Mick Jenkins Drum Kit Today
Apply light distortion or bit-crushing to the drum bus to give it a "sampled from vinyl" grit.
Why does Jenkins favor this particular drum sound? The primary function is . A dry, tight drum kit leaves copious room in the frequency spectrum for the two most important elements of his music: his voice and the bassline. In a trap beat, the 808 kick and hi-hats fill the entire low-to-mid range, leaving little room for subtlety. Jenkins’s kit, conversely, operates in the mid-range frequencies. The snare’s “thwack” lives around 2-5 kHz, the kick’s punch around 60-100 Hz, leaving the sub-bass (often a simple, sine-wave bass guitar or Moog synth) to rumble unimpeded below. This allows Jenkins’s deep, resonant voice to sit in the “pocket” of the mix, ensuring every syllable of his dense, polysyllabic rhymes is audible.
On subsequent projects like The Healing Component (2016) and Pieces of a Man (2018), Otis McLean refined this approach, moving toward even drier, more programmed-sounding live drums. The genius of McLean’s work is that he often records real drum kits but then quantizes and gates them so tightly that they exist in a liminal space between a human performance and a machine loop. The result is a robotic precision that still carries the overtones and harmonics of wood, skin, and metal. This duality is crucial: it represents the conflict between human emotion and the cold systems of power that Jenkins’s lyrics often critique. mick jenkins drum kit
Use closed hi-hats with a low-pass filter to remove the harsh high-end sizzle.
The kick drum in a Mick Jenkins-style beat is the anchor. It is rarely a clicky, electronic trap kick. Instead, it is usually a thumping, acoustic sample that has been processed to sit heavy in the low end without muddying the mix. It needs to compete with the often-busy sample work (jazz piano chords, soul vocal chops) and win. When producers look for a Mick Jenkins drum kit, they are looking for kicks that punch through the speakers with a sense of physical weight. Apply light distortion or bit-crushing to the drum
In a genre dominated by the sterile click of the Roland TR-808, Jenkins insists on the human error: the stick click, the uneven hi-hat splash, the slight rush of the snare on the chorus. Whether it is the dusty Ludwig of The Water[s] or the punchy Yamaha of The Patience , his drum kit serves one purpose: to remind you that there is a human being behind the rhythm.
Avoid "clicky" transient kicks; look for sounds that mimic a vintage 22-inch kick drum. A dry, tight drum kit leaves copious room
Mick Jenkins’ sound is a study in contrast. It is organic yet hard-hitting, jazzy yet aggressive. Unlike the trap music dominating the charts—which relies heavily on programmed hi-hat rolls and sine-wave 808s—the Jenkins aesthetic draws from the boom-bap tradition but updates it for the modern era. It sits in a pocket similar to contemporaries like Joey Bada$$ or the early TDE sound (Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul), but with a darker, more fluid undercurrent.
Producers looking for specific kits often turn to high-quality "breaks" and "one-shots" from collaborators: Powers Audio Free Sampler : Includes 10 hard-hitting drum breaks (Boom Bap, Soul, Jazz, Funk-inspired) crafted by , who has production credits for Mick Jenkins.
The second function is . Jenkins’s music is rarely anthemic or celebratory in a traditional sense. It is often brooding, anxious, and confrontational. The drum kit reflects this. The absence of splashy cymbals or complex fills creates a sense of rhythmic stillness—a coiled spring. When a crash cymbal finally appears on a track like “Spread Love,” it feels like an event, a small victory. The drums’ restraint mirrors Jenkins’s lyrical persona: a watchful, critical observer who does not waste energy on unnecessary flash.
Is there any way to track Kodi addon updates in real time? If so, could you please publish them? Frankly, the only ones that work properly are the newly updated. For me, it’s a constant in and out installation process in my effort to keep the newest updates installed. I appreciate your site.
The addons from the Cman Builds Repo have been abandoned (Halcyon, EasyFlix, etc.).
Umbrella is excellent with Real-Debrid, fast, lots of providers & excellent streaming quality.
ScrubsV2 really does work, a lot of free working links. No need for another addon at this moment for me !
erm only when there is free links 720 resolutions, sometimes 1080 and lot’s of broken links… debrid is the way
Has anybody been successful in getting openvpn (zomboided) to work in LinreELEC 12.2? I was surprised that the developer stopped supporting zomboided a few years ago. Is there a successor to it?
I use IPVanish and it cannot connect because encrypted keys and pre-keys are not present.
I got it to work. I’ve been using zombie Ed for so many years I didn’t realize that it is no longer needed.
BUT! After upgrading to LibreELEC 12.2 and installing my usual addons none of them found any working links. I scrapped it all and reverted to a 3 year old version of LibreELEC and got working links again, but not many of them.
Not like ‘the good old days’ when you got hundreds of working links.
I tried installing Kodi on both Windows and Linux boxes but got the same result so I’m pretty sure the problem is in Kodi.
Only Elementum works for me with free links. Nothing else.
