Future's Producer on How to Earn 30k/Month Without a Following |  

I've noticed some of the bangers take a minute, either way I'm happy to add value to the community

@@DillyDGIB yeah im having similar realisations with my channel too. i relate & wish you the best

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Yeah KXVI's cancelled for that 😂

jk we filmed it in December

Who cares 🤦🏼‍♂️ if he want a Christmas three is the house he is allowed.

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Amazing to hear, thanks for watching!

Thanks bro!

What's up Sharif! Yeah in person, is definitely better. May have to do a few video chats down the road, but I'll do in person as often as possible

Love to hear it! That's the goal 🔥

On the real they are the new age godfather producers 💪🔥

Thanks bro!

What platforms do you rely on to promote your site and how much do you spend per month in promotion

@@obhbeats Like $1k a month in beatstars promo, but promo is only a good idea if you have something working to promo it too imo

Beatstars promo btw

Yessir!

Ayye appreciate it, I won't let you down! Got tons of high value stuff coming soon!

You're the man!

Thanks, new video coming next week!

Yessir, thanks for the edit bro, you killed it once again!

Legend 🔥

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Shoutout to Cedes, that's a crazy beat

Thanks bro! Means a lot

No problem, thanks for watching!

Yessir, become the source!

Hilarious :))

Agreed! KXVI's work ethic and strategy inspires me too

Facts!

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Yessir! It’s in the agreement when you purchase a pack, any major label release required credits and splits. It’s royalty free for online stuff

@@DillyDGIB That's incredible! Thank you so much for your response to this. Is there somewhere you can get a template for an agreement like this? Maybe beat-selling platforms like Beatstars?

Technically you own the copyright when you create something. No need to register, if you have proof you created you'll win in court, the process may be a pain, but you'll win. I know plenty of producers who have successfully won when someone stole there work

Put your producer tag at start of song, that's how

I just use his beats, their hard af. I hit him up about it

haha thanks you legend 🔥

definitely for connections but these days u dont need college for music production you can learn anything online

It could be a good route, there's pros and cons to everything. That wasn't a part of Kxvi's or my path, so we don't speak on it, but tons of successful musicians have gone to music school and met people. Different strokes for different folks

I think doing that would be a horrible idea all of the countless hours wasted having to deal with college you could become one of the greatest producers in the world if you put your time in and actually understand producing music on YOUR OWN. The greats don’t copy/learn from 1 person/institution.

@John D the thing is you should not be doing anything to make money. If you’re going to produce music you should be doing it because you want to be the greatest music producer in the world and the money should just be secondary if you’re doing it to make money then you are a trash human being and you don’t deserve any money. Or, rather, I should say, if your initial/only purpose for producing music was just to make money if you find yourself only producing music to make money but initially you wanted to do it out of a passion now that makes sense. And yeah, I agree with you. It is 100% about connections this dude got extremely lucky and the worlds best music producers that you find on SoundCloud that have been producing for over a decade make almost no money unfortunately, going into the future all music producers are going to go extinct because of AI and this applies to all artists in every profession. It was a good idea to start producing maybe a decade ago, in terms of making money but for people watching this video and thinking they can just start producing music and make money without getting lucky or having connections. Yeah that’s not happening. Even the lucky ones might be making 1000 bucks a month but they are putting in over 100-200 hours just to make 1000 bucks and making less than minimum wage. Don’t do anything just for the money screw the money money is a nice bonus. The only thing that matters is the glory and being a legend. Fame/money is wack.

@@DillyDGIB definitely agreed!

Quick answer: It's possible but very hard. One is very difficult to do well, two seems extra difficult, but I've seen it done

@@DillyDGIB thanks man, appreciate it.

@@DillyDGIB what about one channel, alternating two different type beats that are different but similar. I’ve read that being consistent with two can work but do you think it’s better to stick with a single artist for a while?

@@daslukebeats I would say, are the fans of one also a fan of the other, if it's a "maybe" or "could be" i would say it's unlikely, if it's a for sure, then go for it.

@@DillyDGIB that's a good point, totally makes sense! thanks again.

I think it's producers getting frustrated and discouraged by not having crazy results in the beginning, it takes longer than people think. But just make sure there is some growth going on. It depends, you should see at least SOME growth month 1, but that could be an extra 10 views per type beat

@@DillyDGIB appreciate the response🙏 managed to make my first sale yesterday. You’re a huge inspiration man

Falling for plug-in scams tbh. If it sounds good it sounds good will always be true

not having good music

That’s not KXVI’s main source of income, he gets $ from collaborating and he only makes as much as his collab beats sell to artists. His collabs are worth nothing if artists don’t buy the collab beats

Then he does sell to producers through his store as well. He does both

Gotcha but he's trying to make selling like loops the main focus it seems

@@Sjdngncomr fair, It's a good business for him and I think that's his goals in the future. I don't think there's any problem with that he's proven to have very effective samples that artist want to use. What are your thoughts?

@@DillyDGIB same game as selling beats to artists or making an instrument for someone to play! Nothing but respect!

If you can prove you can always lawyer up and get your $, sometimes the lawyer fees eat up the advance, but at least you get the credit and the placement and now have an opportunity for a relationship with the artist it got placed. But 90% of people do business honestly anyways. The people with low integrity don't last long imo

@@DillyDGIB yeah what he said if the artist isn’t huge the advance is going straight to lawyer to get you a contract or get your contract read, but the publishing you keep acquiring will be worth it in the end.

