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Studio 11 is a recording studio in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1996. [1] Best known for hip hop music , duranguense , gangsta rap , and house music styles, Studio 11 has recorded, mixed, and mastered over 35,000 musical songs.
Rap is a primary ingredient of hip-hop music, and so commonly associated with the genre that it is sometimes called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, [7] certain vocal styles of blues [8] and jazz, [9] an African-American insult game called playing the dozens (see Battle rap and Diss), [10 ...
Hip hop producer and rapper RZA in a music studio with two collaborators. Pictured in the foreground is a synthesizer keyboard and a number of vinyl records; both of these items are key tools that producers and DJs use to create hip hop beats. Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio.
Producer Fatboi called the Roland TR-808 ("808") synthesizer "central" to the Music of Atlanta's versatility, used for snap, crunk, trap, and pop rap styles. [1] The same article named Fatboi, Shawty Redd, and Zaytoven the four "hottest producers driving the city". [1] Atlanta hip-hop has influenced other mainstream forms of media.
The studio quickly gained a reputation in the international recording industry with the unprecedented commercial success of their rap artists. [7] They garnered attention by producing iconic 1980s rap albums like Radio by LL Cool J in 1984–85, Raising Hell by Run-DMC in 1985–1986, Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys in 1986, and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy ...
A video of an Atlanta teacher's first day of school went viral after she delivered a superior performance of a Busta Rhymes rap, which the hip-hop icon himself couldn't help but applaud.
The music developed as part of the broader hip-hop culture; while often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip-hop" more properly denotes the practice(s) of the entire subculture. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The term hip-hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music , [ 9 ] [ 12 ] though rapping may not be the focus of hip-hop ...
Grand Hustle Records (formerly Grand Hustle Entertainment), also known as Hustle Gang Music, is an American hip hop record label, founded in 2003, by American rapper and record executive T.I. and his manager Jason Geter. [1] [2] [3] The label was distributed by Atlantic Records until December 2012, and has since operated as an independent ...