@inplainsightnyc founder. He/Him. Beatmaker & Graphic Designer. I speak in beats, blips, pixels and bits. It's pronounced nothing new. 🔊 @alphapup
Brooklyn, NY
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I made this beat last year after @korgofficial asked me to go to Paris to shoot a video for the new Kaoss Pad. 🙏🏾
I’ve been using the Kaoss Pad for years but being authentic to my sound and process attracted the right eyes. What is coming to you is for YOU.
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Ghostface raps like he just woke up from a fever dream and he’s trying to explain it before he forgets.
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If you’re dating a musician do not leave angry voicemails. You will 1000% be an interlude, I don’t make the rules 😂
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Your favorite producer is making beats with 1GB of storage left on a MacBook that sounds like a vacuum.
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Don’t let “musicians” tell you sampling isn’t a musical skill. Players have been borrowing phrases from other people songs since long before samplers existed.
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Trap music takes skill to make too.
I hate the elitism that some people have because they turned off the quantize on their drums.
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Hip Hop is electronic music. Make sure that doesn’t get left out of the conversation. As a matter of fact, most of these sub-genres of electronic music wouldn’t exist without Hip Hop.
So when you see me gliding between genres, just know the root is the same. 🤝🏾😤
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If you didn’t know, up until Marley Marl, Hip Hop drums were only made up of Breaks. Marley was the first to chop a break into one shots and program his own patterns. That one move did more for MUSIC OVERALL than a lot of bands/artists combined.
DJ Marley Marl, the greatest hip-hop producer that ever lived, turns 60 today.
They're all children of Marley Marl.
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People thinking Jay Dee was making chill “peace” beats is Top 5 for me. That man loved to rap about taking your women, strip clubs and guns.
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@flyinglotus last night was AMAZING. This man really had @Thundercat @chrisrock on stage and I’m Shook
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Friendly reminder: the name “Jungle” came from reclaiming a term coined by racist upper class white folks used to describe the music made by working class black and brown people.
So drum n bass and all offshoots of jungle is inherently Black too. Don’t get it Twisted.
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Here’s two tips that I wish I knew earlier
1) your hi hats/cymbals/shakers & tambourines are the only things that sit in that frequency range, they don’t need to be loud.
2) Every sound has a sweet spot, trimming the excess frequencies gives you the headroom to increase volume
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🗣Daily reminder that music and art are not “content” and creatives are not “content creators” 🗣
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I will not remake a beat for you. I will not make you a type beat. I work a job, that means 8 hours a day I do what someone else says.
My music is ME, you wanna work, you’re getting my sound. No paint by numbers shit
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Artist/ Musician shouldn’t be a celebrity career. There are so many of us who just want to be able to do the thing we love the most and have no interest in being famous.
We have to be able to create a space for the arts as a sustainable long term career.
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L*fi albums that get pressed to vinyl end up having fake vinyl sounds overtop the noise from the actual record 😂
I didn’t think about it till listening to records rn
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Stop trying to return to “normal”. The world doesn’t pause like this and go back to “normal”.
Take this time to really understand what matters to you. Don’t rush to create things, just be present.
Reconnect with yourself because work really separates us from who we are
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I’ve been searching Craigslist since 2019 to grab one of these at a reasonable price 😤
It’s time to experiment. ✨
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Be honest: why do you create? Is it to be seen, heard or felt?
There are no wrong answers, except for the one that lies to yourself.
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DON’T FORGET THAT I’M A BLACK ARTIST. MY VIEWS ARE PRO BLACK. I have to remind people that I’m here to make music but I was black before I picked up a drum stick.
I will continue to speak on blackness and the historically underserved until reparations are met.
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This guy @ohbliv been shooting from half court for two hours and hasn’t missed once. 🐐
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I’m not saying anything @kush_jones_ hasn’t already said, but this variety article really demonstrates the erasure that a lot of Black & Brown folks have been facing in dance music. No shade to any of the involved artists, but to act as though the genre was dead here is obtuse.
