@@vogelvogeltjewhen hip hop first started all the djs did this and didn't record you had to see stuff live until this one woman I forgot her name said we can make money off this if we record it.
*Ye is the only one who's as amazed as I am* Everybody else seen him do this. And Ye in the background just in fkn awe of a master at work. This is more flavor and soul in one 4min video than the rest of the hip hop game has nowadays.
I got chills watching this. I've always watched other artists mention this about him but I never saw a video of him doing this. Here I am Thanksgiving morning in 2019 just seeing this video, smh.
Torrey Turner 😂..word word, us 80s babies can relate...me, I scratched up some of my aunts good records, felt bad about that later...cheap record players not like turntables
This is actually a really good tutorial video for anyone who wants to mix. I remember my dad going nuts about the needles I wrecked,, He never mentioned the records. Now days you can by 20 needles for the price of a vinyl.
@@mattlabron random comment. I'd say the needle is only as good as the vinyl press. 3d printing is probably how they do it now days. I'm a tape guy, and I reckon vinyl sucks.
@@mattlabron Is it wrong if somebody leaves there vinyl out at a house party and they get USED? Had some people bitching at me playing with a 50 dollar piece lol, offered to pay they just wanted to start shit?
@@EncrypticMethods maybe a little bit. It’s kind of like going through a bookshelf. More of a read the room situation. I have a rare/niche vinyl collection and wouldn’t want a lit ass party touching them. Now a night in with friends is different.
@@Username-2 each to their own. I've not noticed much difference between a cheap needle and a 500$ needle. But hey I've only been involved with music production and recording for 25 years so maybe my ears are bad.
after reading 100s of comments (and laughing my ass off at all the "experts") you're literally the first person to understand what is happening here. One guy even said you could do this on any record, as long as you changed the pitch, as if the pitch control changes where the beats are placed on the record!!! Several people said they could do it on cassette tapes, as if tapes have grooves!!! LOL!!! Thanks for posting this, cause I was starting to think I'd gone insane reading all these comments.
Tip is a real dude, I remember meeting him back in the day at the famous Astor Place Barbar Shop and his complete humility was impressive! A few years later saw LL there too, and he had a straight up I'm really feeling myself look on his face.
this like another layer of djing gatekeeping lmao first people saying djs now are nothing more than a people who press next every each drop then people who say djing lost its art when advanced computer software came along now this 💀
the compiling of samples was something that I must say Ski Beatz was AND IS AMAZING for!!! Needledropping was used to speed up the loop process you could literally get a track done in half the time still sound funky and then have enough time to master/mix and do vocals. The compiling of samples to fit were what I loved more then just the loop. When you can take a bit from multiple albums during digging and make something wildly new but the sonics were otherworldly in feel and tone.
The reason he can do this is that the song tempo is a multiple of 45rpm so the beats are in the same clock position every time it goes round. Its still really difficult to do, and takes skills.
CircleInfinite Not quite. Modern turntables have a variable slider so you can determine the RPM in order to match a recording speed. Sorry, you do not pass go, and you do not collect $200. You did fool quite a few people though, so that's something.
CircleInfinite Pro Tip: Don't speak with authority if you don't know what you're talking about. You just misinformed quite a few people. Any chance you're related to Donald Trump?
I was doing this in '83 when I was like 12. It was just something to do out of boredom I wasn't an aspiring producer or d.j....yet. Interesting that someone else as great as Tip was not only doing it but was obviously using it early in his career as a way to spit rhymes over music. Dope.
45's are perfect, DJ Swamp came up with the same idea for a 12" inch 33 1/3 record which was skip-proof and pressed these records and this was in 1998, that Bobby Rush 45 Q-tip is playing in this footage is from 1971. when doing this the beat is never off even though the vocals cut in and out randomly because the beats are line up perfectly parallel on every groove. the needle/headshell and tonearm is slightly lifted upwards while the needle is still sitting in the groove at the same time slightly pulled outward so that the needle skips grooves to the previous groove.
