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Traxamillion Music
Here is a sample of Traxamillions work! Sit back, Turn up your Speakers and Enjoy
Traxamillion - Sitting High Mixtape!!
This is the new Mixtape From the Bay Areas own Super Producer
Traxamillion!!!
Definitely a hot mixtape!! Has Freestyles From the slap addict himself
as well as exclusive and un released tracks Produced
by Traxamillion!! Check it out!!
Traxamillion - Sitting High
Traxamillion!!!
Definitely a hot mixtape!! Has Freestyles From the slap addict himself
as well as exclusive and un released tracks Produced
by Traxamillion!! Check it out!!
Traxamillion - Sitting HighDownload Mixtape | Provided by DatPiff.com
TRAXAMILLION FEATURED ON ALLHIPHOP.COM
G Funk crowned Dr. Dre. Crunk made a household name out of Lil' Jon. The hardcore Hip-Hop movement resurrected DJ Premier.
Whenever a subgenre blows up, there's usually one producer that gets pointed to the most. While Rick Rock and Lil' Jon are responsible in helping the Hyphy sound get recognized, the Bay Area native bidding for his own recognition is San Jose's Traxamillion.
Since producing the underground smash "Super Hyphy" for Keak Da Sneak, Trax has lined up work with Too Short, Hoodstarz, and Mistah F.A.B., all searching for that sonic boom.
Those that associate Hyphy's newness with inexperience may be surprised to check Trax' resume. The beat-maker began as a rapper sharing mics with Aceyalone's Project Blowed as well as the "Pistol Grip Pump"-slanger himself, Volume 10. Great artists can easily reinvent themselves, so see what Traxamillion is up to in his super-hyphy smash.
AllHipHop.com: So what's goin' on with you?
Traxamillion: Just trying to take over the world one day at a time, trying to stay in the public's eye, get people familiar with Traxamillion.
AllHipHop.com: Your introduction to the mainstream has been through Keak Da Sneak's "Super Hyphy." I heard it out here on KDAY in L.A. tonight…
Traxamillion: Really? Yeah, they play that song nationally; it's being played on MTV.
AllHipHop.com: How did you get that beat over to Keak Da Sneak?
Traxamillion: A guy by the name of Al Kizzle owns Rah Records. That was one of the beats I sold him. I went to a local mom-and-pop store out here called Rasputin, and I went and bought the CD Dope Game 2, and looked at it. [On] it was a song called "What You Want" and it was my beat, I was like, "Hell yeah." I flipped over the CD, looked up the contact information, called them and they called me back in like 15 minutes, like "Yo, where you been?" I went over there couple of days afterwards to meet with Al, he said, "We signed Keak, and are working on his album." I asked if the album was done yet, and he said no. I was like, "Put me on," he asked, "What you got?" I had my beat CD on me and he liked it. He took one of my beats. We did a few more songs after that. About a month passes, and I came up with this beat and drove to Keak's show in Santa Cruz. I gave him a CD and told him listen to track number three. He checked it out and loved it. Next thing I know I got a call.
AllHipHop.com: So it was like an overnight thing with that thing.
Traxamillion: Well, actually, I've been on the radio before as a rapper.
AllHipHop.com: Really? Go back to when you first started with Hip-Hop in the '90s…
Traxamillion: I f**ked with a lot of underground on the L.A. scene: the Aceyalones, the Abstract Rudes, Volume 10. I was in a group called Lackadaisical, our whole gimmick was on some lazy, laid-back s**t. We was doing shows, in magazines. I was young, I was in high school. Then I kind of fell off, did some other stuff. After a while, the underground sound … I f**ked with it … as far for me, the whole underground scene was just getting tired, so I just wanted to do something different. I wanted to get on the radio, to get on TV.
AllHipHop.com: Were people surprised when you resurfaced as a Hyphy producer?
