need beats for old school rap
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@billwhite51 Feb 2022
here is a rough draft of rap. i need some inspiring beats to back me up and push onward and up. https://fawm.org/songs/125400/
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@billwhite51 Feb 2022
must i make do with my own weak rhythms?
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@katestantonsings Feb 2022
I WISH I could create beats, Bill. It's on my list of things I want to learn :). I did recently find these websites though:
For free beats: https://download.unison.audio/bb-free
I've used this site before. All proceeds go to your charity of choice: https://www.beatstars.com/
You can even type in "old school rap like <insert name here>" and it will provide you with a list of beats to choose from. -
@mardeycranbleson Feb 2022
I’m not a genius at it but I might be able to do something if I have time.
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@phenola Feb 2022
The difficulty with trying to recreate "old school rap" authentically (assuming you're talking about the G-Funk era) is that a lot of that music was made by sampling older gospel, funk, jazz, soul, Motown, disco etc. records, made by some of the greatest popular musicians of all time. Like Carl Sagan said: If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Except in this case the "apple pie" is West Coast hip-hop, and the "universe" is the corpus of popular music from which it was built.
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@katestantonsings Feb 2022
@phenola "Carl Sagan said: If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Except in this case the "apple pie" is West Coast hip-hop, and the "universe" is the corpus of popular music from which it was built." Well said! Although Notorious B.I.G. disapproves from his throne in the clouds. Bill, you may also like how artists use samples of classic songs as components of rhythm much like this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ
For inspiration...
