whether you make beats on a computer or from real hardware, the people really don't care where it comes from especially if its a hit. so I give big ups to all creative artist no matter what method they are using to compose.
@@johnny8641 dj khaled is actually smarter than that like he said he did do the nitty gritty of making beats with the programming then new platforms came like lpgic made it easier but he knows the full process and goes through it like he said playing what soubds to the guitarist or the guy on the flute pr the pionist play this play that even him writting yhe music write these lyrics say this change that then markets it and releases it for artists. He actually works very hard and you lot hate seeing people with money like him. Khaled is actually super smart and makes hits. Why do you think he always has the a listers regulry on his records drake justin bieber etc they beg to get on his records as they know they always go number 1
DJ Khaled is a great example of how important communication and networking are in the music business. People who can talk and sell themselves do better than quiet talents
@@2tallnegrito7cmn55Directors are usually the most important figure in making a film. That's why some actors can be in shitty movies with bad directors, and the same actors can win awards when put with a good director or writer. The music artist is far from the only factor in a hit song's success, its idiotic to think otherwise.
@@PrimeraEspadaStark ya but in the music world its a diff story. I dont hate on him for his hustle but i cant respect him as an "artist" "producer". Me myself being and artist, producer, engineer and song writter, i can tell u everytime dj khaled explains how he engineers and produces it makes zero sense. Never mentions what softwares he uses or plug ins etc. He just does hand movements and saying bs.
@fooloof he's got his name on hit record's, most of the time the only input this man actually has on a record is making a phone call to the artist, they are the people who actually make the music
Exactly. Even though I knew I could program my beats by mouse, I went out and got a MiDi cable for my old piano anyway, because I knew that that would make me lazy as a keyboardist.
Dudes about to have a heart attack from how much he likes to hear himself talk... "It takes a great producer like me" "I'm a great executive" "i'm a machine"
@@reubenb178 forreal kanye's music is true art. That entire style of music production is art like kanye and logic. That's what rap/hip hop is all about
2:47 He lost me when he called using a DAW "too easy". Granted, using the basic functionality of a DAW is objectively easy. But; you still have to be a fantastic musician to make truly original music with one of the pieces of software. They're just a brush in the hand of an artist.
Ya, but Khalid makes sense here...understanding the buisness is a whole other level...for me personally it's been way more difficult getting the music out there, then it has been to make it. Making the music really is the easy part...but making money off it? Ya that's why DJ khalid gets my respect.
Yeah lmfao. The people here claiming that the business side of music is harder then the producing side you're funny as fuck. "producing is the easy part" that's pure bullshit. If your tracks are actually good promo channels and record labels will support them, no doubt. It's as easy as that, create a banger and send it to a promo channel or label.
marvinxi15 even less promotion, probably 10%. I mean, promoting the track is important but I'm talking about promoting it yourself. Seriously, all you have to do is make a good track and send it to some networks, that's all there is to it. If none of those networks (labels, promo channels, etc) want to support the track it simply means the track sucks.
Using the daw is easy is what he meant, making beats that "sound good" are easy. What he means is that it is a skill to make it sell, and make it good.
Ant 88 If it was a skill everyone would be doing it well you mean. Because right now there's millions of people behind a screen making beats tbh and more millions of people spitting bars and writing lyrics. However those who do it well are skilled. Anyone can program an 808 bass line to make a Trap beat imo but only really skilled people can make it bouncy and sound good and fresh
Yes it's what all rappers do. But what makes it respectable is that they actually put in work and rap on those beats. DJ Khaled is just a fat slob that does nothing.
its not as black and white as you say, there are different levels of skill, my mum couldnt make even a simple beat and decent melody even if i taught her how to, people are more skilled than others, its not "his skilled and his not"
Khaled is really just an executive producer (creative director) that works with music producers and artists to develop records. It's a skill, but it's highly reliant on the the talent and skill of those that he works with. Creative direction won't get you anywhere without great creators.
It's more about quality and quantity being balanced that's why record producers are important. You can have great artists and musicians but if your music isn't professional enough to get through the public eyes most artists would just be underground or one hit wonders.
CT Youre absolutely right. and i think he gets the job done with most of the people he worked with. he does seem a bit arrogant, but being in his position, id be too
A producer's job is to see the artist's vision and, if applicable, the label's vision, through to completion. If the artist is the producer which is the case more and more nowadays, then the artist gets all the players, collaborators, beatmakers to work on their individual parts and achieve the end goal they were going after. When you get in the room in a session or camp, it's essential that you know exactly what you're there for, so that you can deliver and not step on toes or bruise anyone's ego.
