Highest amount you've ever made off a beat?

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Trumpspade said:
Some people preference is to not sample and you have to respect that part of the game too. Yeah, early pioneers of hiphop sampled, but they had a lot less to work with. I have heard some samples that I thought was off the hook. But I heard others that was a mess......I like the versatility of the game, as long as it stays street. I LOVE HIPHOP
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word up... its all love to me... i like it all... my boy chris does nothing but original shit... this dood brought out a reel to reel recorder outside during 4th of july and recording cats lighting fireworks off...

wow... shit turned into a HEATER.

haha

id love to get more into making more original beats someday, when it hits me to... but right now... ive been addicted to diggin for rare shit for about a decade... and when youre surrounded by it... why not use it.

like i said, propers to them folks making some heat with original beats. i love it.

but i also love to hear a beat where all of a sudden you cant believe someone flipped an old joint that way.. and you go bananas cause youre like how the fuck did they compress that shit in a way that it sounds totally different, or chop it up so that the vocals say something else...

that right there is the shit that me, personally... really turns my head.

like when dilla did flight of the bumble bee on the shining... with busta over it... wow i was goin nuts
 
ThaArtist said:
I sold one for a cool $1,000,000 and I don't even make beats....

To ya'll who sold beats for 750,1000 and 1500. Was any of them beats sampled or right managed sounds?
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No samples... Artists don't like to deal with all the clearence... We'll make a live band session and then cut up our own samples. Or we'll use albums we have made for samples... Make's life easy...
 
ThaArtist said:
I sold one for a cool $1,000,000 and I don't even make beats....

To ya'll who sold beats for 750,1000 and 1500. Was any of them beats sampled or right managed sounds?
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Damn! Scott Storch makes beats for 100,000 or so... You the man!
 
I usually have a contract when I sell beats with samples.

But even still, most of the time, you dont have to worry about it unless youre selling it to a major... and in that case, they have lawyers and other employees spefically for clearing samples.

the only time you should have to worry is when folks start sellin maaaad records and getting airplay and shine on tv...

in most cases though, this is never really the outcome. gotta make sure you cover your bases, so in any situation you probably wanna do your homework.

i aint sweat de law
 
I only sample on request and then I usually wind up charging more than I would have charged originally because even with good paperwork, you never know what you're up against in that arena.
 
lol on another topic... my homeboy abstrak is apart of the execs who made the beat to the backwudz- I dont like the look of it... I wounder what they had to do to clear the willy wonka sample..... hmmm
 
Mindset said:
no sampling, I dont' believe in sampling, though there's some cats who are talented samplers, but thats them. I like to make original stuff.
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Mindset has got the right idea and I rarely ever use an original sample straight up. Although that's never stop me sampling a cool beat and then trying to make a sound a like beat in fruity loops.

Often I can get all the hits in the right spot, but I'm rarely able to make a clone copy of the orignal sample, but it still cool enough for me to use it's in something and still very legal.

I am I cheating?

oh btw. I've never sold any beats to anybody, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't do it.
 
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to each his own.

sampling works for some people... for others it doesnt...

some prefer original stuff...

some prefer the sampling stuff...

i dont give a fuck how i flip a sample... if its unrecognizable or easy to recognize...

if its hot its hot.

plus most the shit i sample... you'll probably never know who the hell they are. LOL
 
I think as long as the beat sounds hot, its hot. Shoot. Scott Storch doesn't sample, but his beats are hot. Kanye and Just Blaze do sample 1/2 the time, but their beats are always bangin. What I hate is when someone makes a beat, and thinks its hot just caused they used the Triton. Im not sayint the Triton/Motif/Fantom/Any other keyboard synth sounds don't sound dope, its just that make sure that it doesn't sound dull. I make stuff on FL Studio, but not to be arrogant, but it sounds better than half of the stuff that a lot of "independant" or "underground" artists put out. The point: as long as a song sounds hot, it doesn't matter what one uses. Like Chris Rock said: "If the beats alright, she'll dance all night."
 
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