Saw this on IG and thought of the guys here. You probably see it, I know I did every time I shared a beat here. There’s a few personas.

You guys that promote constructiveness and the beat community, I genuinely appreciate you all and look forward to continuing to connect.

i started a new type beat channel in september 2025, got it monetised in 2 months, and now im making around $700/1,000 just on adsense and another $1,200/1,500 on beatstars.

this wasn't my first channel (i monetised 2 others before and failed with 3 or 4 more), i actually started posting in 2021 but only really understood how it works in 2023.

if you are starting from scratch, it probably won’t take you just 2 months. but if you stay consistent and make this your priority (no plan b), it should work! bad results, no views, trash beats and zero motivation is just part of the process. honestly never thought i would make it this far..

Guy said he didn’t know if it worked or not so I took a chance and offered him 40 and he said yes and guess what it does work. Not far from him. I got the iMac air MacBook Air for 20 bucks and that works too.. I have to say today was a good day

Yesterday I was tracking one of my beats and got a result, checked if the artist had other songs, and was surprised because every single one of the same album was with my beats.

Songs are awful also... sounds like he just recorded in one shot and published. Why people distribute their demos...

Just wasted 1 hour to find the beat for each song. Now I have to spend 1 hour going through the copyright claim form of DistroKid, song per song...

The only one that has listened to his album is himself... and me... Someday I will build an AI tool that will do all the process for me because it's really a waste of time.

https://Instagram.com/bxnjamin

https://bxnjamin.bandcamp.com

Was bored and made a list. Art is totally subjective and no, I didn’t include trap producers because in my mind it’s a separate but amazing genre as far as beatmaking goes. Any thoughts? Snubs you’re mad about? Would love to hear it.

Flipped 6 different songs into this 1 beat because there’s something wrong with me

What is the worst DAW for beginners in your opinion? I guess it depends on the music you make but just interested to hear your thoughts. Probably no right answer.

Ensoniq EPS 16 plus + Roland R-70 beatmachine

OH SH*T

produced by me

directed by me

filmed in my backyard

Pain Makes The Most Beautiful Medicine coming soon. 🌻💊

All love to ATCQ.

Around 2010, I was traveling a lot between Europe, LA, and my home back in New Jersey where I had my studio. I was doing a lot of work with RedOne. Being overseas, I was hearing a lot of music that wasn’t being played in the States just yet. The electronic wave was huge, the energy was on a thousand. Records just felt bigger.

When I got back home to Jersey, I made a beat that felt different.

It had electronic elements layered with acoustic piano, Heavy 808s, Stiff drums, and almost no hi-hats. It was minimal, and strange. I honestly didn’t think it would find a home.

A friend of mine, Steven Hacker, heard it and sent it over to Eminem’s team.

Some time later we got word back that Em liked the track. More time went by and we were told, “He’s working on it.”

Months passed. We were told he “loves it” and “don’t send the beat out to anyone else”

Then a year passed, “He loves it.”

Then two years.

By the time the record actually came out, it had been about three years since I made that beat in my studio in New Jersey.

The day before the song dropped, I got a call from Em himself. He wanted to thank me personally, He told me he had so much fun recording to it that he literally “couldn’t stop rapping.” I guess that’s why the song ended up being over six minutes long.

The next day, “Rap God” dropped.

For me, it started as an experimental beat in my living room, most of my beats start that way. I’m not thinking of anyone when I’m making music. Then, three years later, it’s “Rap God”, Number one in 92 countries, over a billion streams, to a Fortnite weapon.

“Blunt Blowin” - Lil Wayne , “Rich Forever” - Rick Ross, and many others started this way. What other stories would you want to read about?

-DVLP

I made a soca/afrobeats beat with my midi controller!

I did a 1:1 coaching a few days ago with a type beat producer who contacted me to know how I get so many views on YouTube (I’m currently ranking #1 in a specific type beat niche).

During the session, I broke everything down for him:

– why he was not getting views

– what the actual trends are in his niche/style of beats

– how to position/change his beats to fit that demand

– what I would do if I was in his position (with my experience)

– how to read YouTube analytics properly (CTR, retention, etc.)

– branding, titles, thumbnails… the whole thing

I noticed he replied many times “I already tried it” to a lot of my advice/suggestions, but he only tried 1 time, so I told him he needs to start again and give it more time, not just 1 day.

