Posts Tagged ‘Rhythm Roulette’
Rhythm Roulette With Da Beatminerz (Video)
June 20, 2016
Da Beatminerz (Mr. Walt and Evil Dee) looked like they had fun the whole way through. Even when they felt they were Shanghai’d by their own record picks. Haha! But watch how the dynamic beatmaking duo saves the day in this ep of Rhythm Roulette.
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Rhythm Roulette With Havoc (Video)
June 18, 2016
Yeah, he ain’t “The Silent Partner” now. Watch Havoc bang out a bangin’ azz beat to meet the Rhythm Roulette challenge most def! Blindfold, please. Let’s get to it, Havoc.
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Rhythm Roulette With BINK! (Video)
May 18, 2016
You can’t go wrong going from Dilla’s stash.
So no need to tell you that BINK! successfully met his Rhythm Roulette challenge. J Dilla sampled from Jan Hammer Group, Sly & The Family Stone, and The Headhunters. Now see how well BINK! made it do what it do with the Dilla preferences he blindly picked.
Rhythm Roulette With Hi-Tek (Video)
May 11, 2016
Uh oh. Hi-Tek picked Elvis… best case, a real beatmaking challenge (worst case, a LAW SUIT waiting to happen). But this is the game the top producers play. Hi-Tek = Top Producer. Let’s see him try to make lemonade out of these lemons he picked.
(Insert whatever Beyonce reference you like here.)
Nottz Draws His ‘Rhythm Roulette’ Wax From The Same Stacks J Dilla Did (Video)
April 27, 2016
Re-read the byline and watch Nottz stylin’ on ’em in this episode of Rhythm Roulette. Upside: You KNOW the pickings should be good since they are the same plates used by the late great J Dilla. Downside: Who’s gonna do it doper than Dilla? Hmmmm….
Rhythm Roulette. J Dilla Edition. Nottz Raw!
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Rhythm Roulette With A Big K.R.I.T. Beat… And Rhyme (Video)
April 12, 2016
Big K.R.I.T. kept it real in every way on this installment of Rhythm Roulette. The session was destined for greatness when he had a phenomenal 3-blind-pick (you’ll see). Lots of meaty gravy to extract and spread all over the tracks. The result was a dope beat; so dope, Shaka Zulu was already mouthing lyrics to it as he and K.R.I.T. listened. But hold up… the beat’s made and laid, and K.R.I.T. is already in the studio, and there is a hot mic right there…
Yeah, you already KNOW what he did!
Plus (on the realness), he shouted out a gang of fam at the end. Never forget from whence you came nor with whom you come up. Salute K.R.I.T.
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Psycho Les (Of The Beatnuts) Plays The Game Of ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (Video)
February 25, 2016
Okay, The Beatnuts ain’t nobody’s punk when it comes to beat supremacy. But something about the way member Psycho Les glares for a sec when he puts on the lenses and says he’s about to turn into ‘Large Professor‘ on them. Boom! The game is no longer a game. Watch a music maker make more music from music he picked… blindfolded. And it’s gonna be nice. You know this. It’s Rhythm Roulette!
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‘Rhythm Roulette’ Live Featuring Exile (Video)
January 24, 2016
Exile plays Rhythm Roulette to win! Chopping and blending sounds from three randomly selected records… nah, how about Exile flipped one of the records in three different ways, managing to sample Fashawn and work his ‘owwwww’ into the track. Press play above, then shhhhh… genius at work!
9th Wonder’s ‘Rhythm Roulette’ Beat Was So Dope Rapsody Had To Have It…NOW! (Video)
January 5, 2016
Rhythm Roulette with a new episode featuring the North Carolina super-producer 9th Wonder. Blindfolded crate-digging at The Record Krate in Raleigh, the back to his studio to watch a master craftsman at work – using Charly McClain, Jermaine Jackson, and The Temprees.
Then… Rapsody stepped to the mic to record to the resulting track! Tested and blessed it. Yes she did! Check it out.
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Large Professor Takes His ‘Rhythm Roulette’ Challenge Seriously (Video)
November 27, 2015
Large Pro… They caught up with me… We gone do this Rhythm Roulette…
Amazing that this epic episode has not happened sooner. Large Professor has done legendary work for legendary emcees and singers. And now that it has happened, Large Pro declares several times in the clip above that he is “not just gone make some ol’ bullsh!t” – which he does NOT!
Yooo… if you are a spitter, you will WANT this beat for yourself!! Ha! You slept! Tragedy is already jumping the track. WOOOOOOO!
