the phase of discussion, so I wanted to ask DEETS and specifically the producers what you think of this idea.

So chime in.. To begin with I’d like to take one beat from the top 20 producers on DT based on dope points alone. Afterwards, the game may feature the top 20 beats on the site at any given time. This represents an enormous opportunity to get your music exposed to potentially millions of people a week.

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Our hosting providers have to take a 3 hour maintenance window to make sure the systems are up to date and as stable as possible. DT will be down from 12am possibly up until 3am PST.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

DT Staff

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Suzuki and DT are partnering up again to bring you the ultimate mc battle where the winner gets a custom Hayabusa Bike.

The contest wont start til March, but DT is going to unveil a BEAT BATTLE in Feb to determine which DT Producer will join the ranks of Celebrity Producers and have their beat featured in the contest on Suzuki’s website.

More details to come!
In the meantime you can check out the details here: http://www.busabeats.com and pre-register to be notified when the contest goes live.

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Early bird special… We weren’t supposed to go live with this till the 22nd, but to let you have more time to nominate we’re going live now.

To nominate a deet, visit their profile and click on the nominate me tab. Simple as that.
2 rules. You can’t nominate anyone for any category twice and you can’t nominate yourself. Simple enough.

You have 10 days to get your nominations in…

Voting begins Feb 2nd

AGAIN, rather than posting in the comments below,
To nominate a deet, visit their profile and click on the nominate me tab. Simple as that.
2 rules. You can’t nominate anyone for any category twice and you can’t nominate yourself. Simple enough.

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Sorry to interrupt your normal programming. This is just a short message to ring in the new year.

DT Award details will be released January 24th. If you have any suggestions.. now would be a good time to voice them.

Also, new Beat battle coming end of this month.

Big MC Battle happening in Feb.

DT2 coming soon.

Stay tuned.

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Merry Christmas, Kwanzaa & Belated Hannukah. We hope you enjoy a few days off if you get some, time spent with your families and a warm place to spend it. Let’s be thankful for all that we do have this year. I am thankful for this little community that inspires the world with passion and music from the heart. Thanks deetz.

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Goose Blackfinger offers a sneak peak at an early round of DJ Contest: “Who’s The Ultimate DJ” in collaboration with AllHipHop.com as part of Scratch the Ultimate DJ the latest DJ video game developed by Numark and set for release May 2010. The event was held at The Scratch Academy in LA with DJ Numark, Mix Master Mike and DJ Babu with an open call for up and coming DJs to come enter in the contest, wax with Numark, Mike and DJ Babu and get more familiar with the Scratch game.

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So, Goose and Ryo went on the road to get a sneak peak of the upcoming film Ninja Assassin, from the team that brought you the Matrix and 300. They captured an exclusive Fight Demonstration from Stunt Double Kim Nguyen of 87Eleven, the martial arts design group responsible for some of the most intricate fighting scenes in modern cinema.

Special thanks to TragedyFerrero who is credited in the end for the beat from week 3 of the Propellerhead contest.

Then Goose had a chance to talk to Kim about the film and even a little about hip hop. Special thanks to Aechdot for the featured beat.

Finally, Goose caught up with Rick Yune, Alias, Fast and The Furious to talk about Martial arts and RZA. Special thanks to Sein for the featured beat.

Here’s the trailer for the film which opens November 25th.

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So, a few deetz, probably in the habit of googling themselves (don’t we all) discovered that samples of their DT music is currently being featured on entertonement.com. Entertonement.com is a website that allows users to upload sound bytes and share it on the web. DT reached an agreement (in which no money was exchanged) with the folks at entertonement to syndicate teasers of DT content in order to drive traffic to DT via backlinks to your tracks and beats residing on DT.

In the above sample, you can see that a user can hear 30 seconds of the clip.. if they wish to hear more, they have to click on Full Version… which will link to Ryo’s full beat on DT.

We felt that giving Entertonement access to small bits of content was a fair trade for resulting traffic and listens to your music. Some of you have expressed that this doesn’t feel right. Having people outside the DT community be able to see your pics and hear your music isn’t cool. I can only say.. we have been giving you embeddable clips from day one that are all over myspace, facebook. WE have given you the ability to tweet your tracks and beats. Having your music live beyond DT is the whole point for many of you. That’s why you have accounts on other sites…. We get that. Some of you just do it for fun…

Also, as DT is a free service, we hope to drive traffic to the site to support our hosting costs and bandwidth. So getting more traffic to the site is a must, if we wish to grow.

