The first round-up for the last full week of April is a collection of cover music videos. The bread and butter of most Youtube artists are their cover videos, and sometimes they go the extra mile and put together a music video set to the tune/instrumental written by another. This particular batch of videos happen to be mostly of the R&B and Hip-Hop variety, but a couple of Pop records found their way into the mix too.
What do you get when you mix On Fire‘s Loe, L-Dubbs, Rocky Sandoval, Miss TLu, Jargon and Mike Musni of IBU? The answer would be “Dreams”, a new collaborative tracks between all the artists, complete with music video. There’s a big variety of talent here from emcees to singers but there is a downside. It looks like they chose a non-exclusive beat from producer Johnny Juliano. How do I know this? It’s the exact same one used by D-League for “Big Dreams, 2Pac Nightmares“. I guess that’s the risk when hitting up popular producers. The song will be included on the soon-to-be-released Sex, Drugs, Rap & Soul.
Music Video Tuesday! Ok, that’s not a real thing, but that’s our theme of today’s round-up of Youtube video covers. Admittedly, the last video isn’t exactly a music video so much as it is a gigantic mash-up of footage. But when you’re dealing with 50 different artists and trying to work all those clips together, we figure it’s just as much work as any other MV production, so we’ve gone ahead and included it too. Enjoy!
Ah, the notorious Youtube cover. A staple of nearly every artist and the increasing bane of my existence. Well, it’s not that bad but it’s hard to listen to the same songs over and over again – especially when I already hear a lot of them on the radio all the time. But at least the following bunch of artists decided to put a good amount of effort into their covers… they put together actual music videos for their work. Now some of the production values are higher than others, but bottom line is these artists went the extra mile to entertain you on both the audio and visual fronts. And I’ll take any switch up I can get.
Welcome to another episode of Showdown, where we have a little friendly comparison of artists that cover/remix the same songs and then vote for the one we think pulled it off better.
With Drake being undoubtedly one of the hottest acts in the business right now, it’s no wonder why his music has been covered and remixed by artists thousands of times over. For this installment of our Showdown series we’ve decided to highlight a few recent remixes of Drake’s song “The Motto” featuring Lil Wayne. This one is a three way battle with On Fire & Rocky in one corner, Hopie repping the fairer sex on her own in another, and a huge mega roster of artists in the last corner – comprised of Lyricks, De, The Yellow Boyz, Excel Cruz, Koreone, Manifest & Smokes. So by all means, go ahead and take a listen to the three renditions and vote for your favorite below!
So who do you think did the track the must justice? The one two punch of On Fire & Rocky? Hopie rocking the mic via webcam? Or the gigantic 10-man lineup from this years’ Asian Hip-Hop Summit tour? Cast your vote now! Why? … Bragging rights? We really don’t have an answer except to say it’s fun!
Now that they have some momentum going, the people of On Fire Entertainment are working on a new album called Sex, Drugs, Rap and Soul. To give everyone an idea of what they can expect, they’ve unveiled the single “One Night” with the entire line up each getting a chance at-bat. L-Dubs, Loerider, Rocky Sandoval and Miss TLu all trade some time on the track and I gotta say the dynamic brought by this particular combination of artists has some definite appeal. Let’s see how the final project plays out in it’s entirety once released!
This here’s a big one. A dozen Youtube covers and remixes for your viewing/listening enjoyment. Some are better than others, in general I’ve loosely ordered them in descending order starting with the most enjoyed first. You all already know how I feel about the superfluous number of covers out there but regardless, don’t let me stop you!
Mike Isberto Covers “Stereo Hearts” by Gym Class Heroes x Adam Levine
Andy Suzuki & The Method Cover “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls
Last time around we featured an all-female line up of Youtube covers so it was only fair we showcased some talent from the other sex. Today’s round-up features the return of the esteemed team of Legacy & Summerbreeze, a remix of Drake by On Fire & Rocky, a couple more R&B covers from JRA & Jason Chen and two acoustic offerings from David Choi and Joseph Vincent. So go ahead and sit back and enjoy some good music by some talented lads.
By now you should be familiar with On Fire Entertainment‘s youtube strategy. For the past few month’s they’ve dropped a number of remixes of popular tracks and filming MV’s for them to give them that bit of visual flair. Their latest effort is of the heavily spun Lupe Fiasco single – “The Show Goes On”. They’ve once again teamed up with Rocky Sandoval but surprisingly he’s not the one on the hook. For that purpose they’ve enlisted the help of Erin Paula – a refreshing switch up but her video contribution was a bit lacking.
On the plus side it looks like On Fire Entertainment had a lot of fun with this remix and MV of Lupe Fiasco’s “Out of My Head” originally featuring Trey Songz. On the downside, there really isn’t much reason to listen to this version as it doesn’t do anything better than the original. Rocky Sandoval showed off some impressive vocals towards the end of the track but other than that the song can’t compare – at least they chose a song with a great beat to remix. The track isn’t bad, just generic.
