HOW TO MAKE A HIT.

Any suggestions?

Listen to a current hit, sample the drums, eq them a little different, make a bog standard pattern, nothing interesting or new, you'll only alienate some listeners. Then add a bit of bass, again, keep it simple, no more than 4 notes so it'll be catchy to the lowest common denominator, add some sampled horns, maybe a pitched up vocal, then get a mediocre rapper with a big marketing budget, and some RnB singing chick who loves vibrato and over the top modulations, compress the whole thing like you're stomping a cockroach, and pay some Radio DJ's to play it 3 times an hour.

the millions are in the mail.

word.

one thing i read somewhere, if you're planning on making a "hit record" make the hook as catchy as possible, and it should be within the first 30 seconds of your song

put a blindfold on, load up a saw wave, and hit random notes and pull out those 808s and korg triton dance drums.

DjChronoBeats wrote:put a blindfold on, load up a saw wave, and hit random notes and pull out those 808s and korg triton dance drums.

don't forget to say yeah, what, ladies and gentleman, and add izzle to your name

also be sure to insert a penis all the way up your a**. That is how the best producers make "hits"

you also gotta be a whiney **** and start beef with all your fellow rappers.

Create marketing scandals like real gangstas do.

(extended marketing plan- )
-and then come up with some *ridiculous* idea of copying an already existing and sucessful product [WHHATT!!](i.e. Red Bull)
but pretend to improve it by giving it an even more *ridiculous* name (i.e. 'Crunk' Juice ),[WHATT!!!]
based on an entirely *ridiculous* sub-genre (i.e. 'Crunk')[WWHHAAT!],
which was completely fabricated by you (i.e. Lil Jon)[WHAHHATT!!]
so you could be accepted into a part of the hip-hop community and even be the *ridiculous* king of it [WHHHATTT!!]

*ridiculous* Lil Jon *ridiculous*
Hmm...... *ridiculous*

(incase you didnt get it.... lil jon = *ridiculous**ridiculous**ridiculous**ridiculous**ridiculous**ridiculous*)

'WHAT!!!' .....a f**king joke.

put a wack rapper on a upbeat r&b song. example: lil wayne verse on the destiny's child song.

supremely good answers.

I actually liked his verse on that track........... should I have put that in the "confessions" thread?

well this isn't how to make a hit, but if you wanna get signed. Told by the man Eminem himself.

"get the whitest a&r you can find, pull him aside, and rap as whack as you can"

just imagine his voice saying it.

oh yeah...here's another one.

Don't be yourself. Be fake. Make up some story that sounds like it could be, should be, and will no doubt be made into a movie.

i'm sorry. I can't contain myself.

Call yourself a rapper, but don't rap. Just sing on your records.