I mean, in those muffucas Raw and not pulling out. 🤣🤣🤣 Not one of them gave a good reason why they should get 50 split. They just said "drop an Acapella see how that do"... Ain't no beat went platinum without lyrics either Dummies. 😂😂
@@plutohashtv movies, professional games, ect use only the instrumental. A lot of times in the clubs they don't even play 1 verse of a song. Most people couldn't recite 1 bar in SpotemGottem Beatbox, but know the beat
That's probably what some out right sales would be. That's why you give up the percentage to keep the upfront price lower. Otherwise hot producers just going to charge more to cover what they can't get backend.
Right!!! They SOLD the beat that’s the key word! You don’t get royalties for beats you SELL. You get royalties for beats you lease and sell recording rights to! Y’all gotta get y’all game up
Hence why none of them producers you named got the bread Jay Z , Beyoncé, or any of them got. Michael Jackson owned half of Sony catalogs by the time he was ready to leave. That’s estimated to be around 4 billion. All those songs had beats, name a producer with 2 billion dollars
1 - VST’s 2- Time learning the craft (Years, invaluable) 3 - laptop 4- updating sounds and kits 5- Transportation to wherever etc… It’s not just a “beat” it’s art that is invaluable and has appreciated following years of work
An artist has three choices 1. Pay the for the beat and 50% royalties 2. Pay for the beat and no royalties if the producer will accept it 3. Make your own beats like Eminem & J. Cole
Exactly, you chose this profession so you gotta pay the price, if you don't want to pay then put in the work like the producers did and learn the craft
@@jeremyjones9467 right. n Ye learned from dilla. Tyler got inspired by ye. so many better examples than a dude who made it off Dres production and a dude who barely uses his own beats
Exactly, if an artist wants quality, they have to pay for it. If an artist doesn’t agree with the producers fees then they need to go to a more lower budget production straight up 💯
give a noob the most expensive setup and itll still sound like 1st grade band.. a pro uses sounds to get music not software reliant. i played guitar for 12 years before i made beats and then iv been making beats for 10 years. they rather buy a beat someone stole off the internet. the noobs wither make straight basic trash or steal music n say they made it there own
imo engineers are producers too. they do the bulk of sound construction that makes a song what it is. next are the beat makers for sure. but i’d say at least 90% of the time(rap wise), the artist’s actual work is very minimal. especially because the average artist isn’t getting all into the production and sound of the song. they mainly focus on lyrics n how they’re structured. that’s why we got the kanye n tpain of the industry, and then we got the soundcloud yutes
@@KJMadeItt the breakdown of a song’s rights should be always based on the circumstances of that particular collaborative effort. I just didn’t want the engineers to be left out of the conversation. They are responsible for polishing turds and making people forget they aren’t listening to professionally trained musicians 😂 it’s rap made from recycled scraps and bootlegged sounds made on pirated software half the time lol
@@KJMadeItt Idk gang this whole wave that’s coming up use UA-cam beats and mix by themselves once niggas start learning to make they own shit then what
And how much does the artist pay to make that? The artist is paying for music video, promotion, studio time or equipment, the beat and the engineer. The artist is doing a third of the work and paying for all that shit too. 60% lmfao the engineer and beat makers don't pay for anything
U can take out promotion and studio time cause u could argue that has got NOTHING to do with the producer either. The studio time is your responsibility so why package that? Promotion nowadays can be done for free, hell u can do it for the low. I have a better chance marketing the beat myself to other artist than u the entitled rapper anyday. Y’all just pretend some people aren’t actually educated to know wtf is going on lmao
@@WestSideChris805 i understand that the artist is contributing a larger investment overall but all i'm saying is that nowadays producers don't earn enough credit for how creative they can be. i feel like the rappers get way too much credit for simply doing the bare minimum
@@WestSideChris805 since when producers never had to pay for anything ? I’m pretty sure the producer put in more work equity and paid more for software and equipment than a rapper has ever spent investing into himself
I get his argument, but i also think of music made for movies and TV. The Avengers theme has no lyrics, and it's on the 2nd highest grossing film of all time. Music is music, will always be profitable and memorable. Classical music is a perfect example
The fact is tho - as much as a good beat is important - there’s tons of good beats out there. Thousands of undiscovered UA-cam producers with serious talent. It’s wayyy harder to market a person and gain an audience. We don’t think “oh can’t wait to hear metro boomins new beat” but we sure as hell say “Future dropping a new album this week 🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥”
Just goes to show artist are extremely ungrateful of how easy they can get hot beats and how much work and time actually goes into getting to the level where your beats sound professional and are actually viable to be used professionally. It takes years, thousands of dollars, and so much talent and perseverance. The beat is almost the entire song, a vocalist is adding basically a single element. If you don't wanna pay 50% in royalties, you ain't gonna have no cheap beats anymore, with how much it costs to really get good, to have professional sounds, good mixing etc, artists are extremely lucky they are so spoiled with choice. Artist want everything for free, they wanna get a beat for like 50 bucks and then don't expect to have to pay royalties. Something has to give or you're not gonna have the abundance of beats you have now, you're gonna go back to the days of having to pay thousands of dollars to get music made for your album. Producers are what makes your career possible, we can always find an artist to get on our songs, there are thousands of rappers and singers out there that we could choose, it's not that easy to find someone to make beats for you, we hold all the cards.
there are thousands of beatmakers bro youre on some shit, you hold no cards. If anything engineer should get more. And if you use a sample or loop you should give them 50% of your rights as producer, couldn't have done it without them right? Maybe give 50% to ableton or FL studio, because no beat making without the programs to make it!
And yet Lil Nas X holds the record for song that been #1 on the billboard for the longest and he got his beat for $50. The industry standard is the publishers get 50% aka the beat maker, song writer and engineer. If you’re not doing all 3, you’re not entitled to 50%. That’s the industry standard. I think a lot of producers need to remember that the internet is slowly taking over your job and you need to adjust. I have 2 songs on Spotify that have 10 million+ streams and I got the beats for $30. And now learning how to make your own beats is easier than ever, I made a beat for my friend on splice, she’s new in the game and her song with my beat has 80k streams on Spotify. Not bad for a newcomer and I didn’t charge her no damn 50% royalties for a beat that took me a day and a half to make. It’s not that 90s anymore, you need to adjust to the times the internet is here to stay and finding a good beat isn’t that hard or expensive. The real magic happens in the mixing and mastering and the engineers I’ve found to do that I got on upwork for a fair price.
@@Hihihihi716ol bro, why u acting like keyo didnt get more than 50 bucks for his contribution to the song in the end? That’s cute an all what u claiming of the streams u say u doing but in the end don’t nobody know ur beats, your music or your artist name..U definitely sound like that entitled niga in the video talkin bout 10-20% like niga fuk outta here Everything takes skill no matter how u want to break it down talkin bout yeah I can make my own beats but really if u aren’t skilled in your craft like someone who has done this for years what makes u think your sht fitna sound hot than a guy who has been doin it for years? Younger producers are easily manipulated n quite frankly someone who knows wtf they talkin bout can disapprove all that sht u spewing
The costs mentioned are the costs of being an artist. Trying to justify giving the producer a smaller percentage based on this overhead makes no sense. Producers naturally get upset because his argument is nonsense and he says it so confidently he might take advantage of someone who doesn't know better. A producer contribution to a record can't be understated. Many are carrying artists sonically, not only contributing to the beat but the hooks, verses, arrangement etc. If anything some producers deserve a larger split but 50 - 50 is fair.
The artist is investing in making the song popular. If we not spending 50/50 in all the expenses why in the fuck do you expect 50 percent of the profit?
@@Alex0992 We are talking about splits. Which is publishing / ownership of the intellectual property of the record. You are talking about sales / record royalties which is a different conversation and no producer gets 50% of sales.
