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bkd3vil
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first off I'd like to thank you for EVERYTHING. i thought producers were always bound to rappers until i was exposed to Deadringer and Endtroducing. since then i've been trying to get more and more into instrumental hip hop and honestly i feel more expressive and comfortable producing instrumentals because i feel music can convey messages as good as if not better than lyrics. so thank u again for producing something so profound and literally changing how i look at music.
now for the question, im a producer from Brooklyn but im living in Egypt (trying to get know the culture and all that) and surprisingly theres a hip hop scene growing in the Middle East. Although its a little far behind compared to the rest of the world, rappers are started to blow up. Here comes my dilemma, im starting to get hype as a producer and alot of big local artists want to work with me but part of me wants to stay instrumental even though there isnt a market for instrumental hip hop (in fact nobody knows about it). i still want to work with rappers but my main passion is to express myself. im known for having pretty abstract, electronic sound (i like to experiment ALOT) so sometimes even my beats catch people off guard. so the question is how do u maintain that balance between yourself and what the people want to hear? and how do u expose something to people that they would potentially like but they're not entirely open to giving something new a chance?
now for the question, im a producer from Brooklyn but im living in Egypt (trying to get know the culture and all that) and surprisingly theres a hip hop scene growing in the Middle East. Although its a little far behind compared to the rest of the world, rappers are started to blow up. Here comes my dilemma, im starting to get hype as a producer and alot of big local artists want to work with me but part of me wants to stay instrumental even though there isnt a market for instrumental hip hop (in fact nobody knows about it). i still want to work with rappers but my main passion is to express myself. im known for having pretty abstract, electronic sound (i like to experiment ALOT) so sometimes even my beats catch people off guard. so the question is how do u maintain that balance between yourself and what the people want to hear? and how do u expose something to people that they would potentially like but they're not entirely open to giving something new a chance?