It seems as though the majority of youth like shitty music. The more shitty/retarded/cheesy music you play the more they will go bat shit crazy.

Hell, if I played a song where *insert overpaid stereotypical rapper here* and the whole song was just the guy shitting onto the mic the crowd would go bat shit crazy.

I wouldn't mind playing REAL hiphop to a crowd but the sugar coated commercialised twat that gets passed about nowadays, you can stick it up yer fudd.

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan I wouldn't mind playing REAL hiphop to a crowd but the sugar coated commercialised twat that gets passed about nowadays, you can stick it up yer fudd.

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intelligent rap for the win. Except often times it's not really party material. Best thing is when you actually have rappers and all you have to do is lay down beats for them.

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sounds like you need to move outta madtown lucas.

I started spinning mostly old school beats recently (not top 40 mind you) and I found it more challenging than your run of the mill edm. If only because two random tracks with almost no breakdown and possibly widely varying BPMS have to come together in short order.

On the other hand you can look at it as being easier because you can just drop the track in for a bar and cut the other one out and people are not going to complain as long as the beats are on and they like the next song (though few would call this skilled hip hop mixing).

Sounds like it would be harder on CDJ200s (never used them though). I like being able to toss my vinyl about when I'm trying to get the track mixed in.

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Originally posted by Project-K +1 intelligent rap for the win. Except often times it's not really party material. Best thing is when you actually have rappers and all you have to do is lay down beats for them.

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I can't believe the bullsh*t that makes it onto the radio, good hip hop has to have at least one of two things: Good lyrics or a Good beat.

Most of the stuff playing sounds like a 5 year old wrote a poem and recorded the sound of a dying pitbull chewing its own leg off.

And most of it is probably classed as rap.

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Originally posted by lucas ss the basement started filling up, and some girl was like "can you play "lean back" again? and i was like "...the track that i just played" and she said "yeah" and i must have given her an "are you retarded? " look because she was like "okay, WhatEver!".

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Originally posted by Omega_Blue sounds like you need to move outta madtown lucas.

i would, but the ghetto's got me trapped!

Spinning hip-hop and rap is fun IMO, but it takes a little more preparation. The BPM and structure varies much more than when spinning trance or house.

And, it's only really fun if the crowd isn't complete shit. I have been playing house parties for friends of mine, who aren't ghetto trash. They just like rap music, because that's what they know how to dance to. (EDM, aka "That Techno Stuff" is not popular at all around here. People just aren't familiar with it.) I have fun playing anything that gets people to dance, really.

Plus, sometimes you're able to throw in a house remix of something that's popular at that moment, and mix in to another EDM song or two, and they'll be dancing to it without even realizing it sometimes. You just gotta ease them into it and not overdo it.

I'm in the process of organizing all of my hip-hop tracks and getting all of their BPM counts documented. (I use Traktor and MIDI controller to play, which is hardly accurate for BPM count. MixMeister's BPM Calculator does a much better job to get you in the ballpark.) I'm having a lot more fun mixing it now that I am not trying to mix songs that are grossly incompatible. I'll get to try it out on the 27th as I'm going to be playing my first ALL hip-hop party for a friend's graduation. Last time I was mixing hip-hop and top 40 I did a lot of the simple crossfade or slamming tracks together. I want to do a lot more actual mixing this time.

I have to say that commercial rap and commercial hip-hop has really died in the arse where I live.
I know lots of people in my area listen to euro dance stuff though.
Groove coverage anyone?

I guess they are getting closer.

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Originally posted by david.michael I'm in the process of organizing all of my hip-hop tracks and getting all of their BPM counts documented. (I use Traktor and MIDI controller to play, which is hardly accurate for BPM count. MixMeister's BPM Calculator does a much better job to get you in the ballpark.) I'm having a lot more fun mixing it now that I am not trying to mix songs that are grossly incompatible. I'll get to try it out on the 27th as I'm going to be playing my first ALL hip-hop party for a friend's graduation. Last time I was mixing hip-hop and top 40 I did a lot of the simple crossfade or slamming tracks together. I want to do a lot more actual mixing this time.

I have to do this myself, its frustrating throwing a record on and then realizing that you've wasted a quarter of the track playing on it because the BPM is either impossible or will sound like trash.

Though it makes you good at cut ins.

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Originally posted by nousplacidus I have to do this myself, its frustrating throwing a record on and then realizing that you've wasted a quarter of the track playing on it because the BPM is either impossible or will sound like trash. Though it makes you good at cut ins.

LOL, very true. Kinda forces you into making "oh shit" transitions, which can actually be a good skill to have.

I just decided I wanted to be a little more prepared this time.