Big D & Easy Mo Bee On Rap Is Outta Control [Video]

New York emcee Big D from Ultramagnetic MCs fame joined the crew at RIOC, along with platinum producer Easy Mo Bee to discuss the album they’ve recorded together. This Is My Life is the name of the album that’s been in the works for over two years. Big D remembers a beat he heard in Easy Mo Bee’s truck about 10 years ago and would ask for it every time they ran into each other. Once he finally obtained the beat, it was titled “I Rep NY” and the album was in the works. This Is My Life is executive produced by Easy Mo Bee with featured production from Just Blaze and Statik Selektah. Guest features include Rakim, Peter Gunz, Grandmaster Caz (Cold Crush Brothers), Devastating Tito (Fearless Four), Smoothe Da Hustler, Lil Fame (M.O.P.), Mic Handz, and Skanks The Rap Martyr. Stay tuned for the 2016 release of this project.

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Easy Mo Bee & Emskee On Rap Is Outta Control [Video]

Native New Yorkers Emskee and Easy Mo Bee have recently released their collaboration album, Two For One, initially as a vinyl release. Emskee, long-time emcee and DJ, and Easy Mo Bee, former emcee and legendary producer in the music industry, bring you a neo-classic sounding album with the raw, 90s vibe of song structure and hard-hitting drums with clever concepts. “There are a lot of things in Hip Hop that need to be talked about…” explains Emskee as he describes some of the modern social issues that are covered throughout the project. Mo Bee takes a second to show his appreciation for the type of Hip Hop that DJ Eclipse spins on RIOC each week and mentions that his old group, Rappin’ Is Fundamental, will be releasing a Lost Tapes album with unreleased material. Emskee speaks on his monthly party, Recordnition, every 3rd Friday of each month with Easy Mo Bee at Kinfolk in Brooklyn. He ends this interview appropriately with an a cappella rhyme about respecting the DJ during a party. Purchase Two For One here.

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Easy Mo Bee: “Miles Davis’ Last LP Is Greatest Feat Of My Career” [Video]

Easy Mo Bee spoke candidly with VladTV about producing Miles Davis’ last album, “Doo-Bop,” which was being recorded when the legendary jazz musician died in 1991. The topic came up after the famed producer revealed that he submitted some songs for an upcoming Miles Davis documentary, but Mo Bee said he’s unsure if the tracks will make the cut. During the conversation Easy Mo Bee also spoke about his other projects that are in the works, including a beat album called “And You Don’t Stop!,” which is available on iTunes now.

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Easy Mo Bee Details Working With B.I.G. & 2Pac During Their Beef [Video]

Famed producer Easy Mo Bee opened up to VladTV about working with both 2Pac and B.I.G. during their highly-publicized East Coast/West Coast beef. When asked about where he stood, the Brooklyn-born emcee said that he made it a point to stay professional and neutral in the situation. The Grammy award-winning producer also spoke about working on B.I.G.’s “Going Back to Cali,” and Mo Bee revealed that his plan for the track was to create some unity and “get everybody on one accord,” not further any beef. During the conversation Easy Mo Bee also spoke about his relationship with 2Pac, which started after they met backstage at an event in 1992. He later called Pac a “smart dude” and he also admitted to having lots of unreleased tracks from the legendary emcee hidden away. Check out more of what Easy Mo Bee had to say in the above clip.

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Easy Mo Bee: “There’s a Ton Of Unreleased Music From Biggie” [Video]

Osten Harvey, Jr. is the hip-hop producer responsible for hits like Craig Mack’s “Flava In Ya Ear” and a slew of favorites by Biggie Smalls, but we all know him as the great Easy Mo Bee. The Bed-Stuy native who was involved with Bad Boy Records during its prime sat down with us exclusively to discuss the lack of diversity in today’s music and untold stories of the Notorious B.I.G. before he got his infamous title. Easy Mo Bee remembers the day when Sean “Puffy” Combs was just an intern and asked that Easy play some music for his new artist with Andre Harrell. “Come to find out this new artist they wanted me to play music for is the same dude that months and months before DJ Mister Cee [played for me],” Easy recalled. “The new artist was Biggie…He wasn’t even Notorious yet.” The two then went on to collaborate on countless Biggie hits, including their first track “Party & Bulls***.” “Our chemistry was good so Puffy kept it going,” which resulted in Easy Mo Bee producing “Warning,” the title track and three other songs on B.I.G.’s debut studio album, “Ready to Die.” “There’s a bunch of unreleased stuff that never saw the light of day, too,” he later admits. Hear what original songs were never made public, as well as, a couple of stories of Easy Mo Bee’s personal encounters with Biggie in this intriguing clip – Easy even has a few words for the upcoming artists of

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