The thing I love about this, is that I was doin' this too and never seent anyone else do it... I just did it because I wanted to try different ways of loopin' sounds... When you don't got much to work with, you make do and just let your self be creative. Some people got that genius creativity and some people don't... And I'm not sayin' that as an ego thing, because it manifests for other people in different ways that I couldn't be creative on... But, speakin' on the music level, if it's in you then it's in you. ONE.
slept on? He's one of the most respected record collectors/beatmakers in Hiphop...he helped produce all of the classic Tribe tracks, and countless others. "slept-on" is not how i'd describe Q-tip, my friend!
Simon Matos Q-Tip is using the method that DJ's before Flash used. Flash didn't like this method because it didn't blend with the other record to keep the beat rocking.
imagine being one of the greatest MCs ever and belonging to one of the best groups ever while simultaneously being one of the greatest producers and one of the best DJs. Q-Tip so goated. Wish I could sit in with him in the studio and be his assistant while he creates just grabbing vinyl for him, preparing files, etc.
You feel that? Everyone that does, has a screwed up face, tappin their foot and grooving side to side. That’s some soulful needle dropping. That’s a talent I would love to have. Amazing!
Q-tip just sitting there with his coat and all on still on, just dropped in, 'bout to leave and does just this... Must be such an honor to be there as one of the witnesses.
i remember doing this in the 90s with a tape recorder and one of those oldschool voicemail boxes machines that kept 30 second clips. but this is legendary.
I can remember tip turning up to some of the better crate digging spots in Boston in the early 90s. I was already a fan obviously, but I thought it was extra cool he was actively into digging. Same went for Biz Markee and a few others.
@@CleverMetaphor damn! Amazing how much work he has contributed with and how much weight his discography has, and yet it could of been so much more. Still bums me out how RZA lost so much from not just 1, but 2 floods!
ok, juste THE most impressive thing i've ever seen on a deck !!! My neighbour for 5 years was a Scratch champîon DJ who had win several prize and competitions, his skills was just jaw dropping especially seing it from close... But that is like 3 times more impressive !
How does this get recommended to me 10 years later?
Better late than never, algorithm.
A1 knows it's time for the real shit to come back.
Same😁😁😁😁
Same here holy shit lol
Word up‼️💯
agreed lol
q-tip just made an entire beat just with a fucking record and a record player.
fucking legend.
Okay how did he record it then? He needs one more thing…
@@vogelvogeltjewhen hip hop first started all the djs did this and didn't record you had to see stuff live until this one woman I forgot her name said we can make money off this if we record it.
welcome to hip hop
@@kyledixontv Cindy Campbell. Kool Herc’s sister
The fact that he dropped it on-beat the entire time is incredible.
It's a turntable. It's literally impossible to drop the needle off beat on one record.
@@sylgar45 Dog, what are you talking about? lol... it depends where and when you drop the needle on the particular part of the record 🤷🏽♂️😂
@@JahmBProducts drop it in the same place each time, listen to the beat and follow it. its not hard if you have a basic sense of rhythm.
@@sylgar45 You had to comment on this mans old ass comment being ignorant as hell lol.
Doubt you will ever be as fast as qtip will be
sounds like shit
*Ye is the only one who's as amazed as I am*
Everybody else seen him do this. And Ye in the background just in fkn awe of a master at work.
This is more flavor and soul in one 4min video than the rest of the hip hop game has nowadays.
@@kylebroussard5952 amen
TIP just that old pimp on the corner showing these engineers some ancient Chinese secrets lmao. Love it
Tip, Ye, and No ID... Nothing can go wrong in that studio.
People sleep on no ID
Where's dilla? (Maybe he had passed already)
@@Tertioptus Dilla did Q Tip first solo album!!!
Kanye would ruin everything. Wtf you talking bout
@@billcosby8603 you buggin
Q-Tip must be a beast at that game Operation
Lol!
Hahaha
I'm NotHere Ain’t no buzz’n round these parts..
WORD
😂
q-tip just did intro,verse,chorus with a needle .. I quit
*Jumps off bridge*
AMEN
R.I.P.
Pay attention, Class is in session
I mean it's a fairly useless talent nowadays, no need to quit.
The lost art of needle dropping
I fink he created dis art.
MrFaDookie needle dropping has been around since kool herc, before djs touched the vinyl they could only do it by needle drop
@@0mgskillz96 srry....not created.....perfektd.....
