Thanks for watching *Follow DJ Mustard* IG: instagram.com/mustard/?hl=en *Sample used* Monk Higgins: www.whosampled.com/sample/1175072/Kendrick-Lamar-Not-Like-Us-Monk-Higgins-I-Believe-to-My-Soul/ *MPC Expansion used* Snipe Young: www.thempcstore.com/mpc-expansions/pure-platinum.html *MPC Plugins* Flex Beat: air-affiliate-program.sjv.io/4PkKNr Fabric XL Collection: air-affiliate-program.sjv.io/daXZz7 *Support me directly* Cashapp: $avemcree MPC Live 2: www.zzounds.com/item--AKAMPCLIVE2?siid=279706/a--3973043 (affiliate link this supports the channel no additional cost or if you choose something else) My turntable: www.zzounds.com/item--NUMPT01SCRATCH?siid=191714/a--3973043 *MPC Masterclasses* MPC ONE: 6teenlevels.com/products/mpc-one-masterclass MPC X: 6teenlevels.com/products/mpc-x-masterclass MPC Live 2: 6teenlevels.com/products/akai-mpc-live-2-masterclass (MPC Key 37 master class coming soon) Flex Beat Presets: 6teenlevels.com/products/arrays-flex-beat-preset-bank MPC chord progressions: 6teenlevels.com/collections/mpc-chord-progressions 0:00 the shot heard around the world 1:58 the glaze campaign 4:37 the Mustard & Kdot connection 6:07 how "Not Like Us" manifested 6:36 the sample used 7:14 the sampling process 10:15 program editing 11:13 those signature Mustard drum sounds 12:03 that signature Mustard groove 13:15 it's the 808s for me (key groups) 15:09 those dark pianos 15:49 make it splash (open hats) 16:07 flex for extra credit (automation & scratch effects) 18:18 that 2 bar interlude 19:23 the finished product 19:52 what I learned from studying DJ Mustard
YESSSSSSSSS! THANK YOU GOD! Best doggone year I've had my entire life! ❤❤❤❤ you KDOT, Alchemist (you go boy), Soundwave, Mustard (Special S/O to you) and Cardo!!! That Euphoria! Oooooooooh Weeeeeeeee BayBeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 6:16 In LA! DAYUMMMMM! All of Them! OMG! Just flawless
cut it out. After family matters Drake was up. He actually rebuttaled and responded to 10 negroes. Kendrick won but to many people not in the culture influenced this battle. And yall let them.
I’m just seeing breakfast club’s and all those other’s “predictions” for the first time 🤦♂️ good reminder of why I stopped paying attention to hip hop media long time ago
absolutely top level content sir, you got a sub for life here and imma def tell every homie I got and they brothers about your channel, cause this is what we need more of... crystal clear instruction, high context backed by diligent research, and best of all you don't waste our time with bullsh*t and fluff, as we all know brevity is the soul of wit and life moves way to fast with time that is far too fleeting for us to be wasting it on bs filler and nonsense (which is f***** everywhere), thank you sir for your hard work, god bless
I have never owned an MPC (but I do a lot of transcribing and recreation of songs,) but I watched the whole video just because of how well it was all explained. Amazing ear and recreation.
Great Video. This is worth the TH-cam Membership. Thank you Ave. And I think I actually would stop at 100 beats sent to an artist! admired. I'd figure they'd been blocked or screened or whatever and I'd send em onto a newer artist
KDot made history and Mustard. That's why I got rid of my MPC live to many dam parameters to go through. Daaaaaaaam Ave you killed it!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@PeanutPeanut-c9v because he tried to use the song as a rollout... That's not how music works. The album is solid but you have to spend good money promoting it.
We all know Drake would not be able to "Out rap" Kendrick, but I still think that "They not like us" track sounds like Saturday late night 1980s Rocky Horror Picture Show music. Every time I hear it, I wanna do the Monster Mash or a scaled down version of the Thriller routine. It's just too harsh, redundant (with the harshness), and all hollows even, scary. Y'all remember Exibit's "What you see is what you get". I know they are different styles and different decades, but that track to me is WAR music, ...stompin' out the opponent, music, lol. "They not like us" to me, was literally like crip walking all over the opponent, instead of stomping him out, music. Like they really don't have beef, and just makin' money together type "Mrrrsic" (Like Glorilla says).
