JEE VAN CLEEF MASTERING

Un énorme MERCI à Crem pour sa patience et sa gentillesse. Pas évident de résumer 30 années en quelques questions, ça a remué beaucoup de souvenirs, bons comme mauvais. Mes amitiés à toutes celles et ceux qui prendront le temps de nous lire 🙂

WHAT’S UP BELFORT 🤙🏿 « STEP BY STEP » 🕺🏿💃🏽 Dj sets, live, animations, vidéos, performances, lots à gagner etc… 100% HIP-HOP avec une line-up qui fait peur 🥵 ★ ANDYZ ★ THAANOS ★ SATURNZ ★ BLACKMO ★ GERSHT 📍La Poudriere 📅 Jeudi 26 Mars 🕗 20:00 - 01:00

Still mourning...HBD anyway boss🥂💔 #RestInPrice

Blackdoor : le studio mythique du rap français raconté par Thierry youtu.be/uJzk6UXc2h8?is…

Recap semaine @JvcMastering m’a fait passer à l’acte. En même temps pour une fois que y’a un album de Ramirez à peu près distribué ce serait con. Ça s’agrémente bien d’une bonne compil faites par des DJ britannique. Pas mal de rap indé année 2000 ça me parle

Prodigy (of Mobb Deep) – “Keep It Thoro” The word “genius” is thrown around a lot these days. As far as hyperbole goes, the word “genius” is most often used by fans to describe artists that are slightly above average. Worse than the misuse of the word “genius” is the *misapplication* of the word “genius”. You see, genius is often infers “complexity”. But the spectrum of genius also includes “simplicity”. And it is here, in this range of genius, that we find Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), one of the greatest rappers in the history of hip hop/rap music. There’s dimensions to Prodigy’s genius. First, there’s his use of the *talk-rhyme* style. Of all of the rhyme styles, talk-rhyme — the rhyme style in which the rapper sounds more like he’s talking than rapping — is the most difficult rhyme style to pull off. Some rhyme styles give you cover. They mask your defaults and inabilities. They wear down the listener’s ear, giving off a mix of blandness cosplaying as rhyme skill. With the speed-rhyme style, where rhymes are delivered deliberately in a speedy (fast) manner, you can hide. With the miracle lyrical rhyme style, where large groups of words are jumbled together, giving the false impression of rhyme skills, you can hide. With the talk-rhyme style, you can’t hide. Talk-rhyme relies on less words. It’s powered more by the voice, and the realness of the life lived behind the voice. Talk-rhyme is also a technical marvel. Of all hip hop/rap’s rhyme styles, it’s the one that exhibits the highest level of breath control. And this is baked into the style. With the talk-rhyme style, you don’t hear the *gulps* of breathing between lines; you don’t hear a rapper catching his breath between transitions. This is one reason why the talk-rhyme style is the epitome of breath control. Prodigy, one of only a handful of talk-rhymers, was a master of the talk-rhyme style. Not just because he made one of the most difficult rhyme styles look easy, but because he was deceptively simple with his rhymes. Much of Prodigy’s genius lied in his poetry and timing: “Ayo, … I break bread… ribs… hundred dollar bills… … Peel on Ducatis… and other four wheels/ write a book full of medicine and generate mils” There’s a deadpan, life-or-death quality to Prodigy’s rhymes. This too was part of his genius… Now, as for the “Keep It Thoro” beat. “Keep It Thoro” is an absolutely menacing audio composite. Aside from Prodigy’s heavy New York slang-laced phrasings and deadpan life-confident delivery, it’s the beatwork of Alchemist that also makes this song so defiantly hard. The core groove is built around a dusty, lounge-act piano sample that jabs the exact same tone — in 1/8ths — for a count of seven times before there’s a change in the phrase: A loose note kicks off moments before the sample loops back to itself. For the bass parts, Alchemist doesn’t go with a conventional bass line. Instead, he uses just three bass sound-stabs to anchor the groove. Two of the three bass-stabs are simply low- and high-pitched versions of the same exact sound stab; the third bass-stab, which Alchemist uses to slide into one of the others, has a slick, boom texture to it. Some beatmakers might not (at first) understand Alchemist’s arrangement of higher tones with lower ones, but the reality is this technique of clashing textures and levels is one of the most fundamental mainstays of the beatmaking tradition. So on “Keep It Thoro,” Alchemist is acutely aware of the fact that it’s the repetitive nature of the sampled piano phrase that actually makes the bass parts sound even more pronounced; which, in turn, gives the overall track a “booming” sonic impression. A genius beat for a genius rhyme…

@skuro_god @kunahside @TIPI_MOBB @PyrrhvsMani @Blackmothehyper @OgBileNoire @OgdesOg @IamBigCarson @Don_Francone @luXeTimeless Et j'en oublie...

Hit shuffle on an album? That’s psychotic behavior.

Qui a fait se taire la représentation nationale pendant une minute ? Pas une victime de féminicide. Pas un mort dans la Méditerranée. Pas Marie Trintignant. Pas Malik Oussekine. Mais Monsieur "Mort aux n*gres", soutien assumé d’Adolf, lui, a eu son hommage républicain. Misère.

@parlerapstp_ @Nelsoninho77 J'ai pas beaucoup participé ce soir, ça m'a fait du bien de vous lire dans le chat, y'a eu de beaux échanges 🙂

Je jette un coup d'œil au livre de raph et je tombe sur @JvcMastering et @Nelsoninho77 mes gars 😂

Merci, merci, merci 🙏🏻

It's criminal not to release such a jewel

29 years ago we lost one of the greatest to ever bless the 🎤 Here he is on stage with Nas when they were both rookie sensations

The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumbest member of the herd to lead them.

Sometimes you try to give someone the love they never had, and they show you exactly why they never had it.

J'avais remasterisé son 2ème album pour un collectionneur ayant acheté la K7 promo. Ça ne sonnait plus du tout comme le précédent opus, on y retrouvait les scories de l'époque (1998, sons jiggy très convenus) mais y'avait quelques petites ogives malgré tout.

Qu'est-ce qu'il a mal vieilli ce tweet dis donc

@roro_one1 Ta bravoure t'honore mon Roro

@JvcMastering Je trouvais l'idée et les qqs snippets bien cools

Et encore, on a la chance d'avoir échappé à un atroce album de Three 6 Mafia sous influence EDM/Reggaeton vers 2010. Ça devait s'appeler "Laws of power", heureusement qu'ils ont eu la bonne idée de splitter avant 🙏🏻

@parlerapstp_ Rien que d'y repenser, j'ai la nausée qui monte lol

@JvcMastering wooow affreux je savais pas ça

@iochaneTrack116 @parlerapstp_ "Il ne s'agit que d'ça" comme dirait l'autre

@JvcMastering @parlerapstp_ C’est bien comme ça on se prend en exemple mutuellement

Toujours un grand moment quand un gamin qui était pas né dans les années 90 veut absolument t'expliquer comment ça se passait dans le Rap a ce moment là. Fermer sa gueule quand on sait pas, c'est une très bonne option que vous devriez utiliser un peu plus souvent. Bisous.