Why are amateur producers obsessed with selling beats?

[KomplexBeats]

its cool to see so many people actually responding and participating without going to war lol...

my main point really is not to knock the producer thats trying to hustle and get his money (I'm one of them). I'm knocking the cats who been making tracks for a couple weeks and they're trying to sell their wac material to artists...

believe it or not some artists dont know any better and will pay for garbage tracks, bad recordings, bad mixing, etc.

talented producers who sell for cheap thats really on you just dont sell yourself short...

peace

 

[C-Lovely]

It's because most of them have no future(education, a trade, etc..,), and besides that it's so easy for them to go buy any music software, chop up a track and make a beat. Then all of a sudden they think their producers. We should form a Musician/Producer Union or something so we keep these wanna be's from messing it up for real producers. Either way, sooner or later they'll fade out.

 

[Medusa_beats]

$50 dollahs nigga please

I PUT MY HEART AND SOUL INTO MY MUSIC AND FEEL THAT 50$ IS AN INSULT !!! I HAVE SOLD BEATS FOR 100$ (BEATS I DIDN'T LIKE MYSELF AND TOOK ME 10MIN TO DO) BUT MY PRICE USUALLY VARIES FROM 200$ TO 400$ DEPENDING ON THE BEAT (TIME ,QUALITY ETC).
I'VE BEEN MAKING BEATS FOR 8 YEARS NOW, AND ONLY STARTED SELLING 3-4 YEARS AGO. GIVEN THAT IM A GIRL , I WANTED MY ISHT TO BE TIGHT BEFORE I EXPOSED MYSELF AS A PRODUCER.
I THINK PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR IMAGE AS A PRODUCER,THEREFORE TAKE MUSIC SERIOUSLY, ARE MOSTLY GOING TO WAIT AND SUCCEED IN WHAT THEY DO.

 

[Texazmane]

ye i think $50 is crazy to sell beats i would never do it. Is it dumb? I dunno did you see Kanye special on vh1? He sold $50 beats out of his room around the city....his $50 turned to a bill and so on. Now hes making millions. Another producer wyshmaster who I think is cold as **** "leases" beats for $24.99 Now you can say what you want but hes now the ceo of basement beats which is the production company for nelly. His exclusive rights used to be $800-$1500 before he got signed so selling cheap got him in door. If thats all you do all day is make beats and you got beats by the pound then thats your thing. I guess selling alot of cheap beats means alot of promotion. Me personally think it should be about your own style/craft and should have more value to you.

 

[In-Trax]

i'm agreein with what all you catz are talkin bout and i'm in a cross road. whenthe times right, how do i get my name out there with out sellin my self short and how do i know what is too high or too low?? guys like me are new and dont know the price game. i dont want to waste my time with guys who cant afford to get their craft right, but i mean not everone of us has the money either and we're looking for a hand.

right now i've only been makin beats since June/July 2006 so that puts me down at around 3 months. i've DJ'ed alot longer then that though. I mean i'm still new, my beats sound decent but still need alot more experiance. I'm finding it hard to get more then one comment on my tracks and that one comment is usualy pretty weak. When i comment, i take the time to go through each track and analyze it and give positive and negitive critisizim. what i liked / disliked etc. its hard for me to grow with out your help. Guys with experiance showin a newbie with potential like my self some direction.

if anyone wants to hit me up with some comments on my tracks

https://www.futureproducers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165743

www.soundclick.com/djintrax
www.myspace.com/djintrax

Direction is all i need.... I have the Drive and determination to complete my goal.

I THINK PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR IMAGE AS A PRODUCER,THEREFORE TAKE MUSIC SERIOUSLY, ARE MOSTLY GOING TO WAIT AND SUCCEED IN WHAT THEY DO.

when do you know if its right to put your foot forward? its a game like everything else in life, take a chance and you might suprise your self. take a life lesson and take two steps back. its all a game. One day you'll hit the Pay Day button and your S*** has been passed to so many people the BAM your making the 6 Digits.

its like sayin "I wanna make sure my studio set up is tight before i push the keys and buttons" how you gunna know its right untill you play with it? just like how you gunna know if your beats are any good unless you put em out there. you gotta start at the bottom and as you grow so does your $$. but you have to start low and sacrafice for a few years.

