How to make a tight hip hop beats demo on an even tighter budget.
by Outlaw Music Productions
The most successful rap artists in the business work with the most gifted and talented producers, programmers, musicians, and recording engineers to help them bring their vision into reality. For the up and coming artist, he or she has got difficult choices to make. Does one invest the time and money in all the equipment necessary to self-produce a CD, or do you buy ready-made hip hop beats and hip hop instrumentals off the internet.
Fully produced royalty free hip hop instrumentals from the web can be a very cost effective option, especially if you
are just putting together a demo to showcase your talent. These non-exclusive instrumentals can be licensed for very little cash,
and usually can be downloaded in the form of a simple wav. file, Broadcast wav. file, or even an mp3 file. For those that have never
heard the term “non-exclusive hip hop instrumentals”, it simply means the source site is granting you a license to use that instrumental
for your demo purposes. Some sites offer “exclusive” beats which can mean different things on different sites so read the fine print
people! Usually “exclusive” beats will cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, but once licensed,
the site will remove that “exclusive” beat or hip hop instrumental from their on-site catalog, so only you can use it for your
album. Pretty cool.