I Got To Make A Beat For My Favorite Rapper

[@SuperlativeUK]

Absolutely fire mate! Happy to be a part of this 🔥🔥 #SPR

[@Feuer_Kampfer]

Bro, you killed it too 🔥🔥🔥

[@SuperlativeUK]

@@Feuer_Kampfer 🫶🏾

[@DL-1]

Nice work. What part of the UK are you from?

[@warp9988]

Great track.

[@SuperlativeUK]

@DL-1 Nice one mate. North West mate 👊🏾

[@gigaxsaiyan]

You're one those few youtubers who provide actual insights into what you do and not just random interesting information for the sake of that thing being cool... Thank you for that and a great video as always man.

[@Autistic_Artist]

20 years ago I was commissioned to make beats for a MC That I would make a 5 minute track that would evolve and change and would get so annoyed that he would take and cut a loop out of and that would be the whole song. thank you for helping me to realize that my neurosis despises never ending loops that made me mind blind to the needs of the client. watching your process made me realize two decades later that I was focused on what I wanted and not what he wanted.I was more focused on all the extra work I did that wasn't wanted. in actuality I made more work for him as he had to cut it up and make what he wanted. thanks

[@xSaintxSmithx]

I think it also depends on what your job is. If you're just the beatmaker then yeah you probably should let them do whatever they want with the instrumental they purchased, but if you're the producer you could and should push back on the artist's ideas if you think the song could be better. It all just depends on your relationship to the artist.

[@puvendranpillay8802]

Inhaling some premium vinyl fumes can spark inspiration.

[@artisans8521]

​@@AzathothsAlarmClockYou beat me to the post.

[@davemakesnoises]

Mastodon did a whole album about losing a loved one to cancer

[@deemarr9151]

Probably not good but yup ..distinct oder..never know what nook and crannies thev been in.remenince at your own risk..rymin🤙

[@kwisin1337]

That hurts, lmao. Oo man... ti's true, the walls tell me so..

[@nihil1]

@@AzathothsAlarmClock I mean, most times I spend listening to vinyl my cousin was chainsmoking next to me in a totally unventilated room...

[@Gunbudder]

there is a LOT of public domain music from the 20's too. a huge amount of jazz, and exactly the type that sounds amazing in a sample. a lot of these services that "license" music will actually use public domain tracks to fill out their library. its like paying someone for a copy of Dracula by Bram Stoker.

[@WillyJunior]

Wow! And the recordings are public domain as well as the compositions? Where is a good place to find these?

[@marcellszelenyi8280]

@@WillyJunior I just did some looking around, look up Citizen DJ! It seems extremely promising, haven't yet tried it though but looking forward to

[@fftunes]

@@WillyJunior bluezone corporation is one that i know of. If you find others, let me know. 🙂 Edit. Just google it, i didn't wanna risk getting blocked for putting a link.

[@anonymousbrowser4448]

Would love to know to :)

[@PeterJnicol]

I am ok with this - they are making it easily accessible, and that is worth some money. I would go to the cinema and pay to see Nosferatu.

[@chrisdavies9143]

One of the best videos you’ve done recently Benn, excellent stuff. Superlative is a real talent too, great to find him through this.

[@new_aether]

mannnnn, amazing video, happy to hear that you appreciate rap, i hope you will get into it more, you could be an amazing part of this community

[@dumbbirdwayne]

The fact that you have an entire Library Music collection, I don’t feel so alone anymore in being such a huge fan and fascinated by the genre 😅

[@maddietourmaline46]

i'm envious of the sheer breadth of what i was seeing. i really have just scratched the surface with the ones i know but the APM released “The Killing Ground” by Richard Allen Harvey is on my list forever.

[@jpanymood]

do you have any idea where to get this library?

[@terminalglimmer]

THROUGH SILVER IN BENN

[@Benjamin-om3ih]

Locust Benn

[@Benjamin-om3ih]

The eye of every Benn

[@AndrewWalkingshaw]

Benns within Benns

[@adamrkob]

The Benn that never sets

[@DL-1]

@Benn Jordan the track came out super classy. Excellent work sir.

[@johnchedsey1306]

that turned out quite nicely! The smile on his face listening says it all.

[@soundninjaofficial6754]

Welcome Benn to our neck of the woods with music in Hip Hop, this was awesome!

