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Producer Alpha-bet is a busy dude (free mixtape!)

Detroit’s Alpha-bet has amassed some impressive production credits lately. You can hear his work on NBA 2K8, the Speed Channel, MTV, the Discovery Channel, as well as Eminem and D12’s upcoming album.

He’s also been nominated as a Detroit Hip Hop producer of the year and has released a free mixtape - The Warm up: One Take Mixtape with artist, Delo.

This entire mixtape was recorded spontaneously during one day this July in a recording session at Detroit’s Keyz Studios. It’s a what Alpha-bet calls, “The NFL network before the game on Sunday”, leading to the street album Im Popular, coming late-fall, 2007.

Click the cover to download:

Alpha-bet, Delo The Warm Up: One Take Mixtape

Tracklisting:

1. The Warm Up Intro
2. We Walk Detroit
3. I’m Popular: the Street Album
4. Bang on the Table is a Army
5. I like the competition
6. Bitch I’m on the Grind (chop/screw hook by Alpha-bet)
7. I Will Annihilate! (skit)
8. Child of the D
9. Alpha-bet speaks
10.White Girl for a stack
11.You must train for this (skit)
12.Song for Man (keep your head up)
13.Alpha-bet speaks 2
14.Goin out Buckin

Keep up with Alpha-bet and Bang on the Table Productions at his website.

2007 08 05

Eminem
D12
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Alpha-bet
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Kuniva - “Bad Intentions” audio

Kuniva from D12 with - “Bad Intentions”.

From his 2007 Runyon Ave mixtape.

2007 07 30

D12
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Kuniva

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Kuniva - “Hard as Mine” audio

Kuniva of D12 with “Hard as Mine”.

From his 2007 Runyon Ave mixtape.

2007 07 14

D12
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Kuniva

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Denaun Porter on beatmaking, D12, Proof and Dilla

Denaun Porter

Two recent Denaun Porter features: here at Allhiphop and here at The Michigan Citizen.

Allhiphop asks Porter about his difficult 2006.

AllHipHop.com: 2006 was a rough year for Detroit Hiphop. Within two months of each other, both J Dilla and Proof passed away. You worked closely with both of them, how has that affected you personally?

Mr. Porter: You gotta understand, that’s the reason that I got into the game. Proof introduced me to J Dilla. I introduced J Dilla to Dre, and just having that feeling of being able to have Dre, J Dilla, and myself in the same room, both of my teachers, was the greatest feeling on Earth. And plus, this dude [J. Dilla] allowed me to come over his house late night when he was doing sessions with Pete Rock. And Proof, me and Proof, we had the relationship where I didn’t know how proud of me he was until I he was gone. Me and him would fight. We’re one in the same, I feel like, because he taught me so much about just being able to stand on my own, and not wait on one person to do anything. That’s why I’m kind of like out ahead and not waiting on Eminem to do anything, because he told me don’t do that, that’s not the move. He helped create who I am, and J Dilla helped create who I am. I got Guilty Simpson, who me and J Dilla was gon’ do his project together. That was the last artist he planned on working with, as far as his own artists. And now that I have to finish that record, it’s tough, every time I hear a song that J Dilla did. That whole year was the worst year of my life. They’re the reason that I’m in the game, because if Proof never introduced me to Jay Dee, I never would have got that serious about producing.

Porter also reiterates the extent of disintegration in D12 in the Allhiphop interview (see related posts).

2007 07 11

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Jay Dee aka J-Dilla
Proof (D12)
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Denaun Porter / Kon Artis

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