Why Being a Hip Hop Producer Sucks

Producer 🎧🎹🎚️🎛️💻🎼Tiers:

🐐🤴: Dr Dre, DJ Premier, Marley Marl, DJ Quick, Timbaland, Neptunes, Alchemist, RZA, JDilla, Kanye West

A1🥇: Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Havoc, Hit Boy, Madlib, No ID, 9th Wonder, El-P, Daringer, Harry Fraud

A2🥈: Zaytoven, Metro Boomin, Mike Will Made It, TM88, Southside, ATL Jacob, Murda Beatz, Hitmaka,

A3🥉 Swizz Beatz, Just Blaze, Trackmasters, Mannie Fresh, DJ Paul, Drumma Boy, DJ Mustard, Cool N DRE, Shawty Redd, Lil Jon

as rapper producer i clicked immediately ahah aslo listing to d12 album for first time properly and saw em in the thumbnail gotta be a sign

damn that was some shady shit from mac miller

Hip-hop has now focused on spittin' about the wack realities of life.

Production will forever be the most important part of any song. I’m sorry, it’s just true . No matter how essential the artists performance is to the song, that song and the way people remember it would not exist without the music behind it. Melodies are usually created because the production came first. It’s hilarious the amount of listeners that think that artists magically do everything. Most artists wouldn’t be shit without their producers. Producers deserve all the recognition and more.

Producers don't get enough credit. They're literally the foundation of what rappers are.

Puffy's production team was called The Hitmen. Poke & Tone are Trackmasters.

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Problem is producing aint a art no more… just a money grab

Old town road is the number 1 hit of all time?!

Anyone else remember when this channel wasn’t a content farm ?

Being a hiphop producer only sucks when you're not a Boule-Luciferian-Freemason.

Not to mention, producers that steal from each other .

That's why I bailed out and now doing my own thing . My own style and sound.

Produce FOR YOURSELF

If you think producers got it bad wait til you hear about the other creative support like photographers and album artist.

I've been rapping for a long time but been too depressed my whole life to really try and go for it. Now that things are looking up, I've been learning how to make beats bc I don't have any friends around me who are what I'm about. Shit is HARD mf work. I'd love to be in a position to get a producer who's good at what they do and wants to work towards a creative vision together, but I'm BROKE and I know that if I can't pay someone what they're worth, I'm not entitled to their service. My current objective is to get better at what I do as a solo unit; keep working these student loans off; and keep putting money away to buy a couple professional beats from someone I fuck with. I couldn't imagine moving so filthy on someone who's also an artist and clearly wants to work together to come up, when they don't owe me their labour whatsoever.

Dude, it was Mac Miller.. you probably wasn’t even talking to him in the emails.

Who works more the artist or the producer?

That's why i said skip the bullshit, im just gone be my own artist like I originally dreamed of as a kid and start my own company.. Can't let this pussy industry play me out of my dreams, I had to protect that inner child.

It’s really simple, make sure you’re a company sole prop, LLC, etc and not just a ‘beat maker’. Take the street out of the beat and get paid for your intellectual property as a professional business owner. The artists, labels, companies deal with businesses with much more respect as the regulations that govern them offers protections over a simple promise of a future homey hook up💯

I stopped posted beats and deleted the ones I posted years ago 😂 gunna sampled a beat from my page!

Dr. Dre is a producer. Timbaland is a producer. Pharrell is a producer. J Dilla is a producer. DJ Premier is a producer. A music producer is to a song what a movie director is to a movie, he is supposed to have a vision of how the project goes and instructs the artist on how to execute it. In the case of Hip-Hop, making beats doesn’t exactly make you a producer, it makes you a beat-maker, which is more aligned with being a songwriter. A songwriter that writes the lyrics is a lyricist and a songwriter that composes the music is a composer. And we all know the music industry has a long history of screwing over songwriters who don’t know the business well. If Hip-Hop creatives that make beats and send them out to be utilized by rappers at their discretion but aren’t in the studio controlling the music and how everything is performed, they can’t really call themselves a producer, and that’s part of why and how they get taken advantage of. It’s very unfortunate. Young artists, please learn the business so you get the credit due to you.