MrFaDookie no doubt
Grandwizzard Theodore is usually credited with invented needle dropping
It took 13 years but finally I was ready to experience this ...so says our overlords at YT...I bow to Qtip
Best recommend I've gotten in years
Never too late to experience greatness!👈🏾🤩
QTip doesn't get the shine he deserves as a producer...Tip is one of the top producers in hip hop with so many 💣💣💣
So many legends standing in one room..... My god.
@ffs reff Q-Tip? Kanye? No I.D.? Shit it sounds like Mos Def behind the camera. All are certified legends.
Welcome to New York, Baby. You know how We do.
@@scoobie331 LMFAO. You don't do shit, homie.
That theo p and Kyle Hall in there ? Forgot the geezer with glasses name
@@CarrieFisherman pretty sure plain pat is also in there, on the couch
Damn ! This funky song “Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads - 1971” is sick already and TIp experimenting just takes it to the top. 😎
Thanks because I wanted to know the song
Good look on referencing the song 🎧
Thanks for posting the track title!
Great song!
I got chills watching this. I've always watched other artists mention this about him but I never saw a video of him doing this. Here I am Thanksgiving morning in 2019 just seeing this video, smh.
Same
dear katrina, have a great life!!! i luv ya!!!
@@yannisgk Thank You and you do the same. Love ya too. 😁😁
Yeah...Tip is DOPE
your side dishes was terrible
i knew Qtip was a genius way back in the 80s, but i still come back and watch this every now & then 🤘😎
I use to do that shit on my mom's turntable back in the 80's
countless ass whoopings!!!! and broken needles 😅
just pay close attention to the the grooves in the wax!
Torrey Turner 😂..word word, us 80s babies can relate...me, I scratched up some of my aunts good records, felt bad about that later...cheap record players not like turntables
Torrey Turner halarious brotha!
💣💥
Nothing like a sample on Wax it has that warm sound nothing else produces 👊🏽🎼🎵🎶🎙🎚🎛🎤🎧💯
you know Q-tip is stoned as hell
He has to be, to be that flawlessly into it.
He's locked the fuck in
Q TIP is amazing. this was so soulful. it sounded like something that Madlib would make on purpose. Good stuff. Plus it was a legendary room.
This man is pure Hip Hop. That was the purest thing I've ever seen. God bless Q. Long live the Tribe.
Dude conversing, giving dap, and keeping the needle drop on time. Beast mode indeed. 💪🏿
Q-Tip mastered the art of looping. He been in the game for a very long time so you know you're in good hands when he creates.
10 years later and this video was just recommended. The algorithm has finally deemed me worthy.
Nah you just copied the comment above lol
I reckon someone at TH-cam found it and bumped it up.
Word
This clip should be in the library of Congress. 💯💯
The Go Getter you can actually submit it and they’ll accept it.
@@Caribbean_King you mean the Museum of African American history and culture lol
3:03 he nailed that!!!
That was unreal, the whole room reacted then went quiet when they realized something special was happening
He spazzed out 🔥
he also nailed it @ 1:40
*needled that!
This is actually a really good tutorial video for anyone who wants to mix. I remember my dad going nuts about the needles I wrecked,, He never mentioned the records. Now days you can by 20 needles for the price of a vinyl.
That's true but you can really spend some coin on a high end needle.
@@mattlabron random comment.
I'd say the needle is only as good as the vinyl press.
3d printing is probably how they do it now days.
I'm a tape guy, and I reckon vinyl sucks.
@@mattlabron Is it wrong if somebody leaves there vinyl out at a house party and they get USED? Had some people bitching at me playing with a 50 dollar piece lol, offered to pay they just wanted to start shit?
@@EncrypticMethods maybe a little bit. It’s kind of like going through a bookshelf. More of a read the room situation. I have a rare/niche vinyl collection and wouldn’t want a lit ass party touching them.
Now a night in with friends is different.
@@Username-2 each to their own.
I've not noticed much difference between a cheap needle and a 500$ needle. But hey I've only been involved with music production and recording for 25 years so maybe my ears are bad.
This is why tip is know as the most underrated rapper producer ever
Dude he is not underrated by any means
In terms of production i'd say so. He's overshadowed by other producers of his time like Pete Rock, Premier, etc..
