New Blogspot... for samples only!

www.HipHopSAMPLE.Blogspot.com

I started a new blog that is simple and has all samples that we have successfully flipped in the past. You can even hear and weed out the tracks in my music player at the top of the blog. If you like this blog, share the info and help it grow. Links will die if people do not download them and I am starting this from the ground up. If you have a blog in relation to what we are doing, please add us to your blogroll. If you are a music producer, make sure you bookmark the site and come back a few times a week.

Anyone who wishes to contribute, please email Support@BasementBeatz.com and let us know what you can do to help.

I (Jesse) spend about 2 hours every day just looking for and chopping samples. I had gained these samples over 5 years of making beats. We have sold over 5500 leases since 2009, and over 200 exclusive tracks too. We have engineered over 200 projects and about 20 entire albums. If you are looking to cut corners and get some help... this is one of the spots. Check the link and show love if you like it. Leave a comment!

The competition! Did you lease a BasementBeat?

We have started to accept tracks that are on a BasementBeat for consideration to own a free exclusive rights contract for the song that you submit. We will post the top 3 tracks in about 2 months. If you are one of the top 3 artists to be picked, you will win 5 free leases of your choice worth up to $75. The winner of the competition finishing in 1st place will earn whatever beat they used to enter the competition.

If you submit a track that we had already sold or wish for something different, that is cool too, you can also earn exclusive rights to 1 beat worth up to $250 or 25 free leases!

Are you thinking......

If you win... we will send a fully tracked out wav file folder, a pro tools session file folder, and a signed contract giving you 100% ownership over the track if you are the winner!

To enter, just submit your best or favorite track to Support@BasementBeatz.com. The only 2 stipulations to win this contest, is that there is one entry per email. You must also either use the email that is associated with the payment, or you must confirm and tell us the email that was used to purchase the lease. Whatever track you enter must be on a leased/exclusive BasementBeat. No free D/L or tagged tracks allowed.

Submit mp3, mp4, or wav files only. WMAs will be rejected. If you have YouTube videos, that is cool too if you send us an acceptable audio file with the link.

Feb 5th-April 15th we will collect the tracks. Make sure you have your artist name, and name of the song attached.


THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MAY 1st  Check the blog for updates!

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Sample Haven..... for sale!

I spend 1-2 hours every single day weeding through samples. I have seemed to become more and more addicted to stock piling gems for myself to flip. I have went through my sample phases, and started with the music that was least likely to get me in trouble with copyrights. Now I have started to not care and I sample anything and everything I come across that sounds good. I wanted to give producers the opportunity to get some of my exclusive samples... for a price. I am selling sample packs now. They are 10 samples, and I will never give them to anyone else but you. For $20, I will send you a folder with 10 bangin samples from almost any genre of music you might prefer to sample. The best way to go.. is to take a random bunch of samples that you might not have used before.

Right now I have about 3,000+ sample worthy mp3 tracks that I either ripped from my own vinyl crates, or tracks that I have got from blogs like this one. I assure that all samples are bangers. I have listed sample packs on the blog before, but who wants to use the same samples as everyone else? That is no fun. I can no longer give my samples away, because I was giving you all the ones that I had used myself and sold. I had run dry, but I do not expect to sit for 1-2 hours every day for charity either. Especially when you producers who use my samples... are using them to profit.

If you like the sample packs that I posted on the blog before, or if you are a producer looking to broaden your sample horizons... just email Support@BasementBeatz.com for any info on how to get the new packs. If you want to check any of the new material out that we have released... check www.BasementBeatz.com and show some love.

I started doing this to help the community that I love, but it has become taxing and time consuming. Also.. records and time are not cheap. If you have a need for sick samples and do not know how to get them, let BasementBeatz dig some gems up for you. Thanks for checking out the blog!

Rocbattle back up....

