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kxvi trynna eliminate future competition😭😭

Once I stopped caring about the business aspect of music...I started having fun making music...not beats.

Look, I'm a 16 years old kid and I've been making type beats for over a year now... I can definitely tell you that music brings money😂people look at it as a short term money making method but it actually takes A LOT of time to actually build a brand and start seeing results. Keep grinding everyone💪🏽💪🏽

Dude kxvi youre only 22? You’re really ahead of the game bro.. you out here playing chess with the OG’s. You remind me of Dan Koe but for the producer community. It’s seriously an honor to have all these great resources and people like you to share it and help others. What a time to be alive 💎

Everyone: you can't make money from music KXVI: shutup and make some money ffs, *NOW*

facts! a personal brand and putting your face on YT goes a long way

Dope bro. For the longest time I was scared that my beats weren't good enough. And for about 10 years I worked with a few upcoming artists unsure if professional musicians would actually like the music I made. Happy to say from watching your content I single handedly sold my first beat this week and released my first two loop kits. 💯 Thanks so much for the inspiration.

Motivation Mane I appreciate Dis Frl🐐🤧💯💯

You got to truly stand out. Nuff Said

This video came at the right time fr❤️

Thanks for the advice!

thank you for this great inspiring info

YOU DID THE SAVE MY SOUL PACK?! Damn near every melody sample in that pack is FIRE

Thank you for this thank you thank you 🙏🏿

Nothing but gems 🗣️💯

There’s so many other aspects a young person could get into. I’m just thinking from a business owner perspective as I have rentals. Some of which up and coming artist and entertainers have rented from my Airbnbs alone. What about the vans that move high profile celebrities? Armed security? Jewelry? Some of you with connections, might be able to open a a popular night spot, club, venue that those celebrities would want to frequent that could get you in with meeting multiple celebrities as they travel. Maybe instead of being the producer.. be the guy who oversees the studio and hires producers. Leverage connections to get starting artist in and find out how you can get closer to celebrities whilst also being profitable. You could run a business who would have the props ready for a rap video.. location, props, women 😂.. The possibilities are endless.

Im not gonna lie i love using yours and prod20k samples and loops

It's still A1 when you're having fun with it

if u try ur best, u cannot lose

We need a video of how to edit and upload short videos!! btw I liked so much your value KXVI

Really great video, u know what you're talking about. I have a tips : Beatmaker can be paired with other musical related job. Audio engineer, recording ingeneer, DJ, Graphic artist etc ... Having a second skills related to making beats is super useful. Per exemple, I started DJing 2 years ago while i'm still making beats. The amount of connection and opportunity I had since is huge. I was able to meet people and give them physically my beats while having a human connection with them. Don't rely on simply making beats. If you have another skills, try to work on it !

babe wake up KXVI dropped.

Another gold video 🔥

loving your content! 🤝🏻

Thanks for sharing all the sauce! I have made 7 beats, but, I am thinking about switching to loop packs, seems more my style. Do you only focus on loop packs/kits or do you still make the occasional beat?

Ai about to take more of the already small pie

What service do you recommend for using your email lists? Mailtrack/Mailsuite? Mailchimp?

Made my heart drop for for minute there😅

Broski me personally, I love making beats and at the same time I want to go to uni and learn medicine, Ik that studying will take most part of my time but if you organise your schedule and ur life between uni and making beats and making connections then ur good and when u finish ur bachelor u can make money as (in my case as a doctor) and being a musician at the same time. Its not impossible I know some ppl personally who are producers and rappers and at the same time they study architecture and medicine or other topics. But it all depends on ur vision and ur desires. But be careful and take your time and make the right choice. Every person is different.

Y'all understand the level of jems this man just dropped🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I'd love to see videos about how to go about posting ads for your stuff and how to create adds and what not

that’s why i started as a rapper

Hey love your stuff, been watching some of your videos Was wondering How do I send my beats for placement especially for genres like drill? Thanks

Ayo im on the video😂❤️

I think the issue is that anyone's "formula" for getting rich, even if it worked super well for them, is probably already outdated cause the music game moves so fast. Doesn't mean it will NEVER work again, but it gets way less likely as the business side keeps changing all the time. The only thing that doesn't change is the value in genuine good music. The best advice I can give, having had a moderate amount of success and organic growth, is focus on your musicality, individuality as a producer and building close personal relationships. Anyone telling you otherwise needs RECEIPTS and genuine proof that their method still works.

amazing quality content 👌🏾 keep it up.

