Hip-Hop Legends NFT X CRAFTW3RK™ (Beat creates with a MPC 3000 by JulesBeats)

The AKAI MPC 3000 has arrived in Rari City. Created 30 years ago, the AKAI Music Production Center is still vital to today’s popular music. Meet the unassuming drum machine that changed music forever!

In the late 1980s, producers and musicians began turning more and more to drum machines in order to create beats and loops without using a full band. More importantly, however, these machines served the needs of a changing musical style where the beats themselves — no longer the thankless work of a drummer sitting at the back of a stage — would begin to work more intimately alongside the vocals, and even shine on their own. At the same time, hip-hop musicians also began making wider use of sampler machines, which allowed them to take pieces of music from an external source and incorporate it into their own tracks.

By the mid-’90s, the MPC 3000 was an instrument of choice of the era’s top producers, such as Pete Rock, Dr. Dre and Q-Tip. And of course, J Dilla was also on that list.

Rare Original Series AKAI MPC 3000 (Limited Edition). There are only 14 minted AKAI MPC 3000 (Limited Edition) collectible cards.