Influential American producer and hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues performer Timbaland is one of the most mythical hip-hop and dad manufacturers around, and in a up to date interview he published how a lot he may fetch for just one beat.
Speaking on The Producer Grind podcast, as heard above on the 51:00 point of the interview, Timbaland stated that at one point in time he may fetch as much as $500k for his manufacturing. "I actually get like, 300—$500k, back in the day,” he said. Asked why producers don't fetch as much these days, he added, "Because y'all don't put no worth on your self. ... We ain’t come from a global the place you ship beats; we come from when that bitch was tailored, you know?"
Timbaland first got his start in the early ‘90s, but by the middle of the decade he was producing for some of the biggest artists in the world. He worked extensively with Ginuwine, Aaliyah, and Missy Elliott, with credits across both R&B and hip-hop. His success didn’t stop there, however, as he continued to work on hits with Jay-Z, Nas, Justin Timberlake, Drake, Madonna, Rihanna, and even Björk in the 2000s.
"The producer used to be revered far more," he noted. "You wanted a dope manufacturer as an artist. You wanted that, and now you got YouTube. People striking beats, it’s simply now not the same. It’s identical to Wild Wild West available in the market. So back then, there was once a lot of price to the producer. ... You can nonetheless have some roughly price [now], you simply gotta limit what you do, what you send out. ... Back then it was other instances. I may just say for the producer game, it used to be means higher,” in line with Complex.
Earlier within the interview, at the 34-minute level, Timbaland also talked about the use of A.I. era in manufacturing going forward. “I knew this man, one of my homeboys, he used to be working on this whole program that while the pc’s asleep it’s producing sounds,” he mentioned. “And when he opens up it take white noise and make kicks the dopest snares whilst he sleeps. He been working in this for years, and I’m certain he mastered it now. The laptop makes his kits, he don’t get drum kits from other folks. Make samples while he sleeps.”
Sources: Complex
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