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Just some of the best (imo). Too many to choose from so this is part 1.
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Imo one of the hardest hip hop tracks ever. Big L's verse is sooo bugged it actually blows my mind every time I hear it. The way he’s rapping is so crazy too, fully screaming into the mic, the punchlines are beyond insane. Everyone else kills it too, all the verses are so over the top in the track, just makes it work so well imo, even the two verses I cut out, including the first ever feature from Jay Z – no disrespect to them the flows just weren't fitting right over the beat. Lord Finesse does mad well to pick up after Big Ls crazy hype verse, comes with that more smooth style but still loads of hard hitting lines that keep the energy up. The last two verses I remixed then really bring it back to that mad over the top horrorcore style, especially Party Arty from Ghetto Dwellaz, he has one of the most rugged voices for emceeing: the stuff he did with Showbiz and AG on their album 'Goodfellas' is insane, fully some of the most hardcore hip hop I've ever heard. Will defo be remixing tracks from that album, I highly recommend it, not very well known but without a doubt a classic East Coast bomb.

Thought this was a perfect beat to remix this track, just has that evil vibe which matches the whole vibe of the acapella too well. The way the horns from the original bleed through and blend with the sample I flipped was crazy to me too. The onyx blend over this beat that I tried in the rhythm roulette video was working too, but I remixed that track fairly recently and wanted to go for something with a really evil over the top vibe, and couldn't think of a better example than Da Graveyard. 

Thank you for listening, hope you rate my take on this track, next remix from the rhythm roulette is dropping next week. Peace!!

Rhythm Roulette (How I made this beat): https://youtu.be/CkQBAxAQbbY

Visuals: https://youtu.be/TzVjpcWmXMk

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Da Graveyard' by Big L, Lord Finesse, Party Arty and Grand Daddy I.U.

Graveyards

Geez

Instrumental: Purgatory (1995)

Questionnaire

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/frogs-instrumental

Been wanting to remix this track for a long time now, but never been able to get a clean sounding acapella. Luckily audio splitters have gotten way way better now, even the free ones: I've been using one called 'Splitter AI' which has been a real game changer. 

Always look forward to this track whenever I listen to Operation Doomsday, such a dope vibe and every emcee brings their own style. Has such a rugged underground energy, feels like a cypher track almost, I don't know why but the verse from Kamackeris always gets me gassed, especially those first 4 lines. I knew if I was ever going to remix this track it would need a certain type of beat, and when I flipped this one I had a feeling it was a good fit for that rugged underground cypher vibe. All the flows fit mad nice over the beat, defo happy with this one. 

For the visuals on my YouTube ( https://youtu.be/htpHPGov_sk ) I mostly used clips from the old Godzilla movies showing each character that the emcees are rapping as: King Caesar, Rodan, Megalon, Kamackeris, King Ghidorah and Kong. I've always found it interesting how deep they went into the lore and characters of those old movies, never actually seen a single Godzilla movie personally. I've always rated the idea of rapping under mad different aliases, obviously DOOM is here rapping as King Gheedorah, but you've also got Mr Fantastik here, I think he's rapping as Rodan. Also for anyone who hasn't heard of it, I defo recommend giving the full album by Monsta Island Czars a listen: 'Escape From Monsta Island' - some of the grimiest underground hip hop both the beats and the flows, crazy stuff. Will defo be looking to remix some tracks from that when I make another beat with this sort of vibe. 

Thanks for listening, any feedback let me know. Personally I can't decide whether the 3rd or 4th verse goes the hardest. Peace!!

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Who You Think I Am' by MF DOOM ft. Monsta Island Czars

Not Who You Think I Am

One of my favourite tracks off The Infamous: loads of hard hitting lines. I knew if I was ever going to remix this it had to be a different vibe to the OG: cause imo that one is perfect: one of the best examples of a hardcore stripped back beat. 

I actually made this beat at work: I was working with some sound effects for the next play at the school I work at: and had to get some choir music for one of the scenes. I was looking through choir music on YouTube and just found this crazy one: downloaded it to use as a sound effect but I immediately emailed it to myself to chop up over my lunchbreak. Soon as I clocked off I was in my office and flipped it on the ableton push: had the ideas fresh in my head so it was pretty quick to flip: pitched up some of the chops to give the melody more variation. Did a bit of layering too: really liked the ethereal heavenly vibe of the vocals. Soon as I had the drums finished I was spitting the hook from this song over it: so I knew I had to see how it sounded. I think it blends well with this beat: the heavenly sound to the vocals goes well with the way this song talks about death in a contradictory kind of way. Not exactly sure how to describe it but it just works for me. 

