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What up folks, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…or at least some of you…the announcement of who won the American Gangster ReMixtape Contest. After some 130 submissions, 10 finalists and our staff locked up in small rooms with headphones, we’ve finally got our winner by the narrowest of decisions: Remot’s American Gangster Remixes! Big congrats to him and thanks once again to all those who took part. Be on the lookout for Remot’s excellent remixes to a corner and internet near you!
As for our other remix contest, which was put on hold for January due to the AG contest. We’ve got 11 songs for the mixtape and here are the next 4 up for grabs.
Nas – Surviving The Times
Akrobatik – Put Ya Stamp On It f. Talib Kweli
Scarface – Never
Akrobatik – Be Prepared f. Little Brother
The deadline is February 17th at midnight EST. If you don’t label your track as follows, your submissions will not be accepted. Example: Nas – Surviving The Times (HHDX Remix).
DOWNLOAD TRACKS HERE.
Lastly, it is Wednesday, so here is your random playlist of the week. This time, a selection of posse cuts (randomly selected of course). Enjoy.
When I decided to run this American Gangster ReMixtape Contest a month ago I expected to get about 30 submissions or so. Producers had less than a month - December no less - to re-create an entire album from Jay's freshly released vocals.
I had 10 albums with 3 days.
30 plus albums in 2 weeks.
With the deadline of December 31st I received over 75 more albums over the 29th, 30th and 31st.
All in all, I ended up with over 120 submissions of full, remixed American Gangsters!!! From what I've listened to there is a lot of really great stuff here. Plenty of creative concepts and flat out great production. It will take at least another week before the final 5 remixtapes are featured and voted on, given that we have so many to get through.
Just wanted to give an update, thanks again for participating guys.