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I'm a new producer (FL fruity edition for about a year) and I am really looking to get some vocals laid on my beats. I have a very small following. My dream scenario would be to have a nice compact 7 track mixtape with guest rappers on it, but i dont know exactly what steps to take to get there. I know of a few popular local rappers and alumns from my school, but i feel itd be too much of a reach reaching out to them, and id lose all chance to develop a network with them.

Tired of Waiting for Rappers: An Instrumental Series Vol. 1 is the first in a run of collaborations from local producers ILLu and Rico James. It also marks the first release on Equal Eyes Records, a new local hip-hop imprint the duo has founded. The Queen City rap scene has grown quickly, both in terms of quality and depth, and this is the next step: creating platforms, crews and, ultimately, businesses.

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ILLu is a Burlington-area native who came to hip-hop through none other than acclaimed Burlington saxophonist Dave Grippo, his high school music teacher. Circa 2000, Grippo would perform at school assemblies, as ILLu recalls, "with a DJ and a rapper." These were the late turntablist Andy "A_Dog" Williams and, presumably, rapper Konflik. Both men regularly gigged with Grippo at the time. Regardless of who was on the mic, inspiration struck and a young producer was born on the spot.

James took a longer route to BTV hip-hop. His path has included an art degree in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and years on the West Coast, but he's had a real impact on the scene since he arrived. A prolific producer and talented photographer, James was also a founding member of hip-hop group Self Portrait, who released the urgent Primal Union LP last year. Alongside rapper Trono and the gifted hands of DJ Kanga, the trio put on a fierce live show.

ILLu and James have much more in common than rapper-related project delays. They're both sonic explorers more interested in stretching out than perfecting a personal sound. James has stayed busy doing side work for the likes of Bless the Child rapper Humble and the crew at the Milkhaus, in addition to a string of instrumental EPs.

As an instrumental set, Waiting for Rappers passes the single most important test: It's an interesting listen. The two producers are experienced enough to layer movement, motion and dozens of drops on every cut.

The standards for instrumental hip-hop are flexible. For instance, purists such as DJ Food or the Avalanches can spend years honing hundreds of samples into a single song. Then you've got producers such as Madlib or Daringer, who are happy to let the perfect loop play out for 32 bars at a stretch.

Expect to see more local hip-hop record labels cropping up in 2018. The scene is too diverse to fit under any one brand name. But it will be interesting to see what ILLu James build from here. They are young, talented and driven. Great careers have been built on less.

In addition, DJ Nuts, who produced most of the tracks on the album, had his own group, Nitro, with So Paulo rapper Paulo Napoli. While the duo never progressed beyond a few compilations, hip-hop heads revere their cassette-only EP as a classic.

Founded in 1998, Pau-De-D-Em-Doido is a label with roots in Santo Andr, a city in the ABC metropolitan area. Created by members of the rap group A.R.M.A.G.E.D.O.N., Enzimo and DJ Nato PK ran the label in the following decades. Highlights from its catalog, all produced by Nato, include Difcil Ser Honesto by Enzimo and Minha Parte by Stfanie. Nato is still active today, playing at parties like S Disco Salva and performing with rapper Ogi.

Trama, a label founded in 1998 and active in the following decade, is mainly remembered for its new Brazilian singer/songwriter roster. Within the hip-hop world, though, it was a label that released many alternative So Paulo hip-hop acts. There is no doubt a new wave of rappers and beatmakers was making music in a way that deviated from the established So Paulo sound.

Starting in 2014, more and more events with live beat performances started. More often than not, performances featured the SP-404. Beatwise artists, Ukiyo artists, and many others frequently played and watched each other at parties such as Metanol, events at urban art galleries such as Pico (owned by local artist Flip and DJ Mako), and record store Casa Brasilis. In 2017, while playing at Brasilis, I was approached by Rotamassia. He recorded interviews with myself and three other beatmakers for a documentary on So Paulo beat music.

