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By BEATKANGZ Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:22 am
LMAO!!! Hurry go check the AKAIpro site...... ha ha BEAT THIS.... This was what they put out 8 months after they met with us wanting us to make a streetboxx for them..... Even our lil streetboxx still murders this xr 20 crap....

"Beat This" they say..... Who they talk'n too? Show me one rapper who would rap to any of those casio beats..... Eric cunningham is who does all the samples for chronic music..... he's a 45 year old corporate has been who tried to get us to make some beats for his LA riot crap about 5 years ago...... GLAD WE SAID NO!

Hurry and go see Akai's head line before they take it down..... THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO NUKE THEIR WHOLE LINE NOW!

I think we are gonna smash and shoot a couple XR20's and sample that for tha thang presets. Look for XR187 in our preset samples...... Wheres my dynamite we'll youtube it too.

Work'n on Thangz

KANGZ
By BEATKANGZ Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:53 am
QUOTE "I can see how this machine would draw in the wanna b up and coming producers highly influenced by the South, but to the true heads of Dj Premier, Pete Rock, Rza, Alchemist, Dre, Muggs, Babu, Dj Quick, etc.. this machine is a turn off because it seems to be more talk then action just like today's hip hop. Everything is all talk and bragging and no skill quality to back it up"

Actually we have been contacted by most of these folks already and they will be the first to have their custom Thangz along with , Shannon sanders, Rock wilder, Johnny juice, Chuck D, my boy Stevie J (B.I.G's producer) , and 10 grammy award winning gordon williams who did lauren hills record and damian marly..... and We been to RZA's house and chilled in Cali. He used the Streetboxx on afro samurai lmao and DRE's lil brother Warren G just said the Thang was hot.... he saw it at Namm and it's on you tube.....

And you know our Biz partner Bob signed Jay Z...... google live nation records and maybe you will have a better idea of what we are doing..... He's done with that now and this is his new big Thang.

Real Recognize Real

As for Roger..... I know Roger, I talk to Roger, He maybe god to some of you in here but to me he's just Roger. Initially we were going to do this project with him. We even have some designs which will never see the light of day but at the end of the day money ruins most great potential. Maybe one day we may let him back in the kangdom after we prove our point.... He's a great guy on a personal level but a tad to conservative to be a Kang. We go hard and have no time for timid nervous people..... It was hard to walk away from Rog but we had a vision. We wish him much success.... You all should thank us.... He wasn't even thinking of making another drum machine until we called him after our AKI disaster. He was into Rock pedals at the time..... His product may be cool im sure but it aint gonna be no Thang.... Sugar hill gang may have invented hip hop but they cant battle Jigga......

Shaping tha Game

Time for some new Thangz

KANGZ
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By four eyes Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:48 am
kangz guy you sound really condescending and obnoxious and somehow manage to sound bitter at the same time.

roger linn is not god to me or a lot of other people. im not a roger linn fanboy nor do i care about him or know much about him other than the fact he brought the mpc into the game which alone warrants at least a bit of respect. you didnt manage to work with him. so what. if you're so confident about your product why do you keep trying to drag another man's name through the mud. when you're doing business you're not always gonna get to work with people you desire to work with. it's business. you treat it like you're roger linn's ex-girlfriend or something. get over it.

and as far as the xr20 making "casio beats", i could care less. i have no interest in drum machines. however, i don't see much of a difference between the sample beats coming from the xr20 and the beats i've seen made using your machine in various videos. you've yet to show any serious use of your machine.

i don't know how you expect to sell anything coming at your customer base in the manner you do. horrible way of doing business.
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By SHWELL Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:14 pm
The People over at Tron called. They want their Toaster back.
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By poundaproblem Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:24 pm
You know at first I was supporting yall but some one must really have yall gassed up to be talking how yall talk. Even if the beat thang does what you say it does remember that its just a piece of gear and a few months after the release there will be someone else offering something newer, cheaper and with more features. If you don't believe that take a good look at what you claim to be doing relative to those who came before you. Remember this is a MPC site so coming over hear like yall run sh*t is kinda lame considering your product isn't on shelves yet. Like I said at first I was supportive of yall but each time you respond you come across looking less professional and I have to ask myself....as a customer....a person who has built several recording studios and invested countless dollars into this...would I feel comfortable giving YOU my money. Now I'm leaning towards no. See the thing is if your talking so poorly about your competition and making things so personal what are you saying about everyone else? What happens when someone buys a beat thang and its a defect? Are you going to bash them on forums and do everything you can to make yourself feel superior....based on each video and post you put up yes. Your MO is merely shitting on people...not making good music or being revolutionary. Seems like there's cats on your team who got a lot to prove and are using this product as a way to resolve some type of emotional dispute. Its like this product is coming out to settle a score at the expense of the end user. You come here and bash Roger Linn (and dont get it confused, I aint here to defend some dude I dont know) but at the same time the facts of what he has already contributed cant be denied. Bottom line yall should step up the professionalism because it WILL hurt your product in the end. Shame too because I really was considering this thing but the people behind it make it look less desirable each time a new post or video hits the net. A few more posts and vids and you wont have anyone left to buy your product.
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By Coz Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:32 pm
four eyes wrote:kangz guy you sound really condescending and obnoxious and somehow manage to sound bitter at the same time.