[@jimpartee3287]

my man hit the penjamin during the video, legend stuff

[@nihil1]

I wonder if there are playlists of "songs made to look old for people to sample"... because I'd totally listen to those.

[@TixoMoments]

2:09 I STARTED WHEEZING I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT

[@regularlyirregular8876]

Love it! Any chance this will be released on Spotify??

[@genghisbunny]

That was great, really enjoyed watching the process, and getting to see the reaction in real time.

[@ottermods3212]

Thanks, Ben for once again shedding some light on the creative efforts that goes into making a track like this. It is fascinating to see the process!

[@This1That0]

❤ love the beats and vocals together- great job!

[@humanbeing_]

Bro.... that beat is sick. The perfect sample. It's so crazy that the moment I heard that on the turn table section it hit me as well. Love those types of synthy floaty jazzy samples.

[@ehhhhhhhhhh]

Great track. Knowing that the sample is already cleared really does unleash a lot of creativity, wow. It was always discouraging playing with samples as a teenager knowing that I had to go through some legal process to clear the sample and actually sell a song.

[@kevinmthethwa4396]

11:07 (my guy came alive with an instant classic), and you say you out of your element🥶🥶🥶ice cold

[@silvanusleber810]

"Maybe beatmaking isn't chill after all" hahah exactly this! thanks 😄

[@artisans8521]

That beat was fire. Also fire is a SlumVillage ticket in my possesion. And a DJ system is great for making loops. I use a Traktor S8 to which I can add a pioneer CDJ player and a turntable with control vinyl. Great for freely f-ing about with loops and tracks, with an SP listening in on all using the mark funtion, to grab interresting parts and combinations.

[@mattwhite7421]

A common quality of a master, no matter what it is, is that they make it look easy.

[@stacypuckett]

Your videos always make me smile, which is more rare these days. Thanks

[@glenmorrison8080]

1:57 I used to play around with hip hop beat making. It was really fun finding odd records to sample, and to me that was like the entire point. I get why a professional with bills to pay would prefer pre-cleared libraries, but man that really sounds non-artistic

[@zacharywoodard2097]

As a brand spanking new id10t - uhhh I mean, composer trying to get stuff going due to my midlife crisis, I'm VERY VERY happy to see this. This whole beat making, layer sound thing is a total mystery. I can write in B Mixolydian all day long, but ask me to go find and layer samples???? I'm totally lost!

[@chillwalker]

For the first time, being a neurotic composer overthinking everything myself (yeah, i know, doesnt fit with my artist persona), I got the whole samplebased thing when you went to the decks. Thank you. When is your birthday, I somehow feel its time to give something back to you, Benn ;-)

[@Funkywallot]

When you said "its about losing yourself,stop doubting yourself, and get into the flow" I nodded and nodded . Again and again. Its literally a childs play. The times when we create and play without having the shadow of adult judgement hanging over our shoulders, watching everything we do, we all know the years of uninhibited creationists in our inner childhood. Well, the good news is : ITS STILL THERE it has never left us ✌

[@stephendobson4764]

very nice tune and tracklib looks cool

[@DeathWishBoi666]

"how to make seamless lops" is my favourite section :)

[@RapidFlow_Shop]

This was so great on so many levels, thanks for making such great music production content!

[@miketreanor8859]

The mix of respect for the samples and actually hearing them made me a little sick. What a time to be alive!

[@Sephiel263]

I misunderstood the thumbnail as you making a beat that sounds like Neurosis or uses samples from them (which would be kinda fun, since they used samples in their early days also)

[@jaminjones8784]

Gonna be honest... I was kinda hoping "Neurosis Type Beat" meant a beat in the style of Neurosis, the experimental post-metal band. Still thoroughly enjoyed this though. Good work!

[@hilarymockewich5588]

I see those pictures of dre chillin and i am like yea right. Its more like dilla working around the clock and obsessing.

[@hasan7786]

Reminds me of Pseudo Slang. This is really good. Smooth flow on a smooth beat.

