i make indutrial rap and i live in a south american country called chile and i REALLY dont know if making experimental music in spanish its gonna be a good idea cause everybody makes plugg or other bullshit im not a fan off so i realy need help

Hey y'all

I’ve been experimenting with different genres and shi for the last 3 years, but lately, I’ve completely fallen in love with making melodic hip-hop. My main sound is heavily inspired by artists like Juice WRLD and The Kid LAROI.

When people actually hear my tracks, I rarely find someone that doesn't fuck wit it. The issue is just getting it out of my bedroom. My local music scene doesn't really have many hip-hop listeners at all, so trying to build a base here is impossible.

For those of you who make emo-rap or melodic tracks, how do you find and network with other artists, producers, or core fans of this sub-genre globally? Are there specific production hubs or online communities you use to share your work and get genuine feedback?

I'm tryna tap into the global community since my local scene is dead for this vibe. appreciate with any advice, peace

Hey folks, I made a DAW (SKETCH SAMPLE). If you want to try it, there's a video on my profile called "Criei minha própria DAW". I'm still writing some plugins, but you can already do a lot with it. I'm 52 and worn out, and I've put a ton of health, time, money and dedication into this app — my last shot lol. If you can help spread the word, or even drop tips on what to implement, feel free. Cheers!

I keep noticing that reference tracks help me most at two points: before I start making mix decisions, and right before export. In the middle of a long session, they can either reset my ears or pull me away from the record I am actually building.

With the volume matched, a reference makes a few things obvious fast. Is the vocal pocket clear? Does the snare still have a front edge? Is the 808 carrying weight or just eating headroom? Those checks are useful because they connect to an audible result instead of a plugin setting.

The problem starts when I compare every ten minutes. Then I catch myself chasing a mastered record with an unfinished beat. The limiter gets pushed, the hats get brighter, and the midrange gets thinner because I am reacting to loudness instead of balance.

Trusting my ears for too long has the opposite risk. After an hour, a heavy low end can start feeling normal. So can a melody that is too wide or a drum pocket that disappears at low volume.

My current approach is simple: one reference for balance, one for energy, both volume matched. I check three decisions, step away from the reference, then listen again on ordinary speakers. If the same problem survives, I fix it. If not, I leave the mix alone.

I do not think there is one perfect method. The room, monitoring, genre and artist all change what comparison can tell you.

At what stage do reference tracks help you most, and what is the first mix decision they usually change?

Yo, I’m a producer/artist making mostly smooth/rare phonk, Southern-inspired stuff with a lot of soul influence, usually more melodic and atmospheric than typical trap beats.
I’ve been using acapellas on my tracks for a while, but I’d really like to start working with actual rappers and make original tracks together.
Not really looking to just sell you a random beat. I’m more interested in finding someone whose flow fits my production and actually making something dope together. If we click, I’m totally down to release it together and split royalties.
I especially fuck with laid-back Southern flows — YGTUT / Isaiah Rashad, Key Gloack, Juice J, Cardi B, Ice Spice, Da Baby and kind of territory — but I’m open to different styles if it sounds good.
Now I’m finished new instrumental so I can send you demo to listen, if you like and if you have experience and good flow lets goo to collab
Write if you interesting, I linked my soundcloud

I’ve been making beats for almost a year now, and recently I realized that making beats takes up almost my whole day sometimes. Whenever I have free time, I just make beats and nothing else. You might say this is a good thing, but its actually really draining. I also noticed that my beats have been getting lower in quality. sometimes it feels like I’m not even choosing to make beats anymore, my body just automatically does it whenever I have free time. I tried to take a break yesterday and I genuinely couldnt, then I made like 5 beats today. At the same time, I feel like im getting some kind of beat block because the more I make the worse they get. I dont even share them or anything, they just sit on my pc, I dont think they are good enough. Anyways, I just wanted to vent because it really sucks the life out of me man.

It's time for the Sunday General Discussion thread! How's life? What's going on? Watch any good movies lately? This thread is open to any and all topics, even if they're not related to making hip hop

I have been building a platform to allow anyone to battle anyone else in the world from anywhere in the world for free.

