3D by peace586

3D
I can remember bits and pieces of the very first beat I made on a friend of mine’s Akai mpc 60ii in 1990. I used a break from LL Cool J’s “Boomin System” and a sample from Patrice Rushen named “Remind Me”. The song turned into a song called “This is Love” by Freedom of Soul and was one of our favorites back then.
I’ve always been a fan of sampling and listening to some of my favorite beat makers create new songs using samples that are unrecognizable. It’s such a huge talent to me.
I’ve also always been a fan of beautiful melodies and progressions in every genre of music, as well as big drum beats that I grew up with in my childhood days in the Bronx NYC.
On this collection of beats I’ve pieced together, I tried to combine the two types of sounds to create patterns and rhythms to make you nod your head and smile at the same time. I also wanted to go back in time sort of speak by using break beats to chop and put a little soulfulness back in the music with keys played my my friends Jonathan Huber and Daniel Steele.
The album title 3D is merely just a title referring to the bubble piece drawn by friend Keith Kanagusuku here in Oahu, Hawai’i. The combinations of beats, graffiti and rhymes by my brother Taelor Gray are the ultimate 3 Dimensions that I love in Hip Hop!
I wanted to honor it on its 50th birthday. I hope I did it proud. Here’s to 50 more years of Hip Hop!
Peace586

Peace is a veteran of pad pushing, sample chopping and beat making for over 30 years. Having produced for many artists in multiple genres, Peace’s ultimate love is just creating pattens and programs with big drums and beautiful melodies. When it comes down to it, everything in hip hop always changes but it always rotates back to the original sound of boom bap which is where peace’s sound settles.