Travis Barker’s Let the Drummer Get Wicked Drops Today [Download Now]
The Blink 182 musician links with Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Wiz Khalifa and more, for his first-ever mixtape…
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XXL is proud to present Travis Barker and DJ Whoo Kid’s debut mixtape, Let the Drummer Get Wicked for free download. [Download Now]
Featuring appearances by Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Game, Lupe Fiasco, Wiz Khalifa, Royce Da 5’9”, Waka Flocka Flame, Lloyd Banks, J. Cole, Clipse and Tech N9ne, among others, the 19-track disc is produced predominantly by the Blink 182 rep.
Let the Drummer Get Wicked is just the prelude to Barker’s official album, Give the Drummer Some, scheduled to drop on March 15.—XXL Staff
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First.. never heard a mixtape that focuses on the drummer.. this outta be cool 2 listen to
TRAVIS BARKER STOLE THE WHOLE THING FROM KONTRABAND MUZIK! NOT COOL!!! GO BACK TO YOUR BLINK182 DAYS AND STOP STEALING!!!
Travis Barker stole PLAYING DRUMS from KONTRABAND MUZIK???? U retarded.
He stole the title of the album and a song D-Bag.
Ya man he totally ripped off Kontraband music. Just listen to they’re song “Let the drummer get wicked” and then listen to “Can a drummer get some” by travis barker, total rip off. Kontraband met with travis’ manager a while back to shop their demo and he claimed they were “whack”. Lo and behold a few months later travis barker comes out with a mixtape with the same name as one of their songs, and a single that sounds pretty much the same as their previous song “Let the drummer get wicked”. Coincidence? No F***ing way. He’s biting Kontraband’s style and he knows it. Don’t report on this fool XXL, he’s not a musician. Musician’s actually come up with their own original ideas, they don’t steal from others.
Update: Here is the response from James Ingram, received February 25th, 2011:
“I can tell you that the bulk of Travis’ song was recorded in 2008 prior to his plane crash. There are timestamped and dated files from that time that really would backup the news, but I hope you take my word for it at this point. Hell, I have email chains of rough mixes and such from that time as well. I hate to burst their bubble, but Kontraband seems like they are a little uninformed on this one. On another note, as far as “Let the Drummer Get Wicked”, Travis is not to credit for that, neither is Kontraband, but James Brown. Its a rather famous sample thats been repeated over the years, Public Enemy comes to mind. Its also heavily used by DJ’s due to its breakbeat nature. Using “Let the Drummer Get Wicked” as a title for a FREE mixtape is more of an ode and shout out to people who have done it before. I don’t want to sound like I’m bagging on Kontraband, but I find it almost laughable that they think they have a case here.”
In a later email, Ingram (who was very cordial and cooperative) had this to say:
“I realize I will have a slightly skewed or biased point of view, but I hope the tone of what I said didn’t/doesn’t sound like I’m attacking the band. I’m not trying to bash anyone per se, it just doesn’t add up to me. From a copyright perspective, naming songs similar or even exact phrases really isn’t grounds for infringement either. I could call a new record “The White Album” and the Beatles couldn’t come after me for it. As just an example, the Troggs classic “Wild Thing” and Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing”. Same name, different songs. I’m sure you get the gist of it.
Similar style? I guess so, rapping over drum and live guitars/bass. ”Ripoff”? Not really, the timeframe doesn’t make sense, or the composition for that matter. Different notes, different progression, different lyrics.”
And here is Nate’s response to what Ingram said:
“That’s fine…and accurate about James Brown and Public Enemy, but the finished product is undeniable, and we know what we sent them. We expected somebody to come out and say something from his camp. If they’ve got it timestamped, then great. They can feel free to prove it. Hell of a coincidence, though.
Our case is that we sent it to his management team, who said they didn’t like it and then he comes out 8 months later and releases it? we were on the radio the other day, and well be putting this out soon, but the songs lay on top of each other identically, and have the same fills. Our song was out first, as well. So, they can say whatever they want. We’ve had people writing us that have heard the two and feel the same way.”
