had to water it down for the bread, huh??
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and that's exactly where a lot of people's "generic" answer comes in...
they say BOTH...like, nobody got the balls to go either left or right...everyone wanna stay right in the middle and shit...
You're absolutely gonna have to water it down for the bread, unless you go in with completed albums and a fanbase to your unsaturated sound already(tons of Rock bands do this, lots out of your area, not so much in hip hop).
As for the generic answer...to be 100% real, I've said on here a million times. i was a RAPPER, I learned to make beats for myself because i got tired of asking folk for beats and overpaying to not get exactly what I wanted. I started making money off it and was cool with just "producing".
I had a deal on the table as a rapper as a teenager that required me to do club songs in a 90s Lost Boyz/Ma$e'ish(before Mase) style and wear contacts and dyed hair to make me look "exotic". I declined to do any of the requests, spent my time on the label making street shyt, was dropped and the (white, no racecard he just acted like my long lost white daddy when my real Dad was in my life, promising I could by my mom homes and all the regular B.S. you say trying to mold me into what he wanted)guy in charge told me I'd never see another check from music EVER. He had the nerve to tell me he KNEW EVERYBODY. He wasn't exaggerating much, but I've gotten by okay.
I say all that to say "beats don't mean much to me. It's just pressing buttons in my book. I was passionate about being a rapper. Passionate enough that I wouldn't change NOTHING I did as a rapper. I stood firm doing the music I wanted to and portraying the image I wanted to.
With beats, I can hide behind a drunk Big Bird or Elmo avatar. If you don't feel the same about your "beats" and are actually passionate about how your production sounds(I can honestly say i don't care), you're not real in my book to sell your soul to make a hit record.
I make beats for the money, and have fun while I'm at it. Not the other way around. If you can sincerely say the opposite, you should ONLY be doing WTF you want.
Honest answer.