Hip Hop Beats and Instrumentals - Is It Better To Make Them Yourself?

At first glance it might seem that being a producer/rapper might be better because you could just save money on beats or make whatever type of beat you want for yourself BUT that's only one side of the coin.

You might think it's better to have an extra slash after your name (Rapper/Producer) but before you take on a whole new craft here's a few things you might want to think about. For starters, do you even know what it takes to make a whole beat. Well let me supply you with a list, that you might be interested in:

First you would have to find beat making software, buy a midi controller and download some good sounds.

Then you would have to learn how to use the beat making software, how to program drums, create melodies, create chord progressions, create bass lines, find out what sounds go together, find good samples, chop samples, layer drums, create new sounds, how different tempo structures work, how to create intros, how to create chorus sections, how to create a bridge, how to arrange a beat, how every instrument should sound when creating melodies with the instrument and this is just some of what you'll have to learn.

So you could see that if you wanted to go down the path of producer/rapper, you would be wasting your time and just putting your dreams of rap stardom on hold. The little time you already spend on being a rapper would be split in half and then instead of ending up a great rapper your destined to be an average rapper with below average beats.

Look at it this way, it's been discovered that it takes an average person about 3,000 hours of study and practice to become a top AMATEUR at their craft. So that would be an hour a day for about 8 years. Also for the same average person to become world-class, it would take them 10,000 hours of study and practice.

So my advice is to pick one thing (like rapping or singing) and MASTER it, then if later on you want to try mastering something new (producing) THEN you can do that. But for now focus on perfecting at what your good at. I would suggest paying someone else to do what your not so good at. This lets you focus on doing your thing.

So if you don't want to do all the work that I mentioned earlier and want to deal with someone who's already perfected how to do all that, then I suggest checking out these hip hop beats and instrumentals at HowToBuyBeats.com that you can use for your album.

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