For this installment of Rhythm Roulette, we connected with Extra P, aka Large Professor. We took the legendary Queens producer to Human Head Records in Brooklyn, where he picked three random records to begin a game of Rhythm Roulette. He ended up grabbing an Instant Funk record, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes’ Black and Blue album, and Shirley Scott’s On A Clear Day. From there, Extra P began to go through the records and create some new heat from what he picked.
Shout out to Tragedy Khadafi for the cameo.
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Scoop DeVille ‘Blindly’ Accepts The ‘Rhythm Roulette’ Challenge (Video)
November 19, 2015
For the latest installment of Rhythm Roulette, we tap Scoop DeVille to chop up some random records and conjure fire. We caught up with him in New Jersey as he thumbed through the crates at Scotty’s Record Shop, picked three random joints, sparked some herb, and flipped the records in the stu.
– Mass Appeal
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Rhythm Roulette: Blindfolded Beat-Making With Organized Noize? Can’t Wait. Can’t Wait! (Video)
November 12, 2015
Ray Murray, Rico Wade and Sleepy Brown (collectivized as production team Organized Noize) had a heckuva blind record pull for their go at Rhythm Roulette. Grabbed wax from Four Tops, Thin Lizzy and Millie Jackson. Then back to Stankonia Studios to bang out a winner! How’d it turn out? Watch.
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Rhythm Roulette: New Beat From Old Vinyl? Marco Polo Can Do That Blindfolded (Video)
September 29, 2015
One day I will spruce this b!tch up and a song will be born from it but for now enjoy the raw version I made that day.
– Marco Polo
Watch him make the “Music VS Gunz” beat from blindly selected records below in the Rhythm Roulette episode above.
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Georgia Anne Muldrow Picking And Flipping Vinyl On ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (Video)
September 25, 2015
Man, not even sure if we need to hear the finished product, the way Georgia Anne Muldrow (and the audience behind her) was nodding and bopping to the beat she was banging out from those blindly chosen records. Check out the magical music making above.
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Just Blaze Chopping Up Beats In His Head And Playing Them In ‘Rhythm Roulette’ Live (Video)
September 22, 2015
That’s pretty much it… I can make another one…
– Just Blaze
Creating album-worthy joints on the fly; it’s what Just Blaze does. Easy work!
After listening through three randomly selected records and deciding only one of them was good enough to use, Just began to create a soulful and hard-hitting beat with sped-up choir vocals weaving in and out of the track. In the end, he thought the beat sounded so good he wanted to dip from The Sprite Corner to finish it up at his studio.
Mannie Fresh Digs Deep on “Rhythm Roulette” Creating Beats For A Live Audience (Video)
September 17, 2015
Ha! Is Mannie Fresh showing off? Smooth picking his three records blindfolded (like everyone else). Then he builds a beat to rep the NOLA like no one else can… at the record shop… with an audience!
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He Got Game: Oh No Plays ‘Rhythm Roulette’ With Video Game Sounds (Video)
December 13, 2014
You know how Rhythm Roulette goes… goes to local record store, searches endless stacks of wax blindfolded, picks three and makes a beat from them. But in this episode, Mass Appeal Media has producer Oh No throwing in a curve ball… rather than find samples out of old vinyls, he samples sounds from three Nintendo 64 video games. Wowwww!
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Here’s ‘The Thing’… Marco Polo Might Have REALLY Messed Up His Picks Playing ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (Video)
September 27, 2014
Uh ohhhh. Polo picked three 12″ records. Just three SONGS, not ALBUMS, to sample. Will our hero be able to win Rhythm Roulette after blind-picking such slim pickings at Brooklyn’s The Thing record store? Well, back to Marco Polo’s personal studio to find out!
“When you have no melodic samples, a bass line can save a beat.”
– Marco Polo
We’ll see, Marco. We’ll see. We’re rooting for you. Watch this, y’all.
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Cardiak Attacks The Stacks To Pick 3 And Play ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (Video)
September 22, 2014
Cardiak somehow found his way to the Def Jam Recordings section of Amoeba Records in Los Angeles to make his blindfolded picks for the records he would be attempting to flip for this ep of ‘Rhythm Roulette.’ Gripe, gripe, gripe he did about his picks! Hey, man, that’s how the game goes…
So what do you think? Can Cardiak make hot sh!t out of bullsh!t (his words, not ours)? Click play above and see.
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DJ Babu Picks ‘3’ And Plays A Li’l ‘Rhythm Roulette’ With The Beats (Video)
September 15, 2014
In and out. Make a hit and give your shout outs. That’s the mission. So, off to the Record Jungle with Dilated Peoples’ DJ Babu; so he can pick his three records…blindfolded. Then back to the Drug Lab! Can he do it? Are you seriously doubting the beat guru Babu?
Just watch and see how well he’s gone do. Ha!
