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Independent Rapper N.k. Unleashes a New Album
Battling with years of constant negativity, N.K. will release his newest CD, Oct. 31, Branded By The Struggle, which is filled with tracks of the indie rapper trying to overcome his negative experiences.
“I was always in the streets tryin’ to get money for [my family],” N.K. explained. “Now I hang with stars, but I’m still strugglin’, you know?”
“No amount of money can change what I have been through as a boy to a young man, and even now that I am a grown man, things I had to do in the past to survive are still around. So that’s the album name, Branded By The Stuggle.”
N.K. has been working on the album for 5 years and received some help producing during the making of the CD.
“I produced 75% of [Struggle], but I also got production [help] from Justice “Big Jus” Johnson (DMX, Mya), N.K. said. “I also got co-production with Rush Money Productions out of San Diego and Ren from No Gimmicks.”
The indie rapper finally had the privilege to work with C-Bo on his latest release, which was one of N.K.’s lifetime goals.
“C-Bo was on 2Pac’s, “All Eyes on Me,” album and is just a real dude,” N.K. remarked. “He’s now part of G-Unit South/Cashville Records, so it was crazy that we did a record together, and now are good friends.”
N.K. was also able to feature various well-known artists on Struggle.
“P. Diddy’s former artist Loon is on there introducing a banger and So-Low who is very nice with his English and Spanish,” said N.K. “I also worked with Joe Hustle, Tru, Trell G, and Dopa who are my family on the West Coast.”
The songwriting process was aimed at trying to have the natural delivery, so listeners “feel” the music that the rapper was creating.
“You gotta make them feel your pain in your records,” the rapper described. “I want to bring back real feelings in music.”
The Midwest rapper is still debating his first single off of Struggle, but has narrowed it down to Go Hard and Like Me.
You can catch the Latin performer playing shows in the near future in support of his latest release.
“We plan on hittin’ the Midwest hard!,” N.K. elaborated. “I just feel like this region needs it.”
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Make Hip Hop Beats At Home
Sound hardware and programs will be necessary by you to find out how to make rap beats. For example, you could need a voice editing application, an online drum machine and a good music production program.
One of the largest benefits of beat software is that’s doesn’t need the power to read music. Instead, users can easily work with a big variety of prerecorded instrumentals and percussive sounds with the press of a mouse. This makes it simpler to compose by ear, as you can listen to changes as you make them. Saving is simple, and many musicians work on a number of beats at once, returning to them at their leisure.
A rap song can be pretty uninteresting without the right beat. The beat is to my mind the element of the song that takes the rap to the next level and makes it stand out in the crowd. Even 2pac and Biggie would have a tricky time if their beats weren’t up to scratch.
You also must consider who you are making the beat for. If you produce beats that is going to be sold as instrumentals you have a different job than if you are making an RnB or Rap song. If you intend to have other artists work with your beat you’ve got to make your beat workable for them and meet their individual wishes.
Making rap beat instrumentals can be very lucrative for people interesting in rap or hip hop music. Rappers need beats makers, so there will always be a need for instrumentals. How you will create a name for yourself will rely upon your relations with your rappers and MC’s.
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“Changes” is a hip hop song by the late Tupac Shakur originally recorded during his tenure at Interscope records which was rerecorded and remixed between 1995-96. The song was a #1 hit in Norway and in The Netherlands and reached the top ten in the singles charts of several other countries. It is one of his most notable and popular songs. Released posthumously on his album Greatest Hits, the song addresses issues close to 2Pac’s era of influence, notably racism, police brutality, drugs, and gang violence. In addition, the song heavily samples the 1986 hit “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The Chris Hafner-directed music video is a compilation of a number of previous music videos 2Pac released in addition to home videos and never-before-seen pictures, similar to the format of The Notorious BIG’s Dead Wrong, also released in 1999. “Changes” was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards of 2000; it remains the only posthumous song to be nominated in this category. One verse in “Changes” was first featured in his previous release “I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto”. There is also a notable remix of the song mashed up with Nelly Furtado’s “All Good Things (Come to an End)”. The “Huey” that 2Pac mentions in the song (“two shots in the dark, now Huey’s dead”) is Black Panther Party activist Huey P. Newton. In 2008, Changes climbed to Number One on Billboard magazine’s Hot Ringtones chart.
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Lyrics – Come on come on I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living should I blast myself? I’m tired of bein’ poor & even worse I’m black my stomach hurts so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch Cops give a damn about a negro pull the trigger kill a nigga he’s a hero Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares one less hungry mouth on the welfare First ship ‘em dope & let ‘em deal the brothers give ‘em guns step back watch ‘em kill each other It’s time to fight back that’s what Huey said 2 shots in the dark now Huey’s dead I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other We gotta start makin’ changes learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers and that’s how it’s supposed to be How can the Devil take a brother if he’s close to me? I’d love to go back to when we played as kids but things changed, and that’s the way it is [Bridge w/ changing ad libs] Come on come on That’s just the way it is Things’ll never be the same That’s just the way it is aww yeah [Repeat] [2] I see no changes all I see is racist faces misplaced hate makes disgrace to races We under I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let’s erase the wasted Take the evil out the people they’ll be acting right ’cause both black and white is smokin’ crack tonight and only time we chill is when we kill each other it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other And although it seems heaven sent We ain’t ready, to …
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