how old are you? and how long have you been making beats?

[milkman]

haha 17 also, making beats for almost a year or so.

[Downstroke]

Dayaam!! I'm offically the oldest dude here! I'm, wait for it… 36 years wise! I've been into hip hop since 84 when I first heard Grandmaster Flash's the Message & Malcolm McClaren's Buffalo Girls. I was originally a breaker (original B.Boy) then got heavy into graf, but always loved the music, especially the idea of making it out of other peoples. As corny as it sounds now, I remember watching Beat Street and loving watching that scene where Double K plays that beat he made that starts off with a tap dripping and then starts incorporating blues, calypso, salsa and everything else, just by messing around with a reel to reel tape & his turntables.

I copped my technic 1210's in 89 & totally got into all aspects of hip hop DJing, which lead to me getting into breaks. I started off collecting the Ultimate Breaks & Beats, but then found Jimmy Castor Bunch's It's Just Begun at Camden market, and from then on I was on a mission to hunt down those original vinyls.

I started making beats in about 94 using an old 12 bit Cheetah sampler (with 5 seconds sample time) and an Atari running this sequencer software which wasn't Cubase or Notator, but was still dope. I was running with a few guys who have gone on to become well respected UK hip hop producers so the competition was pretty high. Due to domestic shit tho, I kind of fell out the game for a big chunk of time (yep, kids'll do it to you) and fell away from the whole scene. It wasn't till about 2 years ago that I got my life back, and the first thing I did was get back on the beat game. In that time, so much shit had changed, so I started back at the beginning again. I was using Garageband for quite a while cos it was all I had, but it was cool, cos you learn how to use the limitations, just like I used to with that old Cheetah sampler. I'm now mainly using Reason, but I'm pretty much making beats much the same way I used to back in the day.

Sorry about the length of this post, but as you can see, I got history in the game, lol!

[[grimeshine]]

Originally Posted by Downstroke

Dayaam!! I'm offically the oldest dude here! I'm, wait for it… 36 years wise! I've been into hip hop since 84 when I first heard Grandmaster Flash's the Message & Malcolm McClaren's Buffalo Girls. I was originally a breaker (original B.Boy) then got heavy into graf, but always loved the music, especially the idea of making it out of other peoples. As corny as it sounds now, I remember watching Beat Street and loving watching that scene where Double K plays that beat he made that starts off with a tap dripping and then starts incorporating blues, calypso, salsa and everything else, just by messing around with a reel to reel tape & his turntables.

I copped my technic 1210's in 89 & totally got into all aspects of hip hop DJing, which lead to me getting into breaks. I started off collecting the Ultimate Breaks & Beats, but then found Jimmy Castor Bunch's It's Just Begun at Camden market, and from then on I was on a mission to hunt down those original vinyls.

I started making beats in about 94 using an old 12 bit Cheetah sampler (with 5 seconds sample time) and an Atari running this sequencer software which wasn't Cubase or Notator, but was still dope. I was running with a few guys who have gone on to become well respected UK hip hop producers so the competition was pretty high. Due to domestic shit tho, I kind of fell out the game for a big chunk of time (yep, kids'll do it to you) and fell away from the whole scene. It wasn't till about 2 years ago that I got my life back, and the first thing I did was get back on the beat game. In that time, so much shit had changed, so I started back at the beginning again. I was using Garageband for quite a while cos it was all I had, but it was cool, cos you learn how to use the limitations, just like I used to with that old Cheetah sampler. I'm now mainly using Reason, but I'm pretty much making beats much the same way I used to back in the day.

Sorry about the length of this post, but as you can see, I got history in the game, lol!

fuck yeah. love to hear stories like that man.

[mrfloyd]

Originally Posted by Downstroke

Dayaam!! I'm offically the oldest dude here! I'm, wait for it… 36 years wise! I've been into hip hop since 84 when I first heard Grandmaster Flash's the Message & Malcolm McClaren's Buffalo Girls. I was originally a breaker (original B.Boy) then got heavy into graf, but always loved the music, especially the idea of making it out of other peoples. As corny as it sounds now, I remember watching Beat Street and loving watching that scene where Double K plays that beat he made that starts off with a tap dripping and then starts incorporating blues, calypso, salsa and everything else, just by messing around with a reel to reel tape & his turntables.

I copped my technic 1210's in 89 & totally got into all aspects of hip hop DJing, which lead to me getting into breaks. I started off collecting the Ultimate Breaks & Beats, but then found Jimmy Castor Bunch's It's Just Begun at Camden market, and from then on I was on a mission to hunt down those original vinyls.

I started making beats in about 94 using an old 12 bit Cheetah sampler (with 5 seconds sample time) and an Atari running this sequencer software which wasn't Cubase or Notator, but was still dope. I was running with a few guys who have gone on to become well respected UK hip hop producers so the competition was pretty high. Due to domestic shit tho, I kind of fell out the game for a big chunk of time (yep, kids'll do it to you) and fell away from the whole scene. It wasn't till about 2 years ago that I got my life back, and the first thing I did was get back on the beat game. In that time, so much shit had changed, so I started back at the beginning again. I was using Garageband for quite a while cos it was all I had, but it was cool, cos you learn how to use the limitations, just like I used to with that old Cheetah sampler. I'm now mainly using Reason, but I'm pretty much making beats much the same way I used to back in the day.

Sorry about the length of this post, but as you can see, I got history in the game, lol!

Hell yea bro. Old school hip hop head for sure. Glad it still effects you the same it did back in the day.
Props to you my friend!

[Namkrow]

Yo Grime I'm 17 to man don't feel to bad.....I started out about 3 years ago with fruity loops just messing with that, then I started diggin and I got an mpc about 1 year ago.

[piecemakuh]

piecemakuh yo...... started on a yamaha motif 6 in 2002 when i was in the air force and been makin shit ery since.....started on software in 2006 and iiiiiiis aint goin back... lol.... 29 pushin thirty..... holla

[www.iHateTime.com]

some youngsters on here... few old heads...

me im 23... been rappin and makin beats since i was 14... so that would b ummm 9 years...

[BigRich]

Originally Posted by [grimeshine]

damn im the baby.....

shit, you only the baby in numbers, cuz your shit is as hard, if not harder than anybody's on this site haha.

[bonitabasics12]

ive been making be for about a year and a half and im 13

[Marty McFly]

Been involved with music since i was lil then fell off a lil in hs cuz of sports and shit but i was introduced to fruity loops spring of 06 at college and i was wowed... I it didn't know it existed lol but the end of that summer my cuz hooked me up with fl4 and thats when i started soo about 2 years now...