Bottom line is.. we think this is a win-win for DT and it’s community. It’s called syndication and it’s how you get the word out. But also know that we are going to evaluate this relationship from time to time and decide whether we are getting what we want out of it. We are still waiting to get confirmation from Entertonement that our channel page is up, where we will promote the concept of DT and get new users that way. On behalf of the DT staff, I apologize for not announcing this sooner.

Now, discuss. We are open to your opinions.

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I just wanted to bring to your attention a couple of beats that have blown me away recently, and got me thinking about where this producer community could go in the future.
First I head the new dubstep cut by DNG Cat – check out the snares and how it flows into the timing.

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And then I just heard Fricasse’s new beat, which is completely beyond any category, pure science and an amazing slice of music control.

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Fricasse’s just sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard before – on DT or anywhere else. Don’t that just send you wild? You should check out the rest of his stuff, it’s like taking a little music holiday.

I love so much music on DT, including stuff that sticks to the conventions of a style and do it beautifully, but it’s always cool to be properly surprised but a beat and totally feeling it. I really hope people still push like this and I’d love to hear some more emcees take chances with stuff like this.

DNG has been on some hot dubstep thing recently and, despite only just starting to do it a few weeks ago has got a talent for it. If you don’t know what dubstep is, here’s a couple of links – some tracks and a dubstep club night feature I used to go to in 06, with lots of background info and a handful of videos (make sure you check out rusko). I hope that we keep on seeing this kind of wild style to the DT part. Here’s the other 2 from the little cluster of DT dubstep DNGcat has been putting out. Stay fresh DT.

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Hey Deetz, it’s been a while but I’m still around, and I just wanted to share another quick tip with you. This one is for the budget artists who have a basic setup and need multiple headphone or line level outputs. The quick and easy way is a little adapter called a splitter. for about $10 USD, you can buy a 5 way headphone splitter by Belkin.  It’s called the “Belkin RockStar 5-Way 3.5-mm Headphone Splitter”. Now for around $2 you can also get a 2-way splitter at your local Fry’s or Radio Shack.

Some of you may say, ‘but Proper I’m broke’, or ‘i got 2 bucks in change, but no gas to get to the store’,  well here is a free option if you have RealTek (AC’97) sound card (which is standard on most windows based computers these days).  The solution is is a feature called ‘Retasking’. Retasking is the process in which you assign a jack on your sound card to perform a task other than what it was originally tasked for. For example, I re-tasked my computer’s front microphone jack to be a headphone jack and i now have two front output headphone jacks.

If you are using just your computer sound card (and/or asio4all or an alternative asio host) and you have the little icon pictured below, then you can use this trick.

(RealTek HD Audio Manager software that comes with the drivers)

Double left click this icon in your system tray to open the HD Audio Manager

The first option you want to enable, if it isnt already enabled is retasking. see the below image in the red box labeled ‘A’ for a screen shot.

In the red box labeled ‘B’ we have the audio task that is selected for the related jack to the right. If you plug in a pair of headphones in one of the jacks, it will enable the task menu button. Click it and a window will pop-up asking you “Which device did you plug in?” (pictured below) for multiple headphones you can use either ‘Headphone’ or ‘Speaker/ Line Out’, but whatever you choose you must use this on all outputs you setup (including your existing speaker out jack.)

Once you have plugged in all of your pairs of headphones and have configured your jacks to use the same ‘Speaker / Line Out’ or ‘Headphone’ configuration, you will now have free multiple headphones out just through a little software hacking! awesome eh?

Feel free to play around with these settings and see what type of combinations you can come up with. if you have multiple microphones, this trick will also work with multiple microphones (great for recording room reverb and getting fuller sound.)

Anyways Ladeets and Gentletrackers, I’m off for now. Please feel free to hit me up and ask for help, or better yet tell me what you want to see next on Tracks 101!

Peace,

-Proper

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I’ve been doing a few lists of bloggers for y’all to look at and if you are thinking of promoting, they are good starting points. But i just found this insanely helpful blog post on themadbloggers.com that you simply have to read.

Go there for the full deal, but in short:

1. Be humble – then them decide if you’re the one they have been waiting for
2. Don’t copy in hundreds of bloggers – that’s lame and shows you are spamming
3. Keep it short – they are busy folks
4. Spell it out – don’t abbreviate too much, explain what you mean and don’t assume they know what you’re talking about
5. You need an online presence – send myspace, dopetracks profiles, reverbnation… whatever: it helps

mad props to the mad bloggers, that is proper helpful stuff. hope you don’t get spammed because of this!

