MUSIC

Warehouse Live presents Space City Beat Battle - Episode IV: The Last Hope.  With Jett I. Masstyr + Black Rose. Highly touted producer !llmind, the beatsmith behind tracks from Little Brother, 50 Cent, Erykah Badu & more is set to judge Space City Beat Battle™ IV (SCBB). SCBB is the premiere music production competition in Houston, Texas.

Once a competitor in The Beat Society, one of the first live producer competitors in existence, !llmind is now a sought-after producer and joins a list of guest judges including S1, producer of Kanye West’s “Power” & contributor to the super-album Watch The Throne with Jay-Z & Kanye West among others. Joining !llmind in the guest chair would be Free of noteworthy Houston rap group The Niceguys. Free’s production has been honed since his days as a student at the University of Houston and within the group he has been publicized on various hip-hop blogs and mags including the cover of the Houston Press, 2Dopeboyz, NahRight, The Smoking Section & more.

The rules for the beat battle are as follows; sixteen competitors come together in a single elimination tournament form playing their best instrumentals for a time period of one minute. After the minute has passed, two judges will gauge the winner and if their discussions end in a stalemate, the vote them goes to a crowd response. Founded by producers Ryan “Jett I. Masstyr” Rayford, Oscar “The Black Rose” Ramirez and media maverick Trevor G. Piper of T. Piper Media Creative Agency, the event has grown in popularity by showcasing emerging beatsmiths.

The fourth edition of the SCBB will occur on September 24th, 2011 inside of the Green Room at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel.

For more information about the battle, you can visit the following links below:

http://www.spacecitybeatbattle.com
http://www.twitter.com/scbeatbattle