"Meet the Grahams is in the key of E minor. The primary chord we hear in that song is E-7/G with an A minor 7 chord at the end of every phrase." - some guy on twitter but that could imply that kendrick was saying it because that would be the end of him. crazy asf cuz kendrick that typa petty to do that lmao.
It's so basic THAT if I made it and saved it...I wouldn't show it to anyone. There's times that I purposely make something basic because I can HEAR in my mind a certain style of rapper and rapping on it that would blend everything perfectly complete. However getting someone to understand that is hard. Like it's basic because it just needs YOU now. And they don't get it and are just like...,the beat is too plain for me. I give up lol.
Bro, I was about to be mad at first thinking this doesn't have anything to do with the producer and Kendrick, I fast forward to the production part. Man you smoked the explanation superb job on showing how to work that machine, I haven't touched my MPC in years but anyway I can't it was stolen, so then I just got some photography equipment instead. I had the MPC2000xl, I would have trashed it after seeing this MPC you were working on. Dang, you got skills!
Man I have mad respect for folks making bangers on an MPC. I borrowed one from a friend for a bit and I went insane trying to make anything halfway decent on it, though that was more me than anything
@@ItsTheFuzzMan I’m a heavy sampler myself……that’s not what I was trying to say. For some reason I thought this was a Dr Dre track and Dre always sample something and have musicians replay it to make it sound crisp.
somebody FINALLY gave props to the original 'not like us' wouldn't exist as well as hundreds of other samples if not for THE ORIGINAL! big props to Monk Higgins either he (assuming he's still with us) is getting PAID!!! or his survivors
I'm extremely talented - but pushing that through has always been about finding the right mentor. The right master. I'm strange to teach, and a lot of ppl teach for themselves not the student. ...but what you do, what you are is everything Ive been looking for. The equipment, the history, the mastery, and the delivery is perfectly catered - perfectly cadenced. It's like a great song. How do I learn beat making from you? Like specifically? Plz don't ignore this - I wasn't lying (I'm way to talented) You are the best next step for me. And I bet I can be the same for you.
Ave, you da man!! Great video!! Love the sample he chose & how he pitched it up!! Like you said Ave, MINIMALIST!! That describes me too! I don't think you need to do a lot to create great beats!! It's also in the sample choice too!! Mustard hooked it up just taking it to A minor!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Simple, but effective!!💯👊🏾
I was like “Ave recreated the Meet the Grahams instrumental, I would be dead wrong for him to not try to recreate the very next diss that Kendrick did after M.T.G” Thank you for this video, Ave 🙂
Yeah, I sat on this video for quite a while and it was stressing me out in the back of my mind. Now I feel a whole lot better and can get on to other topics.
Yea I know five groups one I was in but got voted out because I was too lyrical or blamed to write more then others but the bad part I was making our music lol. But the others I tried to get a verse in but egos got the best of them including Feild Mob. Now I’m working with Fat Bastard working with my son on producing so I’m good at least my son will be famous.
Why call it EXPOSED? OK mustard sampled... whats the biggy. AVE you have super skills and very well respected in the instructor/producer comunity... I would have called it.. "pro level producer hack" All this is said with Respect!
I m not sure it's a scratch effect on that bass note, it sounds like a retrig (fast roll). It always fascinated me that he programmed it that way. Makes it kinda glitch.
Sure I would keep sending them (By the Hundreds) because I make hundreds of them. But lets understand one thing.........My favorite artist in NOT the only one that is being sent beats.
I would give up after a while (maybe 50) if there is no communication, and the beats I send would be in limbo. Sometimes it’s a vibe, some artist you know they trying to catch a vibe so it’ll happen, some you feel the vibe nothing is possibly going to happen.
Thanks for watching
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0:00 the shot heard around the world
1:58 the glaze campaign
4:37 the Mustard & Kdot connection
6:07 how "Not Like Us" manifested
6:36 the sample used
7:14 the sampling process
10:15 program editing
11:13 those signature Mustard drum sounds
12:03 that signature Mustard groove
13:15 it's the 808s for me (key groups)
15:09 those dark pianos
15:49 make it splash (open hats)
16:07 flex for extra credit (automation & scratch effects)
18:18 that 2 bar interlude
19:23 the finished product
19:52 what I learned from studying DJ Mustard
thanks you for making it ! so instuctive ))
Well done! I'm saving up for the live2 part of me is torn between that And the MPC 61
Not like us is a trash beat...It gets no praise.