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Mayer Hawthorne be lookin bugged out son

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How many of Deets users use Google.com as their start page? That’s the homepage your browser puts you in when you launch it.

Well, here at DeeTs Labs we thought… why not make your google start page a little more interesting…

So we are testing a new service. It’s very simple. Just visit a page like http://search.dopetracks.com/storminnorm and you’ll see what we mean. Go ahead put your username in there like this http://search.dopetracks.com/luka If you don’t put any username on the end it will default to dopetracks. It’s the google you know and love but with a couple of extra toys.

Toy #1 – Random Fire – Plays a random track that has reached a certain dope point threshold. Will play classic tracks and last weeks tracks, because it’s totally random.

Toy #2 – Quick online status checks. Who’s online on DT at any given moment.

Finally, you can search google without interrupting any of the music playing.

So give it a whirl, and if you like it.. make it your default start page for your browser.

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Hope you all had a fun halloween!

The results of the final leg of this month long beat battle are as follows:

SickleCellz – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83057


Sein – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82898

Goose’s Picks
Aechdot – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82895
DJSkirty – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82821
Harlequinn Diamond – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83209
Madd Kid – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83120
Freiddo – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83123

Ryo’s Picks
Aechdot – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82895
Djfrenetic – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83029
BeAtMaStErLeE – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82780
Edward_Nelms – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82952
runamuck - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83021

MrPink’s picks
WARONWAXPRODUCTIONS – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82853
DJDEEfrenchconnetion – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contests_entry/83161
Randalist – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82868
Edward_Nelms – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82952
NEEDLES – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/83186

This concludes this beat battle, we are planning some more contests going forward. If you were on any of the shortlists you will get a t-shirt.
Simply send a message tshirts@dopetracks.com and include your full name and mailing address. Without your real name, the stuff is liable to get returned.. We’ve seen it happen before. Winners don’t forget to send us an email too to tshirts@dopetracks.com.

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HAHA This goes out to all my white friends! You got ‘em… I got ‘em… We all got ‘em!

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Mr. Pink is sick of taking all of the heat for posting the results, so I am taking over. Another week of dope entries and a first for this contest… a repeat winner. Because of this, we picked a third winner for the week who will also receive the Propellerheads software. So here are the winners and runner-ups for week 3…

Tragedy Ferrero

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http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82565

Randalist

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http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82298

Monster Matt

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http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82215

Blackfinger’s Picks:
Cephix – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82388
Cheeseburglar – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82392
Sein – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82296
SeanRoss – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82640
BeatmasterLee – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82584

The Ryo One Picks:
flosport – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82383
Madd Kid – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82274
Brook Style – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82608
Aechdot – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82269
dngcat – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82597

MrPink
Brook Style – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82608
DJDEEfrenchconnection – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82645
Cadillactwin2 – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82280
LaProper – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82655
Jopie2000 – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82487

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Yo Deetz,

Mad respect to all who have made tracks for the 15andCounting competition so far, some of the early entrants are already receiving DT/15&counting hoodies.

The competition is still open – lay down a track for 15andCounting – recommended beats here!!!

Don’t forget that there are dope hoodies up for grabs for the winners and you get the satisfaction of knowing you’re making music for SOMETHING GOOD…  The winners are to be picked on numbers of plays.

Here’s the tracks that have been entered so far – the bar has been set high!

Kick back and listen to them and remember that people have made these tunes for a reason – sign the petition to make a difference – support improved sexual health all over the world.

Stormin Norm – If she give it to me

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dotHOLLO – 15 N Counting

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KEYBOFLOW – Should Have Been

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Proph Murph – ENOUGH TO WAIT

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Silvatung - 15 and Counting

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Lil Frost – Safe Sex

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Stormin Norm – We Need Signatures

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KEYBOFLOW – ON A DNGCA

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LogictheDA – 15 and Counting/Still Counting

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Hemanifezt – Be a Protector for Yourself

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Week 3 of the DopeTracks Propellerhead Battle is officially closed. We hope to get these judged by Tuesday/Wednesday.

Since the last week of our battle will coincide with Halloween, we decided to post spooky samples and sound effects for use in the final leg of the DopeTracks – Propellerhead Beat Battle.

For those dope producers based outside of the US… learn more about this Halloween thing here:
Halloween at Wikipedia

When you’re ready.. Download Week 4 Samples Here

An up to date feed of entries for week 4 will be found here:
Halloween Beat Battle Week 4

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A bunch of you were asking for beats for the 15 & Counting comp…. here are some suggestions.The producers have sent them all to me and they are cool with the beats being used for this. Oh, and they are all FIRE!