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Always check Craigslist. Someone gave away a rack shelf some outboard racks and whole drum machine today. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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You’re not supposed to “get it right” in your 20s. You just spent 18 years doing what other people told you to do. It’s totally okay to “fail” because up till this point “failure” was defined to you by someone else.
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Y’all want artists to rush and drop songs every month for you to half listen to on streaming services for fractions of a penny. That’s not sustainable bro.
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Jazz being the “intellectual” music while hip hop is the “talentless” music is classist and divisive. The connecting thread is Black innovation and expression. That’s why a lot of people that make “Jazz” don’t identify with the genre.
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Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Kaytranada took home Grammy’s today.
That put a battery in my back to keep working
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On Dilla day I want you all to remember that it doesn’t take fancy EQs and plugins to make timeless music. It takes knowing what you want to say and how you’re going to say.
?uestlove said Dilla already knew the sample chop and the beat before he turned his MPC on
That energy>>
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*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
*KENNY BEATS IS THE POLICE
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It’s fucking crazy how many Black Women have spent the entire day trying to explain what they’re feeling and how many Men just brushed it aside and called it “divisive”.
Y’all matching the energy of the system we’re supposed to be dismantling. It doesn’t take much to learn.
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Remember: Gentrification causes displacement (which can fuel desperation) and also elevates police presence in otherwise black/brown/ working class neighborhoods.
Maybe stop moving to Brooklyn for “proximity, art and culture”? Especially if you’re scared all the time.
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Y’all producers are taking this “Best DAW” argument too far now.
Logic Reacts to Reason's Recent Diss: "I don't know who that is" hiphop-n-more.com/2020/09/lo…
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Why create more record labels when we can create tools to boost each other and a network of graphic designers, marketing specialists, PR people, mix/mastering engineers and pay each other for our work? Same thing but with more freedom.
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4 different locations one of them is on top of the pyramids, the other one is a bodega in Brownsville, another is Niagara Falls
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Man FUCK the sub genres. It’s all hip hop. It was hip hop when the OGs did it, it’s hip hop now. Hip hop is a culture first and a genre second.
Lofi is a description lol. Can we get back to the beats?
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Jazz is Black music. Just like blues is Black music. Just like funk is Black music. And hip hop is beautiful because we connect with our predecessors through sampling.
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Chop the sample in its original time, change the BPM of the beat, and leave the drums in. Watch the magic happen.
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Make hardware more accessible for young black and brown kids. As a Black hardware/synth junkie, I love talking about gear with other Black Folx.
Kids should be able to be inspired by gear so they can go an innovate. That was what my focus was with KORG and it remains the same.
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If you’re mixing/mastering stuff in your home studio/bedroom: be gentle with yourself.
A lot of the records you like /use as references were done in professional, treated studios. Get it sounding good and don’t drive yourself crazy.
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He knows something a lot of folks don’t: Them weird ass sounds is what keeps getting him movie/ad placements
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This is probably the most insane thing I’ve found on Craigslist. Never thought I’d see the day. 😂😂
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Producers: cop an SM57 and a tambourine/ shaker
Easy way to add some unpredictability/ human elements to your beats
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This was a different time smh.
2X Pills - @isaiahrashad
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Happy 50th birthday to J Dilla 👑 I learned one of my favorite Jay Dee productions recently (IYKYK)
What’s your favorite Dilla beats?
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Music theory doesn’t take the life out of your beats. That’s the big misconception. Music theory doesn’t give you “rules” to play by. It just speeds up the process of guessing what works.
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Got my first magazine feature out in Japan 😤❤️
I couldn’t have imagined doing anything like this when I was stumbling home from parties making beats on my iPhone. ✨
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We need to start teaching people what it means to build a sustainable music career. Not ever doctor is world famous, but they can pay their bills. By that logic not every musician needs to be Dr. Dre, just be able to pay their bills off their craft.