I know Tm88 and Sizzle personally we all do sample flippin but if y’all want to be heard just be Original

​@@BlockBallerRecords Good advice bro, be unioque, consistent and dope af and you'll get noticed eventually

@@tamatea_ I think there is a misunderstanding, if it's labeled as free then it's free, producers can't come back later and ask for $ after they gave something away, but they can advertise their catalog of different beats after they've built a relationship by giving out free stuff

Cedes made the beat, it's a banger

@@DillyDGIB the song is my fav from him

A loop is the chords/melody without any drums, so producers often send loops to each other to collaborate. one producer might send (or sell) a "loop kit" which is a pack of samples/loops that they created. Then the other producer would bring it into their DAW, add drums + bass, etc. and structure it in a way to create a full instrumental.

@@ProdChikara oh damn. That’s funny, I used to be heavy into making beats, but I was never good at drums, 808’s, snares, or high hats, so I always just made 3 minutes of basically a piano, synths, and other melodical stuff, to where it WOULD be a full beat if you added the stuff I wasn’t good at. So I was actually just making loops this whole time?

Gotta be respectful haha, KXVI keeps his place nice

I don't think I'll be able to help you directly, but have you checked out Stripe? I know Abe from beatstars is working on getting payment processing internationally, he was talking about it in our podcast. Just work on beats and marketing, it's coming from what I hear. Also there's probably some alternative you may have to be creative

Well ask some one else to create a paypal account for u from somewhere else

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Depends on how focused you’ve been in those 2 years. 2 years in I certainly wasn’t making that much. It took me about 3-4 to start earning that

@@DillyDGIB okay thank you. i’d say i’ve working on making beats 3 hrs a day at least and networks atleast another hour or 2

Both! His big income so far in his career has been collaborating on beats that get sold

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Always room for the best, imo it will just raise the level of everyones quality because it's now more competitive. People have to make better ideas to stand out. Like KXVI can't do what he could in 2020 to land collabs, he has to work with musicians, vocalists, have better ideas etc.

Nobody watching this 😭 Most are just wasting their time away on TikTok

Yes. Everytime I've seen someone expose their exact technique that made them money, market supply and saturation quickly followed.

lillee, my girl hahahah

@@prodkxvi ohhhh that’s your spot not Dilly’s, their names rhyme though

They keep saying loop, so I'm assuming it's like a 32 / 64 bar loop

Could be either. Probably 16 bars minimum. But really just an idea that could be turned into a dope beat. That usually means at least an a section, b section, intro/outro

Appreciate the replies fellas

What's up, you make the beat, you post it to beatstars and put a tag on it, and then sell the untagged version with a license to use it.

@@DillyDGIB thanks for the reply man!

You can't have more than 8 tracks on ableton? I can, you just create new tracks, right?

@@DillyDGIB yeah but it stops at 8 tracks and says that you can’t have more than that

it'll be at Loopstash.com in the future, I'm sure, right now it's on KXVI's hard drive and in his email

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I don't think so, say you do pop music do the same thing in that lane and connect with bigger producers who are making sales/getting placements by adding value and grow your network that

@@DillyDGIB electronic/house?

i feel this. I produce in the electronic genre (specifically jersey club and deconstructed club music, as well as house/techno) but i'm not just producing, as i also DJ. This information confuses me as someone who aspires to break through in the producer/DJ world of electronic music rather than "strictly music producer sending loops and wanting to get artist placements"

I don't want to put anyone's personal stuff out that didn't volunteer it themselves, but you'd be surprised on how many grammy award winning producers are doing wayyyyy less than that

@@DillyDGIB crazy. They really should have an agency negotiating for them or something (wink wink)

@@DillyDGIB I say everything with respect of course. There are however producers out there with 1/10th the talent who are making 7 figures from sales funnels selling to mostly aspiring artists. To have your name in the “prod by” section of a hit song is very Googleable… I’ve wanted to partner up with artists on the above for a while but don’t have the industry connections.

​@@justinl1743 For sure I didn't see anything as disrespectful, and I agree with that completely I definitely don't think musical ability/talent=financial success. It's weird, but that's the world we seem to live in

How so? I think he’s just collaborating and working on adding value, also his stuff is dope af imo. It’s not like he’s teaching people how to make $ with garbage beats

@@DillyDGIB I agree. I wasn't trying to make a direct comparison of what he is doing compared to a pyramid scheme, it was something about how he talked about it reminded me of how people in a pyramid scheme or MLM talk about their business. With my personal experiences the thought gave me a chuckle. I imagined something like Monat but with drum loops and chord packs. Imagine inviting friends and family over to a "beat party" trying to get them to buy your beats. 😅

not with that attitude

@@johnd8084the chances of you being born slim to none the chances of you being born in a time period where you can make music on a laptop slim to none the chances of you making several decisions which led to this very comment under this video? slim to none. millions make a living off a music. i’ll come back to this comment when i’m up. i sold two 30$ beats at random with no promotion most people don’t sell any ever it was a slim to none chance according to you.

Not true, did you hear his samples? That takes a lot of work, also what about the breakdown at the end. We were both excited about that. Numbers are a metric that reflects your marketing, networking and entrepreneurship abilities, so that’s also important to us. We care about both