r/makinghiphop

Looking for artists to collaborate with
I’m a producer looking to connect with artists who make Trap, Rage and Hip-Hop.
I make my beats from scratch, working with drums, samples, melodies and different sounds to create something that fits the artist’s style.
I’m currently looking for artists who are interested in collaborating and making something original together.
I’ll leave some examples of my work below. If you like the sound and think we could make something interesting, feel free to reach out.
Let’s make some music. 🎧

Hello, everyone, I have a question? I’m a rapper and producer, and when I do make music, I find super easy to make really dope hooks at times. It’s easy for me to write about the simple things, but I heard 2007 by J. I. D. and songs like 4 Your Eyez Only by J. Cole, but I cannot seem to really dig deep, it’s kinda hard to do that. I also really like what MAVI and Navy Blue are doing. It’s admirable, maybe I’ll have to work my way up to it. Thanks, I would love advice.

I'm from the Cleveland area and I am a mixing engineer, looking to network with artists, producers, engineers, and other music industry people.

l've been a producer in Reason for over 10 years, mixed vocals (mainly rap) using ProTools as an amateur for the past three or four years, and I recently bought a Mac and transitioned to mixing vocals in Logic Pro

Let me know if anyone would like to try and connect, just looking to network, have fun, and maybe make some friends along the way.

Hey all, been rapping for years, constantly changing my name, its been a head melt Lol 29 now and just want to make some good music for fun, and not concerned with going anywhere with it just want a name I can stick to. Used to be LL Loco (LOL) and people that known me still call me Loco, my name is Luke McArdle and im irish, and the name iv chosen is Luke Valor, since McArdle in Irish means high valor, any thoughts or suggestions? Appreciated 🙏

For the producers here who’ve actually built a real listener base, what have you found is the best way to get honest feedback from actual people on your beats?

I upload my music to SoundCloud, but it can be hard to tell what engagement is genuine anymore. I’m not really interested in buying plays, follow-for-follow stuff, automated comments, or people only listening because they want you to check their beat in return.

I’d rather have 20 real people listen and tell me what they honestly think than see hundreds of plays that don’t mean anything.

Where have you had the most success finding listeners who will actually pay attention to the music?

Reddit communities? Discord servers? SoundCloud? YouTube? Producer groups? Reaching out directly to artists? Something else?

And when you’re trying to build an audience, do you think it’s better to mainly get feedback from other producers, or are there good ways to reach regular hip-hop/music listeners who aren’t analyzing everything from a producer standpoint?

Curious what has genuinely worked for everyone here — especially without paying for fake engagement.

Hola, qué tal? Haciendo la corta: hace unos días finalmente me animé a escribir algo. El resultado no me desagrada, pero siento que son media flojas

Así que, Cómo podría mejorar?

Hi i am hiphop trap producer looking for aspiring rap artists for collab

I offer hard trap mellow hiphop whatever your taste we will agree

TLDR: all I make are drafts. I need help with mixing and mastering, and I’m open to advice (even if it’s harsh).

I grew up on motown, dilla, nujabes, and old kanye. I’m obsessed with sampling. I started out producing lo-fi soul and hiphop before I began dabbling in cloud rap (raider klvn, schemaposse, team sesh) and early Memphis stuff (lil grim, skinny pimp, holocaust click, etc.)

I learned to make beats by sporadically bingewatching youtube tutorials, opening a shit ton of tabs, cherry-picking whatever I felt was helpful at the time, then applying it myself.

90% of my beats are spur-of-the-moment placeholders for ideas I’d have in my head. I would tweak a beat to near completion if I was really feeling it, otherwise it would stay in the vault until I get around to revisiting it again.

As a result, everything I make is a draft. All my beats are placeholders, and rarely am I satisfied with my own final output - which is why it’s never really “final” to me. I just make shit I like, mix it until I think it sounds alright, then save it to my phone for my own personal listening, where it remains forever.

I’d go through cycles wherein I’d bump my old beats, find them cringeworthy, then never bump them again. Other times, I’d revisit those same beats, realize they were fire, then start bumping them again. The cycle never ends.

As a bedroom producer, I’ve always had this love-hate relationship with the shit I make. Only recently have I begun appreciating my craft, but I feel like I’ve hit a wall now.

After nearly a decade of producing, I’m still mad conscious about my shit. Out of the hundreds of beats I’ve made in my life, there are only a handful that I’m truly comfortable playing in public or sharing with others. Many of my friends and family know me to be a beatmaker, but I barely have anything to show for it.

