why music???

[SpLitPerSonaliT]

I've wanted to find out why producers, rappers, beat makers djs and all artists in on this site want to do what they do. Do you remember how and why you got started, what was that first thing that made you say i wanna do this shit..

Me personally, it started when my older cuzin who when i was young was my role model, he got himself some turntables, then i got some and then i started to notice the instrumental versions of the records i'd buy and me and my friends started writing raps to them so i effentually bought a little 4 track recorder and a crappy mic, then said fuck it why rap on these beats when i could make my own so i bought a groove box.. and jus got more serious and kept upgrading my set up and now next year i'm goin to a sound arts college...

i'm interested in hearin how and why you all got started
peace

 

[Cleverwon]

My parents always had me taking music lessons: guitar, bass, piano.... Always had music in me. I used to make beats when I was like 9 on a fuckin cheap ass yamaha keybord. As I got older it just seemed natural to want to do hip hop. Then when I was like 19 (around when puffy's 80's beats were big) I was digusted at the direction hip hop was taking. So I just said fuck it. I'll do the music I want to hear because these niggas werent doing it.

 

[tricky spinz]

my friend is a producer and he kinda got me into it. i tried to score a free version of reason and shit, but could never get it to work. so i was just gonna leave it be and forget about it, but then my parents bought me reason for my birthday. and i've been lovin it ever since

 

[pancakebunnny]

I got started producing around 9th grade in high school... My brother owned a recording studio at the time. I loved hip-hop, he had the studio... Unfortunately, I wasn't THAT interested in producing hip-hop, just listening to it. About the time that I started getting feedback (mostly negative), I decided that I would step up and make some real music. At first, it was so I could get good responses, not just, "What is that? An Elevator beat??" Now, I don't care if people like it, because I refuse to produce bubble-gum hip-pop anyway.

 

[boneyboys]

I started singing in a band and got bored of having bugger all musical to do outside of it so I got a tracker to make some hilarious hip-hop with a friend (I'll show you all that one day when it's all finished up) and sorta got into it from there

 

[Ash Holmz]

man ive always been into singing .. been singing since i was little .. then started rapping and writing .. and basically i got sikk of rapping over other peoples beats .. so i was inspired to create my own becuz i always had my own vision of sound... and similiar to clevrwon i was unhappy with what hip hop is becoming so I try to make muzik that satifies me ... the dilema is that once u start producing your are NEVER satisfied .. even the hottest muzik could always be hotter

 

[Equality 7-2521]

always loved hiphop. just wanted to be a part of the culture n shit. and i had lots of creativity built up in me that school wouldnt let me express so i quit school and started spilling it. basiclaly music s a food for my soul. thats why i like it.

 

[ART MPC 4000]

Music Makes My Heart Race. When I Hear That Hot Siht It Just Makes Me Wanna Go Home And Just Make Something Better Than What I Just Herd. I Remember The First Time I Herd: Shook Ones Pt. 2 I Listened To That Song 15 Times It Was That Hot (the Beat Was).

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

Been Producing Since 1998 (12 years old)

Great topic :thumb:

My story: coming from a rather musical family (my father undergone conservatory musical training + he's a die hard jazz collector), i have always been exposed to music (especially jazz\funk\soul\disco). i had been taking piano lessons since i was very young, but i have never liked it. i couldn't (and still can't) stand the idea of playing other people's music. i have always strived to create my own sounds, and that's why i had soon been exposed to various software programs. i had put a lot of effort and time into the whole learning curve (remember, there was no internet and not one person to consult with). i was on my own, inside the jungle, but i was determined to survive and find my path.
so, basically, i have been producing music since the sixth grade. during those times (and even nowadays :nanner: :lick: ), i was what you might call: A SOFTWARE JUNKIE - meaning - i used and utilized every piece of software i could put my hands on. i have always strived towards perfection, thus, i have put numerous hours\days\nights\weeks\months\years into my art. i practically gave up my entire juvenility, but i have purchased a much bigger gift :dj: . if you truly love something, be ready to sell your soul to the devil. there's no other way of reaching perfection. that's basically my story.

