Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)

Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)

Song Information

Artist: dj TAKA&DAY BREAKERS
Composition/Arrangement: Takayuki Ishikawa
Lyrics/Vocals: Terry Thompson
BPM: 115
Length: 1:46
Genre: HIP HOP
Movie: VJ GYO
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 2nd style
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None yet.

Song Connections / Remixes

• A remix of Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise) by DJ SIMON, titled IIDX, appears in beatmania IIDX 5th style.
• A sequel to Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise), 27th style, appears in beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE.
• greed eater is sampled twice throughout the song at 0:57 and 1:28, this can be heard here [1]. However, this cannot be heard on the beatmania maniac-tracks from IIDX 2ndstyle, Yebisu MIX, Dancing Stage featuring TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON soundtrack.

Trivia

• Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s HYPER charts were created by dj TAKA himself.
• According to VJ GYO's video production comments for 27th style, Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s video was filmed at the KONAMI Tokyo Technical Center (コナミ東京テクニカルセンター) building on August 23rd, 1999. Get on Beat's video was filmed the next day, according to his video production comments for that song.
  • Portions of Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s video are used as animations on beatmania THE FINAL.
• Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise) is absent from beatstage II 2nd style, the Korean release of beatmania IIDX 2nd style.
• Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s title was changed to Second Style(HIP Hip Hop Paradise) in beatmania IIDX 3rd style. This was reverted in beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED.
  • In beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS, its title was Second Style(HipHop Paradise) instead.
• Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise) is a hidden revival in beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED. It can be unlocked by playing 80 rounds with an entry card.
  • As of beat #2 (December 22nd, 2004), it is playable by default.
• Prior to beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED, Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s artist was shown as dj TAKA & DAY BREAKERS.
• In beatmania IIDX 2nd style and beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS, Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s genre was shown as HIPHOP.
• From beatmania IIDX 3rd style to beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED, Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise)'s BPM was shown as 114.
• Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise) received LIGHT charts in beatmania IIDX 3rd style.
• No combination of Second Style(Hip Hop Paradise), IIDX, or 27th style has ever appeared in the same beatmania IIDX game together.

Song Production Information

dj TAKA

It's a song made from the idea of nice, groovy HIP HOP.
It's probably the most difficult HIP HOP song in the beatmania series.
In this song, I tried to assign scratch sounds so they can be actually used as scratches, so everyone please arrange the song to be even cooler with cool ad-lib scratch while playing!
Also, there are lots of hidden sounds assigned to the keys in this song that aren't used in the gameplay. Try and find them~.

Video Production Information

VJ GYO

We filmed this movie on a Saturday at the height of summer in August.
For dj TAKA and the DAY BREAKERS (VJ GYO+GOLI), this was a memory of that one summer in 1999 (the kind of memories that could be written in a picture diary).
It started rather unplanned, and we were just dancing around, taking turns with the camera, but then someone ran over and offered to take over as the cameraman!
His name is RYO, who is familiar to pop'n music fans!
Eventually, he was in charge of the whole shoot as the de-facto supervisor (thank you very much).
Halfway through filming, dj nagureo and KAERU (beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- CG designer) also ran in to support us, and thanks to everyone, we successfully completed it in a groovy, weird upper state of excitement.
That night, the three of us said, "I wish I could spend every day like this", and the greatest, happiest day was over.
By the way, our director KAGE happened to be on vacation that day. (Well, it was supposed to be a holiday, but...)
When I went back to work, I was supposed to work as hard as I could, I'm sorry.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX to 10th style difficulty rated from 1 to 7 from 2nd through 4th style, 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and from 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	323	398	-	-	330	407	-	-
beatmania IIDX 2nd style	-	-	4	-	-	-	4		--
beatmania IIDX 3rd style→4th style	-	3	4	-	-	3	4	-	-
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED→12 HAPPY SKY	-	↑4	↑5	-	-	↑4	↑5	-	-
beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS	-	3	4	-	-	3	4	-	-

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