So there you go. Now you have both sides of the story. The rest of this post is as it appeared when originally published.
travis is my fav. drummer and he influenced me to drum and make music, and is good at what he does but some of u suck his dick to much and some of u hate for the wrong reasons. he has come hell of a long way and u guys wanna hate cause he stole something? i bet u dipshits sucks weezys dick and his one album almost all of the beats are stolen… and i bet a couple of ur fav. artists stole something for their music… i dont care if u dont like travis that doesnt bother me but for the reasons ur crying about (NT COOL, YOU MAN, Kurt P, and Justin, u people are tards…
Nah man actually I don’t listen to Wayne because I like to listen to artists with actual talent, not stoner losers who can’t come up with anything more clever than a line like “Like ranch I dip”. And I’m not making shit up about travis barker ripping of Kontraband. Do some research and you’d realize that. And what are you talking about saying that quote “we probably suck weezy’s dick”?. I didn’t even mention Wayne. The way your talkin about Travis Barker it sounds like your the one who needs to get off the dick. By the way dude, if you must argue with people and hate on them at least do so articulately. However, judging from your post it seems pretty unlikely that you would understand what a big word like that means. Do your research before you just start running your mouth. I didn’t come on here because I have some kind of grudge against travis barker and I want to hate on him. I do believe that he’s a really talented drummer, probably one of the best in popular music nowadays. I just think it’s whack that he’s as big as he is and still feels the need to bite someone else’ style. I thought he was better than that.
Good tape.Good looking out 2 XXL for giving my boy some shine,he is talented!
R.I.P. DJ AM! Keep up the good work Barker.
128 kbps? Word…? And no tags? :( fo sho…
At least 192kbps, 128 sounds a lilbit strange on some points -.-
Yeah!!! Adam Rest in peace!!
Travis & whoo 4 ever!!
TWOITALY SUPPORT TRAVIS BARKER!
come on xxl, up your kps and atleast lable your songs, its fucking long to rename all the songs
THIS!
First off, fuck you Tech 9 people. Get off a nigga dick already.
Secondly, Why can you not label the fucking songs you bums!? You’re a professional company. act like it.
TECH TECH……N9NE N9NE…………..
fuck you hater! you need to get on the tech n9ne bus boy………….cuz he the only one on the whole cd that is a millionaire from independant status, he got real fans, thats why everytime xxl post one of his songs or anything with him on it, it gets the most comments, way more than your favorite rappers rapper, or whoever else……..dont hate the player hate the game…………you old MITCH BADE (bitch made) mutha fucka………….
when he say TECH! ya’ll say N9NE!!!!!!
…….TAKE A LICK OF THIS, JELLYSICKLE SICKNESS
TOO MUCH WILL MAKE YOU SICK……..
….THAT DONT MEAN YOU GOTTA HATE, JEALOUSY’S A SICKNESS, TAKE ANOTHER LICK BITCH……………
–tech n9ne ft. e40-jellysickle
get on it hater, the whole song is about you, mufin……maybe you would’nt be mufin if you got that dick out your mouth……..DWAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRACK TITLES!!!!
you man are funny, u get a legitimately free mixtape, with exclusives from a wide range from some of d best in the game…. and what do u do? WHY THE FUCK AIN’T YA’LL WRITE NAMES!!! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? u guys are getting way 2 used 2 free music. u might have get in a time machine and go back to the time when if you wanted music for free, you’d to borrow the tape off your boy, and sit there with the double deck tape recorder, making a copy that sounds like shit, and get maaaaaaaaddddd hiss every time u try turn the speakers up! This shit is way too hard 2 b free, i 4 1 am grateful. blink are cool, but I’ve never heard anything 2 suggest that travis would be capable of this. so far lupe fiasco and x2daz went in.
try looking for a band named The Transplants. Travis plays there, a lot of hip hop influence
Tech N9ne!!!
tech n9ne hell yeah. whens the song with bun b come out?
TECH N9NE!!!!!!!! THATS WHATS UP
TECH N9NE!!!!!!! That’s that good shit right there!