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Big K.R.I.T.: 23 Songs for New LP, Industry Needs to 'Step Up' - The Boombox
Big K.R.I.T. Talks Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Influence On Music, Conscious Rap In The Modern Era | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop | HipHop DXCan you talk a bit about the vibe you had going into creating 'Live From the Underground'? Has it changed much during the album's progression?
Just that same consciousness, man... You know? Gritty, but what people have really come to love from my music is the soulful aspect but the only thing now is that I have to find another way to create music besides the sampling. Because I've run into a lot with sample clearances and trying to reach out to publishers and things of that nature so now I'm just trying to make music that sounds old but it's really not. I had the opportunity to work with Mike Harnett who's an amazing guitarist. I'm excited to do music, man.
Is '4EvaNADay' a preview of what the album will end up being or are you doing something totally different on that one?
Yeah, definitely. It's still... [the same] as far as subject matter or content, but it's kind of a glimpse into... I'm just really going for a creative aspect on this next project, actually trying to make a cohesive project that's more artistic than anything, in my mind. That's really where I'm trying to go with that.
What's your favorite song on there and what's it about?
One of my favorite songs is coming out really soon and may become one of the singles. We'll see, but it's all new material and it's just one of those things where I really want people... I want the anticipation... where it happens all at one time. Since this album is a concept album, if I talk about one song it might take away from the rest of them. You know what I'm saying? It's one of those where you have to listen to it from beginning to end.
How many songs have you recorded so far for 'Live From the Underground'?
Umm, I've probably recorded at least 22 or 23 strong records and I'ma try to pick from there and bump it down to 14 or 15 songs if I can, then of course, with an interlude or two, it'll be like 17 tracks. But I'm definitely more accustomed to putting 22 songs on an album, like on 'ReturnOf4Eva' or 'K.R.I.T. Wuz Here.' But this isn't the same kind of format.
Big K.R.I.T. Talks Live From The Underground And The Production Process
DX: Live From the Underground is coming soon, and you also announced at the beginning of December that you'd have a new mixtape 4evaNaDay dropping before that. With both of these projects dropping so relatively close to each other, what was the difference in the way you approached them, if at all?
Big K.R.I.T.: Aw man, [the difference is that] I can use samples on 4evaNaDay. [Laughs] I can sample a whole hell of a lot for 4evaNaDay, but for Live From the Underground, not so much. 4evaNaDay is for free, I'm just giving that to the people, so when you're talking samples and publishing, I'm just making music and giving it away. But [with] retail, off Underground, it's not so much. If you sample, you definitely gotta reach out to the publisher [and] the label and make sure everything's okay and pray that they feel comfortable with how you sampled the record - things of that nature. But 4evaNaDay was like, "Aight, I like this song; I'm gonna sample it." We're just gonna put it out just to give it away for free.
Of course with my album, it's gonna be definitely more in-depth when you're talking about live instrumentation or the orchestrated aspect of the composition or the mixing, but I'ma do my best to make 4evaNaDay sound like an album as well. But I also have to focus on the mainstream album, too. It's a tug-and-pull kind of thing, but I'm excited for people to hear 4evaNaDay 'cus it's not just a mixtape…it's a concept project. I think people are really going to enjoy it.
DX: Right, and I remember in an interview a while back you said one way you were looking to get the same sound of using samples but without sampling was that you were looking to record with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. I know you've produced using a live band, most recently with The Roots on "Make My" , but did this collaboration with Sharon Jones ever come about?
Big K.R.I.T.: Yeah, I mean The Roots, that was amazing. That was an amazing experience for one, but for two, I haven't had the opportunity to record with [Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings] yet. Lord willing, if I had the opportunity to, of course I would…so I have little bit more time to continue working on [the album], but I haven't had the opportunity to work with them just yet…if I don't get the opportunity to work with them on this album, Lord willing I will be [working with them] on the second.
