After years of making music in the basement, The BassMint Pros have come back out of the basement to create a buzz in the Utah’s local scene by combining and collaborating artists and focusing on the true culture of hip hop.

Beatnic Da Diabolik, founder and visionary of The BassMint Pros, formally known as “In the Bassmint Productions”, has been making music in his basement dating back to 1997. He started by teaching himself how to record and make music in his basement by recording in 4 and 8 track forms.  He came back out of the basement a few years ago to work with some local artists to make some music “and it just started rolling from there,” Beatnic said.

“Just a year ago I was… kinda just making beats or whatever, now things are really startin’ to get crackin’,” Beatnic said.  “The BassMint Pros, or B.M.P., is a hip hop collective, or what we say, the hip hop collective,” he said.  “It is D.J.’s, producers, beat-makers, emcees, b-boys and b-girls coming together for the culture of hip hop.”   He said they focus on all aspects of hip hop culture dating back to the early days of hip hop in South Bronx, NY. “It’s more about the culture than the music,” he said.

The BassMint Pros take-over the air waves of Ogden, UT the last Saturday of every month during the BassMint Pros Pirate Radio Take-over Show where local hip hop artists come in and freestyle, debut their music, and have live interviews.  “We bring our people in and let them shine for that hour,” he said.  The show can be heard on 88.1FM in Ogden, UT or streaming live to the entire world via the World Wide Web at www.881weberfm.org

For someone to be part of this hip hop collective, “you claim that you are a BassMint Pro, and welcome aboard,” he said.  “We all just work together for the common good of presenting the culture and making the best music we can.”

After coming back out of the basement, The BassMint Pros have been very busy creating plenty of albums worth of songs that they have yet to release anywhere besides online, but they have a plan.  On their agenda is to release: two 12 inch vinyl records, a couple cassette mix-tapes, a full length CD album, a full length LP for BassMint Pros, and several side project EP’s for other artists that will be put out through The BassMint Pros.

“I want to take it back to…where we are getting back to the culture… everything we’re doing is getting to real hip hop and taking things back to when it was about being real,” Beatnic said.

To find out more info about The BassMint Pros or to hear some of their tunes, you can find them on Facebook, Reverb Nation, or you can visit their website at www.bassmintpros.com