This Is Hip Hop Remix Contest: Week 1

This Is Hip Hop Remix Contest

Attention all Beatmakers / DJs / Producers / Remixers!

We are almost a month into 2008 and these American Gangster remixes are getting old. It’s time to start something new! If there’s one thing that I learned from listening to all those American Gangster remix albums, it’s that there is a ton of talent out there. My thing is… I wanna hear your beats over somebody other than Jay.

So 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.

To submit your entry: Upload your remix 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. 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.

Ok, so are you ready? Of course, we couldn’t have just a bunch of random songs put together on a compilation… we gotta have a theme. So the theme for the next 12 weeks is my favorite city in the world… New York. All the tracks that will be in each week’s contest for the next 12 weeks will be from an artist from New York or a track about New York. Obviously, some tracks are not available in acapella form, so tracks will be chosen based on what I can find. To kick things off for the contest this week is Cam’ron’s “Welcome To New York City (featuring Jay-Z)”. This song is off Cam’ron’s 2002 album Come Home With Me and was originally produced by Just Blaze. Below are the tracks to download and good luck!

The cut-off to submit your remix is Saturday, February 2, 2008 @ 11:59pm EST.

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This entry was written by Kevin and posted on January 26, 2008 at 11:16 pm and filed under Contests. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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29 Comments

  1. Nonchalant Misfit
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 3:11 am | Permalink

    props! this is a dope idea; the turnout & the outcome can be very interesting…this gets a co-sign from yours truly! lol

    You have your work cut out for you; I’m glad a lazy muhfuh like me doesn’t have shit to do with this! lol

  2. Marcha
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 6:55 am | Permalink

    just working on my remix :), i already got the idea of how i will make, the samples, the beat… I hope my sony acid help me >

  3. g-man
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 7:47 am | Permalink

    do we get a download link??

  4. Kevin
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 9:38 am | Permalink

    Cool, I hope we get a good number of participants. G-man, the download links are above? Do you not see them?

  5. g-man
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 10:21 am | Permalink

    i click on em an it just plays in quicktime?
    i’ll figure it out..

  6. Kevin
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 10:58 am | Permalink

    Right click and “save as”

  7. g-man
    Posted January 27, 2008 at 11:28 am | Permalink

    doh..i’m an idiot..

  8. Ivan
    Posted January 28, 2008 at 4:25 am | Permalink

    Cam’ron - New York, New York (Hurricane Mix feat. Jay-Z, Juelz Santana & Cat Power)

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/6948061dca9532/

    ;-D

    Biggie set coming soon Kev….I’ll let you know….been busy lately, sorry bout the delay…

  9. Kevin
    Posted January 28, 2008 at 12:30 pm | Permalink

    Ivan, is this your entry in the contest? Did you do this? No prob about the delay. I was gonna go ahead and finish it myself, but I figured I’d just wait on you.

  10. Ivan
    Posted January 28, 2008 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

    Yup, that’s my entry. Got my signature at the end ;-P

    I’ll let you know within the week when I wrap up the set. ;-D

  11. adrm
    Posted January 28, 2008 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

    nice idea, will definitley be keeping an eye on this as like you say there is mad talent out there

  12. Kevin
    Posted January 28, 2008 at 5:24 pm | Permalink

    Damn, my bad Ivan… I didn’t know you did beats. This one’s tight!

  13. g-man
    Posted January 29, 2008 at 5:18 am | Permalink

    Ave it
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/xj9ka2
    (watch out for the low end!)

  14. OCren
    Posted January 29, 2008 at 11:25 am | Permalink

    Uhm… Is this contest for everybody?… What is the tempo of the song?

  15. Kevin
    Posted January 29, 2008 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    Yup, contest open to the public! Check the original version posted; you should be able to figure out the bpms from that.

  16. Kevin
    Posted January 29, 2008 at 12:07 pm | Permalink

    Nice g-man!

  17. pauly
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 5:12 am | Permalink

    so heres my entry:

    Cam’ron - New York, New York (Paul Beats RMX feat. Jay-Z, Frank Sinatra)

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/70470735ad33bc/

    bigup.

  18. Kevin
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 6:42 am | Permalink

    Thanks Pauly!

  19. Kevin
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 7:02 am | Permalink

    Yo Pauly, that was fresh!

  20. Sky high of the Watchmen
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    heres our entry:

    http://rapidshare.com/files/88195491/Welcome_2_NEW_YORK_CITY_remixed_by_the_Watchmen.MP3.html

    holla

  21. blinky
    Posted January 31, 2008 at 7:24 pm | Permalink

    Hey there, cool idea you got here.Here’s my entry:

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/7060065039264a/

    Peace !

    ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ “BLIИKY” ▪ ▪ ▪

  22. QueRico
    Posted February 1, 2008 at 12:30 am | Permalink

    i threw this together last night. let me know what you think.

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/707404416806ee/

    peaceeeee…..
    -Que R!CO Productions

  23. Daniel Gardner
    Posted February 1, 2008 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/71040884d016ad/

    Hellface Remix!

  24. Kevin
    Posted February 1, 2008 at 10:34 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the remixes guys… one day left for everyone else!

  25. O.C:
    Posted February 2, 2008 at 9:06 am | Permalink

    Test…
    to see the time

  26. O.C.
    Posted February 2, 2008 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

    It didn´t work, I´ll try again. As I said here is my entry, and greetings from Europe.

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/7126803d16695b

  27. Kevin
    Posted February 2, 2008 at 1:08 pm | Permalink

    Thanks O.C.!

  28. DJ Profit
    Posted February 2, 2008 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    “I don’t need no hook for this … ”

    My remix entry >>

    http://www.sendspace.com/file/z7fvvv

  29. DtheNextLevel
    Posted February 2, 2008 at 11:15 pm | Permalink

    I’m glad I went to your site tonight - I found out about the contest at about 9:45 EST tonight and threw this together.

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/7141913b1c68d7/