So... A businessman, project manager or administrator? Because none of the qualities you stated means "musician", "music producer", "beatmaker". I idealize the composition, I trigger it on VSTs, I do the mixing, I master it. I'm only 2 months old as a producer but was a keyboarder and singer for 5 years. If all he does is "get things moving" than gimme 1 year learning the business and I can do better.
A respected executive producer : They have the money to make people's ears perk up when they call. You return their call and listen and try to work out a schedule so you can show up for interesting work and get $$$$$
interesting points ,if anyone else is searching for music production software or beat maker online try HootMusic.xyz ? Ive heard some amazing things about it and my neighbor got great success with it.
@@itsjustme4051 he said that what "beat makers" are doing is fake, it's computer generated. And hes basically calling them talentless. Then what is autotune?, Is it not computer generated?, It's way faker than what "beat makers" are doing. Atleast they know how to make beats. Artists who use autotune can't make records without the help of a computer generated voice. So if you ask me, they have alot in common.
You can't actually release a song without autotune. With everything so digital, a 100% real voice will not match, it needs to be a little digital too. That's what makes difference between a studio recorded song and live singing. Relying on it and thinking that I can sing any way I like and autotune will handle it is wrong but using a lot during the mix is important.
Start-up accelerators do the exact same thing in the entrepreneurial world. Khaled does this for music producers/artists because of his insane network and unwavering objectivity. He knows the formula and how to deliver
Khaled probably has 1000 times more beats/records played to him than the ones that actually get released. Being able to filter out the crap and then select the write artists from his network is an artform in itself
There are Producers, DJs, Beatmakers and people who do all three = Tiesto, Martin Garrix, Armin Van Buuren, Afrojack, Swedish House Mafia There are Beatmakers, there are DJs and then there is DJ Khaled
It’s hard not to sound defensive as a producer/ beat maker trying o convince people that it’s actually a very difficult and important job in the music industry.
You only a real Producer if you colobrate with the Artist in the studio overseeing the production and recording process of the finished record. I'm a real Record Producer like Quincy Jones as I work with the Artist directly but I'm also a Songwriter too as I compose the orignal music such as the beat. There are only 3 types of Producer's that exist in the Music industry, Record Producer, Executive Producer and Vocal Producer.
Using real instruments does not make you better than producers that use Logic or Fruity Loops, personally I use software like fruity loops and logic simply because I don't have the money to 'bring in' artists and instruments. Having the thought process in your head and delivering it in any way whether it is live instruments or software makes you just as talented either way
Nate Beats Facts bro. I've been making my own music for damn near 10 years. I've been using FL studio for 7 years. When I first started I was always using the basic sounds provided by FL. Once I started understanding the art of sampling and importing sounds and kits from other songs and artists, my beats got so much better. I wanted to make everything sound authentic as shit. It's not the software. It's what you do with it.
HPM Boss Uh, what? People who make beats are basically what composers are in an orchestra. Those composers dont know how to play every insturemnt in the orchestra because their job is to create a musical idea. Their job is not to be good at instruments.
Skip Last ok sorry yo burst your bubble but most composers know how yo play half or a little more than half of the instruments...composers are master's of music most composers have to study everything music including a primary and secondary instrument...also to get your degree you have yo know how to play the diff mouth positions and fingering of instruments which is why I get so upset for real composers who don't get there credit for there work
ricky truth. Be. Told. It's not always just having the best sounding samples and the realist plugins. Figuring out your own style with basic sounds will open your personal gates to becoming great. Building a foundation and an understanding of how you lay the best down is all personal.
For all the non producers who are just on here commenting, let me break it down. Traditionally a producer was the person that took a song that a songwriter and composer made and then turned it into radio ready music. They didn’t make the beat or write the lyrics, they oversaw the recording of the song by the artist, made sure the musicians recorded the best takes, made sure the sound was good and that the record with be viable to radio. Quincy Jones didn’t make any “beats” for “Thriller”. He oversaw the process, gathered the best demos and presented then to Michael. He then called in session musicians to take that demo and turn it into a radio viable product. He is still considered the producer of that album however, even though he didn’t make not 1 beat on the album. Overtime people have confused the role of producer and composer. Now mind you that now days sometimes the producer is the composer/beatmaker. But just because you are one doesn’t mean you are the other.