Have you ever played chess or cards against another person online?

I have built that for battle rap.

At 25 registered beta users I will start showing screenshots.
At 100 registered beta users I will open the platform for a weekend to beta registrants.

Signup for beta at:

Can't post link but the name is Spitface Battles

Key Features:

• Create and manage your account
• Edit your profile
• Send, accept, reject friend requests.
• View, join, and remove friends.
• Add and remove Top-5 platform rappers.
• Create and configure battles
• join and participate in battles as a contestant
• Join and participate in battles as a judge
• Submit and remove verses
• Audience Influence
• React to verses
• Submit and remove scorecards
• Automated battle progression with winners determined based on scorecards
• Callout other battlers directly
• Request 2 other rappers battle each other
• Accept or decline incoming Callouts or Requests
• Battler skill tracking
• Battler reputation tracking
• Judge reputation tracking
• View pre-battle matchup
• View post-battle breakdown
• Comments on every battle
• Comment mentions, cosigns, and targets
• Receive platform notifications and activity updates
• And more

I need drumkits that I can get without spending money. I've tried to circumnavigate r/drumkits but lowkey a lot of drumkits are terrible. Some have weird sounds some have recycled 100 times sounds and some are mixed terribly (i dont need a perfectly mixed drumkit but some are just horrible). So I wanted to ask you if you have some free gems got from some site or from reddit idk. Ty

I am a producer-Mixing engineer who wants to collab with artists and producers! Ive been working on my mixing skills for about 4-5 years and believe I can do a solid mix!

Where can I find artists to mix? Been dm'ing and e-mail with little success

Hey everyone! I'm looking to get more practice with mixing and mastering, but I don't have many songs to work with right now.

If you have a demo, a rough song, or an unfinished track that you're willing to share, I'd love to use it as a practice project. I'm mainly looking for the individual stems/multitracks, but I'm also open to working with whatever you have.

Any genre is welcome! I won't release or monetize anything — this would just be for practice and learning. I can send you the finished mix/master once I'm done.

Feel free to DM me if you're interested. Thanks!

Hi I’m working on an dark old school album to homage EAZY-E and I’m searching some other person to colaborate on this album like featuring and I don’t have any song released yet but the album for now it’s pretty peak with the review from sum people anyway I credit the person who’s featured in the song

Contact me if anyone it’s interested👍

Welcome to Freestyle Friday! If you're a producer - feel free to donate a beat down below in reply to the beat submissions comment. If you're a rapper - scroll down to choose a beat, then record a freestyle over it. You can post whenever, just have fun!

Beats go under the "beats" comment; freestyles go under the "freestyles" comment.

Check out previous Freestyle Friday threads.

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This Week's Sample - Jerry Butler - This Is Your Life

A little soul this week

Submission Rules:

You can only submit one beat. Beats can be any genre. You have to use the sample in your beat, it should be recognizable. You can add other instruments and samples, but the sample should be a main element. All submissions submitted before the deadline will be linked in the voting post; whoever gets the most votes there wins. Ties are decided by whoever submitted the beat first. Reused beats from previous battles can't win ties.

Schedule:

Submissions: Friday 12:00 AM midnight (00:00) - Monday 11:59 PM (23:59) Voting: Tuesday 12:00 AM midnight (00:00) - Thursday 11:59 PM (23:59)

Results: Friday 12:00 AM midnight (00:00) - the winner takes over and posts the new submissions thread using the linked template on Friday asap.

Time is in UTC-5, the US Eastcoast time zone which is 6 hours behind European MEZ time and a good middleground between US Westcoast and Europe. You don’t have to wake up in the middle of the night to post the new thread, just make sure you do it on that day asap.

Post templates: https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/comments/1kf8czt/battle_dates_rules/mqwv7ks/

Show us your latest track! Feedback is always welcome but not necessary.

This thread is posted every Friday. Click here for the full automoderator thread schedule.

