DJ Muggs (1992) making beats at his home studio

[@SonicVibe]

I love how it’s 92 and he still has better equipment than me 😂

[@orderupyouvegotmail9226]

cause people was serious back then about music

[@orderupyouvegotmail9226]

plus they still hit the same way unlike bubble gum abc rap of today with recycled sounds from the 90s with horrible qaulity instead of making there own

[@Guitarist888]

@@orderupyouvegotmail9226 “making their own”. As if Muggs, Dre and Rza didn’t plagiarized other artists material to to get to where they’re at now.

[@MC_HorseChoker]

@Doom Rustler "you aren't a real fan because my music taste is better" is essentially the argument you just gave this guy and you wanna call HIM out?

[@vaughnwalker1840]

That SP 1200 no joke.

[@Metamophisis]

DJ Muggs the genius behind Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins

[@woabeatz9717]

You forgot jump around song......

[@obiadibuah7158]

@Carlos_ the fuck?

[@havenautart]

Metamophisis that’s exactly what came to mind.

[@maverickworld8192]

@Ole Carlos fuck you

[@jgc_dosdiez]

those older cypress hill beats are sick.. i always say dj muggs badass.. the beat make the song compa orale 💯

[@A21music]

Does somebody else just keeps coming back to this video periodically? Or is it just me?

[@D.HONDA444]

I'm trying to figure out what song he made this beat for

[@geomcc109]

I can't keep away

[@aabapowerful8681]

Always and forever

[@aabapowerful8681]

@@D.HONDA444 for real I gotta know 😻

[@videolab1552]

@@aabapowerful8681 Public Enemeny Shut Em Down (Remix) sadly it was never relased but I plan to do so.Cause I know the samples.

[@apkallu]

I filmed it at his house (actually it was his mom's house). I have about 10 minutes of interviewing him, too. I'll add that sometime.

[@Zener_Diode]

thanks 11 years later but I always was a fan of Muggs and Cypress, pretty neat to see the lab work!

[@AstonishingSodApe]

How about that interview?

[@JaeWarneR]

@@AstonishingSodApe LOL

[@AstonishingSodApe]

@@JaeWarneR What’s funny? I’m really interested in seeing that.

[@JaeWarneR]

@@AstonishingSodApe the fact that the post is 11 years old and the interview hasn't been posted.

[@GantzIsSloppy]

In 1992 that equipment is Top-Notch & this dude's got it set up in his room Damn

[@moz912]

it doesn't matter what you use to make beats, it matters what comes out of it

[@alecwh]

couldn't agree more

[@lorddarkon4633]

Bruh has an sp.

[@phdirac]

Definitely!

[@THORNZMUSIC]

@@lorddarkon4633 facts lol. Save this quote for someone making beats off an iPad haha

[@goobert2469]

@@THORNZMUSIC madlib:

[@bossmans_offie]

2019 and he’s still on top of the underground scene He’s released like 7-8 classic projects in the last 2 years...

[@jaydee85able]

Muggs always sample the best bass lines!!!

[@dylantubbs2359]

The beat he's making sound reeeeeaally similar to Ice Cube's "Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha" which makes sense since DJ Muggs produced it lmao

[@allthewoointheworld]

yeah i was gona say

[@jewelzfinazzo28]

I havent heard that song in about 26 years... ANd I'm only 30 but I still remember it. Thanks man!

[@nolem5417]

Same bassline.

[@BreakEm_OffSome]

I think that is what he was creating

[@TheCodedtestament]

Wish he’d make some beats like those days again. They are timeless.

[@onyxsdumbvids]

for those curious, the main vocal sample muggs is using at 0:20 is from "You Sure Drive A Hard Bargain" by Albert King. definitely an artist muggs was a fan of sampling lol

[@Gamble_Gamer_Official]

How did you even find that? Good shii I’ve been lookin for this for long time

[@apaak6399]

Wow, thanks man!

What about the melody?

[@6aiiimak_off_2la_80]

1.29-1.35 а этот кусок от куда не в курсе ???

[@spearPYN]

SP-1200, EPS-16+, ASR-10, ST-224 -- the best sampling machines ever!

