A Hip Hop Beat For The Ages
What you’re looking for when you look through the catalogue of rap beats is a hip hop beat for the ages. Okay, now this may sound like a tall order, but if you’re going to turn pro with your flow then you’ve got to get some beats that make it happen. The type of beat you need is one that’s not only good for your unique hip hop flow, but a beat that’s also hot right now and will make people take a second listen.
You know yourself how many times you’ve heard a track for the first time, and before you even heard the lyric or knew the artist, the rap beat just hit you so hard that you knew this track was going classic. It’s like love at first sight. A lot of people don’t believe in it until it happens. And this is what you want to make happen to your listeners. This is the un-namable quality that you should be looking for whenever you search for hip hop beats to make a song with.
You can’t just settle for good enough. Not if you plan on making an impression. And you can’t hope to have the same kind of airplay that some of the media favorites get which just conditions people to like their music even when it’s really sub par. And don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about here. It’s happened to every one of us. A song comes on that you hear for the first time, and you don’t really like it. But then you hear it again and again, and then someone at work is singing it, and then suddenly you’re singing it. What do you know, now you like that song.
Well, you can’t bank on this kind of exposure paving the way for people to hear your music, you’ve got to make that connection right away, and you’ve got to do it first with the style and sound of the beat that you choose. This is the key aspect of the music because it will determine where you go with the song in general. In the end of course, you can’t turn a dirty south beat into an old school beat or visa versa, it’s just as simple as that, so you’ve got to choose wisely.
So it all begins with the beat. And once you do find just the perfect beat, the beat that you think is going to make people turn their heads and take notice, then you’ve got to be careful how you play it. In other words, if you’ve got the hottest beat out there something that almost everyone is going to get with, then you’ve got to live up to that. Just think about what it would be like if you heard the first few seconds of a hip hop beat and you liked it and then the rapper came on and just killed it. And I don’t mean that in a good way, I mean he killed a perfectly good rap beat dead and it’s never coming back again. When you take your hip hop beat, be careful not to be this guy.
Mike is writing about Beat | Beats | Beats With Hooks and Club Beats | Dirty South Beat | Dirty South Beats available at www.hitbeatz.com
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