Good notes, If you wanna be apart of something share, and get that word out there! Once the skill because second nature 90% of time will be business. Sometimes that reality of it stings!

The questions are, how you get placements? How many beats do you put in your pack to send to artists? How to approach artists for placements on IG ? Sync licensing?

I'm mainly a rapper/artist but I also produce for myself and I've been thinking about starting to sell loops/kits/produce for people etc lol. Should I use a different name as a producer and make new emails and new accounts or is that a bad business idea?

Been making music 14 years strong. Maybe my music sucks. Yet I'm dedicated.

Does this have a Shopify tutorial on the playbook? I want to switch to Shopify

It's still doeable but the approach is much different now. It's more to it than just uploading and networking strictly, building a platform will get you a lot further and put you in better positions where you have more leverage to get more out of your work. I don't sell beats but I engineer and creating KZfaq content around that brings way more eyeballs to you and your services which is what a lot of people make excuses from doing so they just shut it down from laziness or from a limited belief of not being able to achieve it because they haven't seen it YET to see what can actually can be done... Either way the game has changed and if you're just lazy, don't apply yourself, & fail to think creatively to figure out new ways to promote yourself (Products or Services), then good luck, you're going to need it since that's all people are basically relying on at this point... That's my thought idk if anyone else thinks different

i mean he's right, it's crazy to think that you could make it fr doing what people are doing to make money from their music in general.

Hey kxvi. You send out all your Melodie’s to different places but do you ever make a beat with your own melody? Can I make beats with my Melodies but also send out that same melody to everyone else?

How can you register your beats or melodies properly? Thanks for your content 🔥

1:28 bruh 🤣

1:45 Dude called me out without hesitation 😂😂, though I'm someone who makes an average of $1500-2000 from music commissions monthly, I still struggle with the commitment. After 2-3 songs I always just kinda lay back and relax to do BS, when I could definitely be finishing more commissions but I just can't get myself to. I know you should still do work even without inspiration/motivation but it's easier said than done

Goddamn i was like this guy got 3k view what does he now,but then i searched your credits. You legit asf. Another lesson of Those who can do and those who cant teach

Making beats need to still a passion

How you been bro!!

Maybe the key is making connections with the right people, then your price gets set at a reasonable price, maybe not rich but at least to live on

My guy made a whole video about my life

I make beats on FL Studio mobile and uses and Android photos quality be 💀, Bout building my brand what should i do

3:03 bros screaming at me with this one 💀💀💀💀

Hey, Kavi. Awesone awesome video! But how do you get a placement from your kit ? Shouldnt a kit be royalty free ? Why would anyone buy not royalty free kit ? Please

Music ain't about money, if you tried throwing it away but it comes back that means it's meant for you in your life , and it's away from materialistic things , green paper perishes

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DJPain being used in the intro when literally all his latest videos are about how he wishes he started leasing his beats out sooner makes me laugh.

Kenny beats is already up. He don’t know how to make it in todays world. With all respect to Kb

Facts

If you believe you can make a good living making beats than you're right....if you don't believe you can make a good living making beats you're also right!!

I made 2k last month selling beats definitely not dead

I think what kenny meant was that if you're doing music just because you wanna get rich it's dumb because there are many better ways

How do you know when ur music is good enough to start making money off of it?

I get paid. But it's nothing to brag about the percentage of the songs has been solid with established artists. Every year its a little harder just have to stay ahead of the pack. Consistentcy is f'n key

Hey KXVI, I chop and layer splice samples to make soul loops. do you think these would be ok to send to type beat producers/ post free kits on yt? or is it best that i make the loops from plugins/midi? Thanks

So showing that you’re capable of making multiple styles of beats is a negative thing?

