Lose Lose Situation with vocals

When I'm mixing my beats and vocals I can't get them to cut like I want to . the only time I could make them clear is when I turn down my beat or my instruments which makes my song lose its punch . am I mixing my music wrong ?
 
The short answer is your instruments are in the same frequency range as the vocal. Try side chaining some stuff to the vocal only using about 1db of gain reduction. Or Just simply taking some frequencies away from instruments that dont need to be there, especially ones that are conflicting with where the vocal is.

You can have you beat punch a bit better using low end distortion and parallel compression at a lower volume as well. Among many other techniques. It all just comes down to learning more mixing theory.
 
Using EQ, make a narrow curve and boost & sweep through the frequency range. Try making small cuts on any frequency that is masking your vocals.
 
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