@@brycem9063 and buddy should've taken this opportunity to explain the difference between the royalties and how he wants 50% of this particular royalty because his beat plus the lyrics make up the composition. But instead he just said fuck that nigga. 😂
As both artist and producer i will say producers are entitled to that 50% because you never know what they had to spend in order to make your beat. Maybe it cost $5000 for all the VST and tools they purchased. They could have had to pay just to get their beat in front of the artist to listen and decide if they want it. And i can keep going all day
Idk why ppl trippin. If that’s how he feels that’s how he feels don’t do business with him. There’s plenty of ppl that feel differently and every situation is different. Some ppl are 50/50 60/40 80/20 etc…if the producer he work with wanna do that cool, but otherwise let him be, and deal with the ppl that value your worth and effort
as a producer: it took us alot of time to get to the level we are at. it took us money to buy all these expensive plugins. we have to invest before we know it might work. we might have to do it only few times but we take alot of shit in the beginning the moment we can get placements and we ask for 50% that's already after we did all the hard work. what you spend on marketing is just a choice.
THANK YOU, because in the end it's about THE MUSIC. People tend to forget that. If it's that serious, then the people claiming producers should only get 10 to 20 percent should just learn to produce, buy the equipment, and learn the ins and outs of the studio equipment themselves.
A song (composition) is literally lyrics and the underlying melody. Lyrics=Artists Melody/Music=Producer. That is literally 50% and 50% to make 100% of a song. Promotion and studio time is apart of being an Artist anyway. There is no way an Artist should have an issue with giving 50% to the Producer when the Producer literally does 50% of the work. Some artists just try to justify being cheap and not understanding music business. Beats, promo, radio airplay, studio time, video production is apart of being an Artist. Think about that and get out of your feelings #KMakesBeats
engineer gets the other 50%? Notice how beats is one of 5 things you listed, so 1/5 of the song, aka 20%. I think you don't understand music business, deals work how the parties want them to.
Sometimes the music video makes the song and beat 1000x better,,,, I.E. DaBaby. You could be sitting on a song for a year or so before you drop the music video and then it goes viral
@@lanova13 bro producers will get their money, if I had a hit I literally wouldn’t care about the percentages between the producer. I’d tell them go 90/10 or keep it all because I’d be on tour making $50k a show while he’s waiting for passive income monthly
Music was created by the chirping from birds. Humans heard it and tried doing the same. Have you ever heard ISO Polyphony music? No beat or technology there.
You aren’t paying them for the studio, you’re paying them for their experience. A lot of rappers dont realize how much time and energy it takes to actually make good beats, when I was a teen I wanted to rap and thought $999 for exclusive rights was too much. But once I started making beats I realized how hard making beats actually is. Rapping is easy in comparison, anyone can write and record their own vocals. Making beats, producing full songs, thats an entire universe full of different knowledge galaxies, with so many planets of skills that you have to learn and practice and stay consistent with. Rappers rap, producers do all the actual legwork to make those raps into actual songs, producers make the song translate across platforms. Being able to spit a 16 in double-time and triplets is impressive, but do you know how to make your piano, vocals, and 808s sound prominent in the mix without frequencies clashing? Do you know how to sidechain the kick and the bass? Do you know how UA-cam, Spotify, and Soundcloud change the way your song sounds? Rapper names bring the attention, but rap vocals are the smallest aspect of song creation. Producers deserve more than 10% for the years of work they’ve put in. You aren’t paying for what they do in the studio, you’re paying them for the years it took for them to BE ABLE to make your music sound the way it sounds. In music, we all need each other, so lets work together and make sure we all get what we need
i can do both and will honestly say they’re both as hard as each other for different reasons. rapping is easy - until you want to spit something lyrically good that at the same time has meaning and came from the heart. producing is easy - until you want to produce something with soul that is sonically pleasing and doesn’t conflict with itself. something i don’t think producers understand however is that a lot of (non rich and non famous) rappers have to be their own engineers. now THAT is the part that is genuinely hard. vocals are a bitch to work with unless they’re recorded in the perfect environment and you know exactly what you’re doing when it comes to working with them. a lot of (not all) producers make the beat and think rappers spit the vox and it automatically sounds good. it doesn’t 😂 it takes hours and hours and hours of work. i spend more time on mixing vocals than i do on making beats and rapping put together. EASILY! lmao. maybe i’m just slow and/or a perfectionist.
beat makers, engineers and producers aren't all the same. Also, artists are paying for the videos, studio time/equipment, mixing/mastering, the beat and the promotion and you think that the producer and engineer deserve equal portion? Ya'll want equal portions then go in with the artist on his/her fees for releasing the song and making it
@@WestSideChris805If an artist is doing that then that’s usually the label s money they are using. It’s pretty rare an artist is doing all that shit without backing lmao
@@jetbeats3132u say all that with 1 beat on your channel like bro…let me hear your sht to be able to tell if you’re as good as u claim saying it’s easy…
What about the money we spend on plug in and hardware, what about the courses we take, the countless hours of research and development, and like my guy said have you ever heard a rapper get on without the beat? We co wrote the song if I produced the beat...WE ARE THE BAND MEMEBERS
I swear there are a capella freestyles and legendary freestyles made with a pen and a wooden desk. Holla at me when you make a legendary beat with no words, where's the producers dropping albums with just beats and make it to the top 10 charts.
I'm only an amateur and haven't made a cent off my music yet but I respect the hell out of these guys for clowning on the dude. 50/50 isn't just fair, it's necessary.
@@nealmason8785 No they arent lol. Producers make more money for a reason. Only the very top artists are making the kind of money producers are and even then it's on the low end unless they're producers themselves. Look at guys like Kanye, Dre, Jay-z. All of them are top tier producers which is what makes most of their bank.
@@tommydashed4205 did you just name jay z kanye and Dr dre who are well known as artist tour as artist are labeled as artist make more money producing? 😩🤣🤣 broh gtfoh.
@@tommydashed4205 your naming artist who also produce they aren't subject to just being a producer like London on track ect or known mostly known for production the mfs you name have multiplatinum albums and singles stop it a producer is easier to replace then your artist point black i can go into media marketing movie roles ect literally destroy anyone on this topic
The reason why that is because without the music what he got? I haven’t seen a rapper go platinum yet doing an a cappella album. Last I check instrumental album would sell ten times faster than and album with no music. Don’t believe me hand a DJ your album with no music and bet he’ll say get the hell outta here with this mess and that’s a fact. What you rappers don’t realize is how much money that a producer invest in studio gear and equipment. Thousand’s of dollars on the low end sir crying about studio time your supposed to pay for it. These rappers have a scene of entitlement like don’t have to or don’t want to pay for tracks. Get real do the slit sheet the proper way and get out of your own way.
@@davidelliott2942 battle rap? and we don’t know if a acapella would go platinum because if never happened. Like the man said get out your feelings nobody care about how much you spent on equipment, rappers spend that shit on studio time. You wrote a story and still didn’t make ONE good point.
As a guy who's done both, the rapper is complaining about shit his label will obligate out of his money, most producers aren't signed in the same asoect, and if you lease a beat instead of buying it outright you made your decision! The smart artist will give up that 50% you never know when you'll need that producer and others to come together and help you if your shit fall through! I'll keep it hot, the producer really deserves half of that one song, if he produced your album he'd likely give em %50 that's the same shit tbh! But I see y'all must like whoever this rapper is, I've seen two shorts full of comments saying nobody giving valid reasons... Crazy thing is I been saying that to bots, now bots are making that statement a wave bots say while also not having points, the underground rapper usually isn't buying beats flat out they likely leased! The rapper stupid for not learning to use a ruler and make his own fucking beats lits literally not hard, and he could pay whoever engineers him to mix and master the beats for him, but he rather complain than help himself in the ultimate way! If you struggling you have to bite the bullet, if you ain't in the actual industry you need to strategically make moves that may be hits upfront, but provide freedom on the backend! Those metro tags y'all hear from future ect, these producers don't get to promo like rappers they will take your tags off, until you get a buzz helping under other known producers! Ppl like Zaytoven, 808 mafia, Ear drummers were the first of their kind, having artist that understood grind up with them, they are supper producers, y'all hating on Sonny digital right tf now, but you entire 2015-2019 was these producers, moreso today producers last in fame longer than most artists do, ppl wanna hear the theme more than they care about the voice, unless the voice is distinctive enough!