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1st point is what my problem is with todays beatmaking, making only one type of beats (ex. gunna type beats) is limiting creativity and this is what we can see today on youtube - people making yt channel with one type of beat wishing they will fit in the algorythm, all those beats sound the same and dont bring anything new to the industry, even top producers make different type of beats and i even heard your beats are not just one type, so why should we limit our selfes by that.

idk sometimes I be feeling like I aint gon make it 😔

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My first placement was 7k in 2006. The money ain’t like that no more. You have to sell 100 beats to make 7k now

selling beats online is a niche market that can work for a very few people. It blew up a few years ago, but it's indeed, oversaturated. Maths don't lie, a new comer have almost the same chances to "becoming rich" by selling beats than to win the big numbers at the national lotery or at a table in a casino, which means a very low chance. And i don't even take into account the AI coming for the beat making. rap/trap and so on beats are so easy to make/replicate endlessly, because it's for now at least, a very simple music style, with easy cooking recipes. In a few years, rappers will not even need to pay a beatmaker, unless the one who are very, very talented and have big connections with established artists. I began this selling beats online journey years ago, and the price tags were decent, now i see more and beats packs with like 100 beats for 50 euros. It's a decending market, all the numbers are here to confirm this. Good luck for the new comers anyway.

How do you pronounce your artist name

Buss

Why in the music producer space is there a lack of originality. It seems people make music that sell versus being experimental and developing their own sound

I’m in dis shit because it’s my dream and I love music but hey if I get rich in the process ok 👌

It's important to view a comment like Kenny Beat's with context. His point is NOT that you can't "get rich" from making beats. The intention of his statement is to say that if you are making music TO get rich, you're a fool. Meaning that people who make substantial money as musicians are committed to the love of music first and foremost and what they do from a business standpoint is how they value that passion, not vice versa. The irony here is that this video is proof of his claim - you likely will have to do many things outside of just the music today in order to have a career as a producer because it is NOT just being a musician that sustains your brand. KXVI isn't getting rich from just being a musician so he isn't even who Kenny is talking about - he's using many, many other avenues (just like Kenny does with streaming, his show, his sponsors, etc), wearing other hats and utilizing platforms to sell things such as guides, planners, loop kits, video monetization and so forth.

I feel like I need to lock in with a small artist, my beats are different so most people wouldn’t f with them.

Just wanna be able to buy a sandwhich 😢

The same people who cry about over saturation are the same one who literally can’t make a beat for the life of them.

Still making good money and don't even need social media😅

I don’t wanna get rich. Just make enough to not have to work so I can focus more on music.

i been doing it for 15 years just cos i like doing it and i cant stop,,when i get cooked and its like a sandbox.. i have no job, im on disability, and i just cant ever .. i realised that i could maybe move my set up into the open plan kitchen and lean into the streaming ,, id trather make money writing comedy but .,,, im a 35 year old male and i started calling mysef BusyMum,, i wanted to have a few other dropkicks and call us BusyMumKrew.. its fun as fuck... in the kitchen making non genre specific ART .. organised....im not built like that.. I HAVE JUST SAT DOWN

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bootleg looking adin ross lmaaooo. Dope video tho kavi

With AI like Sunos, rappers can literally just type in the words "West Coast Hip Hop Beat from 93" and it will generate that for them, they don't even need to pay a lease. We are entering dangerous territory as producers.

This video is inspiring and made me kind of sad because Kenny has made some of my favorite beats 😭 but you’re so right

the most important part is actually the business no matter what you do...but all these artists I know dont understand that...thats why they all fail

Man i wanna become a prodoucer so bad

Imagine making beats to try and get rich, how about make music because you have something to express. Never understood the beat factory mentality

hey Kxvi, great video! i got a question, if you can answer me and give me your opinion on this: you say to choose one lane, and i definitely agree it's better not to do a lot of stuff at the same time. but for example: if I choose to make short form content to promote my beats (like videos of me making the samples and drums), that might appeal to rappers and producers as well.. do you think it's fine to try and build like 2 email lists? like, one for my beats and targeted at rappers and another targeted for producers to try and sell loops, starters, midis etc.? or just focus on one? even if my content appeals to rappers AND producers... thanks man!

Adin Ross is crazy💀

I started posting and selling my beats for less than 2 months and already made some money , i just been consistent everyday at least 1 beat a day , im posting in every platform and i will fuckingg make it . nothing is easy , but nothing is impossible if u really put your all into it.... just stop looking for shortcuts

We don’t make beats for the money we make beats because we are bored 😂

you can get rich as fuck as long as you buy the elements of trap kit

Bootleg adin Ross is wicked 😂

Simple math, On 7 billions people what's the % making beats?

i dont wanna sell kits i wanna sell leases