Traxamillion: Really, that's the funny thing, people just call my s**t Hyphy, but I've been doing beats like this for years. I think the artists being called "Hyphy" artists, when they get over my [beats], they get that "Hyphy" element. The song "Super Hyphy" is getting so big, Traxamillion is becoming synonymous with Hyphy.
AllHipHop.com: That explains a lot. You're getting discovered all over again. What goes into making the sound?
Traxamillion: I use a Triton Studio LE. I use a few other instruments, but I can do everything I need to do on Triton LE. I like to keep everything upbeat, keep it all in the club. I like to pay attention to the youngsters. Those are the cats that shakin' the dreads, jumping on top of the lows. The way "Super Hyphy" beat came about, my little cousins came through and were doing what they do, I was just inspired by that. I always try to keep that in the music.
AllHipHop.com: What's the hip-hop scene in your hometown of San Jose like, is it different from other parts of the Bay?
Traxamillion: Everybody in the Bay is working together. We've all been out here doing our music. Now the magnifying glass is on us. My whole angle is the only way we are going to get up out of this is if we stay together. That's why I got so many artists on the Slapp Addict [album].
AllHipHop.com: I have already heard a bold comparison to The Chronic. Can you explain that?
Traxamillion: The Chronic 2001 was a classic album. All the artists came together with Dre and he just kicked back and played the engineering boards, jumped in here and there on verses. It was the talent around him, and that's how I do it. All the Bay area's finest came through and laced your boy. It's a big project for cats outside the Bay that don't know about the Bay. If they want to know about the Hyphy movement, then this is the project to get. Cats wanted to know about the West Coast, that was The Chronic. You want to know about the Bay, then this is it.
AllHipHop.com: Are lyrics all that important in Hyphy?
Traxamillion: From what I noticed, it's a love of Bay love, we talking about what we do. Just like Atlanta, with the whole Crunk sound, they reiterate and reinforce it every time with the "snap with it" and the "rock with it." We talk about how we goin' dumb, shakin' the dreads … we reiterate it, reinject it, reinvent it. The big part of the movement is the dancing.
AllHipHop.com: How different is it working with Too Short and San Quinn and newcomers like Hoodstarz and the Team?
Traxamillion: Too Short is a vet. He comes through and he is a natural. Hoodstarz and Mistah F.A.B. come through and F.A.B. writes a song in damn near 15 minutes. The Hoodstarz bounce off each other, they vibe with each other a lot. Everybody comes in, everybody's pretty diligent about getting the work done.
AllHipHop.com: Don't you also have your own studio and it's open for business?
Traxamillion: Yeah, Official Entertainment. You can go to www.myspace.com/officialentertainment. It's like a damn reality show in there, you drop in there and you never know who's going to be in there.
AllHipHop.com: I saw a clip of your appearance on a local TV station, in the studio sitting across a woman in her fifties asking you about Hyphy…
Traxamillion: I was neverous as hell too. You can watch it on YouTube, I almost knocked the table over. I am just happy that people like my music.
Whenever a subgenre blows up, there's usually one producer that gets pointed to the most. While Rick Rock and Lil' Jon are responsible in helping the Hyphy sound get recognized, the Bay Area native bidding for his own recognition is San Jose's Traxamillion.
Since producing the underground smash "Super Hyphy" for Keak Da Sneak, Trax has lined up work with Too Short, Hoodstarz, and Mistah F.A.B., all searching for that sonic boom.
Those that associate Hyphy's newness with inexperience may be surprised to check Trax' resume. The beat-maker began as a rapper sharing mics with Aceyalone's Project Blowed as well as the "Pistol Grip Pump"-slanger himself, Volume 10. Great artists can easily reinvent themselves, so see what Traxamillion is up to in his super-hyphy smash.
AllHipHop.com: So what's goin' on with you?
Traxamillion: Just trying to take over the world one day at a time, trying to stay in the public's eye, get people familiar with Traxamillion.
AllHipHop.com: Your introduction to the mainstream has been through Keak Da Sneak's "Super Hyphy." I heard it out here on KDAY in L.A. tonight…
Traxamillion: Really? Yeah, they play that song nationally; it's being played on MTV.
