You dont need to be signed, most producer's are freelance, lable's come to us, if you have a good rep. for producing hits out of anyone (Dre,KWest,Neptunes) a lable will pay money to produce an amount of tracks. producers make artist better, if you cant, you should'nt produce, and no one will come to you, you should get a book about the music industry (dont read books with titles like "101 things to know about music industry") their like picture books compared to educational books relating to music industry law's and bussiness, you'll have to dig at a university to find sum, think of as digging for records