@@BigGoated it’s showing that people really get in their feelings. Everytime the reaction is a emotional response. How is it hating saying no one has given a reasonable explanation to why the producer deserves 50%. I don’t know this rapper at all. I’m just like he made a valid point to someone who is a outsider to the industry.
They still promoting the song because how good the beat made it so they still deserve more , first thing you look for to make a song is a beat, so it is %50 of the song no matter how u put it
Producers are the base of every song. The first thing u hear in most songs is some type of melody or beat.Take a pizza for example. You can’t make a pizza without the dough. The artist is the sauce cheese and pepperoni😂 and even if a artist made a acapella song/album you still need somebody to mix the vocals so they sound good and professional
Man this fool talkin about ONE song that came out over 35 years ago 😂 when the last time anybody heard more than the first four bars of moments in love looped anyway
@@yella5888 the question was have I heard ANY song on the radio without lyrics. The answer to that was yes. Now, if the question had been about recent songs or songs in the last 5-10yrs then yea, this fools answer would be irrelevant.
Man producers dont get paid like artists do for performing, so 50% publishing and writers creds is perfectly fair, artists pay for promo so yall can get more buzz so that they can tour.
He does have a point though fr, because neither sides work to full potential without each other. If you want half of what the record makes then you should be willing to invest in promotion in my opinion🤷🏾♂️
So what the ranter is talking about: the expenses, the studio, the promotion etc. - these are taken from the artists budget, which is recouped by the MASTER royalty. For the master royalty, artists will typically get 12-20% and the producer gets around 3%. The system is already set up to proportionally pay out master royalties based on what he’s talking about. The 50/50 number he’s talking about is the PUBLISHING royalty. This is only for musical writers, 50 for artist, 50 for producer.
Gotta understand, a “producer” today works harder than producers from the past. Because a producer has to create melodies, create catchy rhythms, mix the whole damn thing, give it colour (automations, drops etc) and on top of that has to mix the rapper into it and decide few changes to make the whole track work. A producer does all this shit and also in most cases has to master it. He did all this and all you did was write lyrics in 5 minutes like no one’s ever heard your bars about “I was starving in the hood” and you think a producer deserves 10-20%? This is why most niggas don’t make it.
Beat packs are like ghost writers for producers. The difference is like designing, carving and building your own furniture or just buying flat pack from IKEA that everybody else could do
The artist has a point. If you look at the whole pie, it doesn't add up. It takes more than one person to make a song hot. Instrumentals don't go platinum either.
Little uzi released a song that was 80% instrumental and it’s platinum and a tiktok banger. The artist at the end of the day is only adding to MY beat. Artist can tour and do shows all they want. The least producers can get is 50%
@@dmetriusmarch what song? It's a rare occurrence at the end of the day. Artist and producer add to each other. One is nothing without the other, like a husband and wife. When the kids come along, they split the pie up some more. It just seems like an artist is continually splitting his piece of the pie. Meanwhile the producer gets the largest piece of the pie. More than the label. The songs that become hits today happen for multiple reasons nowadays. A song made a hit because of social media is different because people are constantly intrigued by the song because of a catchy clip.
@@mansadenimcompany9789 everything now days have instrumentals without vocals so the producers play a major part because without that beat whats going to make a crowd move or while looking at tv listen to the backgrounds mostly just good sounds no vocals
@@hollowbeatz7045 I understand what you're saying. In that case, that producer gets one hundred percent. All I'm saying is that the artist just keeps splitting his share. That doesn't seem fair. Either way it goes, when they decide to work together the relationship becomes interdependent. A voice is an instrument as well. It just adds to the track but the track goes nowhere without marketing. If no one markets that hot song, it sits there. I've heard some fire beats with the wrong artist, and it goes nowhere.
He said I ain't heard a platinum album which is factz y'all in yall feelings for some dumb shit like what the best half the song stupidddd producer can promote n help shoot videos do other things stop it n if u make the best u make the calls wtf lmaoo u ain't gonna tell me how much u buying this beat for imagine that going buy a car n u tell them I'ma give u 10 percent for this u ain't build it u ain't gonna care for it u ain't driving around promoting it like what stop it this dude a lame ass rapper FATCZ
There's a million artist looking for amazing beats, there's not that many amazing producers, and guess what we can always find a good artist to put on our songs. The fact is, you artists need us far more than producers need you. I can ALWAYS find a rapper to rap on my beats, it's not hard because everyone is a rapper nowadays and lots of them are really good. If beatmaking is so damn easy how bout you make your own beats and well see just how easy it is? Most of us producers have spent thousands of dollars at least and years of our lives grinding super hard to get to the point where our beats sound professional. That's why we get so hot when one of you artist comes along and acts like we only deserve ten percent of the royalties for something we did the majority of the work for. The marketing and all thar is irrelevant to the fact that we made the entire foundation of the song you're gonna be putting your vocals on, you have nothing without the beat. You're in a privileged position to have an abundance of beats you can choose from that are really cheap to license and all we ask for is our portion of the backend. If you don't like that we can always go back to how it used to be, where you had to pay thousands of dollars up front and then still had to pay royalties. You guys have it so good and still are bitching like we are taking advantage. Back in the day, artist needed a label to really even get connected to good beatmakers, there wasn't a catalog of them that you could pay 50 bucks for a beat. Artists want everything for free and then get mad when they get fucked over in the future, karma is a bitch
@TheAngryPenguin nah I make my own beats and I sing and write music, but edm is a good point against your point, that's a whole damn genre of largely lyricless music that tops the charts on a regular basis. People buy the sound tracks to movies on a regular basis, people listen to music without singing or rapping all the time, I have friends that only listen to shit that doesn't have singing or rapping, classical music, which has no singing for the most part, is still a huge genre today. All yall saying that nobody listens to instrumental music are either full of cap or ignorant.
I mean normal splits are 50% to the Composer 50% to the Publisher. If you are self published and you split the payment 50/50 you would be at 75% for the rapper and 25% for the producer (assuming no one else composed the song). If your signed to someone else your going to have to get 25% if your lucky. Honestly if you can't come to an agreement in 2024 on splits with your producer, you should make your own beats. The tools are easier than ever and you can avoid this whole problem.
Same thing goes for the producer. You're beat os just a beat sitting in the catalogue of other beats until somebody makes your beat make sense enough to facilitate. Anyone who has the power, the resources and the hustle to promote the record for placement deserves a bigger portion of the split pie. That's how it's always been. Producers are usually the ones who can facilitate the record through their connection, but writers and vocal producers also have the same resources and outlets now. Anyone who can't respect that shouldn't be in the game.
Futuristic is wack anyways. I use to make my friends turn of dizzy wright shit cause futuristic was on it. You create whatever agreement you want with the producers you use. Just talk about it before you make the song. Producers don’t have to be concerned with music videos, shut up. You chose this lane
All he said was facts. Producers live off the work of artist and feel entitled to half. They don’t put in nearly half the work . That’s why u gotta switch up find a producer that will rock with u
Publishing royalties are only on the writing of the record. It's not master royalties. Its 2 halfs to writing a record- writing the lyrics is 50% of the writing and 50% is the composition. The writing of the music. People are confusing publishing splits with master splits
@@tuffsteeno I am not 100% serious here, I am mostly biting back at the essence of the comment hating on the producer as if he isnt the one who makes the entire record, I am not speaking of a beat maker. I am speaking of the final engineers in the process. I am speaking from a psychological and business mindset, I have worked in other industris and made money, I havent filled out a split sheet, nor will I lie about that. BUT my perspective, is the person who creates the music should be entitled to a portion of the royalties if that was at all negotiated. I am not speaking about those who sell a beat and LATER want to collect . That isnt the same
If you are a good enough producer you will find artists willing to accept your terms. We could spend the rest of our lives arguing about this or we could make some music and do business with others who are on the same page.