AllHipHop.com: How did you get that beat over to Keak Da Sneak?
Traxamillion: A guy by the name of Al Kizzle owns Rah Records. That was one of the beats I sold him. I went to a local mom-and-pop store out here called Rasputin, and I went and bought the CD Dope Game 2, and looked at it. [On] it was a song called "What You Want" and it was my beat, I was like, "Hell yeah." I flipped over the CD, looked up the contact information, called them and they called me back in like 15 minutes, like "Yo, where you been?" I went over there couple of days afterwards to meet with Al, he said, "We signed Keak, and are working on his album." I asked if the album was done yet, and he said no. I was like, "Put me on," he asked, "What you got?" I had my beat CD on me and he liked it. He took one of my beats. We did a few more songs after that. About a month passes, and I came up with this beat and drove to Keak's show in Santa Cruz. I gave him a CD and told him listen to track number three. He checked it out and loved it. Next thing I know I got a call.
AllHipHop.com: So it was like an overnight thing with that thing.
Traxamillion: Well, actually, I've been on the radio before as a rapper.
AllHipHop.com: Really? Go back to when you first started with Hip-Hop in the '90s…
Traxamillion: I f**ked with a lot of underground on the L.A. scene: the Aceyalones, the Abstract Rudes, Volume 10. I was in a group called Lackadaisical, our whole gimmick was on some lazy, laid-back s**t. We was doing shows, in magazines. I was young, I was in high school. Then I kind of fell off, did some other stuff. After a while, the underground sound … I f**ked with it … as far for me, the whole underground scene was just getting tired, so I just wanted to do something different. I wanted to get on the radio, to get on TV.
AllHipHop.com: Were people surprised when you resurfaced as a Hyphy producer?
Traxamillion: Really, that's the funny thing, people just call my s**t Hyphy, but I've been doing beats like this for years. I think the artists being called "Hyphy" artists, when they get over my [beats], they get that "Hyphy" element. The song "Super Hyphy" is getting so big, Traxamillion is becoming synonymous with Hyphy.
AllHipHop.com: That explains a lot. You're getting discovered all over again. What goes into making the sound?
Traxamillion: I use a Triton Studio LE. I use a few other instruments, but I can do everything I need to do on Triton LE. I like to keep everything upbeat, keep it all in the club. I like to pay attention to the youngsters. Those are the cats that shakin' the dreads, jumping on top of the lows. The way "Super Hyphy" beat came about, my little cousins came through and were doing what they do, I was just inspired by that. I always try to keep that in the music.
AllHipHop.com: What's the hip-hop scene in your hometown of San Jose like, is it different from other parts of the Bay?
Traxamillion: Everybody in the Bay is working together. We've all been out here doing our music. Now the magnifying glass is on us. My whole angle is the only way we are going to get up out of this is if we stay together. That's why I got so many artists on the Slapp Addict [album].
AllHipHop.com: I have already heard a bold comparison to The Chronic. Can you explain that?
Traxamillion: The Chronic 2001 was a classic album. All the artists came together with Dre and he just kicked back and played the engineering boards, jumped in here and there on verses. It was the talent around him, and that's how I do it. All the Bay area's finest came through and laced your boy. It's a big project for cats outside the Bay that don't know about the Bay. If they want to know about the Hyphy movement, then this is the project to get. Cats wanted to know about the West Coast, that was The Chronic. You want to know about the Bay, then this is it.
AllHipHop.com: Are lyrics all that important in Hyphy?
Traxamillion: From what I noticed, it's a love of Bay love, we talking about what we do. Just like Atlanta, with the whole Crunk sound, they reiterate and reinforce it every time with the "snap with it" and the "rock with it." We talk about how we goin' dumb, shakin' the dreads … we reiterate it, reinject it, reinvent it. The big part of the movement is the dancing.
AllHipHop.com: How different is it working with Too Short and San Quinn and newcomers like Hoodstarz and the Team?