[@logicalblackman8228]

and Sequential Circuits Studio 440!

[@aldonova4082]

Don't forget the great Casio SK-1 LoL

[@Phuzz828]

i'll never forget the first time i heard cypress hills debut and those hard n funky beats, unlike anything else

[@soln4suhreborn]

Muggs always had little elements in his beats that made them super funky. Like that trademark 1200 swinging hi hat "tic-tic-tic-tic-a-ticky-tic-tic-tic". Lol

[@ASSman864]

Yep lord finesse used that sample hi hat sample on his SP1200

[@Apocalypticsunshine]

His soulful ass basslines for sure, plus he's got the affinity to hit you with haunting synth and piano elements ETC, universal

[@mastrodamus8133]

This man has thought me that how good u can rap or sing or whatever it means nothing without a sick beat . My thx Mr muggs

[@Mike-O-Sullivan]

In loving memory of great verses that died at the hands of a wack beat. 🪦

[@still20dollas]

There is no denying that today's top producers all utilize computers. By no means am I stuck in the past and fully understand that we need to utilize technology to further enhance our craft and creativity. What I don't like is that the same luxuries that allow good producers to put out great material are the same luxuries that cause inept producers to flood the market with subpar material. Everyone with a midi controller and a DAW thinks they are producers just because they can assemble noise.

[@monoblock15beats51]

thats true

[@Sprite_525]

Yes. Restrictions used to force the cream to rise to the top. Now everybody thinks they’re DJ Shadow 2.0

[@eb3005]

Muggs is using a computer and other people's songs. Not much different

[@Sprite_525]

Mosh Pits & Motorcycles - that was never the point. The software and tools were extremely crude. It’s the same idea in film, that the crudeness of tools forces creativity whereas powerful tools don’t have the same dynamic of forcing innovation due to lack of tools

[@eb3005]

Jay Are yeah but being innovative with crude tools doesn't equal good music. Gotta learn to use what you have available, whether it's top notch equipment or a bucket and a spoon. If you take out the words, a lot of these new beats sound cool as hell

[@DaposCL]

You Showed Me (1968) was sampled in Transmitting Live From Mars by De La Soul (1989) You Showed Me by Salt-N-Pepa (1990) Sunshine Men by Freestyle Fellowship (1992) Not U Again by Brothers Uv Da Blakmarket (1992) Don't Sleep! by Harleckinz (1995) Baby Father by Mad Lion (1995) Turtle Soup by DJ Food (1996) The Playboy Mansion by U2 (1997) Out House Stunt by The B.U.M.S. (1998) Midnightsession by Thomilla, Max Herre, Hausmarke and Afrob feat. Gentleman (1999)

[@Thegamingground]

The great beat master in action. My ears digg this =)

[@sampletemplehu]

He created a whole new sound🔥

[@bliss_N9ne]

Dude I just witnessed pure greatness!😀

[@SmoKeFella70804]

Back then it was cool to watch folks put beats together.. All these years later and i just bought an MPC💪🏿

[@TheCebulos]

Muggs is the genius of 90's era

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

Relax.

[@insanebrain3259]

@@Kloppsserialbottlers why relax?? It's the true muggs is one of the bestest producenent ever... Soo u just relax...

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

@@insanebrain3259 Because Pete Rock told you to relax.

[@insanebrain3259]

@@Kloppsserialbottlers pete is great too but muggs is muggs and u can just hate

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

@@insanebrain3259 Not hating.

[@xxxCasperxxx1]

DJ MUGGS AND CYPRESS HILL HAD A ALBUM THAT WHENT 2× Platinum AND STILL MAKING BEATS IN HIS HOUSE...NOW THATS SOME G SHIT RIGHT THERE!!! CYPRESS HILL FOREVER!..