Respect to Kendrick, Mustard, Alchemist, Sounwave and all the producers for putting the spotlight on sampling 😎👍🏼
Big up
Cardo!!!! Producer of Euphoria
YESSSSSSSSS! THANK YOU GOD! Best doggone year I've had my entire life! ❤❤❤❤ you KDOT, Alchemist (you go boy), Soundwave, Mustard (Special S/O to you) and Cardo!!! That Euphoria! Oooooooooh Weeeeeeeee BayBeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 6:16 In LA! DAYUMMMMM! All of Them! OMG! Just flawless
K.L.F.
KopyWrite Liberation Front!!! Sample everything!!!!
This is wild, cause I personally, never thought Drake was winning.....
Neither did I. They was ridin D.
Yeah it was wild
cut it out. After family matters Drake was up. He actually rebuttaled and responded to 10 negroes. Kendrick won but to many people not in the culture influenced this battle. And yall let them.
I think family matters was good, but kendrick won.
😂😂😂
Y’all have to give it up to Kendrick Lamar and Dj Mustard for a classic song! Great job on the recreation Ave. I’m a fan!
This was an amazing tutorial. You know your way around the mpc and you found all the samples! Much appreciate the knowledge 🙏🏾
Fantastic video Ave, outdid yourself in this one🔥🔥🔥
Thank you 🙌
I’m just seeing breakfast club’s and all those other’s “predictions” for the first time 🤦♂️
good reminder of why I stopped paying attention to hip hop media long time ago
Basically
@@AveMcree great video by the way 🙏
Diabolical 🔥🔥🔥🔥, and I'm thinking Kendrick out if all them beats Mustard sent knew this was the one for the soul 😂
😂facts
Love the way you broke this down with background and everything. I just returned to the Mpc family due to 3.0 I’ll be looking for that masterclass. 🎉
Man im about to go listen to Mustards new album just to hear his sounds 💪🏾. Your vids are inspiring boss
this is one of the best videos you've ever made about the MPC Live 2 Thnks please keep teaching people like me and anybody else in the world
absolutely top level content sir, you got a sub for life here and imma def tell every homie I got and they brothers about your channel, cause this is what we need more of... crystal clear instruction, high context backed by diligent research, and best of all you don't waste our time with bullsh*t and fluff, as we all know brevity is the soul of wit and life moves way to fast with time that is far too fleeting for us to be wasting it on bs filler and nonsense (which is f***** everywhere), thank you sir for your hard work, god bless
I have never owned an MPC (but I do a lot of transcribing and recreation of songs,) but I watched the whole video just because of how well it was all explained. Amazing ear and recreation.
Great Video. This is worth the TH-cam Membership. Thank you Ave. And I think I actually would stop at 100 beats sent to an artist! admired. I'd figure they'd been blocked or screened or whatever and I'd send em onto a newer artist
3:20 3:22 3:22
KDot made history and Mustard. That's why I got rid of my MPC live to many dam parameters to go through. Daaaaaaaam Ave you killed it!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
All that success with "not like us" and his album flopped a month later.
@@PeanutPeanut-c9v because he tried to use the song as a rollout... That's not how music works. The album is solid but you have to spend good money promoting it.
@@PeanutPeanut-c9vngl I didn’t even know it dropped
We all know Drake would not be able to "Out rap" Kendrick, but I still think that "They not like us" track sounds like Saturday late night 1980s Rocky Horror Picture Show music. Every time I hear it, I wanna do the Monster Mash or a scaled down version of the Thriller routine. It's just too harsh, redundant (with the harshness), and all hollows even, scary. Y'all remember Exibit's "What you see is what you get". I know they are different styles and different decades, but that track to me is WAR music, ...stompin' out the opponent, music, lol. "They not like us" to me, was literally like crip walking all over the opponent, instead of stomping him out, music. Like they really don't have beef, and just makin' money together type "Mrrrsic" (Like Glorilla says).
Ave I got my MPC Live 2 today Man it feels good I had the 1 now I have to watch your videos to shortcut my learning curve of what's new on 3.0
This more of what I believe you should be doing bro. Good content!!
