Rap Beats & Rap Instrumentals

In order to use the proper rap beats to help you as an artist, you should first understand the role that a rap beat plays in your songs. The rap instrumental is like a color on a paint artist's palette. It is one of the elements that is important in filling up the empty space in the background of the painting.

Think of the beat as the sky and trees in the distance of a painting. You as the rapper, are the main focal point of the painting. You are the house, boat, person, or whatever is the most prominently displayed image in the painting, and the beat is the background that helps the main image stand out.

When these 2 elements are married to one another on the canvas, then a beautiful and complete work of art is formed. The same goes for you as the rap artist and the rap beats.

The rap instrumental can sound hot by itself, and the rapper can sound hot by him/herself. But when these two elements are married to one another, it becomes a double-hot masterpiece.

The beats and the artists must know and play their roles.

In order to properly pick rap beats and hip hop beats that fit your style, you must first have a good understanding of your style. Sometimes, rappers spend so much time listening to other rappers, that they can have an identity crisis of their own style, and accidentally copy the style of the rappers that they listen to all the time.

As a result of this, many rap artists will pick hip hop instrumentals that are similar in style to the beats of their favorite rapper. This is fine, but sometimes your voice or lyrics may not fit with that particular beat for that particular song.

Now let me specify that it is still a good practice to listen to music, and there are plenty of places that will let you listen to music online for free. But it should be used as a reference to hear what type of sound is current in the industry, and to add different tools to your own style.

In order to really understand your own style, you should record yourself a few times, and then sit down and really listen to yourself coming out of the same radio that you use to listen to other artists. You will be surprised once you find how much you either mimick another rapper, or you will be surprised to hear how truly unique your rap voice is.

Different beats are meant to accomplish different feats. For example, you wouldn't want to rap about bein' in love with a girl over a rap instrumental that sounds like a hard street beat. But many rappers make these mistakes all the time. Now understand that there are some cases where these type of creative experiments can work, but it is the exception and not the norm.

For more info on this, check out my other article about How to pick the right rap beats, hip hop beats, and r&b instrumentals

Once you sit down and listen to your rap voice and really get a true understanding of your style, then it will be much easier to pick rap beats and instrumentals that will improve your flow and make your talent shine like never before. This is important, because some beats can actually take away from your style and talent.

It is important that the beats allow you to stand out as an artist and make your presence known in the industry. Too many times, artists pick rap beats that overshadow them as the artist, simply because they don't truly understand their own style of rapping.

When you develop your style and pick that particular rap beat that fits, then you will see a drastic improvement in your flow, as well as your vocals in a lot of cases, and timing. You will have a better chance at not only impressing your friends and family, but you will be able to attract real fans who are not with you just because they know you.

All of the great rappers are very picky and choosy about what rap beats and rap instrumentals they use on their albums. They want to pick beats that will allow them to express their creativity and let their listeners know, that they bought that CD because of them as the rapper, and not only because of the beats.

But don't get it twisted. Having hot rap beats in some cases can be just as important as the rapper and the right lyrics, but just make sure that you can hold your ground as the rap artist.

There have been many arguments on the subject of the difference between these sections of the rap genre. Rap music was considered more of the musical style, while hip-hop was considered more of a lifestyle that uses rap music to reach out.

In the cases of beats, there are sometimes notable differences. Years ago, hip hop beats were more about the samples and for pure mc's and flowing rappers. That was back when it was all about the lyrics. Rap was more about the street.

In recent days, the roles are getting more and more mixed, but getting more and more spread apart at the same time. Some hip hop beats are more like pop beats or r&b beats today, while rap beats are more street and hip hop.

While many will go back and forth over this argument, the fact is that whichever one you're going to do if you don't do both, which most rappers do both, you will still need hot beats.

In modern day music, hip-hop is considered more commercial and rap is considered more underground, so the beats tend to follow the same direction.

The most successful rap artists of today dibble and dabble to some degree with both, so it might be in your best interest to do likewise.

There are many advantages in the music industry today to being an independent rapper and artist. But there are a few disadvantages as well, at least when compared to major acts. The key disadvantage is the lack of a giant bowl of money to handle all of your music career needs.

Many hot producers charge multiple thousands of dollars for the types of rap beats and hip hop beats that you need to help cultivate your style and help you become a platinum selling artist.

But the key is, as an independent artist, you don't have to sell a million records to make the same money as a major artist. If you sell 100,000 units, you will be in pretty much just as good a position, because the overhead is no-where near as high as with a major label.

However, you still need to get access to these rap instrumentals that will take you there.

There are many places online now where you can get quality beats to use, without paying thousands of dollars.

Years ago, in my quest to work with major as well as aspiring artists,I discovered that there were thousands of artists with extreme talent, but no money to get the quality beats that they needed. Some of these cats were more talented then some of the multi-platinum selling artists that are out today!

So I created a website which would allow artists from all over to have easy access to the same type of platinum quality rap beats and hip hop instrumentals that would put them in a better position to achieve success as a rap artist.

It turned out that I was one of the first to do this, but over the past few years, more websites like this are being created. So it is now easier than ever for you to get quality rap beats without paying platinum prices.

If you would like to know, the site that I am talking about is AaronBeats.com, but there are others as well.

I will continue to pack it full of helpful tips and resources to help you in your quest to become the next big rap/hip-hop artist.

There are others as well, just visit google!

In the meantime, check out this helpful article on How To Make Your Songs Sound More Professional