The Chop Shop: A Music Production Podcast

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Part 1 of a 2 part series on Women In Music. This Week, we have a honorable Brown Jewel. Brown Jewel is an educator and beat maker hailing from Wisconsin but currently based in Brooklyn. Her influences includeboom bap and the many variations of R&B. She infuses samples and sound design to generate rich textures. She specializes in using words as percussive elemen...

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Send us a Text Message. On this week's episode we sit down with the Founders of Battle Ave & The Session-In Slop Funk Dust & DJ Antriks. Slop speaks about how he discovered and broke the Iconic Rap Group Little Brother on the OKPlayer Message Boards, his time with Rawkus Records, and his come up as a producer. A Bay Area native & Turntablist, Antriks speaks on his role in the development of PhaseD...

Send us a Text Message. Happy Memorial Day Weekend Y'all. We got the young homie Tyven Tha Producer on this week's episode of The Chop Shop! Join us as we speak about all things music with Tyven, including his run in with the dreaded 5 minute FL Studio Demo, McDonald's Wifi, Beat Battles & More. This week's episode is brought to you by Manscaped! Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code THECHOP...

Send us a Text Message. The Soul Council is here! Grammy Nominated Producer & Seattle native Eric G is locked in on this weeks wild episode of The Chop Shop. Eric has worked with the likes of Rapsody (best female MC ever DON'T DEBATE US), Sean Price, Skyzoo, and many more. In this episode, we speak on the current state of AI in the music business, along with Eric's humble beginnings as a producer...

Send us a Text Message. Grammy Award Winner Jake One, aka Snare Jordan check's in on this week's episode of The Shop Shop. Jake has worked with the likes of De La Soul, Rick Ross, Drake, Jay-Z, & Many More. Also, he is one half of the Super Group called Tuxedo with Mayer Hawthorne. Some of the dopest, funkiest shit I have ever heard! Where is that Snare from Rocc Co. Kane Flow from? Is Jake settin...

Send us a Text Message. Lock in for this week's episode of The Chop Shop as we sit down with The Session In's own Divine Drummah, aka Stankin Dookie, aka Bassline Divine, aka Hide Yo Auntie! Divine brings up stories about his guitar as a child, progressing to an Akai 950 & the new workflow with Koala Sampler App. This episode is sponsored by The Battle Ave. - https://www.thebattleave.com/ --- New...

Send us a Text Message. Lock in with Vitamin D on this week's episode of The Chop Shop. He is one of the greatest record flippers we've ever heard. This episode is definitely one for the record books, with stories about how he breaks down samples, to Vita & Jake One pulling off "White Men Can't Jump" hustles, and how Vitamin D discovered a young Eric G. And, of course.. We play a few of Vitamin D'...

Send us a Text Message.5x Grammy Award winning & Aftermath Records resident Focus... is here on this weeks episode of The Chop Shop. From Suge Knight stories, to working with Dr Dre, to his latest work with Marsha Ambrosius, Focus... breaks it all down on this weeks show. Cop the new aNALOG iN a dIGITAL wORLD 9 HERE - https://focus3dots.bandcamp.com/Chop Shop Merch! - https://thechopshopmerch.squa...

Send us a Text Message. Multi Platinum Music Producer The Real Charlemagne is at The Chop Shop on this week’s episode to chop it up all things Music. From his humble beginnings on the streets of The Bronx, to working with the likes of Jay-Z, Dipset, The Notorious B.I.G., Mary J Blige, BlackStar, and many, many more. And of course... We play some of Charlemagne's Joints! Follow Charlemagne on Insta...

Send us a Text Message."96' and forever.. Roc-A-Block, Roc-A-Fella" - Jay-Z Roc-A-Fella Records is in the Building on this week's episode of The Chop Shop. Multi Platinum Producer & Sound Designer Skibeatz locks in with React & Eddie James to discuss all things from working on Jay-Z's Debut Album Reasonable Doubt, meeting DJ Clark Kent, to his MCing days with Original Flavor, back up to producing...

Send us a Text Message. T-Dot's own Lancecape drops in The Chop Shop Studios to talk about his new album Stem Cells, his Beat Battle Championship Belts, Getting Dilla & Madlib's Stamp of Approval, and of course... We play some joints. This episode of The Chop Shop is Sponsored By Battle Ave - https://www.thebattleave.com/Buy Stem Cells NOW - https://www.yousound.com/album/stem-cellsChop Shop Merch...

Send us a Text Message. A$AP Mob is in the Building on this week's Episode of The Chop Shop! Grammy Nominated Engineer and Producer Hector Delgado sits down with React & Eddie James to talk about his start in the business, his relationship with A$AP Rocky, stories with Onyx, & how he wound up working with Andraé Crouch & Michael Jackson. Follow Hector on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hecto...

Send us a Text Message. The ReSwing King DJ Static Chops it up with React & Eddie James on this week's episode of The Chop Shop. Static is the Tour DJ for Underground Hiphop Icon, Immortal Technique & has won numerous Beat Battles across the US.THE CHOP SHOP MERCH - https://thechopshopmerch.square.site/DJ STATIC - BANDCAMP - https://djstaticllc.bandcamp.com/THE CHOP SHOP: A SPOTIFY PLAYLIST - http...

Send us a Text Message. First episode! Welcome to The Chop Shop. Lock in with React & Eddie James on a Music Production journey through time with Legendary Hip-Hop Producer Shawn J. Period! Huge thank you to Shawn for locking in with us. Get exclusive access to Shawn J. Period's weapons of choice here! www.drumstacks.com - $39.99 One Time Charge. New SoundPacks every Month! Merch Coming Soon! The...