This morning, HipHopDX.com, Crooks & Castles, Karmaloop and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League have announced the “J.U.S.T.I.C.E. 4 Crooks” contest. Posted in HipHopDX’s Giveaways section, this allows aspiring (and established) emcees to download an instrumental made by the Grammy Award-winning production team who has made hits for Rick Ross, Young Jeezy and Bun B.
The song must be submitted by June 27, 2011. Five lucky contestants will be determined by the producers and DX staff, with fans voting on a winner. The winner will receive the song, licensed to be used on any project (with more prizes possibly announced). The second and third-place winners will receive clothing packages from Crooks & Castles.
(June 15)
UPDATE: Crooks & Castles has extended the submission deadline until July 5, 2011 at 11:59PM PST.
(June 27)
UPDATE #2: The five semi-finalists have been announced: They are as follows:
Sean Perry – “Done Seen It All”
B-EZ – “Everyday”
M.I. – ” Maybe I”
Camden – “Dreamers”
Tre Seven – “CrookLife”
Stay tuned to HipHopDX early next week to hear the semi-finalist submissions and begin voting for the winner.
ummmmmm yeah soooooo they aren’t that hot for this to matter, hence the big fat “0” in the comments. now if we were talking about timbaland, boi1da, or even dre or premo. polow da don, swizzy. but justice league? all of they hot stuff is just replays of samples.
clearly your a mainstream rap listener n not a part of hip hop culture
^^^ Negatory batman!! You wrong, buddy. I listen to it ALL! Im a DJ. But the best producers to use for a contest to where a free beat is a prize would be a MAINSTREAM producer would it not? Thats why i listed mainstream producers. and thats why justice league (mainstream producers) are doing the contest. who would want to be in a contest to win a beat from someone that they never heard of? use your brain.
JUSTICE league produced the entire Maybach series.. not to mention like half of Deeper than Rap. just cus noone knows who they are doesn’t mean they aren’t incredibly dope. And just cus your a DJ doesn’t mean your not incredibly idiotic. Use ur brain.
J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League is legendary are they not? are they not one of the most cinematic group of producers you heard?
^^^ “legendary”? For what? what have they done that has never been done before? All of the maybach music songs either contained a sample or contained a replayed sample. So NO, they aren’t “legendary” GTFOH. You must be one of them. They definitely think highly of themselves but then once you hear the original sample, you’re like “WTF”.
What’s “legendary” about replaying someone else’s genius? That ain’t nothing new.
Now when they come up with some ALL ORIGINAL music from scratch that sounds like maybach music, then we can talk.
Stop D-riding! Well you’re probably one of them, LOL.
“just cause you spin, don’t mean you know what dope is” – EV. It’s funny how all these comments keep wanting to hate, when that’s not what it’s all about. Who doesn’t use samples when producing now days? Unless your droppin shit on FL9, or you know how to play instruments JUST LIKE JL SHOWED IN THE VIDEO, a beat is a beat. Everybody gots their own opinion, which is cool. Mine: JL was asked to make a beat to rep Crooks’n’Castles for the contest, and that’s exactly what was made.
Good luck to all the contestants. Hope we get to see some finalists sooner than later.
the beat they are giving away is wack. probably a throw away they had…it’s not that it’s not professional and musically crisp…it’s just boring. It’s not even an album filler. Wack wack wack.
MOJITO GOT THIS!!
Lucky what up??!!! FALLOUT GOT THIS BRUH!
Donnie whats good!
problem is the beat is wack as shit
yo thats faulty some ppl rushed n worked hard to submit it on the 27th n now we got an extension u know what..may the best man win or woman on monster or demons or hobits or lions juss kidding.
PROFIT – “Somethin’ About You” – Official music video (Bangout Records) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tubVTurKvGk
My submission:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5S4A_8kaOs
“The Elegy” by NAK (Justice 4 Thieves contest track)
wont let me download :/
MY SUBMISSION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeE3b9-eSIA I GO BY THE NAME OF P.S.3 I NEED SOME FEEDBACK
i enjoyed your version.
Phillip and Nak Pretty good man.
Nak I like ure energy but I aint like all the punch in takes.
I dont know why yall aint use the whole beat.
I used the whole thing.
If they dont pick me they gone regret it.
Theres a story How BIG did a contest for stretch Armstrong and he loss. They guy they chose was never heard of again and well u Know what BiG did.
I live in Florida now so that would be a good look..I think they based in Miami or Tampa.. Justice League that is.
