Making beats is fun and all, but there's a lot more to it. If i knew how to make that kick punch.
Major gem the studio is a major icebreaker for. I feel like the biggest misconception
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good morning early bird against worm just kidding today we're going to talk about what i wish i knew
as a music producer. The movement i'm pushing is music entrepreneur i do more than one thing but as
a music producer what i wish i knew we'll talk about this video the first thing that i wished
i knew before becoming a music producer believe it or not it's not all about making beats i feel
like the biggest misconception is you're always in the studio making beats and honestly i feel
like in the beginning stages that's where you're gonna be beat making very heavy that's where
a lot of the producers are like what's up bro collab bro let's get in the studio bro let's
make some beats bro i'll send you some melodies bro because there's so much more that goes into
it behind the scenes i feel like as far as the business side of things building your brand
marketing creating content to actually make you popular i did a video on my channel where i said
stop going to the studio there's a great message in it rapper stop going to the studio stop making
songs producers stop wasting your time making more and more beats all of the results that you want
are gonna come outside of just making the beats in my honest opinion we'll talk more about that later
on in this video so check this out this isn't so much a thing that i wish i knew i'm fortunate that
i went this route but i think a lot of producers don't realize the value and the importance of
having a second skill one of the hardest things about business is gaining a customer so a customer
in our world is a rapper once you have that customer what else do they need i'll give you
guys an analogy pay attention i just went to the mall came here to get a massage but while i was at
the mall i also went to h m and bought some shirts i also went to auntie ends and i bought a pretzel
right because it was there if all the mall had was just massages i wouldn't have got those things but
it's like the massage just lured me in and while i was there it's like oh [ __ ] there's some shirts
i need some shirts oh there's some pretzels i want a pretzel let's say you find a rapper he likes
your beats he's listening to the beats and he's like yo i got a song already in my head for this
if you know how to record and mix the song you don't have to miss out on that money you don't
have to go somewhere else and find a guy that can do it like he's already got you
you guys are already established in this business relationship and uh building on that to get even
further if you want to be a bad [ __ ] learn how to use a camera it's just crazy how much
money i see producers missing out on because they just focus on beats i want to make beats
make beats making beats is fun but there's a lot more to it Cracka lack on the track
what's good what's cracking CrackaLackTV here oh yeah we're in the crack house let me
ask you this what did you wish you knew before becoming a music producer man uh mixing fixing
yeah that's like the biggest thing because even with wack sounds you can make wack sounds
sound good you know how to you know tweak them all the wax sounds that i had if i knew how
to make that kick punch or that snare snap out of it straight that's they call me heat
it's the filter carbon filter sucks all the people smoking in here cleans the air
splits it outside it gets dirty wednesday friday's a five your thumbnail's been fired
you're sending them like a new yep yeah yeah seeing you good seeing you
you know what time it is it's time to go to the studio next stop Crack House recording studio
i want to do that one more time
i just finished up about four hours of studio sessions now i have to mix a song my artist
down in florida shout out to teddy strange try to make it sound real good and pretty
this was a good night you know some nights in the studio i'm like man there's so much other
stuff that i wish i was doing other than doing studio sessions and then some nights
both sessions were first-time customers so i like meeting new people major gym the studio
is a icebreaker for future business a lot of times you may get someone that just books a
studio session where they're looking to get a song recorded mixed and mastered
and then they're like oh you do beats oh you shoot videos too and then from there you start
talking and planning things and again do more than one thing if you want to make more money fast i
promise you i've been to a lot of different places i've met a lot of different people
spent lots of times with lots of beat makers one thing that's a constant is my business is always
a lot better because i do several things while you have the artist here you might as well like
what else do you need there's snacks over there right i might have sold 10 20 worth
of snacks in the last four hours no convenience once you have them what else do they need yeah
all right fellas so what i wish i knew before becoming a music producer i said earlier that it's
not all about beats and that's the truth i used to think that my shitty beats would get better and
then once they got good enough i was going to make it i was going to be producing songs for eminem
and lil wayne and 50 cent all the big famous people what it actually comes down to is it's all
based around networking connections and building your own brand one thing that i definitely
didn't know about that's so important with being a successful music producer is you got to treat your
career just like an artist you know how the artist is always in the spotlight and usually you would
think okay man the producer he's he's behind the scenes behind the scene guys no one knows about
it's like no you gotta create your own spotlight be in the spotlight document your journey i can't
preach it enough like i have done a good job of documenting my journey there's lots of videos you
can go back to eight years ago nine years ago ten years ago where it sees me and big four or five x
t's and size 40 dickies and i'm making beats but it's but that's evolution you know we all start
somewhere we all finish something right now is the best time ever if if you are a beginner document
your journey this the before weight loss pictures there's a before big heavy dude girl then there's
an after and they're like the superhero right now if you are a beginner it's the best time in
the world document your journey if you beat suck document it if you have no following if you're not
making no money off your beats like document this part because just know that this is the before and
the after is coming as long as you don't quit and give up stick with it i promise you it'll pay off
like hard work always pays off just people quit too soon. i used to think that the producer was
always going to be in the background no one's ever going to know about the producer people know what
sunday digital looks like people know what murder beats look like it's cool to be the producer now
show your face have a personality like be a brand it'll get to the point where like club appearances
it'll say like you know Cracka Lack will be in the house right i'm a behind the scene person music
producers i know that you've heard of producer gang the other night producer ground was live
on instagram and they were like letting people hop on and play some beats i was listening for
maybe 15 minutes only 15 minutes their beats were phenomenal like next level stuff amazing great
beats right i clicked on a few of their pages just to kind of see like who they were and i would say
most of these guys are following five six thousand people they got 50 followers they're asking guys
like me for advice their beats are phenomenal but they're doing buy one get seven beats free and the
reason why they don't have success is because they don't have a brand not because they like
talent talent is there the talent is phenomenal through the roof and again i used to think that
too tenant was all you need just keep making beats keep making beats but like and all that
networking building relationships traveling collabing with other producers when you collab
with another producer that producer knows people just like you know people you have your circle of
people that you know in your own following and network and then he has his own tools so if you
guys link up collab together document right get some behind the scenes pictures of you two in the
studio behind the scenes video put a video out on youtube you know like music producer collab
in the studio making beats put that out and then maybe they know some artists that have
a little bit of a buzz are kind of popular you just got to make like your beats cool you got to
present that you're cool you're the cool producer so people want to like hang out with the cool guy
like you're the cool producer everything's just like high school popularity contest in high school
with the popular kids the jocks right the jocks got the hot girls the hot girls want the jocks
right in the music industry the rappers want the cool producers beats there could be two beats both
of them are equally as good who may this be i have no idea i found it on youtube who may this
be that's Tay keith tay keith made this beat how much is it like five thousand ten thousand twenty
thousand thirty thousand whatever it is the reason why his prices are so much higher has nothing to
do with talent it has everything to do with the brand you guys know i shoot music videos like
someone like cole bennett can charge a hundred thousand dollars for a music video where a guy
like me is nowhere near that and there's camera guys in the city they're probably shooting 300 400
music videos we might be using the same camera as these guys you might be a music producer
downloading these guys drum kits you got the same sounds as them your beats might even be
better than them but they got the brand they got the following so that's why building your brand
is so important definitely gonna do more content about building your brand and branding yourself
but basically just treat yourself like an artist think what artists would do artists do photo
shoots you're a producer do photo shoots put out content often just like artists would artists drop
music videos you drop beat mega videos artists drop songs you drop beats build up that popularity
i just made this beat i'm gonna play it on the outro let me know in the comments what
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