Lmfao, no kidding. Anyone with a good taste would take Storch over Khaled. Storch has made a huge impact on music and his beats are million times memorable compared to Khaled.
1000000000% FACTS right there. Funny because Scott Storch also uses software and plugins. He doesn't realize that these plugins recreate real instrument sounds almost to the TEE.
How is he not humble when you literally hear him giving love to everyone on his time in the video??? He's giving credit to everyone and somehow he isn't humble???
Daniel Dini Thank you. This dude is good, but no where near the level of Dre or Scott. Fuck that pretentious behaviour. Fine that you make your money, but don't give titles to yourself. Those are given not taken.
I feel you, but like he said in this interview... If all of this was "SO EASY"....then why isn't everyone else doing it?! Why aren't they (or even you for that matter) making hit records as well?? Why isn't everyone else doing the same thing 🤔..
"Quincy Jones didn't play an instrument on thriller".... Yeah but he let the true artists take the credit! He didn't name his tracks "Quincy Jones ft. Michael Jackson - Thriller"
Quincy Jones is a real Producer not an Artist or Musican. Not all Record Producer's Co-Writes the music or have anything making beats, esp in Jazz, Classical and Rock genres. Beyonce Knowles is also an acting role Vocal Producer and Executive Producer as she Co-Produced the entire Destiny Child Survivor album.
@@Stryke2wice Quincy Jones doesn't write songs. He's a Record Producer the director, Overseer, Arranger. He didn't write the music for Michael Jackson. He hired session musicians and he orchestrates the whole thing.
@@cjstringfield He may play instruments but he wasn't a contributing Songwriter any of Michael Jackson records. He's only credited as a Producer. Record Producer's that contributed as a Co-Writer receive Songwriting credits with their Production credits rather you wrote the music or lyrics.
Facts. Even Dre's said that artists themselves are the ones who take the direction with the songs. Artists are the ones who turns songs into a hit. The beat can be a banger, but if you have shitty lyrics and a shitty hook, no one's gonna mess with it.
Look at it this way,,in the acting industry, a script writer might have a good storyline, and an actor might have all the good acting skills. But for the two talents to merge, a director has to come in to create the vibration/the feel in the story..DJ Khaled is this director, in the music industry, merging the technical skills of the beat maker with the lyrics/sound of the singer to create a certain vibration and that's why he creates hits. I respect his craft👌🙌💯
@fooloof fr tho. He's also not saying like he's the greatest producer on earth and throwing shit on others in the game, he just claims that he's great and what about that? Is it bad if we feel great on what we do? I don't think so
People need to understand that DJ Khaled is an 'Executive' Producer now. He is a modern day Berry Gordy just like the Motown days. He paid his early studio' dues and elevated to this status in the game. Not many people can say they have done that. One only needs to watch him sit down and discuss his 'vision' with the likes of DJ Premier, Nas, Scarface and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League,...then watch them breathe life into that vision. Hence, masterpieces like the incredible track 'Hip Hop'. Khaled had the 'vision' to create that joint and put together an epic team to create it. Think about this: If you have ever been to a Subway restaurant for a sandwich, all of the ingredients are laid out in front of you and you have an 'idea' of how you want that sandwich to look and taste based on how it's put together. You tell the preparer and they give you what you want. Right? Khaled is like the customer instructing the preparer on how to craft and fine tune his vision for that particular sandwich. (The only difference is,...he can afford to secure the restaurant and bring in his 'own' team of sandwich artists based on their experience and talent to create a masterpiece). Executive producers have done this for years. Berry, and Quincy Jones for example. Quincy Jones' albums - 'The Dude', 'Back On The Block' and 'Stomp' brought together some of the best artists and musicians the world has ever known. Fast forward, Now you have cats like Diddy, Timbaland. Dr. Dre,...etc. Even Warren G admits to bringing in other individuals to add elements to projects and bring them to life. That is a real producer's 'full' job. Anyone who has ever played, sang, co-produced, or shared in DJ Khaled's music vision should be honored to have been a part of it.You may not care for his constant public presence or his voice repeatedly being laced throughout a track that he's responsible for putting together, but he has earned the right and there is no denying his mental vision and the means to make them come to life.Peace
Jonathan Villalobos Hell yea , Dj shadow, MF doom, Aim, alchemist, Jdilla. There are so many underground artist that can walk this dude harder than arab muzik at a contest.