[@dawnofreality]

You clearly had a lot of fun with this , great to see... you did kill it btw

[@KaseboyAdvanceNB]

That end? Where you talked about beatmakers being neurotic and perfectionists? 100% true. While I've largely switched to serato last, I remember just taking songs I wanted to sample and placing them directly in the playlist. Slicing them, Making extra copies, Stretching them, just to have my beats sound "right" in my ears. I grew up playing percussion and drum core in middle and high school, so I became a bit of a perfectionist when it came to time and the grid. I remember on several occasions, staying up all night making adjustments on one beat, replaying it over and over, just to get it right. Always been a fan of your music and channel, and that moment really spoke to me as a beatmaker/producer/composer/musician/noisemaker. Glad you made this, and were able to view music from this perspective. Definitely make that video talking about the differences between the composer/producer/beatmaker trio, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

[@nickwallette6201]

A friend and I traded DJ sets that we mixed back in college. I used Adobe Audition and lined everything up, stretched tempo and pitch by trying incremental percentages, processing the whole file, and lining them up in multitrack view. He used an early copy of Serato or whatever was available in the 2000s. Two completely different paths to the same end.

[@IcyMidnight]

Immaculate stress pattern on "temple of 'hip hop'" 👌

[@durtcannon]

Dope beat. Really nice vibes Benn. Fits perfectly with the rapping.

[@theexistentialtigers]

Dude, that little tidbit about the zero point was pure gold! Thanks!!!

[@gfromshankside]

I liked it. As a producer, I've never had an artist send me recorded vocals to produce around. Did he lay those to a metronome? It seems like a great alternative to shooting in the dark with beat packs; second only, I imagine, to having the vocalist in the studio composing together.

[@JamesAllenDjMadlogik]

Killed it, the first beat was very jungle, that would have been worth exploring

[@TechTronix01]

It's all about the dopamine rush. That alone is the sole reason for making music.

[@clonemeister9097]

You’re never too experienced to learn new things… loved the video!

[@floodo1]

The track is fire and so is this vid I’m with Superlative “SMOOTH”

[@PeanutButterAM]

Making good, complete, HipHop songs is more complex than it would seem, for sure.

[@markjamesmason]

Much Sick, Massive Beat, Wicked Flow

[@LeeRosevere]

Every musical cue from Monty Python's The Holy Grail came from library music

[@kkulist]

You're the chillest neurotic person I know, Benn

[@peterelfman]

The beat is top-notch. No one who didn't know would believe it was your first. I recommend, for your next project as a hip-hop producer, you put some production techniques on the vocals, specifically around the chorus (and bridges if there are any). Hip-hop is fundamentally about the lyrics first and foremost, and the more those are accentuated, the better.

[@chillwalker]

1:30 And, as so often, you have mirrored exactly my Ideas and thoughts how to improve my skills and portfolio...

[@over-educated-sp]

FREAKING DOPE TRACK!

[@forrestroush]

agreed you killed it!

[@SonicExplorer]

👏 great video!

[@Yamazaki1923]

This was fantastic

[@christopherhovord3516]

This is sick ❤ I love it ❤ I could listen to that beat all day

[@Greennoob2]

When i saw the thumbnail I thought he was going to flip songs from the sludge metal band "Neurosis". So now I wish that existed. Sick beat though

[@maxjohn6012]

That was very cool, Benn.

[@dexime]

EPIC stuff! ✌

[@shwnc]

This is fucking rad benn. Killed it man.

[@AndersHansgaard]

Man, this is just another sweet ride that I don't really have words for. Made a real shitty day better, that's for sure. I'm throwing street-like hand things signifying yo! and lovely from Denmark.

[@armstrong.r]

I wish you had done a little more processing on the vocals, but per the challenge of working on the beat itself this came out great

[@orangecookie.]

✨thank you - so inspiring✨

[@BobingerAudio]

Depends on your style. I can write a beat and record the rapper in like 3 hours if the flow is going. But if you need to flip samples and don‘t play any instruments you can search for hours. So normally I just flip one sample if I use samples and then build something around it. Looking for stuff takes much longer than actually playing something your feeling in the session and the flow.

[@tapdaddy69]

In terms of the laid back "just make a beat" approach vs. the perfectionist suffering from neurosis, I think for beat makers it's a little of all of that rolled into one. Yes, a great hiphop producer can bang out a legendary beat within an hour and this is done half out of necessity. You typically might only have an afternoon with an artist and you need to make the most of it. But to get to that stage where you can just power on your equipment and let gold flow, it requires a huge amount of practice and observation as to what works for you and what works for your artists. In my experience, the discipline and value of a great beat maker can be summed up as "I am going to be critical of my work and give my best to these next 100 beats, so that they can lay the foundation and experience that will guide the 100 beats that follow." It's a game of quantity leading you to quality.

