First Dirt: Phil The Pain – Somewhere in CA (Music Video)

While visiting California to do some work with fellow First Dirt label mates, Producer Phil The Pain wakes, bakes and makes magic happen on his MPC.

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The Alchemist- Shut The Fuck Up

DIrected by Jason Goldwatch

off of Rapper’s Best Friend Part 3 .

Available now on ALC Records/Chemistry Set:

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LEKSBEAT (@leksbeat916) : CHRISTMAS FLIPPED [[MPC 2500 BEAT]]

Checkout a day in the life of First Dirt Producer LEKSBEAT.

From sharing the stage with his First Dirt brethren at Paid Dues 2013 with some legendary artist like Mobb Deep, Talib Kweli, Tech N9ne, Black Hippy, Scarface, and Souls of Mischief just to name a few, Leksbeat, First Dirt Producer and DJ, gives you an inside look of his process of flipping a sample using his weapon of choice, the Akai MPC 2500. For this instrumental, he took a classic Christmas sample, Santa baby by Eartha Kitt, and made a jolly Christmas song into a raw hip hop track.

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First Dirt Producer LEKSBEAT (@leksbeat916) Beat Video Dropping Soon!

First Dirt Producer Leksbeat will be releasing a video showing him at work! Be on the lookout for this dope video dropping very soon!

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Big Sean – Control (HOF) FT.Kendrick Lamar & Jay Electronica

Last night, rap Twitter exploded. The context: Funkmaster Flex premiered “Control (HOF),” a track that won’t appear on Big Sean’s forthcoming album Hall Of Fame because of sample-clearance issues, a seven-minute rapfest that features verses from Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. The takeaway: Kendrick murdered that. He raided and burned it like a longship full of Vikings. He spent years abroad, as his dragons grew and his armies massed, and he invaded that. He achieved computer-system sentience and then launched his missiles at strategic locations in that. I mean, he reduced that to ashes and rubble. He ended that.

Kendrick’s verse comes in the middle of the track, and it reduces everything around it to an afterthought. There’s other stuff going on in the track: A really-trying-hard Sean verse, a rare appearance from the reticent Jay Elec, a stormy No I.D. beat. But seriously, that Kendrick verse, that’s what you need to know about.