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babyface_finsta · 12th January 2006

No SSL... your buggin... of course you can sell beats for cheap... some people don't have the money, some peoples backs are up against the wall... and sometimes you know tracks you make will never see the light of day... at some point in your life you have to sit back and think... is this music stuff just an expensive hobby or do I need to get an ROI (or maybe he has mouths to feed other than his own)... I for one don't sell music for that cheap (but I'm fair and will to work with you)... I have given away joints just to get my foot in the door... our worlds must be totally different... in the North East there is crazy competition (there has been since day one)... and placing work is crazy difficult... People around here give beats away to established artist in hopes of getting put on... MPCist will take a grand instead of 7500... remixers get paid 1500 a pop.... half the time recorded tracks never see the light of day... Emcee's pay to get their songs placed on mixtapes, to spit 16's, DJ's pay for drops... Dont tell the man he's selling himself cheap... he's in a bind... what should he do... make a living doing what he loves... or "Don't Be Mad UPS is Hiring"... you gotta do whatcha gotta do... thats like a guys whose car breaks down, and you tell him not to take the bus cus he's playing himself... he's handlin his BI... the average beat takes about 20 minutes to make... 250 minutes for 20 minutes aint bad (if he had this going on fulltime... he'd be on Ross Peroit status)... working at UPS for 10 bucks an hour... he has to 20 plus hours (plus pay taxes)... Remember I told him to keep the heat in the stash...

Let me guess... Engineers mix tracks for 50 bucks an hour as side gigs around here... or approx 500 a track or 6k an album... is that selling themselves short... ask these engineers how many of they tracks they mixed generated money for their client... the % is mad low...

Your saving the intergrity of the art of music is killing me... SPEC Deals do exist... and 90% of the time you'll never see backend money....

Any person in this game knows they can go for months with out seeing money... I should actually take my own advice and sell a couple beats a month because this $500 a month Electric bill is getting on my nerves...

Never be too proud to flip burgers or beats...

12th January 2006	#13
babyface_finsta Gear addict Joined: Nov 2004 Location: VA Posts: 409	No SSL... your buggin... of course you can sell beats for cheap... some people don't have the money, some peoples backs are up against the wall... and sometimes you know tracks you make will never see the light of day... at some point in your life you have to sit back and think... is this music stuff just an expensive hobby or do I need to get an ROI (or maybe he has mouths to feed other than his own)... I for one don't sell music for that cheap (but I'm fair and will to work with you)... I have given away joints just to get my foot in the door... our worlds must be totally different... in the North East there is crazy competition (there has been since day one)... and placing work is crazy difficult... People around here give beats away to established artist in hopes of getting put on... MPCist will take a grand instead of 7500... remixers get paid 1500 a pop.... half the time recorded tracks never see the light of day... Emcee's pay to get their songs placed on mixtapes, to spit 16's, DJ's pay for drops... Dont tell the man he's selling himself cheap... he's in a bind... what should he do... make a living doing what he loves... or "Don't Be Mad UPS is Hiring"... you gotta do whatcha gotta do... thats like a guys whose car breaks down, and you tell him not to take the bus cus he's playing himself... he's handlin his BI... the average beat takes about 20 minutes to make... 250 minutes for 20 minutes aint bad (if he had this going on fulltime... he'd be on Ross Peroit status)... working at UPS for 10 bucks an hour... he has to 20 plus hours (plus pay taxes)... Remember I told him to keep the heat in the stash... Let me guess... Engineers mix tracks for 50 bucks an hour as side gigs around here... or approx 500 a track or 6k an album... is that selling themselves short... ask these engineers how many of they tracks they mixed generated money for their client... the % is mad low... Your saving the intergrity of the art of music is killing me... SPEC Deals do exist... and 90% of the time you'll never see backend money.... Any person in this game knows they can go for months with out seeing money... I should actually take my own advice and sell a couple beats a month because this $500 a month Electric bill is getting on my nerves... Never be too proud to flip burgers or beats...