This Is Hip Hop Remix Contest: Week 7

I’m giving you guys a head start on this week’s remix. I won’t be home tonight, so I thought I’d throw this up now. Don’t worry though, the winner for week 5 will be announced Sunday and the voting for week 6 will start then as well. Let’s get onto week 7.

Here’s the deal… for the next 12 weeks, we’re gonna hold a weekly contest… 12 weeks/12 mixes. The way it’ll work is every Saturday night I will provide the song to be remixed for the week. There will be 2 links… the acapella and the song in it’s original version (for reference). You will have one week to complete your remix. Entries will be taken until 11:59pm EST the following Saturday. Then on Sunday morning we’ll have a new poll on the blog for people to vote for their favorite mix. Voting will take place for one week while the next mix is underway. At the end of the 12 weeks, I’ll put together a compilation album of all the winners for each week with a kick ass cover designed by Krome. Sound cool? I know some people are gonna be like, “what’s the prize?”. The prize is inclusion on the compilation album and exposure on this site. I got nothing else to offer. I got a couple more gift certificates left to offer up. Chris from BarrysTickets.com was kind enough to donate some gift certificates to give away to you guys. So the winner for Week 7 will win a $25 gift cerficate which can be used towards tickets purchased through BarrysTickets.com. They have all your tickets from sporting events to concerts.

To submit your entry: Upload your remix in mp3 format to one of your favorite file sharing locations (ie, Rapidshare, MediaFire, MegaUpload, ZShare, etc) and leave a comment in this post with your name and your link. Some readers have requested the contestants use ZShare. So if you can, upload to ZShare. DO NOT email me any links… they will be ignored. This process is to make it easier for me so I don’t have to post everyone’s links. The production is open ended (for now), meaning there are no stipulations. Original productions are highly encouraged, but blends will be accepted as well.

Thanks to 100dBs for hooking me up with the full acapella to “Shook Ones”. We tried putting this in the contest a couple of weeks ago and found out that the acapella was incomplete. Well, here’s the full deal. Mobb Deep‘s “Shook Ones Part II” was the first single off their 1995 sophomore release The Infamous and was produced by Havoc. Some of you may remember the original beat from the Eminem movie “8 Mile”, as it was used in the last battle. This is a hot track right here…. make sure you bring your A-game! Below are the tracks to download and good luck!

The cut-off to submit your remix is Saturday, March 15, 2008 @ 11:59pm EST.

• Shook Ones Part II (Acapella)
• Shook Ones Part II (Album Version)