Hey everyone,

I’ve been into music and tech for a while now, and I’m pretty familiar with the creative loop we all get stuck in. Sometimes it’s the ideas (chords, melodies, rhythm, sound selection), sometimes it's the arrangement, and sometimes it's just trying to glue everything together to get a clean mix and master.

We all know the industry pushes us to produce faster these days. But trying to keep up with that pace feels like it's hurting my artistic approach. At the same time, most AI tools out there just spit out messy, cookie-cutter, generic results that don't sound real.

How do you guys deal with this? What does your actual workflow look like? Where do you waste the most time, and how do you speed things up without losing your own style?

Would love to hear how you handle it.

hello, I’m an artist producer under the name of Ruffles Jenkins and I’m making this post here to let anyone who’s interested know that I’ll mix for you for free. Send me the stems and we can work together and I’ll work hard and give you a new fresh mix. I work with your vision and also give you ideas and do whatever you ask!

Hello! My name's clover, and I'm looking for a partner to rap and produce music with under a shared banner.

I find my vocals to be consistently under par for sounding good, and I also don't have a good studio, mostly record under a blanket LMAO.

I've been writing music for about 12 years, and make music similar to

$uicideboys

Night Lovell

Bone$

Ghostemane

Scrim

And others but mostly the underground hiphop is where I write music in. It'd be awesome to find someone who can share in my vision, and I can absolutely take on a lot of the producing side if needed such as

Mixing vocals

Creating intros, outros and intermissions

Making lyric videos or basic image music videos

I'm completely open to creative choices, I'd like to be able to pitch ideas at each other and find out the best way to make the song we want to make. As you can see in the title I'm also willing to be more of a rap group where we all handle different parts of the production, but I don't really mind either way, just want a way to get my lyrics out there without it sounding extremely amateur! DM me or comment, I'd love to talk with anyone interested!

hey there im an underground rapper and im currently owrking on my 2nd mixtape. i got most things figured out but i need fetures for 2 tracks

track 1
-just a 32 bar verse, no theme you can just send an unused verse
-needs 2 people

track 2
-its supposed to be the hit or club banger of the tape
-16 bar verse
-8 bar line for line section
-repeat an already written hook
-needs 1 person

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I make a lot of electronic sounding stuff that I've rapped on that has a hip hop feel sometimes, and I have used both hardware and software synths.

My hardware that I have:

Moog Grandmother - in the closet in a hard case since I have nowhere else to put it currently. It's my favorite.

Make Noise 0 Coast - just recorded a sound for an hour and filtered it with Ableton's Auto Filter.

Behringer Edge - in the front of the soft case because it's behringer and I don't really use it that much right now.

PWM Malevolent - was wanting to get some Doom Soundtrack crazy ass sounds from it at some point. Been using it as a Midi to CV converter and keyboard for the 0 coast. Gotta look up how to properly tune the scaling of the notes because it's crazy right now.

And I have a novation mininova. It's in the box. It was my first synth...and I don't like it that much.

And then of course I have a lot of soft synths. I have Omnisphere and a bunch of others, but I reduced it to just a few and I'm gonna stick with those for right now.

I have used Omnisphere in the past, and it's got like a shitload of presets. But maybe it's option fatigue...or maybe I'm just bad, but I can't really seem to find any sounds that I actually want to use. Maybe if I actually learned all of the synth, maybe I wouldn't need to care....but it's such a big synth. Like at that point I just wanna use Phase Plant.

Anyway, what synths you guys use for hip hop? I know a lot of you use samplers, but I'm not interested in that right now. That's for a different thread.

It’s a specific song, but I don’t want to link it in the initial post because of the rules of the thread. I think I’m spitting bars fr, but I don’t know about how my voice sounds for other people. I know people like the autotune style of rapping nowadays myself included, but I don’t really feel the autotune style of rapping for my style personally. I feel like I have a good amount of energy in this performance and I think I mixed it well so I’m kind of at a loss for the negative reaction on this one. Would greatly appreciate some other opinions and direction!

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Even tho I'm just going to release my music for free at the moment, I'd like to do commercial stuff in the future. I don't really like all label shenanigans, and microfunding thru Kickstarter for samples, mixing or features seems like a viable option. People like De La Soul have already done that (tho they already had a fanbase). What do yall think?

I created this app so I can come up with ideas on the go. I made a pretty cool beat while waiting for a bus yesterday. It has a sampler that lets you chop up samples to pads, or record or upload your own samples. It has 300 samples built in, and it has premade styles that can help you get started.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rossboe781.MPCClone

I'm looking for some hardware to start sampling and beatmaking more seriously, nothing real fancy, and I've seen this three things that look good enough for a beginner:

• AKAI professional MPD 218
• A portable turntable
• Focusrite Scarlett Solo Studio 4th Gen

Is this stuff good? Do you guys have any recommendations?

Hi everyone, I just started rapping and was wondering if anyone has good tips for finding beats or producers? I tried to start making my own beats but it's easier said than done. Is there like good places to network with producers specifically?

With sampling it feels like everything that’s great has been used many times and we’re way too late to use a great sample for the first time, so we try to find really obscure shit or we go crazy trying to manipulate samples.

The great thing about early sampling was that these were records people listened to at the time and they often had very significant meaning to the rapper (& the audience). Rapping over a record they’ve been hearing their whole lives.

It’s not a secret but it’s under-utilized so I feel like it’s one of the tricks I have up my sleeve but go back to those great samples that everybody already knows and you can find parts of the same records to flip that haven’t been touched, at least not famously. Producers avoided them because the record is so common but I’ve made phenomenal timeless beats using different parts of those common records. Find a song I love and just listen to the original record a few times as a fan. Then flip an unused piece of it.

I can write without any beat or anything but its hard to write with a beat idk how to describe it

Yo what's good!

I'm a 15M rapper/writer from Lagos, Nigeria. I write American-style hip hop songs (Drake / Travis vibe but with my own pen).

I got bars and hooks ready. Looking for American friends who produce or rap to give feedback and maybe collab.

DMs open - let's work!

Yo! I'm Atlas, a producer mainly making soulful hip-hop, boom bap, alt-R&B and experimental beats.

I'm looking for rappers to connect with and make some music together. I'm open to different styles and ideas.

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Im a rapper/producer that leans more on the lyrical boom bap type side but im open to different genres. Just trying to get some work in so anyone who wants to work just comment or DM. I'll link my music in the comments.

When I record I like to record my songs all the way through unless the song is longer than 3 minutes. I asked ChatGPT and Grok for help and one of their suggestions was to record songs in 4-8 bar blocks but that doesn't really work well for my creative process. Also I feel like I should be able to rap my own song all the way through. If I can't then how would I perform it live?

They recommended vocal warm ups which I tried and that didn't work

They also recommended hiring a vocal coach which I 1000% do not have the money for

How do I stop my voice from cracking when I rap?

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Would love to know what the community does

My tracks are undoubtedly better when I’ve got a legit producer working on the sound

But it’s a pretty expensive process (deservedly) that I can’t just afford on a whim right now…

What do you guys do before uploading tracks to platforms? Just fire in the hole? Mix and master yourself? Hire a producer?

Any insights appreciated! 🙏