I don’t intend to monetize it. I just do it for fun, and I’ve only ever done it for me and my own satisfaction. But sometimes I look at the creatives around me and can’t help but feel inferior. On the other hand, I’ve grown to appreciate my evolution as a beatmaker. But I feel like my shit has been sub-par for too long now and I need to level tf up for real.

I figured life is too short and it would suck to die without at least putting my shit out there, so i just said fuck it and started dropping tracks on Youtube and soundcloud. My goal is have something out on Spotify before the year ends, but I don’t have anything I deem worthy for that yet.

Sorry for the long ass rant, fellas.

If anyone out here is or was in a similar spot as me, I’d love to hear your thoughts and advice. And if anyone can take the time to browse thru my shit and recommend me someone who fucks with my sound/is open for commission on mixing and mastering, that would honestly mean the world to me.

I’ll drop a link to my music in the comments.

Edit: I’m a bigass fan of xavier wulf, black kray, black smurf, slim guerilla, greaf, bones, spooky black, velvetears, lil peep, lil tracy, horsehead, nedarb nagrom, teriobeats, lilwaterbed, 6dogs, doomshop, sic records, SESHOLLOWATERBOYS, GOTHBOICLIQUE, and all of that early-soundcloud era stuff.

I'm looking for artists who make good music to join a gc, the idea is to help each other grow, if u down lemme know ♥️

with how many plugins and tools we have access to, it’s really easy to keep adding things to a track. another layer, another effect, another EQ move, another automation.

But some of the best production I hear is surprisingly simple. A few sounds that work really well together can sometimes hit harder than something with 100 tracks and hours of processing.

At the same time, getting something to sound simple can take a ridiculous amount of work behind the scenes.

Do you think producers generally benefit from doing less, or is detailed production just becoming more important as the standard gets higher?

When it comes to developing yourself as a unique artist, how often do you play your artist character?
As much as you are being true to yourself, you are also playing a figure of some kind. Almost like you have to walk around and live your life like the artist/character you are.
I know yall would probably just say “be yourself” or sum like that. But I feel it’s deeper than that. As much as you want to be yourself . You gotta put more energy into things than your “normal” self would do.
Almost like a job per se.
Basically what I’m wanting to know is do you have to keep that character on go mode everyday? Almost like a mindset. Idk maybe I’m thinking too much. Just still understanding my role.

As the title suggests I'm curious about different methods y'all have used to find collaborators? whether online or other ways. Also to add another question do y'all have any advice on how to find collaborators in the same city or state as you? Just wondering whats worked so maybe I could give it a try.

When we all start out, we are trash, bottom of the barrel, nails on a chalkboard connoisseurs. Instead of flowing on a beat, we get lost in it. We mumble and ramble our way with no coherent patterns or story to the end of the instrumental.

Everyone starts here, I think I am just now getting out of this rough patch of learning. It took me two LONG years of studying, grinding, and adapting, though.

This makes me wonder, how long did it take all of you until you made the beat bend to you, instead of the other way around?

How long did it take until you started flowing well on instrumentals and people​ actually enjoyed your raps?​ ​

Salut Les Mec J'ai Pas D'argent et je songe sérieusement a me lancer dans le rap un peu trap et dark a la style yeat et suicideboys

Si quelqu'un pourait m'envoyer une prod qu'il a contacter pour que je fasse mon son je mentionnerai son nom dans les credit merci a celui qui menvoie ça car malheureusement fl studios nest pas accessible a tout le monde apart s'il existe une version gratuite je veux bien sinon envoyer vos prod rap

Any suggestions? I’m talking platforms on Instagram and TikTok to playlists from wherever on the internet or spots outside. I’m in NYC but anywhere fr lmk in the comments

I don’t want to known as a female rapper but as a rapper I want to improve so much that people forget I’m a female and focuses only on my rap. I don’t want to use female card but use my hard work. Can you guys help me out like one of your bro and tbh treat me like a guy and be brutal with me cause I really want this bad!!!

Hey all,

I’ve been making beats for about 6 months or so, mainly on MPC and Ableton & kind of got stuck just making loops for ages….

Recently I’ve started ripping verses from tracks just to give me something to build a track around.

It’s going ok but honestly I’d really like to find someone to collaborate with.

My style drifts from 90’s Boom Bap to more modern-ish RTJ / Czarface type stuff but if you have ideas then I’ll happily work on those too.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not amazing, I’m defo still learning but I’m keen and I think I have a reasonable ear.

So if you want some beats to practice on or you want to try and do something a bit more collaborative, I’d be keen to link up.

Thanks in advance 🙏🏼