I hear you there. 2000s hip hop is what I grew up with but if I someone put a gun to my head and asked best era of music ever made... I'd probably say 70s classic rock
I was a child of 2000s hip-hop. Marshall Matters LP was one of the first hip-hop CDs I owned. I had listened to a lot of my uncles NWA and other underground 80s/90s rap, but the 2000s era was when I was a kid so like anything I think we're all bias to the music we grew up with.
I 100% agree...
Remember that most music fans don't know anything about music. If your goal is to grow an audience, IMO we can learn a lot from mainstream artists - they figured out how to crack the code and do something that the people like.
old school ways, nu skool tools. My first beat using stem separation tools. How it was made for anyone interested:
-piano: David Osborne - Suddenly (piano cover of Billy Ocean - Suddenly)
-vocal: Chris Stapleton - Sometimes I Cry
-bass: Eagles - Hotel California
-drums: The Producers -...
Well kinda. Bass is sampled from the Eagles track, piano is from David Osborne cover, drums are a classic one I know ya'll old heads will recognize. Lmk what you think.
You should submit this to some of those lo-fi / beats for studying type playlists on Spotify and get some streams! Great work. The drum fill to support the transition was a nice touch.