Check the new... old link for our Rocbattle page. We have over 100+ beats up now and will be updating the page daily. If you have any questions, or comments.. feel free to leave them or email us at Support@BasementBeatz.com. 

Click the banner to hit the page.

Making a Beat : Freezer Burn!

Email Support@BasementBeatz.com if you are interested in this track!

We are trying to show people what we do on a regular every day basis. We will start posting more in depth videos and tutorials on how we operate. This is going to help artists get more in touch with the music that they make, and it will help many music producers get an idea of what goes into making a track. I hope you enjoy this post and I will be making more videos in the future. If you are a music producer, look out for drum kits and sounds in the near future.

Best night in Television History 10/7/2012!!!!!!

I am never one to try and influence people to do something drastic and spend a few hours to do something. But... I recorded DVR'd... all of the cool shows that I like. And what happened after that was truly one of the best nights of entertainment I had ever experienced. I do not ever think I have had so much fun without drugs or females involved... ever. If you are interested in watching what I watched. I can list for you what the shows.. and episodes were. I promise if you watch all of these.. your mind will be blown that on a random sunday night... all of these shows were played within about a 2 hour time frame and you can only watch whats on now.. So I recorded the others and watched thru the night and was amazed.

This is the list in what order I think they are best.. altho I watched them in completely different order. Which might have had effect on how I liked them and felt.. Oh well.. try em like this. They were great.

#1. Homeland - Season 2 Episode 2 - Torrent : HERE
#2. Boardwalk Empire - Season 3 Episode 4 - Torrent : HERE
#3. Hell on Wheels - Season 2 Episodes 9-10 finale - Torrent : HERE
#4. Dexter - Season 7 Episode 2 - Torrent : HERE
#5. Once Upon A Time - Season 2 Episode 2 - Torrent : HERE
       I know I know.. I got baked and watched it b4 bed but ^^
#6. Treme - Season 3 Spisode 3 - Torrent : HERE

Now seriously... I know there were other great shows premiering too. But these were really good in my opinion and I wonder if anyone else can find a date in the past with something better on. I am sure it has happened.. but I would love to see it. Other shows that were good.. I just dont watch. But these appeal to me so I like em. What you think and is there a better TV night than a sunday?

Intro's from Movies/T.V. Shows!

HOW TO SAMPLE MOVIES/SHOWS FOR INTROS!

PART #1. Preparing to steal the proper audio files.

I always used a few different methods for my movies and shows for extracting audio. Recently I found an awesome way to get this done and I wanted to share it with everyone. I usually have the movie or show on my computer that I wish to sample, or I use one from YouTube. I download the files illegally from a torrent site like PirateBay or another similar site or I let the files stream from YouTube and just take the audio that way.

After you download the files and have them on your computer... You will need a way to pinpoint the exact part of the file you want, and you need to be able to take it from the video file.

PART #2. Getting the proper software to steal the audio files.

I used PirateBay again and I looked up the software called Audio Hijack Pro and I downloaded that. This software lets me record any software that is running through my computer and leaving the speakers. I use this and make sure that the "System Audio" option is set for what I record... this will record everything that runs through your system. I have an MBox and run Pro Tools so I just make sure that whatever sounds are going through my MBox get recorded into the Audio Hijack Pro recoding bin.

PART #3. Chopping/Editing the stolen audio files.

I use my Pro Tools to drag and drop the audio files that I recorded. I then edit them like you would edit other audio files. I chop out the parts I don't want to use, and I make sure that I clean up and chop out the good parts that I like. After I bounce down the high quality wav files from the audio. I sometimes chop and arrange the samples with the Recycle software to make the audio hit perfectly on the grid.. or I just use the wav file and leave it kind of "as is" and let it roll like that.

PART #4. Using the audio files.

