Are you into your beats!

So before your all like "Dawg you gotta love what you do, or your not really doing anything unless you feel it" check this out

So my boys rolled thru last night and we got crunked and decided we were going to make Hip-Hop beats (because we were crunked) - and believe it or not we had some much fun we wrote a track (no lyrics, but who needs those right)

Sampled the big kick off of J-Kwons Tipsy, jacked a bunch of stuff from G-Unit and Master P and used some stuff out of Reason and we came up with a really good song

So I'm thinking to myself don't I listen to Hip-Hop at all unless it's G-Unit, TI, Lil Jon or Master P and I can't stand R&B - I listen to techno, make techno and play techno - but making these Hip-Hop beats was so easy - it was like, playing cut and paste

So my question to you is do you really have to be into what your making? especially if your doing it well (for some people some things just come easier) Hell if I could get paid for these beats I'd make them all day and get paid (maybe I should try huh) and continue my "Hobby" as a techno producer

djadonis206 wrote:Hell if I could get paid for these beats I'd make them all day and get paid (maybe I should try huh) and continue my "Hobby" as a techno producer

the real question is, will some one pay me for my beats.. See if you feel your stuff, thats great , no one can take tha away from you but for some one to pay you for it, they will have to like it too. thats like -If I was a country music producer and made hip hop do you think I could blend in?
its hard to say..but in the end I really think you have to be in it to win it

Beginnin in the hip hop thang, and droppin a few beats is the easy part... the hard part is consistincy, making beats ALL THE TIME, and makin HOT beats all the time... thats hard man, when someone wants a beat and u on a beat block tryin to get a good idea in ur head.. But u do gotta love what u do, cuz if u don't like hip hop much... how u gonna make somethin that u dont like? I mean, it's not like a cook... a cook can make cheesecake, a nd it can be the shyt, even if he don't like cheesecake, but it's a different story when u talkin music... anyway dawg, do ya thang man

WWooooowwwww . . . . . I actually got defensive when you came at me DJadonis206 . But after seeing this post and what you wrote . . . . . hahahahahahahahahahahahaha . And yes . . . . you should love what you do . If not , go find a hole to die in (I'm talking mentally) or just have no soul or passion (not that I'm saying you don't have any . . . . but if you wanna do something just for money, go sell vacuum cleaners) . Peace .

MIXING RECORDS TAKES TALENT????????????
THAT MUSIC IS SO FUKING ANOYING
YOU REMIND ME OF THIS GUY I ONCE KNEW TALKING TECMO IS SUPIROR
ITS THE SAME SHIT DIFFERENT TEMPO DIFFERENT STYLE,
AND I DONT BELIEVE ANY 1 CAN "JUST MAKE A BEAT" YOU MUST OF BEEN CRUNK,SHIT TAKES TIME HOMIE
BUT YOUR THE BIG MAN
SEE YOU ON MTV
HA

Sampled the big kick off of J-Kwons Tipsy, jacked a bunch of stuff from G-Unit and Master P

So I'm thinking to myself don't I listen to Hip-Hop at all unless it's G-Unit, TI, Lil Jon or Master P

- I listen to techno, make techno and play techno - but making these Hip-Hop beats was so easy - it was like, playing cut and paste

No big deal, you can make music you don't love yourself and think it came out good. I do the same thing sometimes when i'm drunk or high.
I'll go make a techno track just for fun, and you know what, it only takes me 5 minutes to make a decent sounding track too.
But i suspect a real techno fan would hate it.

Once you're at a decent level technically, you can produce almost any genre just using your ears and some reference material, but it will never be really original or good if you're not feeling the music yourself.

Music comes from the heart, not the head. Exept for techno of course, that comes from a $50 drummachine most of the time

Haha, that's true and funny.

At some point you have to stop taking things so seriously and have fun!!!

I was at this party @ the WMC 2004 - you've heard of it i'm sure

Hip-Hops biggest producer P.Diddywith teknos supa-dupa flyest DJ Carl Coxand pimp daddy electro producer Felix The Housecat- Musics music - relax - have fun!!!

how did the track sound when the crunk wore off?

I personally make music I love... I make mostly Downtempo Hip-Hop beats... I occassionally make a dance beat or some techno sh*t, but my heart is in Hip-Hop... There are people that make music that they really ain't feelin and do it for the money... For instance, I met Just Blaze.... He told me straight up that he makes Hip-Hop cause it sells and it's no challenge for him to make bangers... But he told me he's into Trip-Hop and Jungle... That's where his heart is... The overall lesson is do yourself... Don't not sell your hip-hop beats just cause someone tells you that your heart has to be in it... Do what you do... I personally don't support it, but just be yourself.

mwalker wrote:how did the track sound when the crunk wore off?

I don't know after reading everyones posts I just deleted it and went back to making 8bit casio dance beats

I'm kidding - I gave it to the guys I was working with - who are in some kind of local black jazz conscious more power to you hip-hop band - they liked the beats - and I did delete it (wasn't Crunk enough for me)

I'm not going to start making hip-hop (really, it's not my thing) but taking my mind off of something other than my main focus gave me some cool ideas on how to approach what I am doing -

I can't wait for the Black A licious, Roots, Common, Kanye West, Lauren Hill Free Brooklyn Tour!

BB SOUND wrote:If I was a country music producer and made hip hop do you think I could blend in?
its hard to say..but in the end I really think you have to be in it to win it

OMG I'm @ work and I just heard this country rap song (so fitting) - I work @ DMX Music so we listen to all kinds of stuff over the DBS satellite

a song called "Rollin" by Big and Rich - the album is called "Horse of a different color"

www.dmxmusic.com

funny!

I honestly can't believe what I'm hearing people... we make hip hop cause we love it and have fun making it, if he's into techno and has a little fun making hip hop that's bad? I'm more angry at him for not investing his time into his true love, techno than I am at him for making hip hop even if he doesn't love it... do what makes you happy Adonis as long as you're not exploiting us. Diddy probably hires Felix da Housecat to DJ his parties when he's not paying for Mark Ronson, so ofcourse he knows them cats. Those are the big players of their genre, so he has to recognize them.

Toecutter wrote:Diddy probably hires Felix da Housecat to DJ his parties when he's not paying for Mark Ronson, so ofcourse he knows them cats. Those are the big players of their genre, so he has to recognize them.

It's all samplers, and drum machines and keyboards -

Opening my mind up to write other things has opened my mind up even more to what you can do with a sampler and sequencer - it's a progression into becoming an artist -

Believe it or not P.Diddy has already put out one dance track he produced with Deep Dish (very, very big track) and Felix is working with diddy on Diddy's first full length dance album



http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsar ... 6&afl=mind

and to quote the rollingstone article

"When I was growing up, I would listen to dance music and hang out at the Paradise Garage and the Sound Factory while DJs like Junior Vasquez would spin," P. Diddy says. "I've never been just one-dimensional with my music -- I listen to everything from dance and hip-hop to rock and country. Doing this dance album is a natural progression for me as an artist. The last three years of traveling abroad have helped me take it to the next level."

-P.Diddy