DX: Well, I'm definitely hoping that happens. But to go back to your sampling, it's really crazy to hear how seamless the samples you use sound in your beats. For example, the sample of Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate" in "Sookie Now" is crazy, because it's a recognizable sample but it sounds completely natural in the song. How do you approach each individual sample and layering them in the final beat?
Big K.R.I.T.: Aw man, a lot of it has to do with tempo - especially [sampling] soul music, you might find them in 3/4 times, so instead of it being 1-2-3-4 [with 4/4 timing], it's like 1-2-3-2-2-3; it's like a different kind of groove, so when you chop it up, it's extremely important that you pay attention to tempo because if it's too fast, the tempo won't fit right, or if there'e vocals in the sample and they're overlapping [because] it's really difficult to rap over a vocal sample. If you speed it up, it's high pitched and it doesn't really work too well. It's really about blending and finding the proper samples where they gave you a little bit of [instrumental] to use and being able to chop it up like that and throwing it in with the hooks.
And you never want to stay traditional and just use their hook and their [verse] and their hook again. You kinda want to make a whole new song based off of what you sample, and to me, that's extremely important. I never like hearing clipping in my samples. I feel like you should never hear where the sample started over, or if you do, it sounded smooth like they played it like that, versus it was going and it's an abrupt stop and the sample started all over again.
DX: I also think it's crazy the array of samples you pull from. Obviously, there are some R&B and funk tacks that you'd kind of expect to be or have been used in a Hip Hop song in the past, but then there are other samples that you've used like Adele's "Hometown Glory" on "Hometown Hero" that are out of left field. Do you ever have any reservations about what samples you use, whether it's because they wouldn't fit in a Hip Hop song or because they're too obvious?
Big K.R.I.T.: Normally, you try to sample something that isn't so super obvious...super obvious as in you could never clear the sample, unless you could flip it to the point that people really don't recognize it. I mean, if you're talking about producers…like J Dilla, 9th Wonder, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, these kind of producers, they were very great at sampling stuff and you not really recognizing what it was. Even if with me, when I'm searching for samples, it doesn't matter, it could be a power ballad [like] Scorpion, Whitesnake or something like that, if there's an air, if there's a powerful sense to it - we're talking about an electric guitar, a wail…something I could really loop and make sound bigger than what it might have already sounded, then I'm gonna go for it.
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Live From The Underground gonna change lives...K.R.I.T's music is timeless.....Mississippi x California x North Carolina
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Is it me or does Big K.R.I.T. just make the chillest music ever?.. I could just sit back on the couch and listen to Return of 4eva and Krit Wuz Here all day long.
And it's so old school it's crazy. Sounds like he's from the 90's but with a touch of the 21st century.
He's Just Amazing. He's a brilliant producer and is fantastic with samples.
Just me venting on how good he is lol.
Originally posted by lil_wayne View Post
Also something that I read out of this article was that Live From The Underground will drop in June.. Prob not official though.
"Signed to Def Jam for two years now, the Mississippi native has been plugging away, working on tracks with everyone from Freddie Gibbs to T.I. 'ReturnOf4Eva' was his first release after being signed and it's been helmed as one of 2011's best mixtapes. He's primed to repeat that success as he readies his '4EvaNADay' project for release next month. K.R.I.T.'s debut LP, 'Live From the Underground,' is next up for release in June and though he sounds confident about what he has planned, the rapper remains tight-lipped about the specifics. He does, however, promise that we'll be getting more of what made us fall in love with his music in the first place."Last edited by Gman918; 01-18-2012, 10:56 PM.
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Dreamt what this would sounds like.....K.R.I.T is not humanMississippi x California x North Carolina
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similar to "We Buy Gold" - 8Ball & MJG feat K.R.I.T. (Music) by BIGKRIT on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free ?Originally posted by Cli-City View Post
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Same soulful vibes but 2 notches doper...but this beat gawd damn..Originally posted by IceMan View PostMississippi x California x North Carolina
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