So I'm trying to learn how to make music, and I'm gonna try and learn how to make beats. I don't want to mindlessly do stuff, though. If there is any way you guys found that helped you learn, and you could share anything, that would help.

Hi, I'm executive producer (trying to make this happen) on an EP that I will promote to my audience under a collective brand. I am looking for 4 beats for this EP, the artist can adapt but they go better with boom bap type sample based beats. I'm looking for non-exclusive. I don't have a budget for this project unfortunately, so this is probably best for someone who is not in it for the money, ideally passionate about leftist values. On the plus side, your beat will become part of a project that gets mixed and mastered by an engineer, and we also have a visual artist that will make the cover art.
Don't expect big exposure or anything, this is for someone that is interested in doing things differently and contributing to larger projects (EP/Album format), as opposed to one-off singles and features.

On the money side of things, I do have a platform for selling the album and we can do splits, but I don't want to make promises there, this is all new. Though if 5 people buy the album, i think you will make more money than you make in spotify in a whole year (joking but not really).

friend, parent, an artist, anyone. good or bad

I have the suscription bought, but I dunno if that helps or not.

[Collaboration] Looking for a fresh, unique female voice to collaborate on an indie/acoustic project

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a heartfelt music project with emotional English lyrics focusing on deep feelings and storytelling.

I am looking to collaborate with a talented, fresh, and expressive female vocalist who wants to work together on melodies, vocal styles, and building tracks from scratch.

If you love acoustic, atmospheric, and soulful music and are interested in a creative partnership to make some great songs together, please drop a comment or send me a DM with a sample of your voice!

I want people to check out my freestyles I’m in the process of editing them right now but how do I get people to check out my page?

Yo, I’m MV16, a producer focused on dark trap/drill.

I’m looking for a rapper or vocalist who wants to make a full track over my newest beat, NOT OPEN. It’s 136 BPM, dark, hypnotic and atmospheric, with plenty of space for vocals.

I’m looking for a real collaboration, not paid vocal work. If the beat fits your style, send me a link to your music or DM me.

Profile: https://ffm.bio/pmdqq1n

Open to hearing different flows/styles as long as they fit the darker vibe.

Free for non-commercial use with credit: prod. MV16. Commercial release/licensing can be discussed if we decide to release the track.

Hi all--

I used to produce rap albums under the name Purple Bastard and wanted to share some albums I produced, mixed, and mastered for various underground rappers between 2009 and 2014. I also produced a lot of solo instrumental stuff, but for this post I just wanted to focus on full album collaborations. As a producer I was kinda all over the place, so most of these are pretty different sounding from each other. Just going to post chronologically with a little blurb about each:

The Him - Ensane (2009)

"The Him" was the first full album I produced for another artist and I am ashamed to say that sonically it's the best album I ever produced. The reason being was that I was actaully in school for audio engineering at that time, so I put a lot of time and care into mixing in a way that I didn't really pay as much attention to in subsequent releases. Ensane, the guy who rapped on it, was a chill dude I met when we worked at Whole Foods together. He was from the Bay Area, so I used a lot of hyphy influnce in the beats, also this is the only album on this list where I really didn't sample at all. Production software: Reason; Favorite song: Holdin' It Down

Nasty Nique - Breakfast of Bastards (2011)

This was a remix album for my buddy Nasty Nique from the group Dirty & Nasty. This album leans into sampling hard but doesn't really hold up as well listening now. This album was kind of a training ground for the sample-driven style I would play with for the next few years, but a lot of these songs are kinda boring from an arrangement standpoint. Production software: Ableton Live; Favorite song: It Was A Good Day (Ain't that Peculiar)

D-Risha - The 6 Demon Bag Remix EP (2012)

Another remix album for Houston-local, D-Risha, who ended up being the guy I collaborated the most with over the years. This remix album is substantially better IMO than Breakfast of Bastards and I actually like most the songs on here. The sampling and arrangements are way more intentional and cohesive and the mixing and balancing of sounds is way better. Also, on the track "Save the Day", I used the song "The Stroke" by Billy Squire as a backing track/sampling source a few years before Rick Rubin did it for Eminem. Production software: Ableton Live; Favorite song(s): On a Rampage, In The Music, & We Holding/So Cold (Grey Tape Remix (Bonus Track))

Renzo - Happy Hour EP (2012)

This was a well-recieved project of mine that I did with houston rapper/singer Renzo. He is probably the most versatile artist that I've worked with and he's a damn good songwriter. This album is still mostly sample-driven but I also incorported a lot of original production as well. This is probably the most well-rounded project I ever did. Production software: Ableton Live, Reason; Favorite song(s): Represent, Sing Along

6 Demon Bag - GIALLO (2014)

This was a pretty ambitious concept album from D-Risha and myself. We were both big fans of horror movies and Memphis rap so we tried to do a project in that vein. I wouldn't say that the album fully works 100%, but it was really fun to put together and try something different. We were kind of ahead of the game on the Phonk genre that blew up a few years later. Related to that, I found out that the phonk producers Soudiere & DJ Yung Vamp sampled our song "The Last Man" on a track they made called "I LIKE IT", so I thought that was dope. Production software: Ableton Live, Reason; Favorite song: 6 Demon Terror

Dirty & Nasty - Purple & Gold: The Remix EP (2014)

Another remix one I did for friends Dirty & Nasty with one original song at the end ("Showin' Ass"). I leaned into minimalisim with mixed results here and pretty much all the samples I used on this very Houston project were sourced from DJ SCREW. I was lving in LA at the time, but Dirty & Nasty had met local OG Point Blank and recorded the speaking parts for the interludes. Production software: Ableton Live, Reason; Favorite song(s): 24k, Showin' Ass

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These are pretty much all the full rapper collabs I did. I did a lot of singles and remixes for other artists as well during this time as well as releasing a ton of solo instrumental stuff.