Traxamillion: Too Short is a vet. He comes through and he is a natural. Hoodstarz and Mistah F.A.B. come through and F.A.B. writes a song in damn near 15 minutes. The Hoodstarz bounce off each other, they vibe with each other a lot. Everybody comes in, everybody's pretty diligent about getting the work done.
AllHipHop.com: Don't you also have your own studio and it's open for business?
Traxamillion: Yeah, Official Entertainment. You can go to www.myspace.com/officialentertainment. It's like a damn reality show in there, you drop in there and you never know who's going to be in there.
AllHipHop.com: I saw a clip of your appearance on a local TV station, in the studio sitting across a woman in her fifties asking you about Hyphy…
Traxamillion: I was neverous as hell too. You can watch it on YouTube, I almost knocked the table over. I am just happy that people like my music.
TRAXAMILLION FEATURED ON SOHH.COM
HERE'S THE LINK:
http://blogs.sohh.com/sohhleftcoast/2006/10/interview_with_traxamillion_we.html
As far as producers from the bay who are makin' a name for themselves, Rick Rock's long since established himself in the rest of the world (anybody remember the "Cosmic Slop Shop" joint he did with Doonie Baby and Big Lurch?), E-A-Ski's been doin' his thing on the production tip, and Droop-E has already proven at a young age that he's going to be a force to be reckoned with. But one cat has been makin' a lot of noise recently from tracks he crafted for the albums of San Quinn, Keak Da Sneak, and Dem hoodstarz -- and that cat is Traxamillion.
Now with the single "The Sideshow" featuring Too Short and Mistah Fab gathering some momentum, and a bay area remix (with E-40) of Brooke Hogan's "About us" in the works, Trax is looking to further solidify his rep as the Bay area's go-to beatmaker with the recent release of his album The Slap Addict, which features a who's who of Bay artists, including the aforementioned artists, Turf Talk, Dem hoodstarz, San Quinn, Clyde Carson, Keak Da Sneak, Husalah and Jacka of Mob Figaz, Balance, Izz Thizz, The Team, Zion I and The Pack. The man recently took some time out of his busy schedule to meet with me in Oakland to catch up on the state of Bay Area hip hop and the hot button issue of the moment, the hyphy movement.
SOHH Eighty: So first off, what's up with the album? How's it doing?
Traxamillion: It's doin' well, man. It sold out the first few days it was in stores, we couldn't keep 'em in the stores. It's havin' a good reaction out here.
80: Everyone I've gotten feedback from is feelin' the album.
Trax: Yeah! You know, you got your nay sayers here and there, but you can't please everybody. But for the most part the feedback's good, man. The Bay has embraced it, even folks from other areas have embraced it. For anyone outside of the Bay who's curious about the hyphy movement, I think The Slapp Addict is the project to pick up.
80: As far as the nay sayers go, there have been a lot of people where, if it's from the bay, they'll automatically associate it with the hyphy movement. And people are just dismissing it automatically, without even taking the time to find out that probably a good 75% of cats making music out of the Bay right now are lyrical as fuck and could eat up a lot of other rappers. But people just hear a small portion of the content and dismiss it.
Trax: You gotta dumb it down, man. It's always been like that, though; you gotta get in how you get in and then once they love you, do what the fuck you want. Outkast is a perfect example. They get in doin' the hits that everybody likes and once they in and they got the acceptance, 'I'll do what the fuck I want, I'm wearin' perms and polyester tees, man. I'm rich, man, I'm rappin' how I wanna rap. In velvet socks, nigga, and some boxer shorts.'
80: But what would you say to the detractors, the haters, the people who talk shit all day long about Bay area music and the hyphy movement?