[@TheTonyTitan]

Initially dude was rapping over a DJ Pain1 loop...nice

[@ajplays-gamesandmusic4568]

Odd coincidence, I just randomly heard two post-2015 soul/funk tracks with really good clean drum breakdowns, and the second I got home, I sampled them, chopped em up and threw them into my tracker to play with... now I'm wondering if I could have found them on Tracklib, rather than going to bandcamp... or ultimately iTunes when I couldn't find a bandcamp for one of the artists (If the ultimate goal was to sample... may as well get them from a sample library)

[@abandonshipproductions]

Great work from both of you! What if we did a remix contest with the acapella?? Just a thought.

[@athmaid]

I've been watching your videos for years and never realised you're The Flashbulb whaaat

[@reinieden2379]

I think you did an excellent job, Good job.

[@OnPrem_Music]

Loved it. The Kenny G thing cracked me up. 😂

[@NightWindsMusic]

4:45 was my favorite!!! Finish that one!

[@guillermodelnoche]

Great track and video Benn!

[@openmike04]

Great stuff man! Exciting to see you experimenting in a new genre. The beat turned out great. Sign me up for more hip hop beats from you in the future.

[@bostonnadyrbekov6361]

Dope job

[@albertbadal4425]

Loved it.

[@moskva-kassiopeya]

Is this track released yet? Cause it’s fire 🔥

[@frankenmizer828]

the drop is fire - it reaches right into a parallel universe

[@nabilalanbar]

That was pretty cool.

[@larrybwoy2970]

You did great, the beat was sick. Looking to buy the track, has it been released yet tho?

[@tbsq1114]

wait this isn't post-metal

[@brainrottedindividual]

i think there are people that are all these things, and then there are some artists that are only beatmakers, producers or composers. but to some extent, if you are serious about music, you kind of do all of this. a beat can become a song, and vice versa. i'd say intentionally making something to rap or sing over by someone is beatmaking, making a beat in collaboration with a vocalist would be producing, making a track that stands on its own is composing. i think the distinction can be quite fuzzy and is ultimately not that important. the reason hip hop 12 inches have the instrumental on, too, is not only so someone else can rap or sing over it, often it's just to showcase the beat itself.

[@Slurkz]

Smooth! 🩵 Where can I buy this track?

[@gregvittore5004]

Welcome in the beatmakers club! Hot stuff sir!❤

[@brandonwatkins9003]

Love it! Proper hip hop.

[@LuvingToryChristman]

Loving it! lol! :D Also.....Chimelands!

[@Natzure]

That was fun!

[@stefansynths]

The "lib" vs "lyb" pronunciation question lives on in my company. Is it pronounced "lib" because that's how those letters would be pronounced if this were just another word? Or is it "lyb" because it's short for library? I say "lib", but when someone who's been with the company longer than I've been alive pronounces it "lyb" I don't try to correct them.

[@Joe-ui5vi]

Can you release the final beat without the vocals? The beat is a chillhop song without the vocals and it sounds amazing.

[@yvesbajulaz]

next, do it with vinyls and a 2000xl 😊

[@12stepsbeyondtheeventhorizon]

I love this channel so much...

[@distantcomets]

Great job on the track, @Benn! You hit on it at the end - hip hop has done such a great job of selling its freestyle, "it's all good" vibes that it's fooled people into believing that these artists were low effort or just "talented." Nothing could be further from the truth. All the great beatmakers: Dilla, Premier, Q-Tip, Large Professor, Jazzy Jeff, Dre, Kanye (yick now, but...) and others, were all talented, yes, but they also meticulous studied the tracks they sampled and investigated the entire history of production to find the best ways to arrange, blend or simulate the live and the recorded. Every one of these guys, regardless of their public personas were neurotic music geeks and we have benefited hugely from their innovations and deep thinking. Thanks for the video!

[@asecretcinema]

i liked reading this.

[@mcbrite]

Reminds me a tiny bit of stuff like Deltron!

[@rexuisus2802]

It felt very clean and cerebral, but I don't know how well the song matched the tone of the written words. I often admire production that rather than musically complimenting the performer, narratively compliments the performance. Think Kendrick Lamar in any of his poetry injections. The production is still there, but as a character rather than an ambient environment.

[@guillaumeboyer5473]

Noice ! Did you get the "hold tight" kit with the new stem separation from Fl Studio ?

[@GreasyDaddy]

This was so so so sick!

[@dylangonzalez1688]

Bro was off the Bennjamin