[@kaidoluht1957]

moms house. straight murder

[@creepnasty5370]

This was before any album came out

[@darthryder6744]

​@@creepnasty5370 self titled came out in 91

[@8THAPOSTLE]

man this is classic... nothing like it ... pure hip hop at its finest being created

[@07.buddhi]

"The Turtles" didnt know they created melodic sequence which would be used so often :) 1. The Turtles - You Showed Me (1968) (~2. DJ Muggs (1992) making beats at his home studio~) 2. DJ Food - Turtle soup (1994) 3. The Lightning Seeds - You Showed Me (1996) 4. Supreme Beings of Leisure - Never The Same (2000) 5. DJ Food - Turtle Soup (Wagon Christ Mix) (2003)

[@yungcoetz1678]

de la soul - transmitting live from mars

[@mclal]

lilclout yeah this is the song that the turtles sued them for which cost de la sooo much money..

[@hrmsmk]

So its a DJ Food breakbeat Album?

[@philosophyversuslogic]

The professional! DJ Muggs has always been super awesome!

[@reclused]

Bet he had a few warped records what with that baking LA sun beaming through the window onto the deck

[@bwhuncho055]

Muggs still killing it with that underground scene

[@thugginpopsicle7279]

You favorite producers favorite producer. Let’s not forget that muggs mentored Alchemist. That’s right.

[@thirdshift47]

The Emu SP 1200 is to hip hop history what Fenders are to rock history. Muggs had such a distinct sound back in the early 90s.

[@cfrazier822]

* The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands - White Whale Records (1968).* One of my personal favorite rock albums.

[@Mike-O-Sullivan]

Guy just casually changing the whole f**kin game right there. #GOAT

[@DJURBANBG]

and thats how hip hop is born ..

[@eddibower]

DJ_URBAN_BG hip hop was born in the early seventies over break beats from disco or percussion records. dont forget your history

[@chrismejia7675]

Edward John Bowden yessir. the incredible bongo band. I'm only 26 and 98% of the people I know or who are around me, do not know this. even older cats are surprised with disbelief that I would know

[@anonymousyoutuber9480]

​@@eddibowerWell said, Bobby Rush the bluesman was already making rap like 90s grooves in the late 60s.

[@Terrorricks]

This is the dude who REALLY got me into hip hop back in 91. Before that i was a casual hip hop listener.....I heard Cypress : How I coiuld just kill a man" and it was over...........Dilla might have changed your life but MUGGS changed MINE...He made me a Hip Hop Junkie i am today...........SA all DAY!!!!!!! EAST LOS!!!

[@woundedbuffalobeats1150]

The Goat. Still smashing out tracks to this day.

[@phillipwattsjr.4714]

I guess this is his stab at a PE "Shut 'em Down" remix. He might as well as saved this for a new Cypress song instead, since Pete Rock already bodied it. With that said, I miss Muggs making beats like this. I miss beats like this in general.

[@holy0damn]

dope90, settinguptapes, jindujun records - indie labels for good beats

[@videolab1552]

I might remake it

[@therealnickymac931]

@@videolab1552 have you done it yet?

[@duffman1876]

2022 man,I was a baby dem times lmao ey yo Uncle Muggs you fye for this yo!🔥😎🍻🍺

[@jakobv8]

jeez, these are all killer beats. this comes from someone who never thought he'd appreciate hip hop.

[@30907bng]

Muggs one of my favorites very underrated loved the dusted sound.

[@VoyageOne1]

Sounds like a really early version of “When The Ship Goes Down”

[@J234k-ss4gv]

Just say when the shit goes down my nigga

[@nomoremusic-s3p]

Love your style! Inspiring.

[@alfonsosenatore5820]

Respect from Italy.

[@MrCr80man]

This is how real hip-hop is made. Just a guy in a room havin fun making music... The best music isn't made in a $200,000+ studio. The best music is made when you have limitations because it inspires you to be creative and to find new ways to do things. I would much rather have an SP1200,SL1200, and records than to have a midi keyboard and a Mac Pro.

[@jrobbin24]

I couldn’t agree more I preach this to people all the time and they don’t seem to get it. Limitation creates innovation like inspiration creates imitation

[@jay75.61]

damn... 92, 10th grade for me. them cassette racks were the move. I had 4 of em full hung up just like that too. good stuff

[@gundome12]

I still believe making music is like magic. If you're doing the right kind of magic, people move their bodies. I believe music and art, it's like this sort of thing that gives you some kind of feeling in your spirit.

[@ermannos]

Less is more. Today we have access to millions of sounds/effects/plugin and we get into a writers block.

