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Approximately 300 people jammed into Downtown Kathy Brown's to witness New Industry Canada's, PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE CHALLENGE on NOV, 7TH.
I told you all it was "GONNA BE ONE DOPE ASS EVENT, DONT MISS IT!" I Told You! And it was.
The Performances
Bizz from crackhouse radio and livetheculture.com exclaimed, "Rich Kidd's performance... he crushed it!" "Point Blank was the most jovial and outgoing I've ever seen...I finally got a Point Blank t-shirt."
Yes, the performances were incredible that night!
New Industry's, Rugged One: Strik9 & Flex set the whole vibe of the show by opening the event with high energy and positive records, Rich Kidd & Junia-T did they thing for sure, letting Londoners know whats happening out in T-dot.
Judge, Mic Boogie: I was impressed alot by Rich Kidd. Didn't know he rapped. He was live. Got the crowd into it for sure.
Top indie group, Point Blank put on a solid performance as always and showed what they can do as a top Indie group in Canada. "They did like 6 songs," says Bizz, "including their singles!"
Okay, now for the main course. The Producer Battles.
Boogie: As far as the beats go. All the producers brought some dope beats. Some had more consistent production as they got into further rounds
...biggest surprise was Neenah. The only female in the whole contest.
Her first round beat was insane. It was probably the grimiest beat I heard all night. And she don't look like she makes beats like that. I had to spit a verse on it.
Rugged One: Our judges panel consisting of (heavy weight rapper) Mic Boogie, (T-dot's choice producer and now rapper) Rich Kidd, (champion rapper) D-Sisive and Londoner (and one of Canada's new favourite and respected rapper) Shad K.
Some of the highlight battles were the surprising first round outcome where C4 knocked out Contejous Management's, Vokab... and that was only the beginning for this explosive producer who took out Vokab without a single...sample.
Big Pops vs Memorecks was another memorable first rounder.
Boogie: ...Pops, from the first round he was just banger after banger.
Some guy rushed the stage and fell down (lol).
C4 was definitely very consistent from round to round. His beats were all dope. Nice heavy low end in his beats. I'm definitely going to work with him.
Those two matches set the tone for the night.
C4 went on to battle Contejous Management's, Neenah.
C4: ...next round was against Neenah. I knew that was going to be tough. For one, she's Vokab's girl so I knew she was going to try to take me out (like, you cant beat my man and me too).
So I dropped something different; that I felt would get people hyped....Next was J Staffz.
I asked judge Mic Boogie if he found the judges differ in scores; "or where you all pretty much in agreement during most battles?"
Boogie: We all had our own preference as for production style.
Any closely "scored" battles?
Boogie: Yeah, Big Pops and Black Ghost to go to the finals
The Finals, C4 vs. Big Pops ... 3 rounds ding ding!
C4 felt the first round against Pops was ruined.
C4: The sound guy played my beat at low volume and restarted it 3 times; it played for a total of 5 mins. That's not the way you take people by surprise.
C4: I think that Pops is great at what he does and I don't think he's responsible for what happened but I would like to see an uninterrupted final.
Boogie: As for C4, the only reason why he lost I would say was that Big Pops beats just had a bit more feeling and life in them. More emotion with how he chopped up his samples.
His beats were monsters...
all of them.
For the night each producer there seemed to have their own crews with them, but for sure Big Pops stole some peoples friends away.
The Event as a Whole
The Showcase was a great success. The Producers came with some of the most incredible production and the crowd response was a testament to that. A good place for artist to meet up with talented producers." Ultimately Big Pops' thunderous production styles dictated the outcome and had him crowned the grand champion of the evening. But that in no way takes away from the caliber of beats we heard all night from all the competitors," said producer Rugged One.
Boogie:Yeah for sure a good way to connect. I made some connects...
Legion: you mentioned working with a few of these producers in the future, anything peeps s/b looking forward to hearing soon?
Boogie: Well Im waiting on some beats from C4. I hit up Black Ghost about a beat he had I want to do something with. AND Big Pops... I could do a whole album with him.
More from Mic Boogie
C4: There's a lot of talent out here and I look forward to making hits for as many people as I can. I work with Jd Era quite a bit..i've done some remixes for Elephant Man and Akon in Toronto. Funny thing is; my day job is making jingles for commercials. I do hip hop for the love.
Congratulations to Big Pops, all the contestants and performers and Ruggerd One for hosting and putting it all together with New Industry.
New Industry Canada is a sister company of New Industry Records based in New York City headed up by Pottersfield's Boss St.Laz (http://www.myspace.com/stlazpottersfield)and world renowned Dj Fade.
NEW INDUSTRY CANADA is committed to that effort for our Canadian talent and will help to promote, build and strengthen our underground music scene until it is out in front enough that we can start allowing these talented artists to live off of their work.
Contact info:
Producer's who wanna get @ Mic Boogie, email: mb@micboogiemusic.com
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