Gen Daniel Bell-Ota

Father of a Blasian family. Bumping dope beats and rhymes all day every day. Wrote a book titled “the Indie Rap Archive” in 2020.

[しもじま @dirdirdirne]

音のノリの話、流石にこれ以上分かりやすいのはもうないと思う。

視覚情報大事。

⁦@Genaktion⁩ https://t.co/eFjr05oSQG

[Gen Daniel Bell-Ota @Genaktion]

@ShotGunDandymk3 ブラックツイッター的な人たちが話題にしている作品はほとんど聴いていそうだし、どうやって時間作っておられるのかも不思議なぐらいですよ。

[Gen Daniel Bell-Ota @Genaktion]

@MoneyATM777 いえいえ、ご視聴いただきありがとうございました。

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

RAp. Any 90s list needs to stay in that era . The rules got different it was album oriented and the major super tours that created the frenzy in the 1980s didn’t happen in the middle of the decade. Revolution was hearing RAP on the radio only on the weekends in the 80s if at all. Evolution was big biz and radio playing it every day in rotation
Game changer because 80s kindergarteners turned into teenagers in 90s turned adults into 2000s companies saw em coming in all shades

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

Wow @lordjamar 💪🏾

[Gen Daniel Bell-Ota @Genaktion]

@MoneyATM777 子供の観ていた動画の関連で出てきて存在を知りました。有名な声優か何かが副業で配信しているのかと思いました。話芸の人なら皆上手いのかなと試しに芸人が��った実況動画をいくつか観てみたのですが、あの人のように澱みなく喋れる人は見つかりませんでした。その世界で人気がある理由がわかりました

[Gang Starr ‘One of the Best Yet’ Out Now @gangstarr]

Guru and I are honored to represent Sonny Rollins (R.I.P.) and so many others for the
'MO BETTER BLUES' 1990 Soundtrack along with @bmarsalis to create the record 'JAZZ THING' and the video directed by SPIKE LEE
R.I.P. GURU 🙏🏾🤍🕊️
ONE OF THE BEST YET.

[Gen Daniel Bell-Ota @Genaktion]

色々と私のことをご紹介いただいているようで、それ自体はありがたいのですが、貴殿が相手にされているソレは私にずっと影で粘着している悪質な匿名アカウントです。”Coming Freshers”とかいう馬鹿丸出しの文字列を自己紹介欄に書いている時点でお察しですので、相手にするだけ無駄ですよ。

[タカワン 壱参heads @grassrootsnsc]

今回もまた、
超〜有料情報だと思うんすよね〜。

音楽を聴く時のアプローチの仕方がガラリと変わると思う。

不定期リズム講座（日本のラップの特性編）

https://t.co/PGjIOk92vp @YouTubeより

[PoloMan @polo_man404]

Thirty minutes before The D.O.C. lost his voice, the police let him go.

He had been pulled over drunk in Beverly Hills. The officers saw NWA's gold records in his backseat, took pictures with him and sent him home.

Half an hour later he fell asleep at the wheel on the Ventura Freeway, crashed face-first into a tree and was thrown through his rear window.

He spent 21 hours in surgery. When he woke up, he couldn't speak.

His debut album No One Can Do It Better had just sold over a million copies. He was 21 years old.

Dr. Dre came to the hospital and told him the hard truth. "Don't rap."

So instead he wrote. He ghost-wrote Straight Outta Compton, Eazy-Duz-It, The Chronic, Nuthin But a G Thang. He convinced Dr. Dre to go solo when Dre himself didn't believe in it.

He co-founded Death Row Records. He mentored Snoop Dogg on songwriting when Snoop only knew how to freestyle.

The biggest albums in West Coast hip hop history have his fingerprints all over them. His name is on almost none of them.

He said it himself years later.

"Had I kept my voice, I might not be here today."

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📌 Sources: Rolling Stone · Complex · Wikipedia · Ambrosia for Heads · Vice

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

I never understood the point of bringing down one (in this case, an entire era) to big up another. But that's the world we live in...
But to simply imply that the previous era was merely loud party raps, is simply not true.
The R had a predecessor.

Melle Mel did NOT.

"WW 3"

[Skyzoo @skyzoo]

When I was a little kid my grandmoms lived in Flatbush: 2023 Caton Ave, where she raised my pops. When I'd go over there on the weekends, Vicious lived downstairs and we was homeys and would play in front of the building all the time. Haven't seen son since we was like 10 tho 🗽

[Tommy Boy Records @TommyBoyRecords]

Lord Jamar breaks down the origin of Brand Nubian.

“One For All” 35th Anniversary 7” Box Set available May 29th. Includes the albums most celebrated singles: “Brand Nubian,” “Feel So Good,” “Slow Down,” and liner notes by Lord Jamar.

Pre-order now: https://t.co/vU70KNdhlB

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Shock G breaks down rap cadences.

[Ruben || Check the Rhyme @checktherhyme1_]

I Appreciate this type of Hip Hop fan more than the "I like everything I hear" fans.

[BLUEPRINT @printmatic]

One of the biggest challenges in making sample-based beats isn't learning how to chop and rearrange samples--it's learning how to chop a sample so that it sounds different, but doesn't lose the musicality that drew you to it in the first place. I think this is even more of a challenge because many of us want to impress our peers and don't want to look like we took the lazy route with a beat.

But over the years, I've learned that the simplicity almost always wins. The beats that I tend to spend the most time on, laboring over every minute detail to make it sound more layered and complex, tend to get less love than the beats I make when I keep it simple and effective. I like to remind myself that every beat doesn't need to save the world, it just needs to capture what I'm feeling and hearing at the moment. And if it does that, then I've done my job.

I wanted to share this beat as an example of that concept at work. Hope this helps someone. Let me know what y'all think.

#akaimpcsample #beatmakerlife #beatmaker #boombaphiphop

[Gen Daniel Bell-Ota @Genaktion]

@PeaceSincere1 Happy birthday, King!

[ABC News @ABC]

A man has pleaded guilty to the 2002 shooting death of Run-D.M.C.'s Jam Master Jay.

He faces 15 years in prison, plus 20 more on separate drug charges. https://t.co/1DYvmiLHVi