Homelander works good. All links are good, especially with real debird
What happened to tvOne? Not tvOne11 or 112, but the original tvOne? It was working fine up until a couple days ago (May 3 / 2025) but for the past 2 days I try to open it and I get an error (check the logs for details).
It’s on Mad Titan now
Not worth a dime. don’t use a VPN, or debrid no help at all.
scrub2 fail
22/4/25 scrubs not working on new shows and new episodes even with vpn on and asgard not working properly all need an update
Umbrella with RD has been the only reliable app for us in months. Scrubs is my #2 after Asgard & Seren both took a dump pretty much. Serens non-stop pop ups forced me to disable it, hope they fix that soon or its going bye bye. Constant syncing with no setting to limit/stop that popup . No other apps show such annoying messages like that, it sucks so make it stop maybe we’ll use it again. If not soon like others do I’ll dump it out too.
Asgard was great but rarely hits now & the tv search fails to work properly but movies are still a go. OneClick & K19’s hit/miss, was also great a yr ago.
Idk what happened to Kodi but clearly most of its providers have simply gone now. So I pay to support providers now yet we keep getting less & less of a viewing experience? Most old movies, even with well known actors no longer play now, assuming its younger providers who dont care about them but idk really? Many old syndicated TV shows that used to always play rarely do anymore.
New series tv shows tend to lag behind 1-2 weeks before they’ll work interrupting your viewing experience. Still waiting on providers to post Moonshiners, its two weeks behind at least. I tried to watch S14-E11 Strange Brew again early this morning, it cut me off in middle & the only servers I hit all vanished once again. I changed IP, cleaned/reloaded provider list, still no luck, over 20 just poof vanished man.
Clearly the best of Kodi is far behind them now days. But here I am looking for a new magical app to watch tv again.
Nothing new though, I pulled most of these apps out (a few times) I don’t mention having that are shown on this list. Crew always works a week or two at best then no longer works again so I stopped loading it.
Once an App no longer works after about 3 weeks I don’t let it take up my space. I’ll R^R it time to time but that’s gotten so old I remove them until desperation sets in & I try them again.
Peace
I just keep rotating. There’s usually something working at all times. The key is, like you said, dump them as soon as they quit working. The problem, since it is free, is they are not updated often enough. There seems to be a good guy, bad guy war going on behind the scenes. I think the addons are doing pretty good considering the constant battle.
Great list! I’m excited to try out some of the addons you recommended. The poll is a nice touch too—really helps to see what others are enjoying. Thanks for the updates!
real debrid is ordered to take down copyrighted righted materialen and no link work anymore.Trued alldebrid and worked a short time,. ow also nothing, tried simply-debrid also negatieve resultaten.
is the big takedown now?
not getting any of that, althtough have problems with seren, but thats a coding error string, i don’t download though, if i wanted something id get it from other sources, i have noticed crew was getting a bit skinny on links.
i concur, may have to use other debrid service, but ill wait and see before i buy a sub, im sure there will be a work around as it’s the bread and buttter of debrid services, pity about real-debrid though.
The Crew has not worked this year 2024. It is only a Real Debrid Addon. All your Free Links posted do not work! Is KODI DEAD?
then pay for real-debrid as it works perfectly, free links were always hit or miss anyway, crew works seren works.
real-debrid is cheap, as for crew seren etc no free links, try scrubs then, or get in the fast lane with debrid.
Try “LOOK Movies” add on. Free TV shows and moview, works well. If you don’t mind doing the CAPTCHAs… (I prefer RD and The Crew, but when I can’t find an episode or movie on there it’s usually free on LOOK!)
ScrubsV2 received an update yesterday and is still finding a LOT of FREE WORKING LINKS ! Great ! Thanks to the developer and his friends !
Scrubs V2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5Stars!
out of the 10 list 6 are now wanting money.
what ever happened to all free links, talk about ruining Kodi!!!!
Hey FYI, as of today “The Loop” addon I do not think is working. It is missing a lot of links. No links for the UFC fight night, no links for the Mayweather vs Gotti 3 fight either.
Please, Please, Please…designate the Homelander addon as Paid Links Only, otherwise it gives users like me looking for free links, false hope.
This list is becoming next to useless. Most of Kodi’ addons are making the switch to Real Debrid and the addons supplying free links are dwindling down daily. If I wanted to pay to stream movies and TV shows I would bite the bullet and pay for Prime or Netflix, exactly what I was trying to avoid by using programs like Kodi. Goodbye Kodi, it was fun while it lasted.
Ok so go pay then. BYE
The price of real debris sh!ts all over any service
hmm $3 for Kodi plus RD to get every movie and TV show ever made at your fingertips all commercial free beats the hell out of any thing else
I wish you would designate this addon as Paid Links Only in the top 10 list.
This website never gives any mention about “LookMovie” addon in the MBebe repo. It’s a great addon and the only one I use, but always doing the captcha is the annoying about it. If there’s content you can’t find, you can contact the website and they will try to find the content you’re looking for within a few days and so it will be on the addon
When LookMovie, Gomovies, and other MBebe addons are posted they receive a DMCA Takedown Notice
first RULE about LookMovies ,we dont talk about lookmovies