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Hip Hop Composition Competition Results!

BoyinaBand, Competitions, Hip Hop / Rap 20 Responses »

Jan 112010

Okay! So the moment you’ve all been waiting for – the announcement for the winner and runners up for the Hip Hop composition competition!

There were a bunch of awesome songs submitted and it was frickin’ difficult to rank them, but I stuck to the 3 things I said I was going to judge it on:

- Production
- Originality
- Sour lemon test (How much it makes you pull a face like you’ve eaten a Sour Lemon)

As well as including the votes from the forum as a fourth category.

Okay, with all the preliminary stuff out of the way, here we go. The winner of the Hip Hop Composition Competition, who will get 5 free sample packs from primeloops.com is…

Hip Hop production Techniques

Primeloops Blogs No Responses »

Dec 102009

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Looking for some useful tips and tricks to make your Hip Hop hits hit harder than The Hulk?

Untie your tongue and test out these 10 techniques…
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Hip Hop: Industry Influence

Hip Hop / Rap, Primeloops Blogs 4 Responses »

Oct 192009

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Ah, hip hop. The start of popularised sampled music. As a wise man once said: “Hip Hop, it don’t stop.”

…But if it don’t stop, there where is it heading? And what has it changed along the way? Let’s find out…
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Top 10 Dancing Styles to Electronic Music in the Universe

Other Stuff, Top 5 / 10 / 20 lists 8 Responses »

Aug 262009

Here at BoyinaBand it’s not all about making music – sometimes it’s about expressing how you feel about it.

People express their opinion in different forms. I’d say about 90% in the form of insulting YouTube comments, but a more creative expression is in the form of dance.

It’s always fascinated me to see what styles of dance people have created to go with which styles of music – so here’s the top 10 dance styles ever for electronic music along with their respective genres and some sweet videos to show off the best they have to offer…

Review: Pure Chronic Hip Hop Grooves

Hip Hop / Rap, Review, Sample Packs No Responses »

Jul 102009

I’ll have to do this review a little differently to the other boyinaband.com reviews – The Pure Chronic Hip Hop Grooves pack from Primeloops.com isn’t a set of individual samples, so I won’t be making a song out of it. Instead it has taken a different approach.

Top 10 "Top 10" lists involving rappers

Hip Hop / Rap, Top 5 / 10 / 20 lists 3 Responses »

Jul 012009

After making my Top 10 unintentionally hilarious rappers list, it got quite a lot of traffic, so looking into doing another top 10 rappers-y thing, I realised there were actually a crapload of them already dotting the interweb. So I figured I should compile them!

Here is the Top 10 list of Top 10 lists involving rappers! (Don’t worry, I haven’t put this list in since I’m pretty sure that’d break the internet.)