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I’ve been making “sample free” beats all wrong. It’s much more fun to come up with a whole loop and just chop it on another day. Suddenly the beat is already done 🤷🏾♂️
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If your conversation about liberating ourselves from oppressive systems doesn’t include unlearning misogyny and patriarchal norms then it’s not inclusive. That doesn’t make you a “Bad” person. There’s just work to be done
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This is why I stopped engineering for ppl
She toke her jacket off because it’s hot in here
New music Otw 🧼🧼🧼
#soapyclub
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Timeless music only happens when the artists aren’t concerned with anything other than their own vision. When you’re focused on a trend (a literal sign of the times) your music lasts as long as that trend is on top.
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As music and music production (art as a whole really) becomes further commodified, you begin to see less and less artists leave room for the “magic” that happens in creativity, in exchange for carrying out a successful formula. Kind of a bummer.
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Looking at FlyLo and Knx scoring TV shows, kaytranada landing a Grammy and the countless other accomplishments of “bedroom producers”, is inspiring.
Idk if they all thought making beats would take them here, but it proves that there is so much to do with this work.
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Breonna Taylor’s name is no longer trending and the police that murdered her are still free. If you see this please reply/quote/tweet on your own.
ARREST BRETT HANKISON, JONATHAN MATTINGLY & MYLES COSGROVE FOR THE MURDER OF #BREONNATAYLOR
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Guys the lab is done 🥺🎹
It took 4 hours to wire everything but I’ve literally dreamt of a set up like this.
I can’t wait to start making boops and beeps.
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Also happy birthday to Nujabes, who served as the gateway into beat music for a lot of folks through his work on samurai champloo. I wouldn’t have heard “the shining” (the first dilla project I heard) without putting a Nujabes radio on pandora (I’m dating myself here 😂)
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Gentrification and the bastardized version of Hip Hop beats. Also a lot of black and brown creators being left out of the conversation rubbed a lot of us the wrong way.
Why is "lo-fi" such a bad word now?
Cuz jazzy chill beats always gon' win w/ me. to listen to & rap over.
Maybe cuz I don't make beats, I don't get why ppl get upset/distance themselves from that style of beatmaking.
I'm also OLD. Y'all remember "Mushroom Jazz" cd's?
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This multiband thing was like the final part of the puzzle for my mixes. I’ve been getting solid balancing across the board but my kick drum always eats the whole mix. This cured that.
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Mixing hack: When you get a rough volume mix/arrangement of your track that you’re satisfied with, export it.
That early version serves as a reference point so as the finalization process continues, you don’t lose sight of what you LOVED about the track.
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#TakeThisBreak 7️⃣
82 BPM | Mixed
I had fun with coming up with weird sounds on this one. 👀
Lots of room for layering/ Playing
🥁🔊
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I just got word that my album is pulled from the queue 🙏🏾
THAT SAID while I appreciate people reaching out with labels and collectives to help distribute my music, I am hesitant to give this particular project to anyone.
AMANI will be self released ❤️✨🌞
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Aye: swing is not just turning off quantize and hitting pads. It’s an advanced understanding of rhythm.
Before you start trying to swing your drums, get comfortable playing on time with the beat. It’ll help you find the pockets/resolutions.
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This energy is the problem I have with people who learn to play instruments. Having access to instruments and instructors is a PRIVILEGE. Sampling allowed music to be something that people without access could do. I’ll still do my lessons tho just cuz I love the piano 🤗
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Kanye has entire teams behind his productions every time. Madlib does pretty much everything by himself. Let’s not start today off with lies.
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Isaiah Rashad and Vince Staples albums got the most replay for me. Why is that? They were short, and to the point. It left me wanting to run the whole joint back when it was done.
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Last night inspired me to program some bonafide “jazz” shit.
There are no rules/ there are no limits. Just free expression. 🙏🏾👀
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Bird app really up there with cockroaches, sm57s, Nokia flip phones, and gamecubes when it comes to endurance
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Goal oriented people love to play the role of “martyr”.
You’re going after you want, there’s nothing altruistic about you missing your nephews birthday.
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