shadeed
Go Digital or Go Home
ill o.g.
After giving this question a lot of thought, I can only explain my motivation for production by using the California Gold Rush as a metaphor. In the 1800's, everybody was selling their homes and dreams to move to California and strike it rich. Many people arrived and soon went broke after discovering that most of it was illusion. When the smoke cleared,
a few people did actually find gold, but the people who maintained the most fortune were not the people who went searching for the gold, it was the people who set up shop for starstruck travelers and SOLD THEM THE TOOLS.
Basically since everybody wants to "live the dream" and be a rapper these days,
I'll always make a living because every rapper needs a beat.
I don't necessarily LOVE the beat-making process, but I enjoy the finished product,
I'm more involved in the marketing and promotion aspects of production.
I tried being an MC and I was pretty good at it, but I can sit in my house and take
1 hour and come up with an instrumental, and make $200-500 bucks (I'm flexible haha!)
off some guy in West Bumblef--k, who needs a "Neptunes sounding beat", you cant beat that!
And to answer the second question, at this stage of my "career" I am a beatmaker only.
I submit tracks and get paid up front. I define a producer as somebody who shapes the course and direction of an entire album. I am starting to work with a group of MC's
and I make the beats based off their flow, personality, and preference.
a few people did actually find gold, but the people who maintained the most fortune were not the people who went searching for the gold, it was the people who set up shop for starstruck travelers and SOLD THEM THE TOOLS.
Basically since everybody wants to "live the dream" and be a rapper these days,
I'll always make a living because every rapper needs a beat.
I don't necessarily LOVE the beat-making process, but I enjoy the finished product,
I'm more involved in the marketing and promotion aspects of production.
I tried being an MC and I was pretty good at it, but I can sit in my house and take
1 hour and come up with an instrumental, and make $200-500 bucks (I'm flexible haha!)
off some guy in West Bumblef--k, who needs a "Neptunes sounding beat", you cant beat that!
And to answer the second question, at this stage of my "career" I am a beatmaker only.
I submit tracks and get paid up front. I define a producer as somebody who shapes the course and direction of an entire album. I am starting to work with a group of MC's
and I make the beats based off their flow, personality, and preference.