How to Work with Hiphop Producers

Whassup to all my readers?

Today's blog is for all of my aspiring artists, particularly the emcees. I came across a dope interview with 9th Wonder and Dirty Angel. Here is the link if you want to read the full interview:

http://insomniacmagazine.com/interviews/9th-wonder-interview-by-dirty-angel/#comment-1012

Basically, you can tell 9th is a true professional by some of his statements. Never mind all of his accomplishments and the A-list artist he's worked with to record music.

Dirty Angel asked 9th what qualities a great producer must have. Here is his response:

"Direction of the song, man; to take full control of the song. I know a lot of rappers might not like this, but (a producer should) tell them the way a rapper should rap, dawg. That’s very, very important. But one thing I really commend Kanye West on when it comes to these Common records (is) that… you can hear him giving Common the flow on these records.

"On (Common’s song) “The Corner”… (9th mimics a few lyrics from the song) That’s a Kanye West flow. But, that doesn’t take anything away from Common; it takes an emcee to relinquish his power to a producer like that to do that. Tell the rapper, “Nah, say that over, man, that ain’t right.” You know, stuff like that is very important when it comes to making beats, especially in the world of hip-hop.

"That’s some of the rules we have that a lot of other genres of music don’t have, man. And you know it’s hard to break that down to another genre of music but I guess you just got to be in it, you know what I’m sayin’?"

9th hit it right on the head. As an artist I have worked with many Hiphop producers and the good one's are actually like coaches. The producer and/or recording engineer and the artist work hand-in-hand when recording to make the song sound the best that it can.

Keep that in mind when you are recording. Just because a producer can make some hot beats and instrumentals does not mean he is the good at bringing the best out of the artist that rhymes over the track.

If a producer has the guts to tell you the verse you just spit into the mic was wack and you should try it another way, try it his way. This means he cares about putting out quality music and really you should too!

As always, I welcome your comments. You can post them here or hit me at mello@free-hot-rap.com.

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