@@tertiaoptio4938 I haven’t heard producers tell artists “imma take your lyrics and give you whatever percentage I FEEL LIKE giving you cuz you needed me more than I needed you.” No we always hear about artists thinking they are gods gift to earth and producers should be honored to have them put lyrics over our beats when in actuality you can sell beats without lyrics and still make a living. You can’t sell acapellas for a living tho can you
Producers should definitely get 50 percent because without the producer the artist can’t even make the song let even record vocals. Artists need to not only think about their work but the producers too.
If someone pays you money for the beat, why should they also give you 50-50 split? If you decide that you’re going to give them the beat with an equity split that’s a different story
Its krazy how many people hating on futuristic for what he said but its true 😭 but its 2 side of the same coin 🪙 theres only a small group of producers who can make it without rappers and thats barely and a handful of rappers who can do songs without beats 🤷🏾♂️
Okay and some producers pay for PC/laptop, DAW, studio monitors, studio headphones, midi keyboard, audio interface, amps, mixer, guitars, bass, pedals, drum kits, sound kits, loops, subscriptions, VST’s, VST sound banks, studio time, and so on. Plus the time spent making the beat(s). So yes, 50/50 split that shi. Producers put in just as much work. They almost always promote a song they produced aswell, cause why wouldn’t they, it helps them too.
Making a beat is not making a song. A beat does not constitute 50% of a songs construction. Making a beat today takes pressing buttons and having access to certain tools. This is why producers keeps their process secret bevause frfr anybody can create a beat if they know the tools to use. The actual magic happens when the producer can help to create a song. Unless they are writing and building the construction of the song they don’t deserve 50% of the final product but whatever, these artist need to start creating their own beats and see how producers eat then. 🤷🏾♀️
Definitely more then 20% but ain’t no way a artist that’s writing his own music maybe for the studio time and promo and buys the best ain’t no way the producer should get 50% I say between 35,40
I actually agree with him a little and I’m a producer. I 1000 percent agree that producers need to do more than just produce, they need to try to help with the marketing, promo, networking, all of that, IF they’re working closely with this artist.
Producers don’t ever let someone tell you what your worth is… by default it’s 50/50… now if you don’t know that you can let a clown talk you out of your rights and signing a contract…
says who? if its your production performance royalties automatically 50 percent of the song for music comp... now mechanical royalties are based on whatever split you decide between you and the person who wants to get the license... @@jay2282
Soon As He Said Get Out Your Feelings, Dude Got Straight In His Feelings. How Can Y’all Want To Claim 50% For Real, For Just Making A Beat, 10-20% Of Royalties Is More Than Fair Especially When Y’all Not Doing Nothing Else With The Beat, EVER AGAIN Greed Is Crazy Asl In People.
Depends what he’s talking about - if we’re talking Master Royalties and you either paid upfront for the beat or can show you have leverage and can pull in streams / sales to where its worth me just getting 10-20%, because 10% of nothing is nothing and I still did my part of the work. It’s up to the artist to then market the track and make sure if brings in to cover their budget. When it comes to Publishing / Songwriting royalties that needs to get split equally amongst the writers (artist(s), producer(s) & songwriter(s)) this could be 50% artist and 50% producer.
Then the artists can spend all them thousand’s of hours in the studio to learn how to make their own music… because at the end of the day, that’s why we get 50 percent. You’re not just paying for the beats, you’re paying for the beat and all that experience and all that equipment and plugins and everything else that went into that beat being dope.. just like a doctor at the hospital
the us medical system is overbloated as fuck and we shouldn't have to pay so much for healthcare so kinda a shit example, if youre not doing 50% of the work why do you deserve 50%?
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"get out your feelings"
first thing he said was him being balls deep in his feelings about it, haha.
Most def
💯💯💯
Lmao yeah but some songs go hard regardless and it's all the beat
We be steady mobbing anyone coulda got on that and went hard
I mean, in those muffucas Raw and not pulling out. 🤣🤣🤣 Not one of them gave a good reason why they should get 50 split. They just said "drop an Acapella see how that do"... Ain't no beat went platinum without lyrics either Dummies. 😂😂
Still never heard a nigga make a hit off a accepella
No amount of work promotion or things he name will matter if that beat ain't fire😂
but what producer goes platinum with just beat no words
@@plutohashtv that happens all the time
@@5699CARwtf are u talking about that has never happened lmao
@UA-cam EpicUser420 there are several genres of music that sells without any vocals, dance music, edm, classical, etc.
@@plutohashtv movies, professional games, ect use only the instrumental. A lot of times in the clubs they don't even play 1 verse of a song. Most people couldn't recite 1 bar in SpotemGottem Beatbox, but know the beat
Know this. Great production will sell the song without a great artist.
pretty sure marketing sells the song mostly.
@@Bosilaify marketing "influences" the sell of the song. The song still has to be somewhat good. I get where your coming from tho.
@@Bosilaifynot always , it just takes the right person to hear it - this can be achieved even without market
Dat only works if u got a name fo yaself go get a beat frm metro boomin with no money fo marketing left and watch how it go fo ya
@@yungsilas_the beat from Metro is marketing
Tell that shit to Tmberland, Swizz, Scotch Storch, and the other producers who sold beats for millions of dollars!!!
And let these producergrind dudes to tell that to Jay Z, Beyonce and Kendrick
That's probably what some out right sales would be. That's why you give up the percentage to keep the upfront price lower. Otherwise hot producers just going to charge more to cover what they can't get backend.
Right!!! They SOLD the beat that’s the key word! You don’t get royalties for beats you SELL. You get royalties for beats you lease and sell recording rights to! Y’all gotta get y’all game up
Hence why none of them producers you named got the bread Jay Z , Beyoncé, or any of them got. Michael Jackson owned half of Sony catalogs by the time he was ready to leave. That’s estimated to be around 4 billion. All those songs had beats, name a producer with 2 billion dollars
If I buy the beat you not getting shit . That’s the way it goes
1 - VST’s 2- Time learning the craft (Years, invaluable) 3 - laptop 4- updating sounds and kits 5- Transportation to wherever etc… It’s not just a “beat” it’s art that is invaluable and has appreciated following years of work
An artist has three choices
1. Pay the for the beat and 50% royalties
2. Pay for the beat and no royalties if the producer will accept it
3. Make your own beats like Eminem & J. Cole
Exactly, you chose this profession so you gotta pay the price, if you don't want to pay then put in the work like the producers did and learn the craft
like WHO??? 😂
@@ITm4n kanye did the shit first made beats, in his apartment while going to college. Rapping to a$$ beats
@@jeremyjones9467 right. n Ye learned from dilla. Tyler got inspired by ye. so many better examples than a dude who made it off Dres production and a dude who barely uses his own beats
@@ITm4n no just saying what kanye said himself. That nigga got millons
TO ALL ARTISTS: You understand publishing royalties are different from record royalties right?
I genuinely don't. Care to explain?
?
@@chloeme3589its time to learn then
Exactly, if an artist wants quality, they have to pay for it. If an artist doesn’t agree with the producers fees then they need to go to a more lower budget production straight up 💯
give a noob the most expensive setup and itll still sound like 1st grade band.. a pro uses sounds to get music not software reliant. i played guitar for 12 years before i made beats and then iv been making beats for 10 years. they rather buy a beat someone stole off the internet. the noobs wither make straight basic trash or steal music n say they made it there own
If producers stopped making beats you would HEAR WHY😂😂😂😂
The beat is everything, if you suck at rapping and the beat 🔥 the song can have anybody on it…
Man if anything it’s the ENGINEERS that make the final mixdown bearable and properly balanced that deserve most of the credit.
they never wanna have that convo
He'll yeah!!
imo engineers are producers too. they do the bulk of sound construction that makes a song what it is. next are the beat makers for sure. but i’d say at least 90% of the time(rap wise), the artist’s actual work is very minimal. especially because the average artist isn’t getting all into the production and sound of the song. they mainly focus on lyrics n how they’re structured. that’s why we got the kanye n tpain of the industry, and then we got the soundcloud yutes
@@KJMadeItt the breakdown of a song’s rights should be always based on the circumstances of that particular collaborative effort. I just didn’t want the engineers to be left out of the conversation. They are responsible for polishing turds and making people forget they aren’t listening to professionally trained musicians 😂 it’s rap made from recycled scraps and bootlegged sounds made on pirated software half the time lol
@@KJMadeItt Idk gang this whole wave that’s coming up use UA-cam beats and mix by themselves once niggas start learning to make they own shit then what
i think producers should get 60% 😭 the producers / engineers typically do all the work while the artist just records
And how much does the artist pay to make that? The artist is paying for music video, promotion, studio time or equipment, the beat and the engineer. The artist is doing a third of the work and paying for all that shit too. 60% lmfao the engineer and beat makers don't pay for anything
U can take out promotion and studio time cause u could argue that has got NOTHING to do with the producer either.