Jobs organized great minds and ideas together, but Wozniak was the brains and 'talent' behind the machine. Could Jobs have created what he did without the help of so many brilliant minds? Could Khaled create a hit without someone else's ready-made beat? Doubtful.
@@jonyshelby while agree with your point about how useless steve jobs was, i disagree with the idea he organized anything. the man was a mess. an insecure child of a man who left apple with a bad business model. and i think its fair to say apple would have existed without him and probably would have been much better. and i believe for Khalid and the peoples music he steals it is more like what a fast food manager is to his mcdonalds. essentially a pyramid scheme that benefits very little people but we tolerate because of convenience.
"You want a hit record, come see me" Nah, I'd rather make something myself on a DAW because it'll be mine, shit or not. Poisonous people like this is why there's so much rubbish that sounds like 100 other records from their marketing dept. Chasing fame has nothing to do with good music.
Well said. You trust them, you become dependant and stuck on your level. And when you split with them, they take all the credit and go "I made that fool. He used to sit on the couch and wait for me to finish his entire song" and as you weren't really part of the production, you have to get on someone else's shoulder to keep releasing, and that's pathetic as an artist. You're supposed to do your own thing.
Absolutely mate! Well said. The way he likes to make music is the one that makes all the current music sound the same crap. Sound quality is important and we all know that, but it's not more important than originality and fresh ideas.
Its one thing to feel like you can do it all by yourself, its another thing to realize that other people have something that you miss. DJ Khaled is real!
Not going to lie, you gotta love DJ Khaled's energy! Gosh, so many quotable lines from this interview. So much to choose from to make memes out of lol haha
exactly, you still have to program the computer to produce the sounds, arrange, refine it and mix it together. not any different than anyone using hardware like mpc or someone processing the music through analog mixers
This topic needs to be talked about more. A lot of people don’t understand theirs a difference between producers, engineers and beat makers. A sound engineer is basically the “producer”, they are the ones that arrange and balance the vocals and other instruments. A beat maker simply just makes the beat and sometime the beat makers don’t even be having a good mix and master on their original beat. You still have to tweak the beat to get the bass hitting more harder while staying clean or get the snare to hit a little more harder while staying clean. That comes from the engineer aka producer making tweaks and adjustments to the beat to fit the artists voice. Which is way more complicated than programming a loop. I just don’t like when people who are just simply “beat makers” call themselves producers. It takes wayy more than just making a beat to be considered a producer. Dj Khaled the goat for sure.
Joseph Cordova no Khalid legit do make some of his beats his self or he collab with another carmaker or he will literally go to cool n see and hum exactly what he wants them to play Khalid uses mpc he is not a pianist so he can't do key work but if your humming what you want someone to play it's the same as playing it
still requires talent. it is probably the equivalent to a movie director. the movie director doesn’t act, doesn’t create the special effects, and in a lot of cases doesn’t even write the movie script, but he puts everything together and makes sure the overall project is good, so khaled does the same with music records
That's what Pharrell Williams does when he's in the studio working with the Vocalist. A Record Producer is there to help the Artist get the best vocal peformance. The Producer may assist the Vocalist in the song lyrical writing process.
Bro. An Arranger is some one that composes the musical notation arrangment for an instrument around an existing composition that was written by some one else. Think of String Arranger Larry Gold and a 62 piece string section. A Record Producer on the other hand , supervises , directs and controls the recording sessions. They hire, Session Musicans, Arrangers, Composer, Songwriters, Vocalisit etc. They provide a musical insight to the Artist, Musican and Engineer in the studio like Quincy Jones.
I’m not sure if you know what you are talking about ? He is just a weird personality, he is a great beat artist and producer. We are lucky he is in the industry? Fortnite kid
DJ Khaled style of music is catchy but simple. Just because you have hit records and that doesn't mean your music as a producer or Beatmaker is great. Whenever you see people's "Top 5s" you will never see this guy's name on the list. Producers that are great are names such as Madlib, J Dilla, RZA, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, DR Dre, Timbaland, Kanye and the list goes on.
People don’t get that they think becuase a song is a hit that makes you great and it doesn’t it just means listeners have shit taste in music and will listen to anything they out in a radio cardi b is a perfect example and now lil nas with that country shit
Yeah basically some shmuck does all the hard creative work, give him the beat and then he rearranges it and puts his name on it. Chancers like this clown are what killed real hip hop and rap.
