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Producer, Beatmaker, Button Turner | Email: [email protected] | YT: aliengroover

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

Out TONIGHT!!

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

In case you missed it

Pre-save my new album "Still Going" on Spotify: https://t.co/GLW9mObpPn (powered by @distrokid)

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

I was lucky to have a stepfather and uncle and cousins, who all listened to a variety of music. And as I said in a reply to someone there, that was a great pocket to exist in as there was a lot of iconic music coming out of the 70s as well as that new crop in 82 to 84.

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

Kudos! I just posted yesterday on my personal page how I just realized that 1999 and Thriller came out almost one month apart. I was nine years old then. I think that’s the age when I really started actively playing records I wanted to listen to.

[Z @BrianZisook]

Every week now my wife and I hold a listening session in our living room with our nine-year-old daughter. I refuse to allow her to have bad taste 😂

Tonight’s selections:

OutKast
Maxwell
Boys II Men
Etta James
Barry White

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@9thwonder You know, I think even if it’s not meant maliciously, sometimes you have to chin check people on what it is you have brought to the table. Look at how often Pete Rock goes over overlooked. I still see people in comments, wondering what Teddy Riley has done.

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@Issybeatz_ Agreed. Run promos/sales but if you aren’t selling or leasing them at regular price, you’re not going to sell more at a lower cost

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@Slackonbothsydz @marcopolobeats The Illmatic versus IWW? I don’t think I really heard it until the last few years. That was definitely not the case like a decade ago.

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@Stu_Bangas It’s dumb with public sound packs. But I feel like that with samples in general. It’s cool when you run across a record you haven’t heard anybody use, but chances are in 2026 you’re not finding a record that has gone untouched. Question is what are you going to do with it?

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@officialmabhena @BrianZisook Ever heard a band do requests?

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

Splice’s recent move with still crediting the original creators and stuff like the Lemonaide models are positive moves in a very shifty AI world. Again, I’m not down with it but I get it.

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

I’m a firm nope on Beatstars BUT I get it and I do believe somebody has to get in front of it this way. We can’t complain about Timbaland and Suno training their AI on us yet when someone says “hey you can opt in and we’ll make sure you get paid” we get mad.

[Z @BrianZisook]

Music didn’t get worse. Our listening did. So many rush through new releases just to have an opinion online. People rarely sit with an album anymore. You can’t connect with music you’re half-listening to while scrolling.

[KATO ON THE TRACK @KatoProducer]

Sooooo many producers I talk to are struggling to figure it out. Lack of guidance, lack of direction and usually lack of patience.

JUST GO. Figure out the rest on the way.

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@MoYeeezy @vechris @BlockTopickz @billboard Ye is also a MUCH bigger name, so the drop off wasn’t as big. But the point is there was still a fall off. let’s not pretend.

[Block Topickz @BlockTopickz]

T.I. says leaving Atlantic was one of the worst decisions he made in his career, but he just had to know if his success was due to him or the label

[Almost instantly finding out labels did things he was oblivious to]

🎥: @Billboard
🔗: https://t.co/UmiZH0S55S

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@nileriverr @justinsomuch That’s not the same as not paying at all

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@justinsomuch To me, it’s complete BS to force the customer to buy something they didn’t want. CD prices were out of control and never dropped even though manufacturing costs did. Those things inspired piracy which led us to streaming, a compromise for the labels

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@justinsomuch There were a LOT of songs that you had to purchase whole albums for. I blame the industry though. Singles have always been around. Ice Ice Baby signaled the defining shift. When the single was taking off, they removed it from shelves, forcing the consumer to buy the album

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@nileriverr @justinsomuch Not exactly true. The issue Swift had was they weren’t going to pay artists during the 3 month free trial. She also famously took her music off of Spotify because of pay. Folks hate her but for a big artist she has been active. Not the only one but it still speaks volumes

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

It is great to see, but it’s funny that after all these years and all of these horror stories we hear from the music business, we’ve never once heard of someone having their wages garnished by a major label because they didn’t recoup.

[Sonny @SonnyDigital]

I be so happy seeing you tweets that clarify a lot of the dumb things people think they know about the music industry.

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@BrianZisook I know people are new and it is worth explaining, but there are a lot of people who should already know this by now. I actually know a guy who got signed and then the label dropped them before the album release and they let them walk away with $40,000. He built a studio

[ɹǝʌooɹƃuǝᴉl∀ ǝɥ┴ @aliengroover]

@culturehause @Plu2o_Nash People are still getting big checks but that pool is way smaller than before because of just that: budgets. But let’s not pretend every other producer was getting $30K back in the day, either