Why Beats Can Make or Break Your Song…
If you listen to today’s music on the radio, you will hear a wide variety of songs and beats. You even nowadays hear people singing over hip hop beats, and people rapping over r&b beats! The two genres are blending a lot in today’s music.
One of the mistakes that many underground rap artists make is, they are so concerned about being what they call “real” as in being gangsta or hard.
It seems like they are more concerned about being “real” then they are about selling records and making money. So they use only beats that are hard and “gangsta” sounding. They talk about shooting and killing over these hard rap beats. It’s ok for them to do this if this is what they want, but every song on the album can’t be that way if they want to be a successful multi-platinum selling artist.
If you want to get your music on the radio, and on BET or MTV, you have to have at least a few singles, that are more commercial.
A lot of artists don’t do this, and they miss out on a whole entire market of possible customers! The goal is to capture the attention of these people through mass media such as the radio and tv, so that they will purchase the album. Once they buy the album, they will then have access to the rest of your different styles.
People in the streets will burn your CD! Listeners from the Radio and T.V. will buy your CD!
Which one do you think will get you to Platinum Status Faster?
So the point is, if your goal is to capture as many sells as you can, then you have to make music that everybody can listen to. You can’t make music only for the streets. You have to make it for the streets, the club, the radio/tv, and for the car. That way, you can receive sells and money from all of those different markets, instead of just from the streets.
Today’s hit music has one thing in common: No matter how stupid it may sound, it is catchy. Don’t believe me? Think about some of the stupidest songs that have been released that have blown up big over the past few years…They still managed to sell records and sell out shows…
-Til’ Next Time
January 25th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
WHAT UP DOG WHENWE GONNA HOOK UP IM A R&B SINGER A A RAPPER I GOT IT MANNN I KNOW U PROBLEY HEAR THIS ALOT BUT LET ME SHOW YOU ,AND TIME WILL TELL WEATHER I MAKE IT OR FAIL .
SO WRITE ME BACK ILL CHECK MY MAIL
April 17th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Just checking in yo! im A! im a Dj, and i just got to say that them beats you got are nice i listen to them alot its cool right now im online just trying to see wat up i got yo email most of the music i do is rnb/rap/hip hop mostly every thing new and old i belive alot in self expression and freedom but the dj in hip hop really gets no credit at all you turn on the radio down here in the atl and you be like what, why do these lame people even have a deal its not even real no more so i do my own thing i never follow i set my own trend/style people forgot how to be independent but its cool, Yo i wish you a whole lot of success and everthing man keep in touch with me ok peace!
April 30th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Hey Aaron,
Very Good Advice!! I will use this on the Next song I download off your site!!
Thanks much for all your advice and help Big man!!!
Hey, How do you like the latest Stuff!!
Nichelle Music
May 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am
hey aaron just looking for some hot ass beats i can sing to.
your beats are off the chain
May 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Aaron where all the hot ass beats at. need to make some music i’m going crazy
May 20th, 2008 at 11:11 am
True that ! Dawg the beat is the vessel that carries your lyrics. The lyrics may not be hitting but that bangin beat carries the flow. Feel this back in the day. James Brown said “Talking loud saying nothing”
You see that beat got to be on it as one part. But of couse you want your whole song to be the best of the best…cool ! but my boy Aaron B is on it fellow artists GET THAT BEAT !
PEACE OUT !!!