If you want any of these beats, hit me up on krisitkrisis at gmail dot coconuts and I’ll fire it out, along with some conditions to protect the producers. If you need any more info about this competition, have a look at the post about supporting 15 and counting with a track about the issues. And for God’s sake, sign the damn petition now, PLEASE

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SickleCells “Broken Destiny”

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DuckAlert “Back to Wreck the Shop” (and make sure to check out the SICK collabo for 15&Counting on this beat!)

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Watkinz “Lay it Down” There’s something about this that i just love. It’s simple, basic, and a clear versioning of “Love me & Leave Me” by Nina Simone, but Watkinz just has this mad ear for connections.

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SickleCellz “Everyday Jive” – this dude deserves multiple representation!

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Daundaboss “Take Ova Blockz” daun’s got a great ear, real simple beats, nothing too flash, but when he connects, you know it’s going to sond hot with the vocal

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I’m gonna spare you the usual talk about how difficult it was to choose the winners, it should be obvious by now since we are constantly delaying the winner announcement.
The thing both winners have in common is that they put together really nice compositions.. They may not be typical hip hop BANGERS, but they build up beautifully and deliver by the time the beat has been heard all the way through.

Here are the winning entries:

Randalist:

Comment and Dope

Harlequinn_Diamond

Comment and Dope

Now for our top five picks (other than the winners)
Goose
Day The Fresh - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/82207
The King JMAC - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81567
Dirty Shwa Productions – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81892
BlkMny – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81976
Da Reason - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81759

Ryo1
mugshot781 - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81886
DJSkirty - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81566
Roachkilla – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81669
Dikza94500 – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81600
ADM – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81755

MrPink
Giacobbe - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81938
Jopie2000 - http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81550
DJDEEfrenchconnection – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81595
TragedyFerrero – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81605
twentyii – http://www.dopetracks.com/beats/contest_entry/81590

***NOTE: All top 5 picks get t-shirts!!!!

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Ok, this is a sort of ongoing blog post, but I wanted to pull together some of the most fly 15&counting tracks on the site so far…. This is all happening this week and the people that done did me 15&counting tracks already are all getting exclusive DT hoodies sent to them…. I think we got about 10 more hoodies waiting to go out…. Who’s gonna claim ‘em?

First off, the page with all the info is here in the dopetracks 15&Counting page….

I’m gonna set up a poll for the competition in a few days and 5 shirts will go to those with the most votes on that poll, and the other 5 will go to people who’s tracks get the most plays at the point where we close it in a week or so. I’ll give you the dates in the forum.

If you’re looking for beats… we have recommendations here..

So here is just a taste for some of the heat….

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I knew there are pleny more to come too…. But Norm, Proph, mDotHollo, Lowkan and Keybo have raised the bar on this, so you got to come with your top game.

Oh yeah and make damn sure you signed the petition and tell them governments what’s up!

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Blogs de Hip Hop que mas me molan!

Hola Muchachos,

Me llamo Clea y estoy collaborando con Kristi Krisis escribiendo este blog desde Londres en Inglaterra…o sea ke porfa perdonad mi espa ñol chungo.

Bueno pues, donde empiezo? Me encanta el rap y el hip hop, eso es lo primero! Pero me ha resultado difficil encontrar buenos blogs españoles que se dedican al hip hop. Donde se junta la peña Española y Hispana para hablar del rap y de la musica que mas mola? Mira que he estado buscando un monton por la red sin resultados. Por eso me he tirado la tarde haciendo una lista de los mejores blogs Españoles que se dedican a hip hop y rap.

Disfrutad Amigos!
Terapia Hip Hop
Terapia Hip Hop es un mega blog que empezo el año pasado y tiene su origen de Madrid, Zona Bruta. Tiene tres mil visitas al dia (bua!)…y artículos humor, noticias, opinion, videos, reviews y mucho mucho mas. Es uno de los blog mas populares que he encontrado.

Hip Hop Revol
Este blog se dedica a mostrar discos para uso promocional y el blog esta actualizado por blogger Indie, que da su opinion sobre nuevos discos de hip hop que agrega al blog con fotos. Los reviews de Indie estan muy bien y oviamente saber mucho de la musica rap y los artistas mas populares de estos tiempos. El blog tambien tiene un lugar donde dejar comentarios y una lista de otros blogs y sitios de interest.