roger linn is not god to me or a lot of other people. im not a roger linn fanboy nor do i care about him or know much about him other than the fact he brought the mpc into the game which alone warrants at least a bit of respect. you didnt manage to work with him. so what. if you're so confident about your product why do you keep trying to drag another man's name through the mud. when you're doing business you're not always gonna get to work with people you desire to work with. it's business. you treat it like you're roger linn's ex-girlfriend or something. get over it.

and as far as the xr20 making "casio beats", i could care less. i have no interest in drum machines. however, i don't see much of a difference between the sample beats coming from the xr20 and the beats i've seen made using your machine in various videos. you've yet to show any serious use of your machine.

i don't know how you expect to sell anything coming at your customer base in the manner you do. horrible way of doing business.



I agree 100% with every word you wrote here man. :wink:

Kagz... get your product to market and let US be the judge of how **** great it is, ok? The moody rhetoric (or confidence as you might put it) is sounding lame right about now. Do you currently have any useful additional information about your machine that professional producers may be interested in? ???
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By jaem Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:52 pm
BEATKANGZ wrote:Actually we have been contacted by most of these folks already and they will be the first to have their custom Thangz along with , Shannon sanders, Rock wilder, Johnny juice, Chuck D, my boy Stevie J (B.I.G's producer) , and 10 grammy award winning gordon williams who did lauren hills record and damian marly..... and We been to RZA's house and chilled in Cali. He used the Streetboxx on afro samurai lmao and DRE's lil brother Warren G just said the Thang was hot.... he saw it at Namm and it's on you tube.....



Beat Kang.....now featuring bad grammar and useless name-dropping :lol:
By MCL Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:54 pm
poundaproblem wrote:You know at first I was supporting yall but some one must really have yall gassed up to be talking how yall talk. Even if the beat thang does what you say it does remember that its just a piece of gear and a few months after the release there will be someone else offering something newer, cheaper and with more features. If you don't believe that take a good look at what you claim to be doing relative to those who came before you. Remember this is a MPC site so coming over hear like yall run sh*t is kinda lame considering your product isn't on shelves yet. Like I said at first I was supportive of yall but each time you respond you come across looking less professional and I have to ask myself....as a customer....a person who has built several recording studios and invested countless dollars into this...would I feel comfortable giving YOU my money. Now I'm leaning towards no. See the thing is if your talking so poorly about your competition and making things so personal what are you saying about everyone else? What happens when someone buys a beat thang and its a defect? Are you going to bash them on forums and do everything you can to make yourself feel superior....based on each video and post you put up yes. Your MO is merely **** on people...not making good music or being revolutionary. Seems like there's cats on your team who got a lot to prove and are using this product as a way to resolve some type of emotional dispute. Its like this product is coming out to settle a score at the expense of the end user. You come here and bash Roger Linn (and dont get it confused, I aint here to defend some dude I dont know) but at the same time the facts of what he has already contributed cant be denied. Bottom line yall should step up the professionalism because it WILL hurt your product in the end. Shame too because I really was considering this thing but the people behind it make it look less desirable each time a new post or video hits the net. A few more posts and vids and you wont have anyone left to buy your product.



^^ That pretty much sums it up.....the 'Marketing' of this thing is getting more and more bizarre - Gave me a laugh though :)
By namotu Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:53 pm
so have the 'beat kangz' been using an MPC to make all their tracks up to this point?

will all beat kangz now only use the beat thangz to make their music?

i dunno the history, but if u been using an mpc, you got no right to hate on akai.

plus you say first ever to have a pitch and modulation wheel on a drum machine, but the Q-Link sliders on any MPC can be programmed to do the same thing