Ready or Not?

[dacalion]

After reading some threads posted recently, I wonder how many of you feel that you are ready to make it right now? Here are a few questions...

1. What do you think that you have to offer the industry other than sick beats?
2. What is special about yourself that would make you marketable?
3. How much time would it take you to make 15 complete beats?
4. Do you have a portfolio of projects that you have done in the past?
5. Are you willing to make the necessary sacrafices such as dedicating many hours/day solely to producing beats?
6. If you have people down with you, would they be loyal to your success?
7. Are you able to create beats without samples?
8. Would you require alot of ( BIG ) studio time?
9. Are you willing to work with multiple artist or do you prefer a certain stlye?
10. How many beats do you have that would be considered "complete"?

holla back,--dac

 

[Guevara]

i PERSONALLY DONT FEEL LiKE iM READY BUT i THOUGHT iT WOULD BE iNTERESTiNG TO ANSWERS THESE QUESTiONS AND ADD TO THE THREAD.SO HERE iT GoES.

i THiNK QUESTiONS 1AND2 ARE A MATTER oF OPiNiON SO iM GoNNA SKiP THEM.
3.DEPENDiNG oN MY RESoURCES iT WOULD TAKE ME ABOUT 2 DAYS TO PUT THE BASiS oF 15 BEATS TOGETHER AND ABOUT 3 MoRE TO COMPLETE THEM ALL. SO iD SAY ABOUT A BUSiNESS WEEK.
4.YES, i HAVE 11 WHoLE SoNGS FiNiSHED AND READY TO PRESENT.MoRE oN THE WAY.
5.i ALREADY SPEND DAYS AT A TiME AT ME SETUP, THAT WOULD BE NoTHiNG NEW TO ME.
6.i KEEP A SMALL CiRCLE SO i KNOW THE FEW PEOPLE i DO HAVE DoWN WoULD BE LoYAL.i WOULDNT SWEAT iT EVEN iF THEY WERENT CUZ i DONT DEPEND oN ANYBODY BESiDES MYSELF ANYWAY.DoNT NEED ANYBoDY ELSE.
7.i DO HAVE A FEW BEATS iVE MADE oN A TRiTON AND THEY SoUND GOOD, iM FULY CAPABLE OF MAKiNG NON-SAMPLE BEATS, BUT i GET A DiFFERENT FEELiNG FROM DiGGiNG.
8.NOPE.iT WoULD BE NiCE TO EXPERiENCE A BiG STUDiO THOUGH.
9.YES, BUT iD PREFER TO KEEP MY FoCUS LOW AND WoRK WiTH ABOUT 4 ARTiST AT A TiME.
10.SiXTY-EiGHT

LiKE i SAiD, i KNOW iM NOT READY YET, BUT i HAVE AN uNDERSTANDiNG OF THiS GAME.GiVE ME TWO YEARS.

 

[Ash Holmz]

1) strange question - i do have a good feel for business aspect.. i can sing and rhyme as well but im tryin to hop in da game as a producer not a performer.
2) im crazy..funny crazy..not crazy crazy
3)bout a wekk and a half for the beats... bout another week and a half for mixes..this is if i was doing nothin else.
4)well my portfolio isnt qute complete ... i have my first entire hip hop album production about half done..i took an internship and jus got back so my project went on hold... i have co produced 1 r&b track with a young artist out in detroit...2 dance tracks.. and i played a rhodes on a released rock song too
5)thats nuttin to me.. i hardly even sleep
6)yeah my crew has been down and my detroit people are family(my cousin manges an r&b group)
7) i started plyin before i even thought about samplin so yes
8)maybe.. i am lacking industry quality post production/mastering equipment.. so thats were that would come into play
9)ditto on guevara
10) i have 18 "studio mastered" tracks, between me and my partner we probably got like 100 fully sequnced and mixed tracks ready for final mixing and mastering

like guevara said i feel im not quite ready at the moment..im still learnin and getting experince... i feel like im gettin better evrday... i feel ill really make make my push late spring aerly summer of next year...but if it takes longer than that for me to make sure my ish is proper..then i am willing to patietnly wait

 

[afriquedeluxe]

1) Am doin a business course at da moment n am lookin at doin sum sort of accountin n e-commerce course wen i get at university level, so i cud proly do sumtin 2 do wit accounts/cash n dat in da music biz

2)marketable, i thought producers was behind da scene?

3)15 complete beatz, hmm, dat wud take time, perhaps 3-5months

4)I got ma beat cds, different volumes n dat

5)Yup, i got lots of thingz i wana learn anyway, so ofcos im ready 2 put da hrs in

6)Yeh, ive known ma friens long time, dey were there wen i werent makin beatz n r here now , n if i got big , deyd still b there

7)yup, chk da beat i dun in ma 1st beat this win

8)studio time 4 wat, i can do all ma beatz at home, mayb wen it came to lay da vocals down

9)mutliple fine wit me, ofcos theres a fav style but without variation it get borin

10) whoa, cnt tink of a numba , but theres loads

 

[Equality 7-2521]

do think im ready yet

 

[dacalion]

there seems to be a little misunderstanding on questions 1 and 2. Let me clear it up...what do you have to offer other than beats?...that question is directed mainly to those that think producing is all about sick beats which we all know that its not, so what else would you have to offer?

the second question...whats special about yourself that would make you marketable? producing is only behind the scenes if you choose to be undercover....im not gonna name ALL the cats that produce music that are on the front pages of VIBE, the SOURCE, EBONY and the many other mags. As a producer, it's not only about selling your beats, its aboout selling yourself too! I mean, you could be the greatest beat maker of all time but have absolutely NO business sense about yourself which would make you look bad....feel me?

I apologize for not being clear enough.

holla back,--dac

 

[J-malice]

1) good arrangin skills, good lyrics and song writin, alot of creativity, cultural diveristy, other shit i cant think of that i think is regular but ppl think amazin.

2) same as question 1 kinda. i can rap good (i think) dedicated willing to wrok hard blah blah blah.

3) damn id probably get it done within an estimated 15 days

4) yea im straight on tha portfolio thing, got some hot tracks. no really big names but im straight.

5) i already spend more time with music production then i do ANYTHING else literally.

6) ma bois is ma bois to the end, money aint chagin too much. cuz we all seein it together either way it goes...my homeboi since 5th grade can choose to sign with epic records at anygiven time 9because of a real close connection, and im talkin bout real close) half a million dollar advance at the pick up of the phone, but he said hes waitin for me to start my record label up so he can join wit me...in his words "if someone offered me a million dollars and you offered me 5 id go with your label" now thats love. not to mention how sick he can spit. (im the one that got him rappin) he ripped lil flip, and that dude from the eastsidaz that was in snoops "law low" song wit nate dogg... rapped in a studio session with eminen and snoop, but hes waitin for me. shiiiiiiiit THATS MY GOTDAMN NIGGA!

7) of course

8) Not sure if i would need alot of BIG studio time, first i gotta know what i would need BIG studio time for.

9) south side, east, west, rnb, reggae, german, british, men from mars, dont matta as long as they are decent.

10) cant count. dont remember half of em...shit i dont rememger the beat im workin on rite now.

11) good questions, i THINK im ready.