Thanks for listening: defo drop a comment if you rate this one: let me know any feedback. Peace

Visuals: https://youtu.be/gMD5pvOQMtg

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Cradle To The Grave' by Mobb Deep

Cradle To The Grave

Sunz Of Man - We Can't Be Touched (1997)

JJ DOOM is crazy underrated imo, this is my favourite track off the album and I've always wanted to remix it. This beat was actually a tough one in terms of choosing an acapella at first, I tried loads with the sample at it's normal pitch and just wasn't feeling it at all. When I tried it with this acapella I had to pitch the sample down to match the key of DOOM here, and was defo gassed off the vibe. I really love the emotion from DOOM in this verse, it's crazy and pretty unique for him: the subtle singing at the end really tops the whole track off. 

Defo feeling those winter blues but making this track really helped me vent those emotions as always. Hopefully that comes across in the vibe. Lots of exciting stuff on the way - should be ready to properly announce my album very soon - I'll be keeping up the remixes in the meantime for sure though.

Peace

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Winter Blues' by JJ DOOM

Visuals: https://youtu.be/l7cJ5SVwFLk

Winter Blues

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/hallelujah-instrumental

I don't even drink but these verses go hard, always thought this track was interesting to compare to 'My Favourite Ladies' by DOOM, the way different drinks are represented and personified as relationships in this track must have inspired DOOM when he did the same thing with different drugs, although his is for sure a lot more abstract. Still this track always stands out to me when I listen to The Infamous, pretty different vibe to all the others, and the feature from Q Tip is dope especially seeing as he was a big part of that album in terms of the mixing and a bit of production too. 

Hope you like what I did with this remix, went for a more emotional vibe on that beat. I really wanted the remix Havocs verse but the flow wasn't coming off right, all good though I've got a solo Havoc remix in the works from one of my favourite track off their Hell On Earth album. I think fans of that album will know what track I'm talking about from that alone. 

By the way if you're reading this my album is defo dropping April 26th, with 2 singles dropping before it. So yeah April is going to be a dope month - Peace!!

Visuals: https://youtu.be/teu60YFZfiM

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Drink Away The Pain (Situations)' by Mobb Deep ft Q-Tip

(Don't) Drink Away The Pain

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/outkast-you-may-die-tapehead-flip

Going to be completely honest, I hadn't heard ATLiens by OutKast until the other week. Great album I can't believe I slept on it for so long, and the intro hit me on a different level, the melodies were so crazy I had to flip it my own way. Layered a lot of the chops and made sure I flipped it so it wasn't just the same melody with drums over it, cause imo everything about the intro is perfect as it is the way it progresses too with the vocals is just crazy, didn't even touch that part cause I couldn't think of any way to use it properly.

Had to remix an OutKast song over the beat, and I immediately thought it would be dope to try and completely flip Hey Ya! - which obviously has a super upbeat feel good vibe, despite the lyrics actually being mad deep talking on some pretty sad stuff. That became way clearer when I put them over this beat, had to speed up the acapella a lot to get it matching the beat so I then left long gaps between the lines so that everything stayed on time, added echo etc to the last word of each line to fill the gap etc. I could only get the very beginning of the acapella working over the beat with the gaps, it got too crazy when the hook came in. Added the hook from One Love by Nas to finish the track off, thought it tied into what Andre 3000 is talking about etc. Overall I'm pretty happy with how this came out, thought it was a cool concept for a quick remix which focuses way more on the more emotional side of this track. 

Hopefully you rate what I was going for here, just a short idea. One more remix to go until my album rollout starts in April...Peace!!

Visuals: https://youtu.be/Sp-bJPQiYk0

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Hey Ya!' by Outkast and 'One Love' by Nas ft Q-Tip

Loves Me So (?)

First single from my debut album 'Just Myself' - Dropping April 26th: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tapehead1/just-myself

Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/qN44jjzX_a4

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3rIMymIgElYMFSimfEPe9Q?si=7b24a3b85f9845d7
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/raise-up/1736375645?i=1736375646

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/mind-racing

Huge shoutout to @user-283060156 on this one, shot the cover art and the music video. That video is one of my favourite things I've done as Tapehead, feels so crazy to have an official video out and it just matched the vibe of the song so well. 

Really just went for it on this one, soon as I made this beat I knew I wanted to write mad lyrics over it, and then when I decided to properly go ahead with the album this was one of the first tracks I put together. Gassed to have added scratching over it too, always wanted to do that on a track and this one had that vibe for sure. This is also defo one of my favourite tracks I've done in terms of the vocals, really happy with the way they sound over the beat especially at the end, feel like the tone is on point and they mesh together mad well. 

Produced, written, scratched, mixed and mastered by Tapehead

Thank you for listening!!!

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