Last but not least, Everton Santos plays bass as a supporting musician for singers such as Beb Salvego and Pedro Binneman. He relies on the SP-404 for building whole songs or processing the bass on his solo project. And like the So Paulo beat scene itself, Brazilian artists continue to stretch the limits of genre and sound. These pioneering beatmakers, DJs, MCs, singers, and instrumentalsts use the tools at their disposal to reflect the world around them.

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap, and formerly known as disco rap,[7][8] is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx,[9][10][11][12] a borough of New York City.[13][14][15] [16] Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre[17] consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that often accompanies rapping, a rhythmic delivery of poetic speech.[18] According to the professor Asante of African American studies at Temple University, "hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own".[19] The music developed as part of the broader hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti art.[20][21][22] While often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.[23][24] The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music,[18][25] though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of the culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.[26][27]

Hip hop as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx.[28] At block parties, DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables and a DJ mixer to be able to play breaks from two copies of the same record, alternating from one to the other and extending the "break".[29] Hip hop's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became widely available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks. Rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat.

The popularity of hip hop music continued through the late 1990s to early-2000s "bling era" with hip hop influences increasingly finding their way into other genres of popular music, such as neo soul, nu metal, and R&B. The United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics, and alternative hip hop began to secure a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of its artists. During the late 2000s and early 2010s "blog era", rappers were able to build up a following through online methods of music distribution, such as social media and blogs, and mainstream hip hop took on a more melodic, sensitive direction following the commercial decline of gangsta rap. The trap and mumble rap subgenres have become the most popular form of hip hop during the mid-late 2010s and early 2020s. In 2017, rock music was usurped by hip hop as the most popular genre in the United States.[31][32][33]

The words "hip" and "hop" in combination have a long history. In the 1950s, older folks referred to teen house parties as "hippity hops".[34] The creation of the term hip hop is often credited to Keef Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.[35] However, Lovebug Starski, Keef Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was still known as disco rap.[36] It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of soldiers marching.[35] Cowboy later worked the "hip hop" cadence into a part of his stage performance. For example, he would say something along the lines of "I said a hip-hop, a hibbit, hibby-dibby, hip-hip-hop and you don't stop."[34] which was quickly used by other artists such as The Sugarhill Gang in "Rapper's Delight".[35] Universal Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa, also known as "the Godfather", is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture in which the music belonged; although it is also suggested that it was a derogatory term to describe the type of music.[37] The term was first used in print to refer to the music by reporter Robert Flipping, Jr. in a February 1979 article in the New Pittsburgh Courier,[38][39] and to refer to the culture in a January 1982 interview of Afrika Bambaataa by Michael Holman in the East Village Eye.[40] The term gained further currency in September of that year in another Bambaataa interview in The Village Voice,[41] by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop.[42]

DJs such as Grand Wizzard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash, and Jazzy Jay refined and developed the use of breakbeats, including cutting and scratching.[64] As turntable manipulation continued to evolve a new technique that came from it was needle dropping. Needle dropping was created by Grandmaster Flash, it is prolonged short drum breaks by playing two copies of a record simultaneously and moving the needle on one turntable back to the start of the break while the other played.[65] The approach used by Herc was soon widely copied, and by the late 1970s, DJs were releasing 12-inch records where they would rap to the beat. Popular tunes included Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" and the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".[66] Herc and other DJs would connect their equipment to power lines and perform at venues such as public basketball courts and at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York, now officially a historic building.[67] The equipment consisted of numerous speakers, turntables, and one or more microphones.[68] By using this technique, DJs could create a variety of music, but according to Rap Attack by David Toop "At its worst the technique could turn the night into one endless and inevitably boring song".[69] KC the Prince of Soul, a rapper-lyricist with Pete DJ Jones, is often credited with being the first rap lyricist to call himself an "MC".[70] 17dc91bb1f