[@hexum74]

Muggs and Lethal were on a whole nother level! (And still are!). I saw them talkin about this process on Cypress Hill Insane In The Brain on Showtime. 🤘

[@beatsbyblu6374]

I wasn't born til 96... son this a whole vibe

[@TehSyneS]

such dope footage, really dope studio for 92!

[@Usethebanana]

You know what makes me melancholic about this vid? No screens, no computers, no Firewire-drives, no Mac Pro's, no motorized fader mixers, no soundcards, outboard-DSP-processing, no 5 controllers and Moog voyager/Access Virus synth you see in every other video... Just him, an SP1200, an SL1200, some records and 2 speakers with a 10 channel mixer... There's a certain comfort to limitations

[@BDAILEY702]

I see some comments about his equipment. As someone who makes beats as well, I would like to say that it’s not the equipment per se, it’s the producer! Gotta remember these machines were very limited per alchemist/timbaland (look up their interviews they speak of this). It’s just the creativity and how much you practice and know your equipment and or DAW!

[@natemoseley6783]

1:40 😮 please something like that now

[@still20dollas]

Yes, 70s soul records were heavily sampled in the nineties, but there are many producers who've caught the sampling bug in recent years and it just doesn't quite sound the same. There is something about the analog circuitry on the sp-1200 and Mpc 60 that really captured the soul of many of those 70s records. I just sounded fuller and warmer... The sounds filled more sonic space...

[@nukebutcher]

Muggs is a legend. one of the last true beat wizards. way before the days of these guys making beats on FL

[@sciencegod7]

Please go listen to Vdon FL is approaching GOAT status

[@leewightman8619]

U hear a DJ Muggs beat and u know it's one of his beats he's got his own style he's actually a really underated producer

[@DJBASHTHEFUTURE]

Dj Muggs crazy talented, and underrated.

[@alexgalvarez]

This is exactly what I do..When I make beats..Mad respek to muggs...Thanx 4 being alive & puttin it down proper 4 us out here in the struggle ..

[@Giancarlogarayburu]

This is 92!? Damn!

[@gametight79]

Giancarlo Garayburu Yeah man, Hip Hop was fully alive anytime in the early-mid 90's..

[@TheCondorjc]

1:28 that's a sample used on Sunshine Men by Freestyle Fellowship, any L.A. heads out there?

[@eastlos7090]

Hell Yea

[@steveonerisdjesef]

That was my firs thought too. Lol

[@mfknrmxthebangmessiah6012]

That’s You Showed Me by the Turtles. That’s the joint that got De La Soul & Tommy Boy sued.

[@banfield1368]

Lord quas!

[@anonymousyoutuber9480]

​@@banfield1368That could pass for a sample that Madlib would use.

[@samrose3205]

Love the buzzsaw sample there

[@ThomasLynch-ti7wr]

I remember hearing Muggs say he made the 1st Cypress Hill album with one crate of records. I'd like to know what was in that crate.

[@deltahomicide9300]

It's crazy how cohesive it was whether it was latin, blues or funk records.

[@mojangles1]

..that's pretty slick: he let's his mixing/sampling speak for him. Lights up another number..

[@freddyp07ify]

No computers

[@TheBlackSheepO]

wow DJ Muggs! one of the best for me ! he makes very special music

[@tiamonu]

one of the best yet.

[@kwamstermack8939]

Dre and Muggs. I like Muggs because he is the MOSSAD of hip hop💯

[@MarkFive-ro6lu]

I always come back to this video for inspiration. Its just crazy to think that at that time, producers were seen as magicians and what they did was a very unknown process; which is what made it magical. A bunch of nerd tech wizard/ music lovers sitting at a station making amazing sound and mastering the craft without the internet, using hand books and manuels to actually try to figure it out; that is if you didn't have an industry connection to just show you how. That meant going to libraries or reading music magazines to find out how to program drums and understanding mixing. Sampling is an art in itself, and not having any digital visual view of a wave file (on certain machines at the time i believe maybe) but simply listening and chopping the samples on transients and doing it all with limited sample time, and some machines with no undo feature forced precision and creativity...which made it organic and magic like.

