This is a story of how a rapper/singer/emcee made a cd/mixtape/album

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Jackin for beats

Why oh why do I try so hard to be “good” and do the “right” thing? I wonder. So, I have “borrowed”, shit why lie, I steal industry beats and use them for my songs because they sound good and they are free, BUT everyone has heard them already and originality is kinda nice so… I go to Soundclick and download beats for free, some of them suck, some of them are mediocre and every once in a while you get a good one. Now these are offered as a free download, so I figure that means I can use them right? Apparently not. I read somewhere that producers like credit for their beats, and that makes sense, credit is good. I also heard somewhere that if you let a producer hear the song you make with their beat and they like it they may give you more beats for freeeeeee. So here I go letting this producer, who provided the public with a FREE download of this beat that I used for a song on my mixtape, know that I used his beat, and planned to put it in my mixtape and I send him the mp3. Don’t you know this motherfucker responds with some “good luck with your mixtape, but you can’t sell it” shit. WHAT!!!. Where’s my free beats? How are you going to offer something for free and tell me I can’t profit from it? This IS a capitalist country right. Our whole existence revolves around making a profit ;). So ANYWAYS, now I’m thinking… should I get another beat and rerecord the track? Eh… Should I make the song an acappella? Naa…. I COULD just use it anyways, but I shouldn’t have asked him if I wasn’t prepared to be told "NO!", so… now I gotta think about my ethics and morals. Oh shit, I have ethics and morals… that kinda sucks. What happened to the days of “If you want it, snatch it” and “I don’t give a fuck”? Freakin maturity! Anyways, I still haven’t decided what to do, but I’ll tell you this. I’m not telling anybody else that I used their beat. If they want to find out, I guess they have to buy my CD, I mean mixtape.

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