you should do music with people you enjoy, share your beats with people you believe in.
A true heartfelt collaboration will always be better, quality wise, than selling your beats in a beats supermarket.
1st goal should always be about the music quality and enjoyement. Money is a result of dedication, heart, and hard work. Not a goal in itself.
Thats exactly what I think.
Giving out free beats its sometimes thing You could consider as investment. The more beats You gave out, the bigger number of listeners heard of you. You can also take royalties.
I want to point out one thing. I don't think earning money for your work is bad thing. When you create something, whatever it is - it becomes your product. I think its all good to get money for your product. If your music is good, and you consider yourself as an artist then you have right to make dollars on it.
There comes another issue.
How much are your beats worth?
I mean no how much you could get for them if You put it on the beat-sale site and lease it. Then it could be even 5$.
I ask, how much your beat is WORTH, no how much you could get for it, selling to broke rapper who doesn't even have talent.
Its important thing to consider. If you treat your music, your beats, your art - whatever you call it - as trash, then you probably want to sell it for 15$ + 2 beats free.
And that's what you'll probably get.
If you think your beats are something better, something bigger - then you'll definitely advance sooner as bargain-sellers with beats treated like trash by themselves. Because if someone see that You treat your 'art' like shit, then he'll pay you like shit or - in most cases - don't even try to listen to your 'productions'.
I think that's very important thing that every producer / beatmaker / whoever should consider.
Because if there are 1000 'producers' selling trash for 15$, how much would they get? Ask yourself
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