Have You Given Up Yet?

Speaking of...anybody remember that dude that did the travel videos from Dubai and he was a member here. Wonder what happened to him?
 
I can only talk, haven't started making tracks yet, learning everything I can while i save up for good equipment. Best thing to do, learn about what your going into before you splash out money on gear. :4theloveofgod:
 
Never gave or will give up. Just give less of a fuuck about it than I used to.

Soul/Funk is dead. Fuuck it!!


Really looking for this other song......it has a crowd of kids screaming "super bad" or something. Dude sings..."What's my name".........kids scream "SUPER BAD"!! Fiending to hear it.........I'm out of luck. :( But that's what I'mmis!
 
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havent given up just been hella busy. i work 12 hour days and still have to be a husband/dad, im about this music sht forreal but i gotta prioritize my life.
 
i've been slacking

Thats what success can do to a person...you get a tatse of it and you think youre good forever...same thing happened to me, ... like how do i top what i just did? I havent been able to top my old stuff in years man....i dont know about you but its hard for me. As for quitting i dont think i ever will, ... ive never been a quitter, i think i get better as i get older.
Good luck to you though.

I beleive in visualization though, if you can see doing something you probably can, and for me to type out stuff like this is kind of against my cause so, take this with a grain if salt. I type stuff on here but it dont nessecarily mean i mean it.
 
Yep that's it...he made all the beats in the video. Was an interesting way to get his ish out there.


His name is Duane Perera. He and his friend formed a production duo called Ansane. I think they are based out of Canada.

Duane has whole Youtube channel with thoae travel videos. They are cool to watch. I would definitely love to travel like that before I get old.
 
i don't feel like producing at all so i'm kinda taking a break and just playing guitar and jamming, sometimes you need to get away from this shit
 

Never gave or will give up. Just give less of a fuuck about it than I used to.

Soul/Funk is dead. Fuuck it!!


Really looking for this other song......it has a crowd of kids screaming "super bad" or something. Dude sings..."What's my name".........kids scream "SUPER BAD"!! Fiending to hear it.........I'm out of luck. :( But that's what I'mmis!
 
No. Honestly it would bother me because I haven't done what I've set out to do yet. Of course there's been demo's of my sound on the net since like 06 but I've never been able to put out a full body of work that represents my art form. Be nice to type into youtube or twitter and see what I've been putting in. Regardless of sucess I can still have respect!
 
I am constantly grinding and learning. I'm not sure what you mean give up? Every second I'm making music I'm living my dreams. To reap the benefits of success would be cool but I'm going hard regardless of what the industry has in store for me because at the end of the day I'm building something.
 
I am still at it 10 years strong and don't plan on stopping. I have achieved every goal I ever wanted to with production so for me now its all bonus now. I would love to get on a platinum album but I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes.
 
never giving up. but damn it is hard as hell trying to do this out grammas house lol. everyone in my area has ADD and cant get work done no matter how much im poking and prodding. so what ive been doing is trying to connect with people outside my state which kinda sucks because im a salesman in person but over the internet i come off as a dry person. i do my best to sell through text or even just throw a beat to them for them to go over and it falls flat. sucks cause i hear person to person with producers has been lacking and i got that aspect but that falls on deaf ears here. smfh been working hard though, covering the angles and what have you.

We like the same dudes LOL
 
At the moment, I'm coming off a small hiatus from music. I've been under alot of stress juggling music and school and I jus realized that I've been over working myself. Caught up in tryna get by, I forgot the golden rule; we do music cus it's our PASSION, if it was ALL about money we'd be in other fields and have other careers. I made music too much of a job when in all actuality, its a blessing. So realizing that, I've jus gone back to creating music to express and explore. I've been letting tracks and ideas come to me instead of doin' only the tracks I know will work and sell. Despite that, I'm on track to gettin' my album done. Talked to several cats about studio time and music video rates and locked down a deal with Mario Luccy and now his my in-house engineer. Outside of the creative process, I've continued to take business classes and recently dropped a philosophy class to relieve some of the stress. I've been coming up with a business plan for my next album and I decided I need to get a job to help build a budget for it
 
Not giving up until I reach that peak. I've learned the hard way that shit doesn't happen just because you want it to, what you put out in the universe you will get back. And if you put nothing out...

Well then that's that.
 
I thought that im gonna stop, beacuse all the things that was going on at that time were just overhealming.
But since I made a little break, I was contacted by few people from the industry, so I won't stop. If you feel like you have to take a break - do it, dont force yourself too hard, you are just a human.
 
I can't get excited about music money... because my job has made me lazy. I would never make the money "hustling" music as I do working here.

I have kids and a wife and I like to know when I'm getting paid. I know people that sold real estate, insurance and all of that... they showed me what sporadic checks do. They stress you out. You go for long stretches of being broke and then you get a big payday but all you do is try to recoup from being broke.

I'd rather be gradually broke every two weeks.

Plus there's a very gray line between hobbyists and serious. Everybody is lumped in together.

You send in a song and you're serious... Me, Lil Leon and ToiletBeatz send beats to that same artists... they don't know who's actually "serious". They may take the track ToiletBeatz sent... and you call this your livelihood?

I made music this past weekend after a long break, it felt "fun" but it didn't warrant me trying to take the time trying to get it into the fray of beats when people are pumping out 5 a day, lol.

I could if I wanted to though. I could say I'm serious this month, take a month off... be serious the next month.

Knock what I wrote but I haven't heard of any of you and you've been GETTING STARTED for a long azz time.

Music SELLING isn't something that's going to pay your bills. You can dream about it all you want. Things have went back into the artists hands. There won't be any more Timbo's, Manny Fresh's, Swizz's, Dre's...

Beats are $0.99.

BUT!!!! it doesn't hurt you to try to succeed. I probably should've submitted that beat "somewhere" instead of letting it sit on my hard drive... it wouldn't have hurt anything.

Somehow... I don't have the drive or passion to really "CARE"... I just like to make music that sounds good to me. Just like how people like to basket-weave, take photo's, cook and all that.

This thread should say "Why cook? if you aren't trying to get on the Food Network!" lol.

Plus I have gear, I have to use it. I'm all headphones now though, monitors were taking up too much space. They're about to hit Craigslist in a few.

Go for it if you have nothing else that fills up your life / time. I'm on your side as a supporter.

BIGG ROME!!!!!!!!
 
its not.. why cook if you arent trying to get on Food Network

its... why cook if you arent trying to make the best food you can possibly make and not half assing it because youre not a full time chef
 
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