A plethora of rap and hip-hop artists have jumped at the opportunity to create branded iPhone apps, Including T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Jon, Soulja Boy and P. Diddy. Now 50 Cent is getting an app of his own, in partnership with Vitamin Water. The free app, called 50’s Sound Lab App, lets users create and share their own mixes of “Baby By Me”, a single off of 50 cent’s latest album, Before I Self Destruct. You can download it here.
The app is powered by mobile digital entertainment studio Moderati’s Romplr remix platform. Romplr allows fans to interact with music by creating their own versions of tracks by artists. Users can record and share their personal mixes via Facebook, email, or on Romplr’s site.
Romplr was first implemented on Soulja Boy’s pp, which was actually $4.99 in the app store, instead of free. But 50 Cent’s app only offers one song to remix, while Soulja Boy let users remix several of his tracks.
In addition to being able to remix the single, 50 Cent is giving the user that creates the best remix with the app (and shares it on the app’s branded site), the opportunity to meet him. Compared to the other rap-focused iPhone apps out there, this one falls a little short in my opinion. It only lets you remix one song, and it seems for like more of an opportunity for 50 Cent to create buzz around his new single and promote Vitamin Water than to actually create a broadly entertaining app.
That being said, its free and could provide for some interesting and funny songs. Plus, songs can easily be shared to social networks. If the app could include some of 50 Cent’s more popular songs, such as “In Da Club,” perhaps it could give T-Pain’s popular app a run for it’s money.
i soooo hate drum machines .. i wanna mix them right on out, thank you very much
Perhaps Apple should give away app’s directly associated with movies and songs as value-added services.
Eg: A user is on the Apple Store is in the process of buying a song, he is offered the chance to download a remixer for that particular song by simply selecting a tick box, and this happens seamlessly as a background download.
He’s selling sparkling water like a real gee.
Check out the DJ SPooky iPhone remixer – just out – for a real mobile mixing and playback experience by a real DJ – enough of this one song with some samples ‘mixing’ apps – lets have the real deal yo! See: http://itunes.a...7?mt=8&uo=6 peace
(586): Now that the fun of having an iPhone has worn off I find that using screen as a coke tray is by far my favorite app