The studio time is your responsibility so why package that? Promotion nowadays can be done for free, hell u can do it for the low. I have a better chance marketing the beat myself to other artist than u the entitled rapper anyday.
Y’all just pretend some people aren’t actually educated to know wtf is going on lmao
@@WestSideChris805 i understand that the artist is contributing a larger investment overall but all i'm saying is that nowadays producers don't earn enough credit for how creative they can be. i feel like the rappers get way too much credit for simply doing the bare minimum
@@WestSideChris805 since when producers never had to pay for anything ? I’m pretty sure the producer put in more work equity and paid more for software and equipment than a rapper has ever spent investing into himself
I get his argument, but i also think of music made for movies and TV. The Avengers theme has no lyrics, and it's on the 2nd highest grossing film of all time. Music is music, will always be profitable and memorable. Classical music is a perfect example
The fact is tho - as much as a good beat is important - there’s tons of good beats out there. Thousands of undiscovered UA-cam producers with serious talent.
It’s wayyy harder to market a person and gain an audience. We don’t think “oh can’t wait to hear metro boomins new beat” but we sure as hell say “Future dropping a new album this week 🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥”
Just goes to show artist are extremely ungrateful of how easy they can get hot beats and how much work and time actually goes into getting to the level where your beats sound professional and are actually viable to be used professionally. It takes years, thousands of dollars, and so much talent and perseverance. The beat is almost the entire song, a vocalist is adding basically a single element.
If you don't wanna pay 50% in royalties, you ain't gonna have no cheap beats anymore, with how much it costs to really get good, to have professional sounds, good mixing etc, artists are extremely lucky they are so spoiled with choice.
Artist want everything for free, they wanna get a beat for like 50 bucks and then don't expect to have to pay royalties. Something has to give or you're not gonna have the abundance of beats you have now, you're gonna go back to the days of having to pay thousands of dollars to get music made for your album. Producers are what makes your career possible, we can always find an artist to get on our songs, there are thousands of rappers and singers out there that we could choose, it's not that easy to find someone to make beats for you, we hold all the cards.
there are thousands of beatmakers bro youre on some shit, you hold no cards. If anything engineer should get more. And if you use a sample or loop you should give them 50% of your rights as producer, couldn't have done it without them right? Maybe give 50% to ableton or FL studio, because no beat making without the programs to make it!
And yet Lil Nas X holds the record for song that been #1 on the billboard for the longest and he got his beat for $50. The industry standard is the publishers get 50% aka the beat maker, song writer and engineer. If you’re not doing all 3, you’re not entitled to 50%. That’s the industry standard. I think a lot of producers need to remember that the internet is slowly taking over your job and you need to adjust. I have 2 songs on Spotify that have 10 million+ streams and I got the beats for $30. And now learning how to make your own beats is easier than ever, I made a beat for my friend on splice, she’s new in the game and her song with my beat has 80k streams on Spotify. Not bad for a newcomer and I didn’t charge her no damn 50% royalties for a beat that took me a day and a half to make. It’s not that 90s anymore, you need to adjust to the times the internet is here to stay and finding a good beat isn’t that hard or expensive. The real magic happens in the mixing and mastering and the engineers I’ve found to do that I got on upwork for a fair price.
@@Hihihihi716ol bro, why u acting like keyo didnt get more than 50 bucks for his contribution to the song in the end? That’s cute an all what u claiming of the streams u say u doing but in the end don’t nobody know ur beats, your music or your artist name..U definitely sound like that entitled niga in the video talkin bout 10-20% like niga fuk outta here
Everything takes skill no matter how u want to break it down talkin bout yeah I can make my own beats but really if u aren’t skilled in your craft like someone who has done this for years what makes u think your sht fitna sound hot than a guy who has been doin it for years? Younger producers are easily manipulated n quite frankly someone who knows wtf they talkin bout can disapprove all that sht u spewing
The costs mentioned are the costs of being an artist. Trying to justify giving the producer a smaller percentage based on this overhead makes no sense. Producers naturally get upset because his argument is nonsense and he says it so confidently he might take advantage of someone who doesn't know better. A producer contribution to a record can't be understated. Many are carrying artists sonically, not only contributing to the beat but the hooks, verses, arrangement etc. If anything some producers deserve a larger split but 50 - 50 is fair.
The artist is investing in making the song popular. If we not spending 50/50 in all the expenses why in the fuck do you expect 50 percent of the profit?
@@Alex0992 We are talking about splits. Which is publishing / ownership of the intellectual property of the record. You are talking about sales / record royalties which is a different conversation and no producer gets 50% of sales.
@@brycem9063 so 50% of the ownership/publishing translates to what percentage of the profit?
And this video does not clarify what royalties they are talking about. They said they want 50%
@@brycem9063 and buddy should've taken this opportunity to explain the difference between the royalties and how he wants 50% of this particular royalty because his beat plus the lyrics make up the composition. But instead he just said fuck that nigga. 😂
Most artists dont even pay for the beat so 50% is more than appropiate to split with the person who built the foundation of your song.
“I will pay for thé promotion if you give me the beat” lookin azz
He's 100% right.....I known creative producers still in the same place....
If it’s that easy then you make the beats done!
Lol true shit right here
Producers don’t necessarily make beats.
Yes technically they would oversee production as a whole. Still though if you don't want to pay then do it yourself.
Generally speaking.
@@AstroSully yup some do some simply direct the Albulm project
@@bboymac84 yep a producer technically is just the person in charge of everything.
Because b4 they hear what you saying they feel the vibration! I just unlocked their ears for you.
As both artist and producer i will say producers are entitled to that 50% because you never know what they had to spend in order to make your beat. Maybe it cost $5000 for all the VST and tools they purchased. They could have had to pay just to get their beat in front of the artist to listen and decide if they want it. And i can keep going all day
Facts
A lot of producers get hired on studios that already have all that they don’t gotta pay shit
@@Icouldcareless9000 not alot😂 most people who are “producers” with from them bedroom not a set studio.
Realizing its Futuristic saying this bs makes all the more sense to why he’s in the box he’s in.
Idk why ppl trippin. If that’s how he feels that’s how he feels don’t do business with him. There’s plenty of ppl that feel differently and every situation is different. Some ppl are 50/50 60/40 80/20 etc…if the producer he work with wanna do that cool, but otherwise let him be, and deal with the ppl that value your worth and effort
as a producer:
it took us alot of time to get to the level we are at.
it took us money to buy all these expensive plugins.
we have to invest before we know it might work. we might have to do it only few times but we take alot of shit in the beginning
the moment we can get placements and we ask for 50% that's already after we did all the hard work.
what you spend on marketing is just a choice.
That's like a car salesman, telling the car factory that it won't pay the cars because they didn't help selling them.
Producers buy equipment, sounds, hard drives, etc. and spend countless hours honing their skills.
I’m an artist , engineer and producer so I think erbody should get paid based off what they did /platform
34/33/33 🔥
THANK YOU, because in the end it's about THE MUSIC. People tend to forget that. If it's that serious, then the people claiming producers should only get 10 to 20 percent should just learn to produce, buy the equipment, and learn the ins and outs of the studio equipment themselves.
pappy the only one that dropped a cappella
Sonny… THANK YOU LIKE DAMN
A song (composition) is literally lyrics and the underlying melody. Lyrics=Artists Melody/Music=Producer. That is literally 50% and 50% to make 100% of a song. Promotion and studio time is apart of being an Artist anyway. There is no way an Artist should have an issue with giving 50% to the Producer when the Producer literally does 50% of the work. Some artists just try to justify being cheap and not understanding music business. Beats, promo, radio airplay, studio time, video production is apart of being an Artist. Think about that and get out of your feelings #KMakesBeats
engineer gets the other 50%? Notice how beats is one of 5 things you listed, so 1/5 of the song, aka 20%. I think you don't understand music business, deals work how the parties want them to.
