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The Evolution of Music Source Separation – Open Research to Real-World Audio

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The Evolution of Music Source Separation - Open Research to Real-World Audio

Updated 3rd August, 2025 Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive technical survey of deep learning-based Music Source Separation (MSS). We trace the evolution of the field, beginning with early statistical methods and advancing to today’s dominant neural network paradigms. We conduct a detailed architectural and mathematical analysis of two seminal approaches: the spectrogram-masking paradigm, exemplified … Read more

June, 2025 Top 10 Genre Leaderboard Winners

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Big shoutout to all the artists lighting up the BeatstoRapOn community! 🌟 Check out our June 2025 Winners—straight fire across Hip Hop, Trap, Freestyle, Afrobeat, R&B, and more. The leaderboard tracks artist activity and chart positions from January, March, and April 2025, highlighting recent releases, new projects, and chart updates during those months. Billboard rankings … Read more

Lofi Hip Hop Beats Guide

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Lofi Hip Hop Beats Guide

Start with a hiss. A vinyl crackle. Not with an answer, but with a vibe. You know the one. You’ve heard it—3 AM, headphones on, apartment humming, scrolling through Reddit instead of sleeping. Or maybe you’re on the 5 train, city sliding past, lo-fi’s gentle knock bleeding through your earbuds while you avoid eye contact … Read more

Open Mic Etiquette Atlanta Hip Hop

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Open Mic Etiquette Atlanta Hip Hop

A Tuesday night on Edgewood. The club’s too dark for comfort, the lights a little too bright. Outside, it’s all blue vape haze and scuffed Jordans, the wet sound of someone just missed by a bottle. Inside, that MC’s voice is fighting to be heard above a sound system built for somewhere twice the size—this … Read more

Boost Live Show Attendance With Tiktok

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Boost Live Show Attendance With Tiktok

It starts in the back row—always. Someone, hoodie up, thumb already poised, not really watching the opener, just flicking TikTok, head half in the feed, half in the moment. Next thing: a hook hits, a flash of phone light, some snippet—raw, jagged, 14 seconds that somehow say it all. And before the night’s even over, … Read more

Merch Kit for Independent Rappers

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Merch Kit for Independent Rappers

Strap in. This isn’t a merch “tips” list. This is a smoke signal, a late-night cipher, a messy, sweat-stained dispatch from the cracked concrete of independent rap.We’re talking Merch Kits for Indie Rappers—not as a polite side hustle, but as a battlefield, a rite of passage, a hustle that might—if you do it right—actually matter. … Read more

How To Promote Your First Hip Hop Show

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How To Promote Your First Hip Hop Show

The dingy backroom of the Star & Garter still smells like yesterday’s smoke and somebody’s half-spilled cough syrup cocktail. You and your crew are arguing over whose cracked iPhone is going to run the door. First show. Zero budget. Five MCs on the bill. Forty chairs. Two working monitors—if you jiggle the quarter-inch just right. … Read more