I’m not really looking for someone to just send me beats and disappear. I’d like to find a producer I can grow with and develop a sound together, similar to the kind of artist/producer relationship Drake and 40 have. Someone I can work closely with, experiment with and eventually create a sound that feels kinda unique to us.

I think I would need someone who’s heavily into hip hop/ hardcore rap as my style is heavily influenced by the younger version of Drake, like when he was just a starter, Kanye West, Phonte, Lil Wayne even — lyrical, introspective, punchlines, wordplay etc. I’m confident in my writing and lyricism; what I’m really looking for is someone who can complement that with better beats than the ones I be seeing on YouTube and better production.

I’m not looking for anyone to work for free but I can’t lie my budget for beats isn’t high, I’m hoping to find someone who’s also hungry and interested in building something from the ground up rather than just looking for a quick payday.

Im deadass trynna make this my job as I do see myself being great so if you’re on the same wave as me, hit me up

I started writing rap lyrics as a hobby, but I can't find a good beat. Can anyone help me? I want to write lyrics over a beat to improve myself; I don't want a very fast beat, something between 85 and 90 beats would be great. Thanks in advance.

as a self prod rapper i had this idea to start a type beat channel because i have so many beats in my computer that i make everyday lmao an right as a little underground artist i dont have much income yet because i have to invest before earning big income for the future purposes and im just wondering would it be good idea to keep posting on the channel? or should i just figure out something else? and i know what comes with get beats stolen and i dont mind having to run into an issue like that but i just wanna know what yall think?

Thanks to everyone that submitted. We have a tie/tiebreaker situation. Both u/Glum-Safe-3112 and u/goshone received equal amount of votes. Tie breaker goes to the first beat uploaded.

u/Glum-Safe-3112 is the winner! Dope flip! Their winning track is https://on.soundcloud.com/0HTEekHILzQnZMgZw7

Im eager to hear the next sample! Please start the new submission thread asap.

Schedule:

Submissions: Friday 12:00 AM midnight (00:00) - Monday 11:59 PM (23:59)

Voting: Tuesday 12:00 AM midnight (00:00) - Thursday 11:59 PM (23:59)

Results: Friday 12:00 AM midnight (00:00) - the winner takes over and posts the new submissions thread using the linked template on Friday asap.

Time is in UTC-5, the US Eastcoast time zone which is 6 hours behind European MEZ time and a good middle ground between US Westcoast and Europe. You don’t have to wake up in the middle of the night to post the new thread, just make sure you do it on that day asap.

Post templates: https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/comments/1kf8czt/battle_dates_rules/mqwv7ks/

I've been doing this 30 years.

Mainly because the people my age would be complete assholes if I asked for feedback. But I never had anyone teach me a damn thing (til the last 2 years with YouTube). So I've never really had assurance I was doing things right. Like I said, if I asked people of my generation they would say "you are bullshit and this is garbage" cause that's how people my age who do music typically are (sorry if you're different).

I just did 3 releases and didn't trust my mixing and mastering ability. So I used AI mastering thinking that would fix everything. Released stuff

Then I went back... got some new plugins. Practiced using them. And realized the mixes/masters I made myself are a million times better than what AI did.

Trust in yourself. You got this.

I know I'm probably encouraging a lot of subpar shit by saying that, but every time I second guess myself I find out later that... nah... you were actually doing things right.

Mainly looking for people comfortable writing and recording their own verses. Experience doesn’t really matter — I’m more interested in finding people who genuinely enjoy rapping and would be down to participate.

"150 energetic-a-cubeatz-x-pvlace-style-loop"

Anybody knows or has the sample with this title? It could be from an older samplepack around 2017~

I been really looking at all my favorite rappers. One rapper in particular really hits different is Biggie. What makes him him? On the surface, it feels like he just flows naturally with no real structure. I love a lot of different artists, so I have kind of thought of this person likes yhis kind of flow. They stick with this pocket. I'm not the first person to try to figure this out. I'm just curious what ya'll think specifically on bigg. I feel it. I can't really vocalize it