how do you mix hip hop?

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ok, a friend of mine from work just gave me 200+ hip hop records. all from around 96 through 99 or so. i have no idea how you mix them. i can beat match (badly), but i don't think that really applies here. any ideas?

― Scott Stanley (Scott Stanley), Thursday, 31 July 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

scratch your way between them and no one will ever notice

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 31 July 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

um, listen to some good mixtapes and get some ideas?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 31 July 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of hip hoppers use skits between tracks, so maybe you could stick in innapropriate snatches of The Office, Blackadder or whatever?

Or make up your own, it's pretty easy.

― mei (mei), Thursday, 31 July 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Cover mismatched beats by...

Using big bomb explosions!
Shouting 'he a bitch!'!
Hollering at ya Dogs!

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Thursday, 31 July 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Practice beat matching! Why do you say it doesn't apply?

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Say, "DJ Clue Clue Clue Clue Clue Clue Clue"

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

give shouts out to all the playaz of the leytonstone massive

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"DJ Scott Stanley is on the mix, come on kick it!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Just look for memorable moments of the songs like the "Hold up" part of "The Next Episode." A lot of the time with singles the very beginning is a recognizeable signal for the dance floor, like when Pharrel goes "bitches and niggas!" at the beginning of "When the Last Time." If you're DJ'ing in clubs, using those memorable moments is way more effective than beat-matching. And please don't scratch the same bits over and over again ("I got a lot of liv...I got a lot of livin to do before ... I got a lot .... I ... I got ..."). It's really obnoxious.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

the answer you are looking for is that you mix on the claps and eq out the low end of the record that is coming in.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, beat matching still applies when mixing hip hop. It's just that the beats aren't as simple as something like house, ie the kick isn't always on the beat.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

surely its not just a question of beat matching though,i mean techno and house tracks are designed with mixing in mind,and thus start and end accordingly,wheras with hip hop there's alway a problem with verses overlapping i'd imagine...

― robin (robin), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

well you don't mix right into the middle of a verse, silly.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

well obviously,but this is easier said than done
house and techno tracks tend to have fairly basic sections of about 30 seconds at the start to facilitate mixing,but this is by no means standard in hip hop

― robin (robin), Saturday, 2 August 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"RELATIVELY OLD SHIT!! (shit shit shit shit shit)"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 2 August 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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