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Apr 16, 2025 50 min

Hip hop producers & sampling

from This Is Nashville Hosted by WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio

Hip hop as a genre is getting more attention from the music industry in Nashville. A good thing! But not all hip hop music is the same, nor are the ways in which hip hop music is made. The old technique, i.e., sampling, is as popular as ever, but in certain aspects it is different from when it was introduced. Once a month, a group of producers gathers together to play each other's tracks they are working on. Music City Producers, based out of Madison, hosts producers of all types of hip hop and its derivatives: boom-bap, trap, R&B, lo-fi, EDM, trance, club, etc. Today we meet some of the producers and talk with them about their music, how they create it, and why samples are important to how they work. We also follow the process of how to use samples to create a hip hop song. Hip hop artist M Slago will travel with host Khalil Ekulona as they venture into a record store to shop for vinyl, head back to the studio to listen, and create their own hip hop track for all to hear. Guests Kamaal Malak, musician, Arrested Development; Artist In Residence/Vanderbilt University Jason Rawls, aka J Rawls, hip hop musician and Assistant Professor of Hip Hop at Ohio State University Corey Parker aka Just Vybes, musician, producer Johnathan Harris aka Jon Jyzzle, musician, producer Sims Lester aka The Orbit Sound

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