If you want to learn how I make rap beats, then read this. Wright: Back then, it wasn't a "Type Beat" thing, you labeled it like "Club Banger" or "R&B Smash." I don't know who started that, but it happened back then in Soundclick days and I remember people doing that on YouTube, but it wasn't a crazy like it is now.
Picture-perfect as it sounds, there is one elephant-in-the-room issue with producers leasing music to artists for cheap: While BeatStars' transactions and licensing agreements are fully above-board, the site can't guarantee that the underlying beat always has its own copyrights sorted out — namely, in the case of a producer using samples of other music in a beat.





While the music business wrestles with how to deal with novel business models like that of BeatStars, such disruption is old hat to people in the taxi business or the hotel industry — or any other market that's been thoroughly upended by the gig-economy mentality.
Over the past couple of weeks, THUMP caught up with a few working "type beat" producers—including Wright , an up-and-coming producer with over 20,000 YouTube subscribers; Menace ; Johnny Juliano , a veteran producer who's worked with The Game, Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla $ign, and Wiz Khalifa; and S.I.K. , who produced A$AP Rocky's " Fine Whine" They dive into the history of the digital-only form, discuss the creative walls that you can hit while working in this framework, as well as the unexpected successes that it's brought them.

As more major artists flock to these new, whip-fast music production services, the music industry is forced to try and figure out how it can adapt its traditionally slow-moving business model and fixed label-publisher-artist hierarchy to accommodate new means of producing music.
A Type Beat is an instrumental song, purposely matching patterns of already existing songs, using the usual types of BPM, drum sounds and song structure, to be easy to suit a rapper. Some of these are veterans like DJ Pain 1 or the Alicia Keys collaborator Krucial Keys, who also sells instrumentals on BeatStars (though not Rick Ross type beat).

See which type of beats work well with your type of style. Joe: I made this beat inspired by Drake's sound, hope he uses it. My enlightenment and eventual use of type beats gave me a unique perspective on both sides of the argument. Type beats” became a marketing scheme to get discovered based on search results.