Portland Beat Battle
There’s a beat battle in Portland this Friday the 30th that’s getting some buzz. It’s at a spot called Crown Room. Check in and comment if you check that.
Kansas City MC/Beat Battle RECAP
The Pitch newspaper has a pretty good recap of an annual Kansas City MC/Beat Battle called “Versus”
This one covers the most recent installment, Versus 2 and sounds like Kansas City was puttin it down. Here’s the full article with the blow by blow written by one of the judges who evidently also writes for the paper.
Fresno Beat Battle Feb 18th 2009
$10 Registration $100 Prize
This one is for the locals but looks like it’ll be hot. Getting a lot of net buzz. As always, holla back if you check it out. We want to know what’s hot and what’s not and only you can tell us. We can’t possibly enter or get to all of these.
Good Luck
New Monthly Beat Battle Starting Up at Da Hip Hop Corp
Found a new monthly beat battle with cash & other prizes starting up at Da Hip Hop Corp
It’s a monthly contest so no matter when you’re reading this, you should be good to get down. Be sure to comment on how these work out if you go enter. Let it be known which battles are the best.
Good Luck!
iStandard Producers – Beat site with opportunities
I ran across this site – iStandardProducers.com – and found what looks to be a gem for producers on the grind.
In a nutshell, you pay a yearly fee ($99 as of this writing) and you’re then allowed to create a producers profile, post beats, and submit those beats to their listed opportunies. The current sampling of opportunites covers major and indie label artists like Devin The Dude and Sean Kingston plus about a dozen artists that I hadn’t heard of until seeing them on the site.
With these sites I always research the pedigry so to speak to judge the quality of the industry connections and pull of the people involved. Like anything else, there are scams to beware of. In this case, things pretty much check out to lead me to believe that there is a legit chance of gaining ground dealing with what the site offers. One of there core businesses appears to be producers showcases they hold in a handfull of cities with industry judges. I think I’ve even been to one of them but couldn’t find enough info on the past event (three years ago in AZ) to be sure. Their experience putting on the producers showcases lead to them playing a role in the formatting and production of the Sha Money XL conferences and beat battles according to their site.
The site design is a little choppy but not bad. Some of the info is getting a little stale but the community does have some current posts so if nothing else, you can connect with some other producers on the grind.
Let us know if you have more info on this site or if you’ve attended any of their events.
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