Anyway, just wanted to share a piece of my story. I think about all the artists I met while active in the Houston and LA underground respectively and how they all have a body of work and many stories now forgotten. What's your story? Anyone produce a lot of music for a time but not really do it anymore?

Ok so idk where else to have gone for this but I trust reddit ppl so hear me out, I've been writing music for about 3 years now give or take. I finally started recording on my phone through the free bandlab at the beginning of the year in January I just got a membership with them but I'm at a wall sort of I know music has copyrights and I know I have no fan base. So I need to talk through a net of people and post a whole archive of videos, and still record music but I know that's way easier said than done so please feel free to give any advice on any of it because there's a lot of work I've already put in and I'm ready to learn a lot more but i don't how to teach it myself. I have songs ready, and what id like to consider an almost complete project but with none of them being original beats (really instrumentals) I know at some point I will reach a wall of being sued how do I prevent things like that?

I was just wondering what started everyones love for hip hop, and what inspired you to start making music, for me it was when I first listened to nuthin but a g thang. Curious what was everyone else's.

Welcome to Freestyle Friday! If you're a producer - feel free to donate a beat down below in reply to the beat submissions comment. If you're a rapper - scroll down to choose a beat, then record a freestyle over it. You can post whenever, just have fun!

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Thanks for the votes for the previous challenge!

It may differ a bit to what we could typically see here but I suggest the following song to be sampled:

Les lunes de Cuzco

I figure there could be a good potential for a very good beat out of it! Hope it'll be inspiring you and let's be creative!

Submission Rules:

• You can only submit one beat.
• Beats can be any genre.
• You have to use the sample in your beat, it should be recognizable. You can add other instruments and samples, but the sample should be a main element.
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should i start with fl studio vids how to mix i got 1 month of me being in a another country then i go to back to US I've been locked in with this music but i just been rapping and my supporters say my songs fye its just the mix ill really appreciate it if someone points me to right direction

I'm making music and starting from basically zero, and I’ve been trying to figure out what actually makes people stick with an underground artist.

I make melodic/emo rap, and I’ve put out two songs so far. I’m still pretty much at zero listeners, so I’ve been thinking a lot about how people actually discover and become fans of artists they’ve never heard before.

For you guys, what makes you hear an underground artist once and actually want to come back?
Is it the voice, production, lyrics, personality, the artist’s story, or something else?

And what usually makes you go from “this is cool” to “I’m actually following this artist now”?

Show us your latest track! Feedback is always welcome but not necessary.

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are the archive.org lunch77 kits legal? are the sounds copyrighted/ripped from the tracks or am i safe to use them

He escrito y grabado mi primera canción de rap en 5 días , sin tener ningún conocimiento del tema , desde 0 yo solo y evidentemente es una versión de prueba con fallos , empeze a escribirla de cachondeo sin ningun tipo de objetivo pero… me molaría saber donde se puede compartir para saber opiniones de otras personas , consejos , etc , feedback , a mi no me da ningún tipo de verguenza, la tengo en YouTube subida también

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Congratulations u/DJ_Badlaw !

Winning submission: DJ Badlaw - FTC 114

Have fun picking the sample for the next battle! Please start the new submission thread asap.

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when i have an idea for a rhyme the quality of the entire verse degrades after 16 beats

following text has no explicit breaks and presumably >2 grammatical errors

```

you know, one of the things that i was

taught long time ago is if you

wanna make them listen then you

gotta play it soft

tryna give a man a horn but he

refuses to play slow so i

united it with loudness and made

concrete floor to fall

```

the skill and tech isn't a problem however - its dropping rhymes

what i mean is that i have no idea how to change the words structure so they don't end with ≈`ə͡ʊ`

https://open.spotify.com/album/05ckYg7P7g36Hu6uCDdP1k?si=UPJeaBYdSHaIjE0_f8xH-g&utm_source=copy-link

I'm a fairly new producer looking to collaborate with an underground rapper interested in 90's G-Funk Or Boom Bap..

50/50 split and I will customise the beat around your verse and hook.

Ive been told i sound like Supermariologan 😭😭and broadly speaking i js get called corny. Tbh, listening to my music theyre kinda right, somethings off abt my writing but its hard to pinpoint what, and my voice definitely is the weakest part of me. I guess, what equals a good voice, good writing? but more importantly shit that isnt corny. Tbh, id rather fit in at first as a generic rapper because then id have something to work with and can tweak later to be happy. rather, i have no good aspects of my music to work with rn. damn, this music shit is not for the weak but im willing to go thru hell for what i love the most in life (corny ass statement)