Originally Posted by KingAsher

No shit, see, I'm not a producer, but one of my best buddies, is, and I use to hang out in his studio and just listen to him make beats and give him input on what I thought sounded good and what didn't sound good. The craziest thing about that is one day we were fuckin with this "Los Angeles Negros" sample, for one reason or another we decided that it would sound really good if he put a Biggie quote at the intro of the song. And so we sat down picked one out and it sounded pretty dope. We thought nothing of the beat, that was until my buddies friend who was an A & R at Capitol, whom I'm also friends with as well, called him up and told that the Los Angeles Negros beat was going to be on the Jay-Z black album. And the rest is history. A little off topic, but interesting nontheless.....

Anyhow, it just bugs me to see these guys makin those keyboard beats, spending 30 minutes to an hour on it, and making millions. Now I understand, that if you find a really hot sample, you can just loop and hope that nobody is the wiser, but that happens once in a blue moon.....

My homie, is actually trying to do the exact opposite of you and that is get into the keyboard beats, since thats where the real money's at. But the thing is, is he has been making sampled beats, with several layers of keyboard off the motiff forever, and to be honest his keyboard beats aren't sounding too hot.But I'm sure he'll develope like he did with the MPC.....