Yours Truly,
Wings

 

[UnOwn]

Grew up in a house where I had to take piano lessons, wasn't too into it, but learned to play guitar and bass too. My dad is an avid Jazz aficionado, which probably influenced my musical obsessions. Have obsessively collected music for as long as I can remember. Real big into underground punk rock for a long time, which got me purchasing my first turntable (and despising the mainstream, by the way). Gave up on playing bass, cuz I was sick of having to rely on others for the other parts of the song. Followed my love of hip-hop to DJing, then Graff, then Beats and MCing. And here I am...

 

[Craig Gantt]

My older cousins was tryna start up a rap group back in New Orleans when i was younger, they told me I couldnt rap with them because I was too young and not good enough so I freestyled and wrote everyday until I was better than all of them........errrr wait that neva happened that was a dream Im still tryna out do my older cousin but Im the only one persuing a career.

p.s. I think Im a senior member now

 

[Loose Cannon]

Me and my dad would beatbox and freestyle when i was little (not serious rhymes. just messin around rhymes). So i was always doin that and i always loved music.
Hip-Hop just felt to me like you dont hold back what your thinkin. Thats why they got the parental advisory stickers on there. And its about thew only genre (besides r&b, techno, etc.) that you dont need a whole band to make the whole track. So i was djin (beat jugglin, scratchin, and all that), then i got into makin beats when i figured out how they do it without turntables.

 

[Copenhagen]

After a dry period of 10 days without sex, I sat down to find a way to keep getting sex. Seeing that my education was too little to get a real good paying job, I didn't have any ideas to start my own well paying firm, couldn't sing or rap, you know, thet kind of things that usually gets you lots of sex, I thought, "Hey...I could produce"...so I did.

Just kidding
I've always loved listening to music, I can't get by without it. Even when I was a baby, my mom used to put headphones on me with low volume music in them and then she wouldn't hear anything from me for hours. When I was 6 I got a ghettoblaster and kept staying in my room to record mixtapes from the radio.
Then one day many years later when I was at a party, I got really tired of these wack Dj's playing shitty music, so 14 days later I bought DJ gear and records and started DJ'ing. Played at clubs and parties for some years, until I ram into an old friend from way back. He had just started playing around with Cubase VST, and it sucked...so even though it was a bit interesting, I didn't catch on until he started using FruityLoops. Then I started producing a little too and then my interest about producing just gradually became more serious.

 

[Formant024]

I used to build PA systems when I was 11, Carlsons, active W-Binns, regular 2 and 3 ways or bass, mid or high cabinets, strobes, walking/running lights, lightcomputers/programmers/controllers. I did this with 2 good friends back then. Within a year or so we filled a garage with an overcomplete soundsystem cq. driveshow. and lacked any idea what to do with this 12kW's of sonic mayhem. Party it is, so I started out being a dj and started setting up parties. That's one. I had a psr-290 ? but it had midi and so the GEM keyboard. Music was something I realised when a 386 arrived when I was 10. After the whole Sierra Quest range got bored and got fed up with 9999999kiloliners.bas, someone gave me an 8 bit Passport Midi system with Trax s/w. Shortly after that I got FT2, the most addictive tracker/music proggy ever made ( sequences various chnls of audio en midi I/O under DOS ). By 13 I had the whole thing figured out, it took some time because I didnt have any manuals regarding the midi operation on the PSR ( GEM was easy ) or other material about midi except for the Passport manual. That's two. These two combined, dance music/hiphop ( sound, and its origin in particular ) and digital/electronic composing lead me to my biggest fetish, vintage gear.

I've been a digital/analogue hybrid since then on.

 

[Phonetik]

It all happened when I saw Michael Jackson do the moonwalk.

 

[1d3nt1tY]

I heard sugarhill gang for the first time on rapper's delight and started breakdancing at 6.

Have always loved muzik, and started producing when I was about 20 on this cheap ass yamaha keyboard. Started sequencing and multitracking on my comp... the rest is history. twomp 8 and 8 years of hard practice tend to make the muzik sound well rounded.

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[afriquedeluxe]

off topic , i cud moonwalk wen i was roun 10yrs old lol. back on topic, i jus got into making music as soon as i accidentally got hold of software that cud make music. i dont really hav a musical background. am just creatin one for my future kids, hehe.