Hip Hop Flash
El blog esta muy bien organizado con videos de musica, posts, commentarios, top articulos, comentarios de discos y tiene una lista extensiva de articulos ‘mas leydos del dia’. El diseño y la disposición de la pagina es fácil de leer y de navegar y en la parte inferior de la pagina tiene una lista de secciones del blog. Este blog lleva desde 1998 informando a la peña, respect!

Lo Mejor del Hip Hop
Es un blog de Hip Hop, R&B y Soul donde se tratan temas de actualidad e históricos (discos, ropa, mcs, conciertos, etc.), haciendo especial énfasis en el rap internacional y hispano (méxico, chile, colombia, argentina, etc).

Sub Suelo B
SubSuelo B es el blog sobre Hip-Hop, rap, MCing (o rapping), el DJing (o turntablism), el Breakdancing (o BBoying), y el Grafiti de la red de blogs comerciales Medios y Redes.

MC Avalon
Este es un blog sobre el rap escrito por un tio que se llama Mc Avalon. El blog esta abierto a todo tipo de opiniones siempre que sean constructivas. El blog tiene noticias, temas, fotos y commentarios relacionados al rap.

Raptitlan
Este blog esta creado por Rudy Rap A.K.A. Aztlan con el proposito de difundir el Rap Mexicano , Hip-Hop Mexicano y Graffiti Mexicano…uei!

Doggs Hip Hop
Doggs Hip Hop es una pagina web de lo mas grande y representativo del Hip Hop en Argentina. Tiene un blog muy guapo y se ha convertido en uno de los mayores portales de la cultura Hip Hop Argentina (como tambien de Sudamerica); aportando un blog que habla sober temas como el Rap, MCs, BreakDance, TurnTablism, DJs, Graffiti, Vandalismo, Arte, Cultura, Eventos, Fotos, Videos, MP3, Entrevistas, las ultimas noticias del mundo del Hip Hop, Reviews de peliculas de Hip Hop o relacionadas, Arte Urbano, y un extenso etcetera.

Hip Hop Groups
H H Groups es en portal dedicado al movimiento de la cultura hip hop. Con material multimedia libre para el visitante organizado en distintas secciones. Esta pagina web es super popular especialmenete en España y Mexico. Tiene muchos blogs hablando de todo tio de cosas relacionadas al ray y al hip hop. Tambien tiene noticias, entrevistas, maquetas, temas nuevos, bases, graffitis, vidoes y mucha information sobre eventos y conciertos.

Estamos trabajando con una organizacion international benefica en una campaña ‘15andCounting’ que exige un mejor acceso a los servicios de salud sexual y de educación sexual para todas las personas, sin importar tu edad, tu género o dónde vives.
Puedes ayudar nos con la campaña 15andCounting firmando una peticion que pide al el govierno internacional para mejores derechos sexuales para todos.
http://www.15andcounting.org/es/ PLEASE!

Dope Tracks
Tambien hemos encontrado una pagina web Americana imporesionante llamada DopeTracks.com, de collaboraciones entre raperos y productores de rimas. Bua !
www.dopetracks.com

Conciones rapeadas en español:

List of spanish songs from dope tracks
Alguno de vosotros puede rapear sober el tema del sexo y derechos sexuales en español? Nos encantaria oir de ti ! kristikrisis@gmail.com
Asta pronto !

D.R.O.I.D.z

flow by: Nytronik
beat by: Nytronik

Record over more than 70,000 Hip Hop Beats

sepuedea volver

by CHEENABLACK

(Wow!! hermosa cantante … wu tang!)

Record over more than 70,000 Hip Hop Beats

10k Anthem

Record over more than 70,000 Hip Hop Beats

flow by: JOKES10K
beat by: JOKES10K

Mi Turno Ahora w/ storminnorm

flow by: PUPILO
beat by: MIK3D

Record over more than 70,000 Hip Hop Beats

holdup

by BiG_PetE

Bilingual Shit…From This “Alleged Whiteboy“

flow by: SickleCellz
beat by: musicasiete

para tito

flow by: DMSprince
beat by: Tha_Kingofthastreetz

Amor Mio PA pa’ mi reina

flow by: KONFLIKT
beat by: MzCherry

Clea

ok, here’s a few more….

Eratik and Rupert are two profiles you HAVE to visit.
DIEGOYES is actually from brazil (portuguese) but i wanted to mention him. this dude is from CHILE http://www.dopetracks.com/profile/musicasiete. LESBLES did a track with some spanish

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