[@thatdudee5344]

MAN...

[@andrewbojorquez2477]

I grew up in south gate, all I heard back in da days was melo man ace, kid frost an CH. Classic stuff!

[@proudpolishherbsman2583]

Some legendary shit right here my nigga.

[@robmurray2310]

Awesome how he found that one staccato organ note. Ears zoned im

[@Weezyfan0306]

Talent.

[@lassembleurbeatmacoeur4077]

Legend !

[@beatstrangler]

Man I can whatch him drop beats all day!

[@seydevilchick8]

grand mixer muggs fuck yeah .he,s one of the masters remember 7 a3 i think he was just scratchin and cuttin then. he tore it up in the dmc one of the baddest of all time he never gets the credit but he,s been in the game for long time with true hip hop integrity

[@JustJamalNichols]

one of my favorite producers

[@dnareti]

The classic sp1200!! I need 1

[@craigdavis5407]

Very Underrated!!!!

[@vandenbrink1]

in the lab experimenting creating black sunday is what hes doing. good shit man. lookin fwd to interview

[@beatcomander]

Muggs original master of the mighty SP. Wish he was still making beats with it instead of the MPC. I miss that raw sound.

[@Guitarist888]

What’s wrong with the MPC?

[@Teddy-ez9qq]

1:06 sounds like wu tang ‘shame on a nigga’ sample

[@elmaspison]

this so fucken sweet, pure classic sp1200!! wow non of these computer keyboard beats. just real hip hop!!!!!!

[@EarlGreyBeatz]

great loop.

[@TEACHYOUTEEWHY]

Peace to DJ Muggs from North Trenton, New Jersey.

[@craigdavis5407]

A Hidden Gem!!!!

[@rioguttaful]

Shid dj muggs still making some raw fire beats 2022 I thought was a rapper Lol

[@MrCr80man]

Every time I go to make a beat, I watch this video for inspiration :D

[@jamescrumbs]

He's also got part of Albert King's "You sure drive a hard bargain".

[@drumatic]

muggs killin' it on the OG SP1200... so incredible!!!

[@MrCr80man]

I'm surprised he never did anything with this beat. Whatever the song would turn out to be I would still listen to it.

[@maschinetrax]

home studios at the 90s, the hell on earth

[@TOMMYOLA1]

oh yeah and i love the "test" at the end with bringin in the chuck d record jus to hear dat shyt wit a voice, nice!

[@joeyvillarreal2803]

at 1:46 when he adjusts his stool and gets comfortable.........shit just hit the fan.

[@madstylesnz]

Best of the best hip hop DJs

[@boombap28]

totally dope..its cool to catch a glimpse of what Muggs was doing back then.. thanks for the clip!

[@midnightcassettelibrary5171]

Muggs was able to squeeze some much musical juice out of simple short loops in the 90’s. Really thrived working within the constraints of relatively short sample time on the gear of the time. Early Cypress Hill and Funkdoobiest albums smack hard. Not to take anything away from what he did after…just wanted to note how hard he pushed the SP1200 to Its limits. Many were using an s950 rack with the SP for sample time Muggs was able to make entire tracks with the SP alone.

[@dpalaoro]

whats on top of the SP?

[@midnightcassettelibrary5171]

@@dpalaoro hard to the details clearly but I’m going to guess a small mixer like Mackie 1602. There seems to be an 8 input snake cable from it to the SP. he’s already got that big console in there but I would image the smaller mixer offers some convenience. That’s my guess anyways peace!

[@dpalaoro]

@midnightcassettelibrary5171 Yeah, a mixer. I think you're right.

[@xZASPx]

A legend in tha making right there

[@RekoneInkings]

This is a piece of HH History :)

[@devilforkedent924]

Im DJ RoCkMaStEr RIZ...KRS ONES former tour dj..and im giving you a thumbs up..i got 808s.. 303 basslines..mpcs..mpks...motifs..but sp1200 is legendary

[@djobnoxious6407]

You may not like it but this is the peak human form :3

[@lukas_jay243]

Man. I'd pay cash to go back to when he made the beat for Stoned Raiders on Temples of Boom. He has that instrumental stashed away somewhere and I'm desperate for it lol