Beat This! Beat This! Competition - September 23-24, 2026

Fade

The Beat Strangler
Administrator
The next competition will be from September 23-24th! See the information below.

Signups

The signups will be on September 23rd at 12pm ET, and end around 8pm ET, or until we have enough contestants (whichever comes first - depending on the theme).
Voting will be for one day, on September 24th from 8am to 7pm ET.

Check out the Beat This! ranks:
https://www.illmuzik.com/beat-battles/ranks/cat/bthis/

*Note: check out https://everytimezone.com to find out the correct time difference for your timezone.

The Signup page is here (it will open up on the signup day)

Theme: SAD
Time Limit: 2 minutes
*Vocal Track Allowed?: NO

**Vocal Snippets Allowed?: YES

  • You must make a "sad" beat!
  • Think of something melodic, sad, soulful, etc. but not too depressing!

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* VOCAL TRACK ALLOWED? This means you can have a full vocal track with your beat (acapella, for example).
** VOCAL SNIPPETS ALLOWED? This means you can have vocal snippets in your beat (very short vocal parts, for example). This is where you can also have an intro with talking (like from a movie).
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*** NO AI GENERATED BEATS! ***

Voting


If you are competing, you will be able to vote but not for yourself. DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT! I will be watching for cheaters. This means you cannot sign up under different names or get your friends and family to sign up either. If you are caught cheating you could be banned.

Voting Criteria

You can use whatever sounds you want, samples, synths, just remember to read the rules for the rest of the restrictions. What the judges will be looking for is originality, creativity, mixing skills and overall dopeness!

Beats

All the beats will now be displayed in a random order and without any names. All you will see is: Beat #001, Beat #002, etc. This is so that there is no favoritism when voting.

Rules

If you're not sure about the rules, read this thread.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the competition, please post them in here.

*** Special shoutout to @crog85 hooking us up with the sick new graphics for the battles! ***

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attila

ILLIEN
good job @crog85 ! - I have a sad beat I prepared for Battle That! (Sadly it has not the quality of a Beat This! Who knows, maybe I'll be able to make another one from the 23rd now.) I can’t get over the funny fact that @Fade was so concerned about recommending that the beats not be too depressing!
 
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Iron Keys

ILLIEN MBAPPÉ
I have a sad beat I prepared for Battle That! (Sadly it has not the quality of a Beat This!
Surely a Battle That quality beat is higher than a Beat This.


I can’t get over the funny fact that @Fade was so concerned about recommending that the beats not be too depressing!
Same here
Fade was like "I want it to call upon a tear to roll down my cheek... but I still want to be able to wank while it does it."
 

attila

ILLIEN
Surely a Battle That quality beat is higher than a Beat This.



Same here
Fade was like "I want it to call upon a tear to roll down my cheek... but I still want to be able to wank while it does it."
Yeah, I know a Battle That! quality beat has to be higher than a Beat This!. In fact, the beat isn’t even good enough for a Battle That!, but I didn’t mean that it was bad (although, well, it’s not exactly a masterpiece either). I meant that it’s not the kind, the type of beat that wins.
 

Iron Keys

ILLIEN MBAPPÉ
Yeah, I know a Battle That! quality beat has to be higher than a Beat This!. In fact, the beat isn’t even good enough for a Battle That!, but I didn’t mean that it was bad (although, well, it’s not exactly a masterpiece either). I meant that it’s not the kind, the type of beat that wins.
I hear that.
 

Fade

The Beat Strangler
Administrator
I'm just thinking some might make a beat that's super slow and melodic and forget it's supposed to be a Hip Hop beat!

Technically, "sad" could be uptempo. Think about Country music like "Well my dog just died and my pickup broke down / My wife left me at the rodeo for a clown". To me that's sad.
 
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