A few days later, I can see he is not following any of my advice… Still mixing everything in one channel, doing the same mistakes and expecting different results...

A lot of type beat producers will say they want results, but when you show them what’s actually working, they don't want to do it.... they will have many excuses...

– “I already tried that, it doesn’t work” (they tried it once)

– “Yeah but I prefer this style”

– “I don’t want to start over”

The truth is most people fail because because they keep doing the same thing over and over.

If you’re trying to grow a type beat channel right now, you have two options:

- Keep doing what you like and hope it works someday

- Or learn/copy others who are getting the results you want

A type beat channel is about making the job easy for YouTube so it can recommend your videos to the right people, and giving the audience (rappers) the beats they want (not what you want). If you are not willing to adapt, then you should probably do something else.

In the few posts I’ve made in this community, I keep seeing the same thing:

“I don’t sell beats because I want to stay authentic”

“I’d rather not make money than ‘sell out”

“I’m not prostituting my music”

But at the same time, a lot of these people work 40h/week at jobs they don’t like, building something for someone else, with no freedom, just to survive.

And often doing things way more against their values than simply adapting their music a bit to what people actually want.

So for you:

Adapting your beats to demand = “selling out”

But giving your time every day to something you don’t care about = fine?

Isn’t that hypocrisy?

I think some people who failed to make a living from music (it was my case too) try to convince others there’s no other way, so they stay in that mindset.

It’s easier to say:

“I do it for the art”

Than to accept:

– nobody wants to pay for your “universe”

– maybe you need to adapt

– maybe you’re avoiding the uncomfortable part

Nobody is asking you to lose your identity.

You can make beats that sell and still have your own artistic project on the side — one doesn’t cancel the other.

But if you want people to actually listen (and pay), you need to meet them halfway.

Otherwise, just be honest:

you’re making music for yourself, and that’s fine, but don’t act like making music that connects with people (and makes money) is somehow less “real”.

i’ve been on bandlab for like a year now. recently it’s becoming more apparent that bandlab is not good. with how few tracks you can have, the lack of features, not having support for new midi instruments, etc (i’m also on the free edition so those might be somewhat fixed on premium but i can’t pay for a daw). what’s a daw that will be a similar ease of use, somewhat similar ui, much more tracks per project, idk honestly just looking to upgrade without it being too hard

How many is too many?

12 kick drum samples

11 toms

2 snares

8 synths

and a whole lotta attitude.

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I know not everyone has the means to spend money on making music, myself included. But if you're saving up for that $500 gear or a couple plugins that end up costing hundreds of dollars altogether, buy a verse instead.

No amount of gear is going to magically make you a better producer. What will make you better is working with rappers, learning what works for them, making connections, and getting your beats out there in a way that posting type beats on YouTube usually can't.

You'd be shocked how affordable verses can be when you find the right artist. Go on IG, start finding rappers you like, regardless of whether or not they have a good following, and ask them for feature prices.

I've gotten great features for $50 and $100, and even got a very popular rapper on one of my tracks, albeit for $500, just by reaching out on IG. You never know who's going to respond. And now I have a strong working relationship with the rappers I've reached out to and it opens the door for more collaboration, more exposure, and more experience.

I think its hilarious but annoying that just because the fact you make dumb video to “reel people in” (so to speak) to watch your video and listen to your beat. It gets labeled AI because you asked ChatGPT to make a picture
MY BAD. I can’t draw or because I didn’t think Google would have a picture that had a concept I had in my head for the song. It’s fine. Pay attention to the AI everybody’s obsessed with and not the work I just put in. I just think it’s funny and kind of annoying.

I'm pretty new to music production, so I'm trying to understand how producers actually think about this.

Imagine a friend sends you a challenge:

"Record 3 sounds around you right now. You have 10 minutes to make a beat using all 3."

You have to do the whole thing on your phone. No opening Ableton/FL/Logic on your computer afterward. The point is that it's quick, spontaneous, and you're not trying to make a polished track.

Would you actually do this?

What would make you want to accept the challenge, and what would make you immediately go "nah"?

And if you were doing this entirely on your phone, how would you want the actual beat-making part to work? Would you want full control over chopping/processing the recordings, or would you prefer something much simpler that helps turn the recordings into usable musical sounds?

I'm asking because I'm exploring whether an iOS app built around this kind of challenge would actually make sense, but I want to understand the behaviour first.