Be on me And tro comes to a whole different game level
Sometimes the music video makes the song and beat 1000x better,,,, I.E. DaBaby. You could be sitting on a song for a year or so before you drop the music video and then it goes viral
Dababy is nothing if Jetsonmade hadn’t produced for him. All his hits we know are from Jetsonmade 😂 literally a producer made his career.
@@lanova13 bro producers will get their money, if I had a hit I literally wouldn’t care about the percentages between the producer. I’d tell them go 90/10 or keep it all because I’d be on tour making $50k a show while he’s waiting for passive income monthly
@@Anime4Real7producer can still make money while u making money FYI
Aint no song without a beat. Thats all im gonna say.
Music was created by the chirping from birds. Humans heard it and tried doing the same. Have you ever heard ISO Polyphony music? No beat or technology there.
Let's see, where are the birds now , give me a playist thats a hit with birds only...dont worry I'll wait@@LilBriskoTV_
You wouldn’t be taking any of them steps without the action of producing/composing the track.
You aren’t paying them for the studio, you’re paying them for their experience. A lot of rappers dont realize how much time and energy it takes to actually make good beats, when I was a teen I wanted to rap and thought $999 for exclusive rights was too much. But once I started making beats I realized how hard making beats actually is. Rapping is easy in comparison, anyone can write and record their own vocals. Making beats, producing full songs, thats an entire universe full of different knowledge galaxies, with so many planets of skills that you have to learn and practice and stay consistent with. Rappers rap, producers do all the actual legwork to make those raps into actual songs, producers make the song translate across platforms. Being able to spit a 16 in double-time and triplets is impressive, but do you know how to make your piano, vocals, and 808s sound prominent in the mix without frequencies clashing? Do you know how to sidechain the kick and the bass? Do you know how UA-cam, Spotify, and Soundcloud change the way your song sounds?
Rapper names bring the attention, but rap vocals are the smallest aspect of song creation. Producers deserve more than 10% for the years of work they’ve put in. You aren’t paying for what they do in the studio, you’re paying them for the years it took for them to BE ABLE to make your music sound the way it sounds. In music, we all need each other, so lets work together and make sure we all get what we need
i can do both and will honestly say they’re both as hard as each other for different reasons. rapping is easy - until you want to spit something lyrically good that at the same time has meaning and came from the heart. producing is easy - until you want to produce something with soul that is sonically pleasing and doesn’t conflict with itself. something i don’t think producers understand however is that a lot of (non rich and non famous) rappers have to be their own engineers. now THAT is the part that is genuinely hard. vocals are a bitch to work with unless they’re recorded in the perfect environment and you know exactly what you’re doing when it comes to working with them. a lot of (not all) producers make the beat and think rappers spit the vox and it automatically sounds good. it doesn’t 😂 it takes hours and hours and hours of work. i spend more time on mixing vocals than i do on making beats and rapping put together. EASILY! lmao. maybe i’m just slow and/or a perfectionist.
@@jetbeats3132 this comment better
beat makers, engineers and producers aren't all the same. Also, artists are paying for the videos, studio time/equipment, mixing/mastering, the beat and the promotion and you think that the producer and engineer deserve equal portion? Ya'll want equal portions then go in with the artist on his/her fees for releasing the song and making it
@@WestSideChris805If an artist is doing that then that’s usually the label s money they are using. It’s pretty rare an artist is doing all that shit without backing lmao
@@jetbeats3132u say all that with 1 beat on your channel like bro…let me hear your sht to be able to tell if you’re as good as u claim saying it’s easy…
What about the money we spend on plug in and hardware, what about the courses we take, the countless hours of research and development, and like my guy said have you ever heard a rapper get on without the beat? We co wrote the song if I produced the beat...WE ARE THE BAND MEMEBERS
but when has a beat gone platinum without words.
Mf ain’t never heard of Kenny g
Same could be said vice versa
@@fendinylyou smart af
Turn down for what by lil John
I swear there are a capella freestyles and legendary freestyles made with a pen and a wooden desk. Holla at me when you make a legendary beat with no words, where's the producers dropping albums with just beats and make it to the top 10 charts.
The beat inspires the song
Without us wouldn’t be no songs🤷🏽♂️
Went straight to his feelings
Sell an acapella album 💿
I'm only an amateur and haven't made a cent off my music yet but I respect the hell out of these guys for clowning on the dude. 50/50 isn't just fair, it's necessary.
No producer in their right mind would do a royalty deal with a no name in the first place. lol
Who are these dudes? Everyone knows a producer is easier to replace then the actual artist lmao these producers be in the feelings.
@@nealmason8785 No they arent lol. Producers make more money for a reason. Only the very top artists are making the kind of money producers are and even then it's on the low end unless they're producers themselves. Look at guys like Kanye, Dre, Jay-z. All of them are top tier producers which is what makes most of their bank.
@@tommydashed4205 did you just name jay z kanye and Dr dre who are well known as artist tour as artist are labeled as artist make more money producing? 😩🤣🤣 broh gtfoh.
@@tommydashed4205 your naming artist who also produce they aren't subject to just being a producer like London on track ect or known mostly known for production the mfs you name have multiplatinum albums and singles stop it a producer is easier to replace then your artist point black i can go into media marketing movie roles ect literally destroy anyone on this topic
@@nealmason8785 why is he complaining then? Go find another producer.
Sonny tried to answer that shit being respectful at first and couldn’t even
I haven’t heard a producer YET, “get out their feelings,” and explain a reason he is wrong.
The reason why that is because without the music what he got? I haven’t seen a rapper go platinum yet doing an a cappella album. Last I check instrumental album would sell ten times faster than and album with no music. Don’t believe me hand a DJ your album with no music and bet he’ll say get the hell outta here with this mess and that’s a fact. What you rappers don’t realize is how much money that a producer invest in studio gear and equipment. Thousand’s of dollars on the low end sir crying about studio time your supposed to pay for it. These rappers have a scene of entitlement like don’t have to or don’t want to pay for tracks. Get real do the slit sheet the proper way and get out of your own way.
@@davidelliott2942 battle rap? and we don’t know if a acapella would go platinum because if never happened. Like the man said get out your feelings nobody care about how much you spent on equipment, rappers spend that shit on studio time. You wrote a story and still didn’t make ONE good point.
As a guy who's done both, the rapper is complaining about shit his label will obligate out of his money, most producers aren't signed in the same asoect, and if you lease a beat instead of buying it outright you made your decision! The smart artist will give up that 50% you never know when you'll need that producer and others to come together and help you if your shit fall through! I'll keep it hot, the producer really deserves half of that one song, if he produced your album he'd likely give em %50 that's the same shit tbh! But I see y'all must like whoever this rapper is, I've seen two shorts full of comments saying nobody giving valid reasons... Crazy thing is I been saying that to bots, now bots are making that statement a wave bots say while also not having points, the underground rapper usually isn't buying beats flat out they likely leased! The rapper stupid for not learning to use a ruler and make his own fucking beats lits literally not hard, and he could pay whoever engineers him to mix and master the beats for him, but he rather complain than help himself in the ultimate way! If you struggling you have to bite the bullet, if you ain't in the actual industry you need to strategically make moves that may be hits upfront, but provide freedom on the backend! Those metro tags y'all hear from future ect, these producers don't get to promo like rappers they will take your tags off, until you get a buzz helping under other known producers! Ppl like Zaytoven, 808 mafia, Ear drummers were the first of their kind, having artist that understood grind up with them, they are supper producers, y'all hating on Sonny digital right tf now, but you entire 2015-2019 was these producers, moreso today producers last in fame longer than most artists do, ppl wanna hear the theme more than they care about the voice, unless the voice is distinctive enough!