I'm happy to hear something different.thanks Kendrick 👍
Great video. I'm an old audio engineer, from the 2" tape days. Liked and subscribed! And saved so I can view it next time I fire up my DAW.
"Meet the Grahams is in the key of E minor. The primary chord we hear in that song is E-7/G with an A minor 7 chord at the end of every phrase." - some guy on twitter
but that could imply that kendrick was saying it because that would be the end of him. crazy asf cuz kendrick that typa petty to do that lmao.
I absolutely love your channel
*A Minor* adjustment 10:23
I like this beat because it totally sounds like something i would make lol. There's hope!😆
😂
It's so basic THAT if I made it and saved it...I wouldn't show it to anyone. There's times that I purposely make something basic because I can HEAR in my mind a certain style of rapper and rapping on it that would blend everything perfectly complete. However getting someone to understand that is hard. Like it's basic because it just needs YOU now. And they don't get it and are just like...,the beat is too plain for me. I give up lol.
It sounds like 13 year Olds first beat on FL lmao
Man!! You’re a master on this !!! 👏🏽👏🏽
Bro, I was about to be mad at first thinking this doesn't have anything to do with the producer and Kendrick, I fast forward to the production part. Man you smoked the explanation superb job on showing how to work that machine, I haven't touched my MPC in years but anyway I can't it was stolen, so then I just got some photography equipment instead. I had the MPC2000xl, I would have trashed it after seeing this MPC you were working on. Dang, you got skills!
I'm literally forced to subscribe. This was absolutely phenomenal brother. 👏🏾 🫡✊🏾🤝🏾
Great video brother 🎉I appreciate it
Man I have mad respect for folks making bangers on an MPC. I borrowed one from a friend for a bit and I went insane trying to make anything halfway decent on it, though that was more me than anything
Ave......was fun to watch!
Thank you for this video. Really appreciate it.
My pleasure
Your editing on this was dope
Thanks I’ve been trying to step it up a little bit
Great teaching skills. I learned alot from you in this short video.
Wow! It's great to see how you break down a beat
The 808 mustard used is actually the Spinz 808
I'm amazed at the special gifts God gives each of us.🤗
That background beat is fire🔥🔥🔥
Thanks! I ended up doing a remix of not like us
Thanks for the history lesson and all the knowledge.
Any time!
I knew it was pure platnum from snipe as soon as I heard it been using that expansion since it came out great vid AVE
The piano was actually Omnisphere, so Mustard probably used FL Studio
He’s a fl power user
That he is, but omnisphere being a plugin isn’t just tied down to FL as your comment would lead one to believe
Well, where else would he use Omnisphere, Pro Tools?
If there's another DAW he uses, feel free to prove me wrong
Great video brother! Love your work
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Id keep sending him packs until one sticks.
Thank you for this! I'm new to the mpc live 2 and have been stressing learning sampling but this was very helpful
Damm I actually thought this was an original piece. It was mastered nicely.
Thanks my G
Using a sample doesn't mean it's not an original "piece". What you mean to say is you thought this was original instrumentation.
@@ItsTheFuzzMan I’m a heavy sampler myself……that’s not what I was trying to say. For some reason I thought this was a Dr Dre track and Dre always sample something and have musicians replay it to make it sound crisp.
A 100 tracks? Hecks that's love. When you want to be the best you will send a 1000 tracks.
By the way Mase was paid 100k for a song he wrote for Drake so that’s why he was compromised because he was literally feeding him.
What’s the song?
Damn that original recording sampled from was smooth though.
somebody FINALLY gave props to the original
'not like us' wouldn't exist as well as hundreds of other samples
if not for THE ORIGINAL!
big props to Monk Higgins
either he (assuming he's still with us) is getting PAID!!! or his survivors
I'm extremely talented - but pushing that through has always been about finding the right mentor. The right master. I'm strange to teach, and a lot of ppl teach for themselves not the student. ...but what you do, what you are is everything Ive been looking for. The equipment, the history, the mastery, and the delivery is perfectly catered - perfectly cadenced. It's like a great song. How do I learn beat making from you? Like specifically?
Plz don't ignore this - I wasn't lying (I'm way to talented)
You are the best next step for me. And I bet I can be the same for you.
