Narcotized, addled, and sometimes tender, Future has spent the past decade making whatever music he wants: trap ballads, twerk anthems, petty kiss-offs, trippy blues. His superpower is his ability to smear emotional states into odd collages, his protean voice ascending to the peaks of exuberance or plunging to the depths of misery. In a single moment, a Future song can pivot into the sublime, altering what came before it and everything after. Future is chaos unleashed and distilled.

Though he’s got fewer Grammys than Macklemore, less hits than Drake, and has never received the acclaim of Kendrick Lamar, Future casts...

Juice WRLD is arguably one of hip-hop’s modern day pioneers. With a career that has been nothing short of meteoric, he currently stands as one of the most listened to rappers in the game and finds himself nominated for “Best New Artist” at the 2019 BET Awards. Poised to take home the same honor that has been awarded to the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, we revisit our 2018 piece that posed the question on all of our minds–why is Juice WRLD so popular? 

Juice WRLD, born Jarad Higgins, released his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance in May of 2018, and in less than two months since its release, he is the 50t...

The reason why i want to post a blog on this matter is the fact that the climate out here is changing with the new ways of using the internet and and culture. In my opinion in order for an artist to get signed to a major label they would have to have more than just talent these days. It seems as if a major label wont look your way unless you have a huge online presence and following. I dont blame them for using this approach because at the end of the day these labels are running a business and they need to know if they invest money into an artist they are going to get their return and more. Also you have to put into con...

A newer genre of rap is starting to emerge on the internet thanks to artist such as XXXtentation/ Trippie Redd and Scarlxrd thats starting to get a buzz. The genre of rap has different names such as "Alternative Rock" "Screamo Rap and my favorite of them all "Trap Metal", The sound of this style is very aggressive and not your normal trap style. What sets this style apart is the mixture of rock elements such as with the artist voice with the "screaming for lack of better teams" and the basic elements of real Trap beats not that edm they decided to call the same as our trap which was dumb in my perspective. The basic ele...

Whats up its D-Red Beatz back again with another blog but this time im talking artist in the mainstream rap industry and their supposed beef between each other and my opinion of this. Well first off I think its just out right weird that two artist (Chris Brown and Soulja Boy) that have established themselves very well in an industry would have time to fight! People would give up literally everything they had to get and experience the fame and fortune. My personal opinion is that the fame and fortune got boring af and there was nothing else to do but start some shit to pass the time better i really dont know! LOL. Not ha...

I have personally been producing beats for YEARS now and sometimes it takes a different approach and lifestyle changes to make major changes happen. For so many years I had the mentally that I could just get fl studio and learn as i go and do just enough to get by with my instrumentals and everything would just fall in place...i was soo wrong (LOL). Learned that when creating beats its wrong to have a bunch of clashing frequencies, its wrong to not mix and master beats, and its wrong to think just because i upload a beat fans are going to grow on trees. I really thought these things were okay at one point. You have to...

I ran across an overlooked technique that would definatly help a rapper on any beat. This secret weapon is called "timbre" which is defined as the combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume. This is also what distinguishes the difference of any two instrument you listen to like the difference from a piano versus a guitar. Continue reading below:

The way a rapper can utilize this on rap beats is simply making their voice noticably different as the beat goes on. For example on the Fetty Wap track entitled, "Jimmy Choo" the popular line that goes, "Slim THICK wi...