@@BigGoated it’s showing that people really get in their feelings. Everytime the reaction is a emotional response. How is it hating saying no one has given a reasonable explanation to why the producer deserves 50%. I don’t know this rapper at all. I’m just like he made a valid point to someone who is a outsider to the industry.
It's because the beat is 90% of what makes a track good and also requires skill/knowledge/time.
Simple solution: produce your own beats or shut up.
They still promoting the song because how good the beat made it so they still deserve more , first thing you look for to make a song is a beat, so it is %50 of the song no matter how u put it
Producers are the base of every song. The first thing u hear in most songs is some type of melody or beat.Take a pizza for example. You can’t make a pizza without the dough. The artist is the sauce cheese and pepperoni😂 and even if a artist made a acapella song/album you still need somebody to mix the vocals so they sound good and professional
That's why I just make my own beats, and sing on those.
And we never heard a song put out without lyrics on it.. they in their feelings
Cap. “The art of noise” had everybody in a choke hold. Still does from time to time
@@DaeRiyonRStaton you must be a producer.. you ever heard a beat on the radio ?
@@efrainsoto3660 yes. “The Art of Noise”
Man this fool talkin about ONE song that came out over 35 years ago 😂 when the last time anybody heard more than the first four bars of moments in love looped anyway
@@yella5888 the question was have I heard ANY song on the radio without lyrics. The answer to that was yes. Now, if the question had been about recent songs or songs in the last 5-10yrs then yea, this fools answer would be irrelevant.
Producers compose, write, direct I mean they the ones making the song in the end
This is why I'm a rapper and a producer. I'd get 100% of the profit.
Beatmakers are everywhere
Don’t know em from a hole in the wall but I’m definitely getting 🤡 vibez!!! 🤨
Man producers dont get paid like artists do for performing, so 50% publishing and writers creds is perfectly fair, artists pay for promo so yall can get more buzz so that they can tour.
10-20 is wild. 50 percent don't make sense to me either. Especially if I'm paying for the beat.
Sonny digital is goated for this one
He does have a point though fr, because neither sides work to full potential without each other. If you want half of what the record makes then you should be willing to invest in promotion in my opinion🤷🏾♂️
So what the ranter is talking about: the expenses, the studio, the promotion etc. - these are taken from the artists budget, which is recouped by the MASTER royalty. For the master royalty, artists will typically get 12-20% and the producer gets around 3%. The system is already set up to proportionally pay out master royalties based on what he’s talking about.
The 50/50 number he’s talking about is the PUBLISHING royalty. This is only for musical writers, 50 for artist, 50 for producer.
I ain’t never heard nobody drop a beat and it go platinum either 😕
Manny fresh, El-p.......gotta be more
Rave music Lmfao 🤣
@@TexxGodTv oh ok so u prod rave music
Edm is all beats and those shits be making hella money
Oh nigga they got niggas making ms off just LOFI lol
Gotta understand, a “producer” today works harder than producers from the past. Because a producer has to create melodies, create catchy rhythms, mix the whole damn thing, give it colour (automations, drops etc) and on top of that has to mix the rapper into it and decide few changes to make the whole track work. A producer does all this shit and also in most cases has to master it. He did all this and all you did was write lyrics in 5 minutes like no one’s ever heard your bars about “I was starving in the hood” and you think a producer deserves 10-20%? This is why most niggas don’t make it.
Say the producers who loop other people's beat packs and don't do any real work
Beat packs are like ghost writers for producers.
The difference is like designing, carving and building your own furniture or just buying flat pack from IKEA that everybody else could do
The artist has a point. If you look at the whole pie, it doesn't add up. It takes more than one person to make a song hot. Instrumentals don't go platinum either.
Little uzi released a song that was 80% instrumental and it’s platinum and a tiktok banger. The artist at the end of the day is only adding to MY beat. Artist can tour and do shows all they want. The least producers can get is 50%
@@dmetriusmarch what song? It's a rare occurrence at the end of the day. Artist and producer add to each other. One is nothing without the other, like a husband and wife. When the kids come along, they split the pie up some more. It just seems like an artist is continually splitting his piece of the pie. Meanwhile the producer gets the largest piece of the pie. More than the label. The songs that become hits today happen for multiple reasons nowadays. A song made a hit because of social media is different because people are constantly intrigued by the song because of a catchy clip.
@@mansadenimcompany9789 everything now days have instrumentals without vocals so the producers play a major part because without that beat whats going to make a crowd move or while looking at tv listen to the backgrounds mostly just good sounds no vocals
@@hollowbeatz7045 I understand what you're saying. In that case, that producer gets one hundred percent. All I'm saying is that the artist just keeps splitting his share. That doesn't seem fair. Either way it goes, when they decide to work together the relationship becomes interdependent. A voice is an instrument as well. It just adds to the track but the track goes nowhere without marketing. If no one markets that hot song, it sits there. I've heard some fire beats with the wrong artist, and it goes nowhere.
You have a good point
Skeleton is crazy😂😂😂. Bro said he ain't never heard nobody drop a acapella
They insult him bc they can’t attack his argument lol.
THE PRODUCER MADE THE IDEA FROM SCRATCH! LITERALLY HALF OF THE WHOLE SONG WHY MFS ALWAYS NEED US THE MOST AND THEN WANNA CUT US SHORT?
“I ain’t never hear a Nigga drop a…acopella” meanwhile in the genre of instrumental albums….”Cricket sounds” 😂
And how many streams those be getting lol
He said I ain't heard a platinum album which is factz y'all in yall feelings for some dumb shit like what the best half the song stupidddd producer can promote n help shoot videos do other things stop it n if u make the best u make the calls wtf lmaoo u ain't gonna tell me how much u buying this beat for imagine that going buy a car n u tell them I'ma give u 10 percent for this u ain't build it u ain't gonna care for it u ain't driving around promoting it like what stop it this dude a lame ass rapper FATCZ
There's a million artist looking for amazing beats, there's not that many amazing producers, and guess what we can always find a good artist to put on our songs. The fact is, you artists need us far more than producers need you. I can ALWAYS find a rapper to rap on my beats, it's not hard because everyone is a rapper nowadays and lots of them are really good. If beatmaking is so damn easy how bout you make your own beats and well see just how easy it is? Most of us producers have spent thousands of dollars at least and years of our lives grinding super hard to get to the point where our beats sound professional. That's why we get so hot when one of you artist comes along and acts like we only deserve ten percent of the royalties for something we did the majority of the work for. The marketing and all thar is irrelevant to the fact that we made the entire foundation of the song you're gonna be putting your vocals on, you have nothing without the beat. You're in a privileged position to have an abundance of beats you can choose from that are really cheap to license and all we ask for is our portion of the backend. If you don't like that we can always go back to how it used to be, where you had to pay thousands of dollars up front and then still had to pay royalties. You guys have it so good and still are bitching like we are taking advantage. Back in the day, artist needed a label to really even get connected to good beatmakers, there wasn't a catalog of them that you could pay 50 bucks for a beat. Artists want everything for free and then get mad when they get fucked over in the future, karma is a bitch
@@DodgaOfficial just go make sum edm albums g
@TheAngryPenguin nah I make my own beats and I sing and write music, but edm is a good point against your point, that's a whole damn genre of largely lyricless music that tops the charts on a regular basis. People buy the sound tracks to movies on a regular basis, people listen to music without singing or rapping all the time, I have friends that only listen to shit that doesn't have singing or rapping, classical music, which has no singing for the most part, is still a huge genre today. All yall saying that nobody listens to instrumental music are either full of cap or ignorant.
I mean normal splits are 50% to the Composer 50% to the Publisher. If you are self published and you split the payment 50/50 you would be at 75% for the rapper and 25% for the producer (assuming no one else composed the song).
If your signed to someone else your going to have to get 25% if your lucky. Honestly if you can't come to an agreement in 2024 on splits with your producer, you should make your own beats.
The tools are easier than ever and you can avoid this whole problem.
This the damn truth. When do you get an acapella💀
Same thing goes for the producer. You're beat os just a beat sitting in the catalogue of other beats until somebody makes your beat make sense enough to facilitate.
