Songs that inspired to you start making beats

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So many diverse beatmakers on here, drop some stories..


I was blasting The Beanie Sigel "Truth" album on release date and heard the Truth beat on my parent's stereo system. My pops had one of those extra subwoofer built in type 90's system

i can only blast it at full when he wasn't home. I'm nodding my head like yoo this shyt goes, but Kanye only plays two chords throughout the verses(not knowing he sampled it at this moment, didn't read the album credits yet). Played the chords successfully on my pop's Casio, I was like I can do that too. Around the same time Swizz was buzzing around NY as the producer who uses a keyboard then chops samples up. Saved up for a Yamaha DJX (had a sampler built in, and a 5 track recorder) after, I graduated to an Akai sampler (really started playing with samples). Was working on a my first "album" ever and one of my homies let me hold onto to an Akai S2000 ( i think) and thats when i started really sampling straight into Cool edit pro.

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I was a big fan of the Alchemist & Havoc sounds but wasn't able to mimic the sounds that they were putting out. The whole "Queens" sounds in general... The Mobb Deep "Murda Muzik" is still one of my favorite album production wise til this day.








But i was broke AF and all i could afford was opera and orchestra CD's for $5 at the clearance section at tower records. So my lane into the making beats was making opera battle beats and letting nikkas in school battle over them... I'm basement cleaning this weekend, hopefuly i can hook my old CPUs up and i'll up some of my first beats.

 

[ThaRealness]

fukking "say yeah" by wiz khalifa

 

[ThaRealness]

loved that shyt back in high school

 

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loved that shyt back in high school

Threre had to be a certain part of it that made you feel like ... i can do this shyt.

 

[ThaRealness]

Threre had to be a certain part of it that made you feel like ... i can do this shyt.

ya exactly. I was like "yo I can bring that kind of energy man"

 

[ThaRealness]

Man... back in hs.. You got me thinking man. late summer junior year.. shyt was poppin.. I was smoking alot of weed, making connections... just enjoying life.

 

[puppetmaster]

Let Me Ride by Dr. Dre just how clean and lush that song sounds, the remix too. You can damn near see the sounds on that track they're so clear



-P-

 

[Deafheaven]

This shyt right here really made me start to want to make my own shyt because it was so fukking ill it transcended just rap music. like I could put this on without a spitter and be straight. Plus I listen to a lot of stuff that sounds like this outside of rap so I was like "why couldn't I?" I'm really just now starting to make shyt similar to it tho.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Not much inspired more of lack off around 2000- 2005 shyt sounded weak, uninspired and lazy and I couldnt find music I really enjoyed so I said fukk it let me buy a sampler and do shyt for me.. Thats how I started.

 

[thatkidkasper]

Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest. Got me started. Loved the guitar sample they took from RAMP

 

[BlackDroog]

Amon Tobin - Foley Room.....the whole album. Weird dark instrumentals that were unconventional by most standards. Helped me realize that you don't have to do soul samples or traditional beat making techniques to make something dope. The drums on "keep your distance" are fuxking amazing...blew me away.

Also...Gza "swordsman". One of the best rap beats of all time. I have never gone long without playing that song regularly since buying the album when it dropped.

 

[The Unknown Hype]

might sound corny but some of things charles hamilton sampled were things i always thought was possible but was outside the norm all that experimentation and creativity I heard from him made me want to push the boundaries as try to make atmosphere with the beat

 

[Sincere Noble]

It was a mixture of two beats/songs for me.

When I first heard this:


I literrally had the face and went about finding who the hell produced this record. This was around the time when I was taking a small intrest in the behind the scenes aspect of things. I was dabbling in becoming a DJ, manager, etc.

Of course it was the heatmakerz and turned me into a heatmakerz stan.

And when I saw this Video on SMACK:


I went out, emptied my account, and copped a MPC 1000 (Cause thats all I had) and tried to do my best imitation of thier beats for the next couple months.