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For those of you looking for high quality rap beats, there are a number of places where you can look. If you look online you should be able to find various trustworthy businesses that are well known for their professional music and excellent customer support. So find what you want, check prices and get on your way to stardom.

Non-exclusive beats (or "lease" beats) are a great way to lower your cost and investment for your album in the beginning of the project. Rap artists didn't had this opportunity just a few years back. They would have to pay rap beat makers hundreds to thousands of dollars to make a rap or hip hop instrumental for them. Then they would have to pay a studio engineer to mix and master the completed song. After it's all said done, the rapper has dropped a lot of cash just for one beat! This is a pretty big investment for a rapper on a budget - and there is no guarantee that the song he or she makes with the beat will be a success.

I love to make music, but when I first started I didn't know anything. I basically taught myself how to make music by keep doing it over and over again. Its been three months and I now make music like I've been doing it for years. I can sit at my computer at home and make a great beat in ten minutes. I know you can do the same, but it is only up to you.

Don't waste your time with producers that do not take their own business seriously. When you are buying rap and hip hop instrumentals online, it is imperative that you build a relationship with the producer you end up buying beats from because you stand a better chance at getting discounts and custom beats if you are a serious, consistent buyer.

'Tounge N Cheek' his fourth studio album was released in September 2009.It included his four #1 hits (Dance Wiv Me,Holiday,Bonkers and Dirtee Disco) . The album won the Best Male Award at Brit Awards where he performed a mash-up entitled 'You Got The Dirtee Love' with Florence and the Machine. This collaboration was released as a charity single the following day and peaked at number 2 in the UK charts. Dizzee now holds the record for the most number one singles on an album by solo male artist.

There is lots of music artists on the internet now and they want to buy rap beats online so they can make really good songs to put on their albums. Below are some websites and additional tips to get your beats noticed on the internet. I have broken them down into two categories.

If you are interested in such beat making tool, make sure you look for one that will only charge you a small onetime fee, and no recurring fees. A good online beat making membership website should have at his disposal most of the software version of typical hardware equipment. You want to be able to sequence your music; track and mix different instruments; play with a virtual keyboard; have access to a multitude of high quality sounds and most of all, be able to record and save you music in mp3 format.

The sound quality of the music should be top notch. You can always be assured of this if you build a good relationship with a trustworthy a producer. In turn, the producer will do his best to give you good products. If you can own the beats, by purchasing them exclusively, then do it.

Brand New Funk. This was simply D.J. Jazzy Jeff and pure hip-hop at their best in 1988. Accordingly, Will Smith, who was basically forced to elevate his rap game, stepped up huge on this project. The track was a party starter where listeners were enticed to converge on the dance floor as soon as the initial beat dropped. The song still reverberates today. Philadelphia rapper Peedi Peedi and D.J. Jazzy Jeff actually remade it two years ago with, "Brand New Funk 2K7".

An input unit possibly a virtual keyboard or pads to document bass-lines and melodies. Also if you have your private primary board you can plug it in.