BKNAPP - COMBAT (Beat Tape)

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Published on March 29, 2018 4:19:16 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-N6D-bkoo

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https://bknapp.bandcamp.com/album/combat

This beat tape from me Youtube searching myself "BKNAPP". I found that my last beat tape was featured on a well known trap Channel. My Beats were getting tens and thousands of views. I was pretty stoked at first because that brings traffic to my bandcamp and soundcloud. But the more I listened to those beats and went and looked what else was on that Trap Youtube channel I quickly realized how much of a fucking gimmick my beats have been lately. Quickly thrown together popular video game samples with Logic Pro's stock trap drum kit on top of it. 21 year old me would have fucking hated those beats. So uninspired. I grew up listening to beats from guys like Premier and dilla and here I was throwing together gimmick beats for a few extra plays. It was time to get back to training and learn how to do new things with my beats.

So with this project I went back to challenging myself. I have layers of samples with nothing to do with each other. I had to figure out how to get them all to work together and make sense musically. My drums are in tune with the samples and I went back to my boom bap influences with them.

This is my favorite project I have done. No gimmicks, no bullshit, just a bunch of floating ideas from my head put onto gritty drum beats. Hope the probable 10 people that read this like it. Putting this out on my 25th birthday too. That means I've been doing this for 5 years now. Besides teaching, it is my favorite thing to do.

Also thanks to DJ Cutman for giving me some advice on mixing and mastering as that has always been something I struggle with. I'm improving for sure, but still have a ways to go.