Boi 1da, behind the making of Best I Ever Had & Forever

I chopped it up with Boi 1da, the producer of Drakes, Best I Ever Had, Killa (w/ Nipsey Hussle), Forever (w/ Ye, L'il Wayne, & Eminem), Im Still Fly (w/ Page); to name a few.

We went thru the process of creating hits with Drake. Boi 1da goes in to describe their usual process of Drake recording hooks on his Berry, sending them to 1da, and Boi 1da inturn creates/produces around Drakes hooks.
This was how Best I Ever Had came about for instance. "I was going thru a sample folder and came accross the Hamilton Frank and Joe sample. I flipped that sample and finished the beat in FL," says modest Boi 1da. And the rest they say is history.

The song, Forever was based on a beat that Boi 1da sent to Drake. "I thought the beat was hot, so I sent it to him." And by the way if you don't know, Drake & 1da have been a team for awhile, ie. ATF, Octobersveryown (see the interview with Boi 1da, in Megacity Producers for more info). Back to Forever. If the hook sounds familiar to those in the Dot, it is basically a remix with Em', Ye, & Weezy which is gonna be on the LeBron James, More Than A Game soundtrack.

When I asked 1da what we should be looking out for from him, he said," The (Drake) album, Thank Me Later." Release, slated for...

THE PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE CHALLENGE OFFICIAL REVIEW

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.

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.
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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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Vokab Vs Big Pops BATTLE OF THE BEATMAKERS
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Vokab Vs Big Pops BATTLE OF THE BEATMAKERS

It's been about a year since I came onto this guy's beats. Some guy by the name of... Vokab.
Actually, it was the first time I got my head sprung by every beat on a myspace player. We had been on each others msn for years for some reason, but never said boo to one another. I went back to this guys facebook and had to let him know that he had some real "shit" going on. True story.

It's also been about a year since the last BBM (Battle of the Beat Makers), you know the one that had the biggest controversy of all BBM's when the crowd called for Contejous Managements' Arthur McArthur (www.myspace.com/arthurmcarthur) as the victor, but the judges scored the win to Boi 1da (G-unit, Kardi, Ludacris).
This year's grudge match was historical, but still left a lot of controversy (true story). We'll get into that further on.

Back to Vokab. Shortly after I contacted him, he hollered back and told me, "Legion Of Beats" got some shit too. About a month after that, I got a contact looking for some beats for one of Primo's artist. I immediately thought of Vokab. That's when he told me about his team with Contejous Management.

Enter this years Battle of the Beat Makers:

Contejous Management enters with not one, but three of their heavy hitters. Vokab, Big Pops, and newcomer, Nyra...Plus their grudge match player, Arthur McArthur.

I asked Mr. Contejous himself, his views on the battles.

"Pops (www.myspace.com/bigpopsbeats) started strong, which we talked about in the prep of the battle wow the crowd right away..." "(Vokab) he played a dope beat to start too, our whole teams plan was to start strong Nyra (www.myspace.com/dobnyra) played one of his doper beats to start as well (beat for Hear Ya Moms Crying), altho, because people had heard it before it may have taken away from peoples hype over it."

"its too bad that Vokab (www.myspace.com/vokabfulleffectproductions) and Nyra were eliminated by Big Pops (Nyra in the final 8, and Vokab in the final 4) but at the same time, better to lose to fam and know one of you is going ahead than to lose to someone you don't know."

"..overall I'm really happy how the whole team did. Nyra for his first BBM (and being the youngest on the team) did well getting to the third round Vokab for his first BBM and not necessarily having the Synth/South stuff that has generally (Ric Notes and Gigz aside) been really successful at the BBM did really well too getting into the final 4."

Unfamiliar with Nyra, I asked him who this Nyra guy was?




"Nyra is one of my producers as well he produced Infinite's first single of his new album "Hear Ya Moms Crying" and a couple other joints on Infinite's album."

In the end it was a Contejous night. Big Pops won it all in the end, McArthur won the grudge match against Boi 1da, and the whole team left winners.

I asked what the team is up to now and the near future.

"Our biggest team project right now is: Contejous MGMT & Traumashop Present: The Sound Of A Gun Mixtape w. DJ On Point. Hosted By Alchemist & Mr. Probz. Got the single "Sound Of A Gun" - Mr. Probz ft. Alchemist & Sonny Diablo (Prod. by Big Pops)."

"Also working on a ton with Big Lou (shooting 2 videos in NY this week that both ft. Mr Probz..both produced by Northern Profit (Big Pops, Arthur McArthur, Philly Blunt, and Badnuz)."

"...Had a track we did with Lil Wayne leak on DJ Big Mike's Grand Theft Audio 6 a couple weeks ago "So Many Guns, Ima Shoot One" (Prod. by Northern Profit) was on HiphopGame.com and AllhipHop.com. Also, have a lot of big names coming on our beats too but i dont want to speak on em just yet to ruin the hype when we want to build it, lol."

Shout outs?

"sound supremacy, the judges: boi 1da, gigz, and ric notes, all 32 producers who competed, and Legion Of Beats!"

It's funny; when I look back at my crystal ball that told me Vokab had this years BBM, just like it had Rick Notes in last years final, I shake my head and am glad It wasn't too far off. I'll keep it around for another year. Big Congrats to Big Pops.


Now back to the grudge match...

I asked Boi 1da his view on the grudge match...

"I won 2 rounds out of 3, but then they let the crowd decide, and he had more people for him in the crowd, so he wins."


In your opinion, did he rightfully deserve the win?

"No, but I'm not in control of that... but a win is a win, so congrats to him"

I replied, "Thanks for your honest opinion bro." And followed with, "Your overall take on the night?"

"Big pops, Mega man and Vokab impressed me. Shout out to all of them."

Unbeknown to 1da was the fact that there is still massive controversy about who really won the grudge match.

Legion Music and Media has plans to bury this controversial battle once and for all....

Related Links

Boi 1da in: The Mega City Producers

Contejous Management ~ featured mixtape DJ DRAMA/Sa-G Mixtape

Vokab on CAMOFLAUGE ~ Live @ Importfest