When i was in a band, we took any gig we could find as long as it got our music out there. "FREE" we'd do it. then one day we were offered a $50 bill for our show and we were all over it. then it grew to the point were we were makin $200 a show in local bars so i mean you gotta sacrafice.

You need the feed back to grow your game right.

 

[C-Lovely]

i'm agreein with what all you catz are talkin bout and i'm in a cross road. whenthe times right, how do i get my name out there with out sellin my self short and how do i know what is too high or too low?? guys like me are new and dont know the price game. i dont want to waste my time with guys who cant afford to get their craft right, but i mean not everone of us has the money either and we're looking for a hand.

right now i've only been makin beats since June/July 2006 so that puts me down at around 3 months. i've DJ'ed alot longer then that though. I mean i'm still new, my beats sound decent but still need alot more experiance. I'm finding it hard to get more then one comment on my tracks and that one comment is usualy pretty weak. When i comment, i take the time to go through each track and analyze it and give positive and negitive critisizim. what i liked / disliked etc. its hard for me to grow with out your help. Guys with experiance showin a newbie with potential like my self some direction.

if anyone wants to hit me up with some comments on my tracks

https://www.futureproducers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165743

www.soundclick.com/djintrax
www.myspace.com/djintrax

Direction is all i need.... I have the Drive and determination to complete my goal.



when do you know if its right to put your foot forward? its a game like everything else in life, take a chance and you might suprise your self. take a life lesson and take two steps back. its all a game. One day you'll hit the Pay Day button and your S*** has been passed to so many people the BAM your making the 6 Digits.

its like sayin "I wanna make sure my studio set up is tight before i push the keys and buttons" how you gunna know its right untill you play with it? just like how you gunna know if your beats are any good unless you put em out there. you gotta start at the bottom and as you grow so does your $$. but you have to start low and sacrafice for a few years.

When i was in a band, we took any gig we could find as long as it got our music out there. "FREE" we'd do it. then one day we were offered a $50 bill for our show and we were all over it. then it grew to the point were we were makin $200 a show in local bars so i mean you gotta sacrafice.

You need the feed back to grow your game right.

Put it this way, if you want to make it to the top, your not going to try and impress someone that's on your level or lower. Your going to want to impress those higher than you. Why sell a beat to someone that's cheap and most likely not going to go any where with their music. I rather sell one of my hottest beats for 10$ to someone that can actually get me somewhere. Hell, I'll even give it to them for free if I know they can actually do something with it. The problem is that we have to many wanna be's trying to act like their somebody or their the next big thing in music. Sacrafice isn't the problem, just don't sacrafice to some that isn't going to appreciate you hard work.

 

[K Swiss]

yeah... I'm def one of the best..haha jk, but I understand what you're saying... my problem is that the people who want to buy my beats like to think they're good business people and try to pay like, $80 for a beat, which is outright ridiculous...no matter what anyone says...
well scratch that, because if you're paying $80 for a beat, it better be worth that $80... but nothing of quality is worth that little... so I agree with the starter of this post because I'd rather have a perfected craft that will earn me hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future rather than a couple of thin hundred dollars that might pay for a couple of bags of weed today

 

[Vote Jai]

its cool to see so many people actually responding and participating without going to war lol...

my main point really is not to knock the producer thats trying to hustle and get his money (I'm one of them). I'm knocking the cats who been making tracks for a couple weeks and they're trying to sell their wac material to artists...

believe it or not some artists dont know any better and will pay for garbage tracks, bad recordings, bad mixing, etc.

talented producers who sell for cheap thats really on you just dont sell yourself short...

peace

Co-Sign!

I dont' think there's anything wrong with producers trying to establish a name and make a little bit of change meanwhile. But just like Komplex said: "don't sell yourself short." I make anywhere between 3 & 5 beats a day. It's been that way for me for atleast a year. I've got so many beats, I might aswell make some quick money from some of them, at the same time, helping out some local talent trying to get on. Nothing wrong with it IMO.