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  1. nikwen

    Greetings

    Welcome to IllMuzik, @AncientRelic!
  2. nikwen

    Ideas for preventing our beats getting stolen

    Interesting. Thanks for sharing! Good point! (y)
  3. nikwen

    Showcase - November 15-21, 2021

    Nice! I always forget about club bangers. I think this could work. The beat has a lot of energy. I was worried that it might have too much energy for a rapper to hop onto it, but that's not the case if it's a club banger. I like your thinking. (y)
  4. nikwen

    What up everyone

    Welcome! Always love beats with orchestral elements in them. We need more of those!
  5. nikwen

    Showcase - November 15-21, 2021

    Hey, I know that video design! Check out today's update, my man! The trumpet is really nice! Interesting vocal sample.
  6. nikwen

    Showcase - November 15-21, 2021

    Interesting! Electronic sounds with a very funky vibe. Who's the target audience of the beat? Is it for a singer/rapper or is it supposed to be played as a standalone song in clubs?
  7. nikwen

    Showcase - November 15-21, 2021

    Love orchestral strings! Super cool, man! The vocal sample is also really nice. Great composition overall! (y)
  8. nikwen

    Ideas for preventing our beats getting stolen

    Saw an interesting post on Reddit yesterday where a guy got his beat stolen and the song in question went #1 in the charts: There's also the following line of thought: By making your own beats "uglier" by adding an IllMuzik tag to every verse and every chorus, you might protect them from...
  9. nikwen

    Hey New Here

    Welcome, fellow German! Hope you enjoy your stay on IllMuzik! :)
  10. nikwen

    Brand New Here!

    Welcome here! Love your dream of becoming a mixing engineer. Hope the training is going well. :)
  11. nikwen

    Showcase - October 11-17, 2021

    Cool one! Really pulls you in emotionally. When freestyling, I found it to be a lot slower than most beats and I would have found it easier to rap to if it were a bit faster. Really liked the cinematic melody.
  12. nikwen

    Showcase - October 11-17, 2021

    This one is calmer and more minimalist. That makes it easier for a vocalist to hop onto it. Was fun freestyling on that!
  13. nikwen

    Showcase - October 11-17, 2021

    A lot going on here. Vocal samples (really cool ones!) over really wild drums and synth sounds. At this point it feels like a whole song on its own. I'm not sure if there's still any space for a vocalist/rapper to fill. As a song, it's really cool!
  14. nikwen

    G.O.A.T. Ghostwriter in the Building

    To be honest, I find it easier to come up with stuff while freestyling than when sitting down to write lyrics. But that's also because 4 bars are enough to make me go "wow" during a freestyle. Someone suggested to me yesterday to just write a rough (and imperfect) draft quickly and refine it...
  15. nikwen

    G.O.A.T. Ghostwriter in the Building

    Subreddits like https://www.reddit.com/r/HipHopCollabs/ or @OGBama's https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/? Maybe @OGBama even knows some rappers who might be interested.
  16. nikwen

    G.O.A.T. Ghostwriter in the Building

    Thanks for the offer! Right now, I'm not really looking to hire a ghostwriter. The challenge for me is mostly to make sure that the flow feels good, i.e. that the right syllables hit on the beat and that the accentuation feels natural. Or to let Eminem describe it: Do you have any tips for that?
  17. nikwen

    G.O.A.T. Ghostwriter in the Building

    Props to you, @IceBerg High! I enjoy rapping but I find writing so. damn. exhausting. and. hard. I enjoy rapping other people's songs and going freestyle. That helps me relax. But writing? That's hard and the opposite of relaxing. Man, hats off to you!
  18. nikwen

    Showcase - October 11-17, 2021

    That sampled vocal line is really cool! You probably heavily modified it, right? I like it! Also enough space for the rapper on this track. It's got the ILL-typical old-school vibe, and I think it's one of the rare tracks that could serve as both a rap beat and a lofi-style background track for...
  19. nikwen

    Showcase - October 11-17, 2021

    Super old-school. I guess you'll have a lot of fans with that on ILL. Super cool track overall. Sounded a bit vintage and muddy sometimes. I guess that was intended, though, and really fits the old-school vibe. Not what I'd pick in a beat but I guess it has its fans. The melody / the chords...
  20. nikwen

    Showcase - October 4-10, 2021

    Respect, man! Can you do that freestyle, too, or just written lyrics? Awesome! I like it when people blend genres and combine different influences. That makes stuff interesting!
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