Warping Warping well no one can touch Dilla. he was an another level. But i never hear any hate from Q tip
Dey Knight dilla gets his props. tip knows he can't mess with dilla
Ace "Q-Tip, Pete Rock, Eric Sermon, Daz Dillinger, even Pharrell are some underrated producers. Just to name a few."
as long as beat is 100 bpm, each rotation will be 3 beats , so you can dropanyplace and keep on the beat in a 6/8 esque
after reading 100s of comments (and laughing my ass off at all the "experts") you're literally the first person to understand what is happening here. One guy even said you could do this on any record, as long as you changed the pitch, as if the pitch control changes where the beats are placed on the record!!! Several people said they could do it on cassette tapes, as if tapes have grooves!!! LOL!!! Thanks for posting this, cause I was starting to think I'd gone insane reading all these comments.
There are producers, there are DJs, and then there are magicians
Tip is a real dude, I remember meeting him back in the day at the famous Astor Place Barbar Shop and his complete humility was impressive! A few years later saw LL there too, and he had a straight up I'm really feeling myself look on his face.
this is the rawest form of djing, before all the serato shit
for real... who needs 2 turntables
check out qbert
this like another layer of djing gatekeeping lmao first people saying djs now are nothing more than a people who press next every each drop then people who say djing lost its art when advanced computer software came along now this 💀
@@RNSNC1SD34D this comment is 6yrs old
@@ireadysucks3026 holy shit 👀
"We should do the record like this."
No record.
Hahahaha.....
I believe this beat was used in a Consequence track
@@charliebirdnba correct! Just listened to it. 😂😂😂😂. Came out a few years after my initial comment
Just incase someone wants to know.. the track is Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads
thank youuuuu ! ! ! ! ! !
Valensky it’s 2019
Googling lyrics and using Shazam can go a long way (;
Thanks brother!
🥂
@@zlistcelebrityYT lol
And Kanye is just standing there like damn.
exactly lol
Kanye is hip hop cancer
@@donniedarkko422 Why man?
Donnie Darkko he changed the game and it’s not even an argument. Meanwhile your life will be remembered by no one
@@donniedarkko422 Kanye is a hip hop icon and changed the game wether you like it or not
Nasty and he just playin around so you can imagine if it was an all out effort!
They made it into a track! Consequence - "The Needle Drop"
the compiling of samples was something that I must say Ski Beatz was AND IS AMAZING for!!! Needledropping was used to speed up the loop process you could literally get a track done in half the time still sound funky and then have enough time to master/mix and do vocals. The compiling of samples to fit were what I loved more then just the loop. When you can take a bit from multiple albums during digging and make something wildly new but the sonics were otherworldly in feel and tone.
This still slaps in 2023. I would pay actual money to hear a beat based on this
The reason he can do this is that the song tempo is a multiple of 45rpm so the beats are in the same clock position every time it goes round.
Its still really difficult to do, and takes skills.
this is relatively easy or otherwise I'm a genius
GantzIsSloppy I dont think anyone is saying its genius. It might be easy for some. either way, well done you.
CircleInfinite thanks for the clarification, I was mad confused lll
CircleInfinite Not quite. Modern turntables have a variable slider so you can determine the RPM in order to match a recording speed. Sorry, you do not pass go, and you do not collect $200. You did fool quite a few people though, so that's something.
CircleInfinite Pro Tip: Don't speak with authority if you don't know what you're talking about. You just misinformed quite a few people. Any chance you're related to Donald Trump?
He made that beat for Consequence...song is called "The Needle Drop", released earlier this year.
Is that consequence behind the cam?
@@1jackal1 Yeah
"You come along girl what did I do" damn!
Whoooooooooop.......
theres nothing you can say negative about this right here. This is a Great at work. The Art is what you make it. Q-Tip is Legend.
Honor to "Grandwizard Theodore" the inventor of the needle drop, and scratching style!!!! Q Tip did that!
Yep. Boogie down Bronx. Theodore panicked when his mom rushed into the room cus he was playing his music too loud.
Do the knowledge kids!
