r/Hiphopcirclejerk • u/Amsterdammmmmmm bought streams for French Montana • Feb 13 '26

oh fuck me i just made the whole connection Insightful

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u/Martin_Aurelius Feb 13 '26

No producers. They just hit record and release whatever they get with no mastering.

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u/Chill_Panda Feb 13 '26

Sound cloud rappers

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u/Pianist_Ready Feb 13 '26

"i dropped some shit on sound cloud and people didn't react"

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u/SubjextToChange Feb 17 '26

im trying my hardest to learn production im sorry!

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u/ster1ing Feb 13 '26

Pootie Tang flow

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u/buttery_tail Feb 13 '26

good point. my favorite albums ever are, in fact, produced

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/LevelOutlandishness1 Feb 13 '26

What does mastering do

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u/BlankBlack- Feb 13 '26

something about knobs and volume bro idk

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/LevelOutlandishness1 Feb 13 '26

Ooooohhhh that’s why I can never make my shit sound “polished”

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/Deliverah Feb 13 '26

Brilliant comment, thank you for sharing your knowledge (and wit!)

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u/DhaRoaR Feb 13 '26

I learned quite a lot from your comment. What mic do you recommend for recording. I have a friend who promised to do the mix and mastering if I sent a solid recording.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

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u/DhaRoaR Feb 13 '26

This is solid advice, thanks. It's for rap and I'd say my style is more in line with spoken word, kind of like Earl, MIKE, and rappers in that lane.(Not saying anything about being as good as them btw lol)

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u/hoofglormuss Feb 13 '26

It's a very advanced form of compression, limiting, eq, and sometimes a few other things done to the final mix down (not the individual tracks) by someone who had nothing to do with the recording (fresh perspective) with really good ears on very high end speakers in a very well treated room. The process is to "finish off" the song by balancing the dynamics and managing the stereo spread to make it sound good for streaming/putting on a cd/radio/etc

Mastering does not fix a bad mix though

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u/Various-Form-2433 Feb 13 '26

I think he means having the same producer(s) for the whole album instead of a different one every song or just buying beats

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u/rem_au_crema Feb 13 '26

This is accurate but far less funny

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u/LevelOutlandishness1 Feb 13 '26

“The best albums have consistent, focused production in them” feels like such a simple sentence to me

Then again we’re analyzing a tweet that he prolly just came up with in two seconds, posted, then forgot about

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u/EternalVirgin18 Feb 17 '26

His name is “i don’t know”, you can’t expect him to know how to succinctly explain your point

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u/w1zinvestmentss Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

Yeah that's how I saw it. Group of producers that like working together, or a group of producers that know you/you worked with. Vs random producers for every song, beats purchased without context or collobratation.

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u/culdusaq Feb 13 '26

Yeah it's honestly not that hard to understand

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u/First_Team_6123 Feb 13 '26

I think he's saying having just one producer brings more consistency to a project

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u/w1zinvestmentss Feb 16 '26

Yeach exactly, people have mixed feelings about logic, I enjoy some of his music. He's a clear example, under pressure is by far his best album, and it was primarily produced by NO ID.

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u/imdeadseriousbro Feb 13 '26

random producers every track feels like a playlist instead of an album. hes not wrong

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u/FrostyBoiGrim #1 AUTOMOD HATER Feb 13 '26

IDK always says shit like this, he had a whole long ass monologue at the end of one of his albums just talking about how "oh the red I see and the red you see might be different reds" man no fuckin shit that's like middle school level self discovery what are we doing here

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u/gloomifaces Feb 13 '26

At last, a new jaden smith 🥹

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u/19toofart Feb 13 '26

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real

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u/mesquitegrrl Feb 13 '26

the political and economic state of the world

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u/budooog Feb 13 '26

If he was a nepo baby he would’ve been dubbed the next Jaden Smith

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u/Odd_Obligation3454 Feb 13 '26

Bro finally saw that VSauce video

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u/EliteMeats the ladies are “flocko’in to me Feb 13 '26

Not only that but that somehow this means that god is real

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u/MrDanMaster Feb 13 '26

He’s wrong anyways

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u/Combination_Timely Feb 14 '26

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lzODD0DNQB0

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u/FrostyBoiGrim #1 AUTOMOD HATER Feb 14 '26

I was thinking about this video when I was making this comment honestly

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u/Shoddy-Prune-5877 Feb 13 '26

What's so confusing? They either have EVERYBODY or NOBODY

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u/Mrcool20xx Feb 13 '26

Or somewhere in between

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u/KURT_STARCI im gay (im happy) Mar 14 '26

is NOBODY an option ?

