iStandard Producer Showcase - Chicago

About a week and a half ago, GWHH was a proud sponsor of the successful two-day event at the Tini Martini in Chicago: the iStandard Producer Showcase. Local producers entered a competition, showcasing their skills in front of esteemed judges, Ken Lewis (multi-platinum Grammy winning producer/mixer/writer for Kanye West, Usher, John Legend, more), Skid (A&R Bad Boy Records), and Prolyfic (producer for Lupe Fiasco).

The video above is a compilation of some of the talented producers on hand, some hip hop performances during intermissions, and the judge's critiques. Producers were able to play 5 beats, and were then scored and critiqued by the judges. The final round however, consisted of a 3-beat head to head showdown with one last tie breaker beat! Big ups to our guy Blu Blkr (Of Krewella) who scored the runner-up spot of the competition by the narrowest of margins. He, along with winner ILL Brown, will be traveling to New York City to compete in the national  iStandard Producer Showcase finals. Btw, you may be familiar with Blu Blkr's last beat at the very end of the video from the behind the scenes studio session of "Monster Eyes" by Krewella and S-Preme. Still greatly anticipating that record and more to come from Krewella that will surely hit GWHH in the near future.

Finally, we would like to thank our guys J. Hatch & Don Di Napoli of iStandard Producers for putting everything together, and J. Hatch's great hosting ability in keeping everything moving so smoothly! We would also like to thank the judges, the producers, and our fellow sponsors of the event and look forward to doing more positive events like this in the future! Up and coming rappers and producers check out iStandard for your chance to be involved with big opportunities from the music industry. Enjoy!

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AOK, Skid, J. Hatch, Don Di Napoli, Ken Lewis, 2ew Gunn Ciz

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~ Max G.