Two Z’s. Grand Wizzard Theodore.
if dilla would’ve been here, it would’ve been a legendary session, rip to the goat
So glad to find this after so many years. Used to mess with Reason and Fruity Loops thinking I was so fly...this needle drop technique is insane
Oh I get it, he cleans out your ears.
enticed2zeitgeist nice
It's all clear now.
enticed2zeitgeist no... he gets DEEP up inside your ears...
nah it's something about q tips voice being as soft as a q tip. I don't recall the source but if I find it I'll post it.
🤣🤣🤣
I met him once as a kid. he wasnt very nice to me, but I still got love for that Queens Tip!
Yeah Tip was kinda moody. A sensitive kid.
I was doing this in '83 when I was like 12. It was just something to do out of boredom I wasn't an aspiring producer or d.j....yet. Interesting that someone else as great as Tip was not only doing it but was obviously using it early in his career as a way to spit rhymes over music. Dope.
The Abstract Poetic doing his thing in the lab...
yessir....the abstract poetic representin from Queens. much respect from Cali
+Alex Lopez Amen I personally agree brotha. One Of The GOATS!!
Johnny Arce You know hip hop my friend. Amen is exactly right. One of the GOATS along with the late PHIFE DAWG. r.i.p
+Alex Lopez That's what's up! #RIPPhifeDawg
+Alex Lopez R.I.P Phife [RISE IN POWER]. ATCQ Forever
So much positive energy in that studio room makes me want to make a beat ..
i seen it 13 years a go the first time, but every year i back to see this king
every single time i watch this, mind is blown, especially from 2:43 onward. talented beyond belief, man. crazy.
Insane great, much love and respect from Amsterdam.
Keep rockin'.
This is some insane ish!! We don't give producers like him enough credit.
We have just witnessed a master at work.
Been a fan since 1993. Q-Tip is ridiculously underrated.
45's are perfect, DJ Swamp came up with the same idea for a 12" inch 33 1/3 record which was skip-proof and pressed these records and this was in 1998, that Bobby Rush 45 Q-tip is playing in this footage is from 1971. when doing this the beat is never off even though the vocals cut in and out randomly because the beats are line up perfectly parallel on every groove. the needle/headshell and tonearm is slightly lifted upwards while the needle is still sitting in the groove at the same time slightly pulled outward so that the needle skips grooves to the previous groove.
Which Bobby Rush track is that?
@@danielbogin Bobby Rush - Chicken Head, brother.... ;)
bruh that is a fucking super power! you know hard it is to track a specific groove in a vinyl... while it's spinning! props to one of the greatest!
3:18 that uh from Tip gave a glimpse of how he would sound on it.
AN OLD SCHOOL MASTER RIGHT HERE!!
This right here is an epic moment!!!!!!!! A legend just fooling around and it sounds incredible!!!!!! So just imagine if he really got busy!!!!!
Mans just cut a break wit no mixer and drop the bass line while he smiling in ya face... straight Beast mode! Respect
BRUH, he's sampling Chicken Heads by Bobby Rush! 😮😮👍👌
thanks
Thanks lovely song!!
Glooks!
Dear Lord, you are the man!
You're God!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This never gets old...
The thing I love about this, is that I was doin' this too and never seent anyone else do it... I just did it because I wanted to try different ways of loopin' sounds... When you don't got much to work with, you make do and just let your self be creative. Some people got that genius creativity and some people don't... And I'm not sayin' that as an ego thing, because it manifests for other people in different ways that I couldn't be creative on... But, speakin' on the music level, if it's in you then it's in you. ONE.
Sampling is the best thing I have ever heard.
This is why I Love him!! True essence of hip hop!!
Totally 1980's lick right there before two turn tables..this was all I had...but Q is the king of the needle.
slept on? He's one of the most respected record collectors/beatmakers in Hiphop...he helped produce all of the classic Tribe tracks, and countless others. "slept-on" is not how i'd describe Q-tip, my friend!
This is UN...F@#KIN'...BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!
with no crayon
Simon Matos don't underestimate the power of the crayon
Simon Matos Q-Tip is using the method that DJ's before Flash used. Flash didn't like this method because it didn't blend with the other record to keep the beat rocking.
Create a different feeling with these looos changing the atmosphere of the original song
Ive never seen any1 play loops like that dope, thats be4 MPCs mind blowing
Random algorithm gives me genius from 10 years ago
No complaints
Send out the "Get Well" cards, that was SICK!!