I always use the memorable or relevant parts of the samples in my beats. I use the parts that make sense with my beat topic, or I use the parts that everyone knows and loves from famous quotes in classics. After I sift through the movies and shows and find the perfect parts to use, I just edit them and get them all ready to go with the methods I mentioned above. If you have a good vision of the samples melting into your beat and becoming one... this should be a fairly easy process. But just in case you are not on the same level that I am and you cant fully understand... I will show a few examples of what I mean.

These are links to sampled intros and parts of beats that are highly manipulated to make my beat have substance and meaning.

Link Beat : Cap Pealer
YouTube Sample : Sopranos "Pussy Murder" scene
Sample Explanation : This sample is from the episode of the Sopranos when Tony, Sil, and Pauly take Pussy on to the boat.. the "Stugots" to let him know that they found his wire and their suspicions of him ratting to the Feds was a true one. Tony is pissed because he loved Pussy so much and let him slide too many times before. His "Billy Bass" singing fish dream gave him the inclination that Pussy was a rat and he ran over and found that wire in his cigar case, and then he was literally swimming with the fishes off the boardwalk in Jersey.

Link Beat : Superman
YouTube Sample : Superboy - The Great Kryptonite Caper
Sample Explanation : This sample isnt from a Superman comic cartoon. It was actually used to help a little of my wordplay in a verse on this track. I wanted to have someone sound like they were "dissing" Superman on this little sample. I actually play the sample throughout the beat after the hook and before the verse drops back in. I think this adds some much needed flavor and helps grab the attention of the listener too. This was one of the more enjoyable tracks that I had made and there are a ton of little samples that are added to make this sound sick.

Link Beat : You Ain't Shit
YouTube Sample : Juice
Sample Explanation : This sample is something that I had always had in my mind for the basis of a beat. I actually used this sample as the influence for making this beat. It is a sample based track that I thought had a good feel and direction with the intro attached to it. The sample is from the movie Juice when Tupac is talking to Q about backin up Blizzard when he got popped. Shit is such a powerful scene and I always loved how great this turned out. You would never think that dude is a rapper after you see this because Pac actually acted his ass off for this part. I loved this movie and I was super impressed with how awesome this turned out. How could you not use this for a hip hop beat? Tupac + sick content = perfect intro.

Those are a few of the ones that I wanted to share with you and show how a sampled intro can actually give your beat direction and add some mood to the feel. This is something that you have to make happen if you are a producer. Not every rapper has the great intro ability. I myself suck at intros and hooks, so this is why a bunch of my beats had these "sampled" intros and the "sampled" hooks too. I am not the most creative on my own, but when it comes to being creative with samples... I am ahead of the pack.

SAMPLERAMA 10 - Basement "Crack" Edition

SAMPLERAMA 10 - Basement "Crack" Edition

Sorry for taking so long to post another pack of samples, but I had come to realize that if I kept uploading tracks at that same rate... I would run out and the blog would die. I need to space out my posts and I appreciate all of the love and support from everyone so far. This is another sure fire 5 pack of crack fresh out the pyrex and ready for the pipe. These are more old school soulful samples than what I normally use and post. There are all older sounding and older feeling tracks in this pack that can be flipped many different ways. Thanks us later for these and keep coming back.

SAMPLERAMA 09 - THE 7TH TRACKS

SAMPLERAMA 09 - The 7th Tracks

There isn't any rhyme or reason to the files packed into this siiiccccckkk folder but they do have one thing in common. Track #7 on their respected LPs are held by this group of songs and they are all smooth as hell too. I seemed to always love the 7th tracks on albums and in the 70s and 80s that was mostly the last or 2nd to last track on the album. Only recently have albums had more than 8 tracks and I seem to like those old 8 track ways, but evolution is sweet and im a technology buff so i'll go with the flow on this one and probably live to see the day where albums are only sold digitally, and if they are sold they might have up to 50 tracks on them which is crazy to imagine, but totally possible and doable. enough blabbing tho... Check out these sure fire flippers and post some comments with links to your creations after you use these. Thank us later and enjoy the choppin!