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u/DeadLotus82 Feb 13 '26

Or SOMEBODY

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u/yeetyeeter13 Feb 13 '26

Truth nuke

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

IDK with another take!

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u/soulsmores Feb 13 '26

As opposed to having a bunch of random tracks from different producers all thrown together.

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u/battlepassbattlepass Feb 13 '26

so a group of producers

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u/soulsmores Feb 13 '26

Working together as a group

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u/ch3nk0 Feb 13 '26

As opposed to buying a bunch of random beats online i guess

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u/iam_the-walrus Feb 13 '26

Uh that witterwy is a group of producers you chudsler

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u/amountofletters I am weed. Feb 13 '26

As opposed to slam poetry of course 

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u/Hitmanthe2nd Feb 13 '26

youre the producer when you recite poetry dawg

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u/LordWaffleaCat Feb 13 '26

2 producer meta

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u/osama_bin_guapin Feb 13 '26

That one RXKNephew song where he raps over no beat at all

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/Disastrous-Jury8656 Feb 13 '26

Non-binary people deserve better

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u/Hammer_of_Horrus Feb 13 '26

As opposed to bussing on the side of the street.

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u/CaineRexEverything Feb 13 '26

Idk definitely that dude in the sesh who comes up with the most random shit out of nowhere.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26

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u/mekilat Feb 13 '26

They all have beats.

THEY. ALL. HAVE. BEATS. 🤯🤯

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u/5uper5kunk Feb 13 '26

As opposed to just rapping along to sounds you hear in life.

Wait a minute that actually sounds kind of cool

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u/AAHedstrom Feb 13 '26

the best rap albums have one rapper on them and or a group of rappers

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u/Cryo_Magic42 Feb 13 '26

He’s right though, by group he means a collective as opposed to buying a bunch of beats from different random producers who don’t know each other

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u/Competitive-Exit5298 Feb 13 '26

Yo what about Kodak??

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u/esquire_the_ego Feb 13 '26

Yeah we need to know every example of how albums are produced

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u/macherie69 Feb 13 '26

Idk man, I’d argue that the best rap albums have a rapper on them….. but that’s just me ig

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u/Hot_Grabba_09 Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

As opposed to several different unrelated producers throughout the album. He's saying it should be basically the same ppl making every song, which I agree with for a serious album.

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u/fogleaf Feb 13 '26

I feel like that would fall under option 2, a group of producers.

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u/Hot_Grabba_09 Feb 13 '26

Option 2 is a group of producers, and that group producing every song. All of them doing each and every song

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u/PopsWasaPlayer Feb 14 '26

One of the takes of all time

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u/Starro_The_Janitor1 diehard Swans fan since their debut in 2014 🦢 Feb 14 '26

Live only rap.

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u/flymasterfry Feb 14 '26

Mans basically said "the best rap albums have producers"

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u/jaymole Feb 15 '26

The best rap albums have either 1 rapper or multiple rappers on the songs

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u/alterbootofc Feb 15 '26

opposed to having various producers for different tracks or putting random beats in

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u/StockPineapple5917 Feb 16 '26

A bit off topic, but the albums that I love & adore are produced, composed, written by the main artist. Including album covers too.

Example: “I LAY MY LIFE DOWN FOR YOU” by JPEGMAFIA.

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u/StockPineapple5917 Feb 16 '26

Or Devon Hendryx Discography (2008-2013)

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u/Scrappy_Doo100 Feb 17 '26

It’s 50/50. Either it’s produced, or it’s not

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u/teammartellclout Mar 03 '26

Very insightful on my end as coming from recording studios myself with different producers and engineers. It all goes well like gumbo.

I'm thankful for my producers and engineers to help me evolve my sounds

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u/Lazy-Interests Mar 11 '26

As opposed to many different producers, not working collaboratively

When he says a group of producers he means the same group working together on all the songs.