Stone cold tutorial! BTW I talked to Roger Linn last week about your reaction video to his MPC video!
whudd up big homie it's been a minute
Enjoyed this video ❤
Great episode family 🌍👀
Great breakdown Ave.
The hi hats and the 808’s rolled in the original
Respect to both. Coincidentally I designed a almost identical instrumental beat in 2022.
This was easy money.... Simplicity is key indeed
yes I do I send my songs to my cousin who is a artist singer and I always send it to him for free with no charge.
That sample is what someone would be hearing as a bunch of people are walking up to the edge of a volcano to throw them into the lava
sampling seems fun 😲😲
Thanks that was cool
Thank you for that breakdown djAve the science behind this beat making craft I still have a chance to win …✊🏿🎶🔥
Being it was made on MPC.. that makes it even more diabolical how BBL Drizzy got beat
Ave, you da man!! Great video!! Love the sample he chose & how he pitched it up!! Like you said Ave, MINIMALIST!! That describes me too! I don't think you need to do a lot to create great beats!! It's also in the sample choice too!! Mustard hooked it up just taking it to A minor!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Simple, but effective!!💯👊🏾
Glad you liked it!
Great crafting. Thanks.
Very dope breakdown 🔥🔥🔥
Bangin video Ave!!
Appreciate it
Never give up
I was like “Ave recreated the Meet the Grahams instrumental, I would be dead wrong for him to not try to recreate the very next diss that Kendrick did after M.T.G”
Thank you for this video, Ave 🙂
Yeah, I sat on this video for quite a while and it was stressing me out in the back of my mind. Now I feel a whole lot better and can get on to other topics.
I'm that friend... Sendin them wild digs ... I've never used a MPC LOL Left that to Joc Maxx
prove it
Snipe young look like the only person who can smell what the rock was cooking till this day
That Monk Higgins song was a remake of a Ray Charles Hit! 8:57
yeah idk how I missed it
1:03 Uh... What's up with the beat in the background... Can we like... Get that🤔...
He made this beat in FL Studio mobile
If I knew who to send beats to. Hell yeah I would send 100 a day
you do know how to use the MPC though..... RESPECT
He a fan great breakdowns
that pad done been though it
because i actually make beats
Yea I know five groups one I was in but got voted out because I was too lyrical or blamed to write more then others but the bad part I was making our music lol. But the others I tried to get a verse in but egos got the best of them including Feild Mob. Now I’m working with Fat Bastard working with my son on producing so I’m good at least my son will be famous.
that intro,,,,,fire
Super dope video 🔥
Thanks 🔥
Why call it EXPOSED? OK mustard sampled... whats the biggy. AVE you have super skills and very well respected in the instructor/producer comunity... I would have called it.. "pro level producer hack"
All this is said with Respect!
Fire my guy
Thank you
Whop Whop Whoo WhopWhop Ave fc um up😂
😂😂😂😂
Awesome Job!
Thanks!
When i think of the sample i instantly picture the movie Ray
That’s one of my favorite movies of all time
no, bc he is looking for a specific beat and I think I got it....
🔥🔥🔥
A haunting mix, that's going after the predator...
This might be a dumb question, but, is it possible to load apps on the MPC? The OS looks like its android based
ok ave this is good
I m not sure it's a scratch effect on that bass note, it sounds like a retrig (fast roll). It always fascinated me that he programmed it that way. Makes it kinda glitch.
🔥🎼💯
The simple but hella hot!
Sure I would keep sending them (By the Hundreds) because I make hundreds of them. But lets understand one thing.........My favorite artist in NOT the only one that is being sent beats.
😂😂😂facts
🔥
10:40 😂😂
I don't even remember Drake's so called dis,
K.lamar killed it.💯 they not like us 😮
“Don’t use Splice!”
“Don’t use Loops!”
“Don’t use Samples”
unless you’re in the big label circle.
Then we will praise you as a genius.
You forgot one sample. He sampled two phrases of the same set of notes for the verse. You only got one of em. How do you not know this?
I would give up after a while (maybe 50) if there is no communication, and the beats I send would be in limbo. Sometimes it’s a vibe, some artist you know they trying to catch a vibe so it’ll happen, some you feel the vibe nothing is possibly going to happen.
WHAT? YOU COULD PLUG YOUR IPAD INTO THE MPC AND PLAY THE SAMPLE?