Kenny Dope’s Break Beats
“KENNY DOPE Three-time Grammy nominated Kenny Dope, one of the most prolific artists of the modern music age, has been entertaining and astounding the masses alike with his fusion of house, hip-hop, Latin, jazz, soul, and broken beats. Known as a living encyclopedia of beats, Kenny Dope is a purveyor of sonic masterpieces.”
This is the first part of Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez’ bio on the Masters At Work Website. I like the definition “a living encyclopedia of beats” and i think it fits perfectly in KD’s career.
What i appreciate most of KD is his versatility as a DJ and producer. It is not about strictly hip hop, funk, soul or house. Good music is good music. He produced dope hip hop, dope house music, latin and even worked with Keb Darge for some extra-dope funk selections.
A collection of super-classic breaks (tracklisting here, but in this case we’d better talk about “masterpiece-listing”) mixed with superior taste. In fact i cannot imagine a better mixin. This mixtape is simply perfect.
February 7, 2007 at 1:16 am
nothing better could keep me awake this night at work
exciting mixtape!
February 7, 2007 at 1:43 am
wow… living encyclopedia of beats.. that means he must be that dope to be entitled wif that kinna definition… props..
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February 7, 2007 at 7:52 am
kenny dope is a true master…remember the ruffneck soldiers”kill or be killed” tune with the shirley bassey sample?one of my favourite tune…for more updated production check the 7″series on kenny dope’s sure shot label, where he reworks classics breaks..with the help of people like price paul and j-rocc of the beat junkies….nice ones
February 7, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Wow, I just spent over half an hour reading some of the articles on this here blog. Your blog is very informative and I would like to applaud your efforts. Knowledge of the hip hop culture is a hard thing to come by these days. Keep it real, and long live your blog.
If you want to exchange links my hip hop blog is; http://mysideofthetracks.blogspot.com
Peace
July 8, 2007 at 11:38 am
found your blog last night and just got a chance to have a real look.
nice beats, nice articles… just bummed i missed this link.
ill keep trolling but any chance of a re-up???
i checked the discog entry and would love to hear this, (esp for the mixing from the master).
thanks
richo
July 8, 2007 at 1:19 pm
thank you rico, we’ll re-up the kenny dope mix as soon has possible!!
stay tuned!
peace
July 8, 2007 at 1:42 pm
wow, what a quick response… nice.
just came back to say its cool, found it with some google diggin.
i may have found it somewhere else, but i found it here first…
thanks again
check out the roller boogie 80s if you havent already got it.
http://oufarkhan.blogspot.com/2007/06/kenny-dope-gonzalez.html
July 8, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Yes Richo, Oufar Khan is one our friend blogs and he has loads of good stuff!
glad you found it.
peace
August 19, 2007 at 3:56 pm
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October 2, 2007 at 8:10 pm
re-upped!
October 30, 2007 at 5:31 am
Kenny DOPE! Yeah if you havent heard it–you got to have this one. I’ve been listeing to break beats for a while… started with Kon&Amir “on track” back in 94. I must say this is one of the best mixes of breakbeats!, Ive heard in a while….what a beautiful mix. big ups to all involved in making these available.
March 25, 2009 at 11:46 pm
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August 5, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Hey guys. Love the site. Found you from Domeshots. I produce mixes and run a site called filthyspeakeraddict.com. Check it out. I would love to exchange blogrolls with you also. PS, I realized we’ve been using a similar design themes, lol.