DeKalb Police website’s badass beats inspires badass album
January 23, 2009 at 10:00 am by Thomas Wheatley in News
If you’ve ever visited the DeKalb County Police Department’s website, you know it’s a treasure trove of lo-fi rap loops that surely scare the bejesus out of criminals and confuse the hell out of taxpayers. But the tunes always made us smile. ytcracker — the “undisputed king of nerdcore” — heard the beats and found inspiration.
Preston at Kiss Atlanta writes:
ytcracker… nerdcore rapper, hacker, and founder of Digital Gangster (you can thank that board and it’s members for the hack of Miley Cyrus)… went and recorded an entire album based on the music from the DPD website. Even more impressive, he did it in less than 10 hours, it’s profanity free, and the lyrics are fucking hillarious. My favorite, hands down, is “executive_command.html”
Six profanity-free tracks, each one inspired by the different part of the site where the loops could be heard. Awesome.
The department has since removed the loops from its website, but they’re preserved for time eternal on the Internet. Listen to ‘em here. A free download of the entire album is available here.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
The album is TITE! 5.0 should be bumpin it!
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 am
The music doesn’t suck like I expected. Wish the Police website still had the beats up though.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:23 am
that’s a nastey lil album
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Where did the DCPD beats go :/ R.I.P
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
VIP is my favorite.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
YeEEaaahh!!!
This here crunk boiii
I. C. P. !!!!
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
That’s great