Its fucked up I found about the contest a day before the deadline..Submitted it and then they extended the deadline.
Good Luck Yall
My album droping sometime in august. I should be performing soon.
Well, from the 2 I just heard right here, its gonna be a preference of subject matter. this beat is clean. if it was just between the 3 of us, its no doubt i got it but its more entries being made i know so its just wait n c. youtube.com/styles950 soundclick.com/mrfoulstyles just so you can get a vision of what i submitted. good luq 2 all & please, save yourselves by not talking sliq cuz I WILL END YOUR MC CAREER B4 IT STARTS! & that aint just talk… @ shamba… u 2? i did my shit in 1 day also then they extended it… fuqd up aint it?
Damn, they extended the contest through the holiday? I’m still missing sleep from recording through the weekend, and trying to make the deadline. Got my joint in Sunday at after 1am…had to be to work at 6am in the morning. Its all good, I would do it all over again, but now the lazy mufukahs that dont give a damn about a deadline can put that extra time in. I might just do the same and re submit…fuk it…may the best win!
I wonder if DJ Tazamatic knows Justice League has album placements for Young Jeezy, T.I., Keyshia Cole, Lloyd Banks, Rick Ross, Mary J. Blige (they won a GRAMMY for it), The Game, Plies, Young Buck, J. Holiday, Lil Scrappy, BG, Fabolous, Maino, Bun B, and Trina.
I’d say they’re pretty mainstream.
Btw, Prote-J will make the top 5 of this contest.
Hopefully they get to listen to all the submissions. Ive heard some great songs submitted by other artist that are remarkable I just pray theres get listened to.
I think the beat is dope, just listened to a few submissions and I think everyone did their thing. May the best man win.
My submission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ryaLylJmRI
Good luck to all of the artists who submitted songs for the contest! Check mine out: Elementz Emcee “The Hitman” at http://www.reverbnation.com/elementzemcee.
Peace.
one of the few decent ones i’ve heard… good shit mayne
Thanks bro.
S/o to errybody who posted a song we going to find out soon who made check my song out just uploaded the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MnFUhscVGU
That shit sucks dog sorry. and how u gonna act like u in the recording booth with no headphones on hahahahaha smh and u did ur chorus on the wrong part. no hate tho
We did a short video to our submission… Don’t wana sound big headed but … It’s pretty dope…check it out on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zln5kPoWbs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
stop posted ur shit on ur fucking site amatures. its disrepsect to the winners. its taking away from the point. now the winner gets a track a bunch a wack niggas already ruined.stick to yalls day job
Thanks!
when do we find out who won?
Finally the finalist…Congratulations…looks like all males but here’s one female submission you should def check out…may change your mind about female mc’s….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCr5X5ArFE
yo big ups to all the artist in this
competition best of luck to all yall. we all got talent we jus need people to believe in our shit. keep doin your thang.
need beats and hooks? click below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e42iKGVcPQ
I don’t know about this contest something just doesn’t add up to me, they totally picked people who have some type of industry connections, no hard feelings tho, but I think this contest was some sucker shit IMO.
Check this out….Maybe it was maybe it wasn’t fair..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCr5X5ArFE
give it a listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dnj62vqavs
tre seven’s got crooks gear in a lot of his videos and shit. he also promotes it on his twitter. this comp looks like an inside job.
This contest was retarded. Totally not legitimate. Fuck justice league.
On the contrary this was a legit contest…My dude B-Ez did what everybody else did…submitted his track and got selected…and he doesnt know anybody from Justice League or HiphopDx…step your rap game up homie…
Didnt get picked but hey cant wait to here what was picked…..this is what i did..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jwIqDgEMFE
Didnt get picked but hey cant wait to here what was picked…..this is what i did..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jwIqDgEMFE
Much respect to the finalists. Regardless of how they were chosen, they made it. And on that note, follow me @ twitter.com/bashwon and subscribe to my channel youtube.com/bashwon
peace!
SHOUT TO CAMDEN, LOVE THE SONG BRUH! KEEP DOIN YA THING! H.P. STAND UP
Im most def going to take the highroad much respect to those who won. Im “EAGER” to hear what these songs sound like. Im sure there dope. Im going to post my version I was waiting to see who won before I posted but I will post today hopefully you all enjoy.
Congrats to the 5 finalists! These submissions better be dope lol!
congrats to the finalists. on some real shit though, i felt this dude must’ve got overlooked…thought this was the winner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY_o-x_9F5Q&feature=related
Check out “Heart of the Streets” by Veritas Absolute – http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9125988