Anyone who has the power, the resources and the hustle to promote the record for placement deserves a bigger portion of the split pie. That's how it's always been. Producers are usually the ones who can facilitate the record through their connection, but writers and vocal producers also have the same resources and outlets now.
Anyone who can't respect that shouldn't be in the game.
@Corey Thomas then timbo da goat shouldn't be in the game? Sonny digital and timbo think producers deserve a good cut🤷🏽♂️
@@coreythomas6102 tons of people drop instrumental albums and beat tapes
"And unless you have a big name your name isn't bigger than mine" really strange coming from someone nobody's ever heard of
Futuristic is wack anyways. I use to make my friends turn of dizzy wright shit cause futuristic was on it. You create whatever agreement you want with the producers you use. Just talk about it before you make the song. Producers don’t have to be concerned with music videos, shut up. You chose this lane
This makes sense, producers usually make most of their money from publishing and only a small cut from the actual time spent making the song.
Producers still can make a lot of money from a hit song
All he said was facts. Producers live off the work of artist and feel entitled to half. They don’t put in nearly half the work . That’s why u gotta switch up find a producer that will rock with u
Publishing royalties are only on the writing of the record. It's not master royalties. Its 2 halfs to writing a record- writing the lyrics is 50% of the writing and 50% is the composition. The writing of the music. People are confusing publishing splits with master splits
You dont make music huh
@@MandosCulture I was signed for 5 years to island def jam .. you’ve never filled out a split sheet huh?
@@tuffsteeno I am not 100% serious here, I am mostly biting back at the essence of the comment hating on the producer as if he isnt the one who makes the entire record, I am not speaking of a beat maker. I am speaking of the final engineers in the process.
I am speaking from a psychological and business mindset, I have worked in other industris and made money, I havent filled out a split sheet, nor will I lie about that. BUT my perspective, is the person who creates the music should be entitled to a portion of the royalties if that was at all negotiated. I am not speaking about those who sell a beat and LATER want to collect . That isnt the same
@@tuffsteeno big ups for that though, congrats!
That's why you buy the beat. Ain't no backend bihh
Yea but most don’t have the money for it
Half of them sell the beat and expect 50% royalties lol
Yea royalties is a mf even if you paid completely out for a beat
They do buy the beat but the producers now are selling the beat for a price up front to get the beat then want 50% of all sales
@@Baesic999 exactly which is where I’m confused. How do you SELL something and want to retain 50% of the rights???
If you are a good enough producer you will find artists willing to accept your terms. We could spend the rest of our lives arguing about this or we could make some music and do business with others who are on the same page.
You can kill all that by making your own beats since you pretty much think you don’t need a producer anyway. Just speaking with logic here.
Sound to me he cryin cause he don't wanna pay what the producer want. He can rap on air & see how that shit workout for him.
I love how yall act like you dont need artists
@@tertiaoptio4938 I haven’t heard producers tell artists “imma take your lyrics and give you whatever percentage I FEEL LIKE giving you cuz you needed me more than I needed you.” No we always hear about artists thinking they are gods gift to earth and producers should be honored to have them put lyrics over our beats when in actuality you can sell beats without lyrics and still make a living. You can’t sell acapellas for a living tho can you
@@tertiaoptio4938 rappers a dime a dozen
Producers should definitely get 50 percent because without the producer the artist can’t even make the song let even record vocals. Artists need to not only think about their work but the producers too.
You'll be producing your own tracks then...
Might as well. There’s so many beat makers that will sell the full rights. Should just use them and produce it yourself.
Unless you made the beat I agree with the first dude. And I LIKED WHAT HE SAIDDD
If someone pays you money for the beat, why should they also give you 50-50 split? If you decide that you’re going to give them the beat with an equity split that’s a different story
They forget thay we buy vsts and drum kits
Ain't nobody coming to see you Otis
Well listen to your favorite artist on acapella 😆
Its krazy how many people hating on futuristic for what he said but its true 😭 but its 2 side of the same coin 🪙 theres only a small group of producers who can make it without rappers and thats barely and a handful of rappers who can do songs without beats 🤷🏾♂️
Okay and some producers pay for PC/laptop, DAW, studio monitors, studio headphones, midi keyboard, audio interface, amps, mixer, guitars, bass, pedals, drum kits, sound kits, loops, subscriptions, VST’s, VST sound banks, studio time, and so on. Plus the time spent making the beat(s). So yes, 50/50 split that shi. Producers put in just as much work. They almost always promote a song they produced aswell, cause why wouldn’t they, it helps them too.
Producers need to unionize
Shai- if I ever fall in love . Sold more acapella then with a beat . Don’t talk without knowing facts
Making a beat is not making a song. A beat does not constitute 50% of a songs construction. Making a beat today takes pressing buttons and having access to certain tools. This is why producers keeps their process secret bevause frfr anybody can create a beat if they know the tools to use. The actual magic happens when the producer can help to create a song. Unless they are writing and building the construction of the song they don’t deserve 50% of the final product but whatever, these artist need to start creating their own beats and see how producers eat then. 🤷🏾♀️
FACTS
I get what hes saying, he kinda has a point, but 10% is still crazy low, it should be at least 30%.
Not a single producer gonna work with him now
I also think it needs to be normal on cutting engineers in too considering if it didn't sound good most ppl won't fuck wit it.
It is normal. Engineer, beat makers AND songwriters share 50% of the publishing royalties. That’s literally the industry standard.
Definitely more then 20% but ain’t no way a artist that’s writing his own music maybe for the studio time and promo and buys the best ain’t no way the producer should get 50% I say between 35,40
I actually agree with him a little and I’m a producer. I 1000 percent agree that producers need to do more than just produce, they need to try to help with the marketing, promo, networking, all of that, IF they’re working closely with this artist.
Producers don’t ever let someone tell you what your worth is… by default it’s 50/50… now if you don’t know that you can let a clown talk you out of your rights and signing a contract…
Lol no it’s not bro.
says who? if its your production performance royalties automatically 50 percent of the song for music comp... now mechanical royalties are based on whatever split you decide between you and the person who wants to get the license... @@jay2282
I am a producer and i say the artist is absolutely fucking right
Ain't no blank beat going platinum either 🤣🤣
Barely. They not making jazz or classical.
Bullshit. Teddy's Jam was an instrumental record that smashed the charts.
Something For The Radio was another instrumental that smashed the charts
@@josephparker6668 yea like that shit happens all the time stop the bs
The 900 Number was a certified smash and it still rocks parties to this day! I could go on.
I WORK ON THE BEAT FOR 9 PLUS HOURS. THAT WEIRDO NEVER BEEN HEARD OF.
Soon As He Said Get Out Your Feelings, Dude Got Straight In His Feelings.
How Can Y’all Want To Claim 50% For Real, For Just Making A Beat, 10-20% Of Royalties Is More Than Fair Especially When Y’all Not Doing Nothing Else With The Beat, EVER AGAIN
Greed Is Crazy Asl In People.
Depends what he’s talking about - if we’re talking Master Royalties and you either paid upfront for the beat or can show you have leverage and can pull in streams / sales to where its worth me just getting 10-20%, because 10% of nothing is nothing and I still did my part of the work. It’s up to the artist to then market the track and make sure if brings in to cover their budget.
When it comes to Publishing / Songwriting royalties that needs to get split equally amongst the writers (artist(s), producer(s) & songwriter(s)) this could be 50% artist and 50% producer.
Then the artists can spend all them thousand’s of hours in the studio to learn how to make their own music… because at the end of the day, that’s why we get 50 percent. You’re not just paying for the beats, you’re paying for the beat and all that experience and all that equipment and plugins and everything else that went into that beat being dope.. just like a doctor at the hospital
the us medical system is overbloated as fuck and we shouldn't have to pay so much for healthcare so kinda a shit example, if youre not doing 50% of the work why do you deserve 50%?
You put in just as much time and energy making the beat, if not more....Some lyrics take 5min some take days...Just like beats
Futuristic so corny 🤦🏾♂️
Mad corny lol 😂