Trax: Man, we eatin' right now. This is how the Bay is gettin' on and you'd be a fool to deny the hyphy movement. That's why we're gettin' shine right now, that's why the whole world is looking at the Bay right now, because there's a movement happening. For anyone to go against that grain, is just... fuck you. It's just hatin'. The only way the Bay area's gonna get up out of this rut that we in- the shit we keep talking about -is if we stick together and we all create unity so we can get up out of this, just like the South did. The whole goddamn South got together and they support each other. They don't need nobody else to buy records, they can go platinum in they own fuckin' areas and they own regions. They don't need the East coast, Midwest or the West coast. East Coast, they started funkin' , boros started battlin' each other, you know, shit fell apart. West coast, the Bay and L.A. was divided, shit fell apart. You feel me? You gotta stick together, that's the only way it's gonna happen; we gotta represent our own shit. And that's what I'm all about; that's why on the album, I GOT everybody on there.
80: But it seems like that's one of the things that's really unique about the bay; the amount of unity. I mean, E-40 and Too Short have been hella supportive of everybody that's trying to make moves, like once they're up on top, they give a hand to the next man, who helps out the next man...
Trax: That's what's so unique about the bay, man; there's so much goddamn unity. This is probably one of the only places in the world that makes it's own stars, you know what I mean? We put our own people up on a pedestal and support these muhfuckas to where these artists is out here eatin', ya feel me? Eatin' and buyin' houses just off the Bay buyin' their albums and supportin' they movement.
80: Now there isn't any question that right now the Bay is blowin' up, but do you think that people need to seize the opportunity because all that's gonna die down soon?
Trax: I hope it doesn't but just like everything, it comes and it goes. Every region has their opportunity to get on and shine and if you don't take advantage of it while the light's here, there's a good possibility that it could go. But I'm trying to seize every opportunity I can, so I ain't gon' let it go. Not on my watch.
80: As far as the hyphy movement catchin' on around the rest of the nation right now, it seems like a lot of that has been due to the word "hyphy" being a catch phrase. And now it's to the point where if anyone hears anything out of the bay that isn't even necessarily associated with that shit, like Mob Figaz or San Quinn or Turf Talk...
Trax: ...then it's 'hyphy.' Yeah, man. We gotta take it, man; if they wanna call us hyphy, we gotta take hyphy. I mean, we gotta make 'em understand. It's like baby food, we gotta feed it to 'em slowly. If it's "hyphy," let that be the first word that they learn. Once they get to know us then they'll really see what the picture is, but right now that's all they know us as, that's all the media's blastin' , so in my opinion you kinda gotta run with it.
http://blogs.sohh.com/sohhleftcoast/2006/10/interview_with_traxamillion_we.html
As far as producers from the bay who are makin' a name for themselves, Rick Rock's long since established himself in the rest of the world (anybody remember the "Cosmic Slop Shop" joint he did with Doonie Baby and Big Lurch?), E-A-Ski's been doin' his thing on the production tip, and Droop-E has already proven at a young age that he's going to be a force to be reckoned with. But one cat has been makin' a lot of noise recently from tracks he crafted for the albums of San Quinn, Keak Da Sneak, and Dem hoodstarz -- and that cat is Traxamillion.
Now with the single "The Sideshow" featuring Too Short and Mistah Fab gathering some momentum, and a bay area remix (with E-40) of Brooke Hogan's "About us" in the works, Trax is looking to further solidify his rep as the Bay area's go-to beatmaker with the recent release of his album The Slap Addict, which features a who's who of Bay artists, including the aforementioned artists, Turf Talk, Dem hoodstarz, San Quinn, Clyde Carson, Keak Da Sneak, Husalah and Jacka of Mob Figaz, Balance, Izz Thizz, The Team, Zion I and The Pack. The man recently took some time out of his busy schedule to meet with me in Oakland to catch up on the state of Bay Area hip hop and the hot button issue of the moment, the hyphy movement.
SOHH Eighty: So first off, what's up with the album? How's it doing?
Traxamillion: It's doin' well, man. It sold out the first few days it was in stores, we couldn't keep 'em in the stores. It's havin' a good reaction out here.
80: Everyone I've gotten feedback from is feelin' the album.
