Red Bull Big Tune Comes to Chicago
by Robert Pyon
n the night of August 21 st, The Metro was host to the Chicago leg of the Red Bull Big Tune, a nationwide competition designed to showcase the talent of up-and-coming hip-hop producers. Out of the innumerable producers who sent their beats in for consideration, only twelve were selected to display their skills to the crowd. By night's end, only two would move on to the nationals held in New York City.
Rob Bates, one of the twelve hopefuls competing that night was added to the roster at the last minute after another producer dropped out. Bates was standing in line with his friends when Jonathan Moore, host of the competition, asked if he had any beats on him. As luck would have it, Bates did. Impressed with what he heard, Moore added him to the list of competitors, much to the surprise of Bates and his friends.
Rising producer Jake One manned the main set of turntables on stage, pumping out textured rhythms and beats that the crowd grooved to as they waited for the competition to begin. Once the theater was filled from floor to balcony, the competition got under way.
The rules were simple -- two producers would trade musical blows, leaving the crowd to choose the winner.
In the first round, C-Sick's ground-shattering loops went up against the tag-team antics of The Flyboyz. Their antics, however, which included flinging money (fake, probably) into a roaring crowd, weren't enough to move on to the next round.
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