Qtip is by far my favorite rapper of all time
The termMC means Master of Ceremony. Some people who MC don't know what this term means.
I'm hearing the voice in my head... LOL
Then they go spell it emcee
@@goatlib2338 it really meens mic controller
imagine being one of the greatest MCs ever and belonging to one of the best groups ever while simultaneously being one of the greatest producers and one of the best DJs. Q-Tip so goated. Wish I could sit in with him in the studio and be his assistant while he creates just grabbing vinyl for him, preparing files, etc.
You feel that? Everyone that does, has a screwed up face, tappin their foot and grooving side to side. That’s some soulful needle dropping. That’s a talent I would love to have. Amazing!
Good to see artists having fun in the studio. Sometimes it gets too serious in there ;)
I'm honored that I was nicknamed after him. I hope I do an 1/8 of the good that he did for music.
Quincy-Tip. I always wondered what it stood for
@@KaizerMan cleans ur ears too
Q-tip just sitting there with his coat and all on still on, just dropped in, 'bout to leave and does just this... Must be such an honor to be there as one of the witnesses.
I grew up on tribe and man tip did that for real...amazing...hip hop lives...peace
I didn’t even notice Kanye until they put the cam on him😭
i remember doing this in the 90s with a tape recorder and one of those oldschool voicemail boxes machines that kept 30 second clips. but this is legendary.
Damn I saw one of those machines for cheap at a local thrift store the other day, i hope they still got it next time i go back there.
If only Phife Dawg got to drop freestyle to this RIP brother
All these years later still haven’t seen anyone do something like this and nail it.
Edan is nasty with the needle drops
@@headlessheroes551 forgot about Edan.. Yes he does this well too.
Grandwizard Theodore still does this but he invented the technique so idk if that counts
This video randomly popped back into my head just now, glad I could find it in my watch history. That section around 2:50 is so satisfying 🔥🔥
I am listening to hip all my life and youtube decided to show me this clip right now.
Tip been a beast with it.. Tip was Kanye b4 Kanye was Kanye...
yep kanye even said at phife's funeral that he wouldn't be who he is without tribe
Word Tip is who Kanye really wants to be in my opinion when it comes to production. And YES BEEN A BEAST!!!!!!!
Yet Tip never went full Kanye. Never go full Kanye.
Patrik Väänänen tip never did anything like the life of pablo. kanye the evolution(not necessarily better) of tip
EHH i don't think Pablo could fuck with the first Tribe albums nor the first three Kanya albums!!!
Watched this like 100 times and still blows my mind 🔥
Kanye drinking bubble tea geeking out over Q-Tip is one of the best things I've ever seen
Tribe & Q Tip just bings back memories of some of the best times of my life.
10 years it took to find us, and it's just what we needed
It took me a while to understand how precise you gotta be with this to keep this shit on rhythm. Wild
That is the purest form of sampling
He and Dilla are interchangeable at 1 & 2 in my book
Kool Keith is a master as well!
I can remember tip turning up to some of the better crate digging spots in Boston in the early 90s. I was already a fan obviously, but I thought it was extra cool he was actively into digging. Same went for Biz Markee and a few others.
Most underrated producer ever. His ear for samples and loops is on par with Premier and Dilla.
He knows his records by heart, like J Dilla used to!
Needle skating. manual and cool as hell. Have a DJ battle like that would be interesting.
Imagine how different things would be if he never lost his books in the fire
Yo what happened man? Haven't delved much into tribes back story
@@mastaroshi23 house fire with basically his whole life's work inside of it. Pretty devastating to an artist. (Or anyone I guess)
@@CleverMetaphor damn! Amazing how much work he has contributed with and how much weight his discography has, and yet it could of been so much more.
Still bums me out how RZA lost so much from not just 1, but 2 floods!
Inspeckta Deck lost his entire first album in a flood at RZA’s apartment- artists just keep going
@@CleverMetaphor for anyone, trust me.
If it wasn't for the internet... Future generations might forget all this.
ok, juste THE most impressive thing i've ever seen on a deck !!!
My neighbour for 5 years was a Scratch champîon DJ who had win several prize and competitions, his skills was just jaw dropping especially seing it from close...
But that is like 3 times more impressive !