Trax: Yeah! You know, you got your nay sayers here and there, but you can't please everybody. But for the most part the feedback's good, man. The Bay has embraced it, even folks from other areas have embraced it. For anyone outside of the Bay who's curious about the hyphy movement, I think The Slapp Addict is the project to pick up.
80: As far as the nay sayers go, there have been a lot of people where, if it's from the bay, they'll automatically associate it with the hyphy movement. And people are just dismissing it automatically, without even taking the time to find out that probably a good 75% of cats making music out of the Bay right now are lyrical as fuck and could eat up a lot of other rappers. But people just hear a small portion of the content and dismiss it.
Trax: You gotta dumb it down, man. It's always been like that, though; you gotta get in how you get in and then once they love you, do what the fuck you want. Outkast is a perfect example. They get in doin' the hits that everybody likes and once they in and they got the acceptance, 'I'll do what the fuck I want, I'm wearin' perms and polyester tees, man. I'm rich, man, I'm rappin' how I wanna rap. In velvet socks, nigga, and some boxer shorts.'
80: But what would you say to the detractors, the haters, the people who talk shit all day long about Bay area music and the hyphy movement?
Trax: Man, we eatin' right now. This is how the Bay is gettin' on and you'd be a fool to deny the hyphy movement. That's why we're gettin' shine right now, that's why the whole world is looking at the Bay right now, because there's a movement happening. For anyone to go against that grain, is just... fuck you. It's just hatin'. The only way the Bay area's gonna get up out of this rut that we in- the shit we keep talking about -is if we stick together and we all create unity so we can get up out of this, just like the South did. The whole goddamn South got together and they support each other. They don't need nobody else to buy records, they can go platinum in they own fuckin' areas and they own regions. They don't need the East coast, Midwest or the West coast. East Coast, they started funkin' , boros started battlin' each other, you know, shit fell apart. West coast, the Bay and L.A. was divided, shit fell apart. You feel me? You gotta stick together, that's the only way it's gonna happen; we gotta represent our own shit. And that's what I'm all about; that's why on the album, I GOT everybody on there.
80: But it seems like that's one of the things that's really unique about the bay; the amount of unity. I mean, E-40 and Too Short have been hella supportive of everybody that's trying to make moves, like once they're up on top, they give a hand to the next man, who helps out the next man...
Trax: That's what's so unique about the bay, man; there's so much goddamn unity. This is probably one of the only places in the world that makes it's own stars, you know what I mean? We put our own people up on a pedestal and support these muhfuckas to where these artists is out here eatin', ya feel me? Eatin' and buyin' houses just off the Bay buyin' their albums and supportin' they movement.
80: Now there isn't any question that right now the Bay is blowin' up, but do you think that people need to seize the opportunity because all that's gonna die down soon?
Trax: I hope it doesn't but just like everything, it comes and it goes. Every region has their opportunity to get on and shine and if you don't take advantage of it while the light's here, there's a good possibility that it could go. But I'm trying to seize every opportunity I can, so I ain't gon' let it go. Not on my watch.
80: As far as the hyphy movement catchin' on around the rest of the nation right now, it seems like a lot of that has been due to the word "hyphy" being a catch phrase. And now it's to the point where if anyone hears anything out of the bay that isn't even necessarily associated with that shit, like Mob Figaz or San Quinn or Turf Talk...
Trax: ...then it's 'hyphy.' Yeah, man. We gotta take it, man; if they wanna call us hyphy, we gotta take hyphy. I mean, we gotta make 'em understand. It's like baby food, we gotta feed it to 'em slowly. If it's "hyphy," let that be the first word that they learn. Once they get to know us then they'll really see what the picture is, but right now that's all they know us as, that's all the media's blastin' , so in my opinion you kinda gotta run with it.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Welcome To Traxamillions New Blog
Here we gonna keep you up to dat ewith all Traxamillions and Slapp Addict Productions NEW songs, NEWS, SHOWS AND MORE.
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