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DJ Toomp on music production, Kanye West and Southern rap | Red Bull Music Academy

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Channel: Red Bull Music Academy · 2018 · Entertainment

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These days, the world’s top rap artists come calling for DJ Toomp’s trademark drum patterns. Naturally, it wasn’t always so. 

In his 2008 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, DJ Toomp discussed his production techniques, crafting the sound of trap music, his work with T.I, and much more.
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Behind the Atlanta producer’s extraordinary achievements is a history of record collecting, machine manipulation and self-education, a kind of holy trinity for durability in the game. Keen to impress the importance of learning about the business side of music, Toomp is proof that it’s not just skills that pay the bills – feeding your head about the nuts and bolts of the industry is just as important.

TOPICS
1:56 – Production technique 
8:18 – Atlanta 
17:31 – Trap music and T.I.
29:03 – Southern rap 
41:52 – Kanye West 
1:00:41 – The DJ Toomp sound 

MUSIC:
1:43 – Jay Z – “Say Hello”
10:38 – MC Shy D – “Shake It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXC-w0iVUpI
14:06 – 2 Live Crew – “In the Dust” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3I4mD6NOi0 
15:01 – Aaron Neville – “Hercules” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySudtwSwnY
19:45 – Native Nuttz – “40 Oz. of Funk” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMpdR0FaUOk
24:12 – T.I. – “24’s” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1u9u7mq9Ck
28:45 – T.I. – “U Don’t Know Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTI_J3y0IkQ 
35:37 – T.I. – “What You Know” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5lIWti4VUw
35:47 – Roberta Flack – “Gone Away” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDO76zV8GE
37:42 – Young Jeezy – “I Luv It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUjfWwqFcFI
41:14 – Ludacris – “2 Miles an Hour” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOSOj6StQoI
44:48 – Kanye West – “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E58qLXBfLrs
49:53 – Kanye West – “Big Brother”
54:59 – Kanye West – “Good Life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEKEjpTzB0Q
58:42 – The Persuaders – “We Are Just Trying to Make It” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9cQlQoRMY / Nas – “Slave and the Master” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhIUdEqvu4 
1:00:35 – Mariah Carey – “I’ll Be Loving You Long Time” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCzuh-Hpr2g
1:04:09 – T.I. – “56 Bars” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kWe2LSEcE 
1:05:22 – Young Jeezy – “The Recession” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehg69Hxl-QY 

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