HHM: never produced anything worthwhile in their lifetime
every single producer: gfys

for all the songs they produce they should get half of the income they generate

Ill never steal a beat again. Unless they gone.

THREE WORDS
producers....

Trademark

Copywright

Licensing

If you hear a producer saying his hook or whatever isn’t that left in if they don’t pay or someshit?

Bangladesh the producer of "a milli" from lilw atnes the carter 3 he didnt get payed for years! Rick ross had to call birdman out to get payed!

Producers should put out more of their own albums. Compilations. etc..

I’ve always wondered why EDM producers make so much money compared to hip hop producers. Now I know why lol

Rappers are not real musicians. There are musicians who rap, like Tyler the creator, Pharrell, qtip and likes of Andre 3000… but most rappers are just hacks who thinks they making music while all the hard work is done by actual musicians. Instrumentals can live without a rap, but what’s a rap without music ?

Graffiti fallen aside ???? Lmaoo

Back in the SoundCloud days I remember listening to real layed back shit at the time and I ran into this producer named Potsu's catalog on their. I loved all of his beats, but I wrote to one of them a song called Cinderella. My engineer got in contact with him and bought me the beat and I recorded it and left it in the vault until the time was right since I wanted to drop a little project. Bruh not but 7 months later XXXtentacion drops Jocelyn Flores which had the same beat as the Cinderella song I recorded. I was like, "bruh am I buggin'?"

Also it might be harder to tour the biggest bread winner 🤷‍♀

I'm a producer, but I also got my business right, Not only do I make your beat, I usually need to be in the studio with you to direct you on how to spit on that beat. If I'm not, I'm doing adlibs on it or its going through me for release. I also release my instrumentals that are songs, so if someone wants to use them, It'll automatically flag the beat as mine.

this is why i produce all my own shit, I'm broke asf 💔

Not sure why you had to use a beloved & deceased rapper like Mac to make your point in the intro when there are countless other examples to pick from but hey. RIP MAC 🕊️🕊️🕊️

As a producer myself, I just want people to get credit
Like the amount of times people talk about great producers and they haven’t heard of “Alchemist”, “Cardo”:
Even “Zaytoven” is astounding
Especially when they know songs they produced!

That Mac Miller clip is kind of sneaky bc even though it’s true he didn’t credit them, he was trying to talk things with the producers, who decided to act like assholes instead posing as ghetto thugs with him. Also it’s safe to assume Mac wasn’t even managing his email himself, so it makes sense he didn’t read it. Not trying to defend Mac but these guys could have done better.

videos like this make me ashamed that as a producer I have started rapping myself because i can not afford a rappers feature...

They should lease the beats out and make the lease term based on tours, sales, and streams. That way they retain ownership of the beat and can always pull the song if not happy. I guess first register the beat as yours with the government. It is a crazy idea but we shooting from the hip right. Better than unionizing in my opinion.

That’s why Producer Tags are very important 💯💯

This is so funny. Aspiring and amateur producers come a dime a dozen. Everyone makes beats. My 70 year old neighbor makes hip hop beats. She doesn't even like the genre. She does it for extra money. Anyone can do this bs. Which means that anyone can remake the bs beats that aspiring and amateur producers try to strong arm a fortune from industry rappers. Remake those bs beats that you like by changing up some of the notes and key. But keep the same feeling. Im pitch perfect and a drummer. I can recreate any of that bs that modern producers do in a matter of seconds.Industry rappers would be better off hiring musicians like me to co produce their own song. F&&& dealing with bs producers. F&*&& beatstars and their $10 bs beats. Find me on soundbetter

“puffs trackmasters” dude what are you talking about? Trackmasters are their own brand/entity. Can tell when someone doesn’t know a lot about hip-hop but posts videos like they do. Diddy crew are “the Hitmen” not “Trackmasters.”

Epik got the underground in a legal chokehold 😂

Mac Miller management could have been managing his email, just saying...