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Create A Distinct Rap Style With an Original R&B Beat

Jan05
2011 Written by admin

Everybody knows what an R&B beat is, right? But that question is not as simple as it might at first seem. Really, when most people think of an R&B beat they think of bears that R&B performers sing to. And to a certain extent this is true, it’s certainly true today, but if you go back twenty, or more like thirty to fifty years the term “R&B” had an entirely different meaning. At that time an R&B beat would have meant rhythm and blues. In other words R&B was sung and played. They had guitars and riffs and steady bass lines that predate the bass lines in either rap or in current R&B beats today.

The point, and why this has a bearing on rap at all, is that rap has always been founded upon sampling and taking from different styles and beats. At one point Jay Z even sampled the rock and roll band the Doors for his song “The Takeover.” What the sample does in essence is to give an entirely fresh sound to the music. One day dirty south rappers seem to dominate the industry and the next 50 Cent dominates with a gritty New York sound. At the moment it’s hard to say exactly what style is in ascendancy and which is on the decline, but it’s certain that few rappers are really going to rap to the original style of R&B beats.

To do so would be too much of a departure from their normal styles and it might not sell, or it might not sound good, but this thinking is too negative and accepts things as they are without trying to change them and to profit from their change. With practice a good rapper could put together a tight flow over an R&B beat. The beat would not detract from the rapper especially if the rapper is good at what he is doing. In fact the beat, if chosen well, might even make someone perk up and listen, especially since the sound would catch them for its difference.

So much of rap today sounds the same. Everyone so often sounds the same that it’s a good idea to break away from the herd and craft a style that’s unique to you. Now of course rapping to an R&B beat won’t actually change the music, it will still be rap, but if done well it will have a familiar sound with a difference, and it’s the difference that is the key to making a name. If you are only going to follow what the pack is doing and never step outside and make your own way and try to craft your own style, then no one is going to take notice. One of the first ways that you can experiment with a new sound is to work with new styles of beat that you would have never in you life chosen before. By branching out in this way and rapping to R&B beats you can begin to craft a sound that is wholly you and entirely unique.

R&B Beats

Oct08
2010 Written by admin

Don’t Forget the R&B Beats

Year after year the hottest songs on the street are R&B songs with smooth R&B beats. Don’t get left out from putting together a slick track either because you didn’t think to put your flow to an R&B beat or because of some prejudice against R&B beats.  Every hip hop album has got to have at least one track over an R&B beat with an R&B hook. But not only is this true, you should want to put a flow down over an R&B beat because this can be the hottest song on the whole record. The R&B beat you rap to just might bring the exposure to your music that you’ve been looking for.

Don’t forget to put at least one flow down to an R&B beat. This might be the best way to reach an audience you never knew was out there for your music. What we mean is that females make up well over 50% of the hip hop audience. And while they listen to the odd hard rap or lyrical hip hop masterpiece you are going to have to put something down that is specifically for females. The best way to do this is with a rap to an R&B beat. Even 50 Cent has got tracks with R&B beats and R&B hooks. Even Method Man came out on his first album with a straight R&B track that helped launch him to one of the most popular rappers of all time. And of course that track with Mary J. is still one of the hottest songs ever by a rapper. And that was almost 20 years ago. Just don’t underestimate R&B beats.

If you are going to rap to an R&B beat, you can’t just rap to the first R&B beat you come time on the ClickBeats site, you have to spend your time going through the whole inventory of R&B beats and decide which beats are best for you and put your flow down to them. Some of the R&B beats are beats with hooks and other R&B beats are not, but you have to decide which type is going to work for you. In other words, you are going to have to decide which R&B beats you can work best with. The only way to pull this off is to spend time flowing over a bunch of different R&B beats and get a feel for what is working and what is not. Maybe you like one of the R&B beats with hooks that you hear. If that’s the case then you are going to have to make sure that your lyrics at least somewhat acknowledge what the hook is saying. In this way the song that you create will sound like a polished whole product rather than a jumble, where you just strung together a hot beat with a catchy hook and rap that sounded alright.

ClickBeats has the R&B beat that will work for your diverse style.  And the R&B beat that you settle on just might help you craft the sound that will put you over the top and get the exposure as an artist that you deserve.