you don't have to conform to anyone else's idea of what hip hop is supposed to be
this is what stifles creativity and causes generic bandwagon garbage to become prolific

this is just a recent throwaway beat i made when i mixed an old '70s reggae single with an '80s drum break, add an 808 bass hit
https://soundcloud.com/zendanisdead/tur ... lamps-down

this is a track from the good 'ol days when soundcloud was poppin' and i was in a constant haze of marijuana-induced stupor outside of my academic preoccupation
https://soundcloud.com/zendanisdead/blu-r00m-fx-rape

both were created with nothing more than vinyl and an sp404sx
(oh yeah and an NES on the second half of that second track)

I think this thread is in the wrong section.

I would say to check out Walterwarm.

they're my beats though (ɔ◔‿◔)ɔ ♥
people should link some innovative artists that inspire them here though!!! good idea!

i've been listening to walter warm nearly since i joined soundcloud in 2012 lol his beats are dope but they're pretty run of the mill
they sound great though; i still have a couple of them in my favorite private soundcloud playlists!!

personally, my single greatest inspiration on soundcloud is a lanky, long-haired white kid from NYC that was formerly on dirty tapes. (dirty tapes turned into shit man, reminds me of something said in another thread recently about how all grassroots shit eventually gets appropriated and exploited) the first time i heard one of his tapes back in 2014, it changed my fucking life. i asked him what hardware he used, and he told me SP404
i bought one like a month later

and by dirty tapes turned into shit, i mean the guy that runs it just uses people. originally they had a solid team of several dudes with some of the sickest music i had ever heard, but now they just post anything and sell anything as long as it gets plays. some of the shit is still really dope though; i highly recommend checking it out!

this is one of my favorites from him, btw
https://soundcloud.com/walterwarm/reptar-bar-1
simple two bar loop easy shit but sounds so good

this is the first song i ever heard from him https://soundcloud.com/walterwarm/snails
i think he deleted the shit he posted before this because i could've sworn there was older shit when i started following him

i mean, i did the same thing. the oldest song i have on soundcloud is from five years ago, but the first song i posted on soundcloud was 8 or 9 years ago. i deleted nearly every single track on my page at one point and made the rest private, changed my url, changed the name a couple years ago

i regretted that shit forever, still do, almost killed myself, because my old computer shitted the bed and i lost everything

i was going to kill myself that night until i found a hard drive that had my "most important" 25 beats on it

-edit-
my mistake, this is how i found walterwarm, from BBB https://soundcloud.com/walterwarm/walte ... tboxbandit
then snails was the first track i listened to
man that was fucking years ago

bump

70 views and no one is linking inspiration?!?!?! come on?!?!

My soundcloud isnt working properly at the moment.

Its not playing any songs.

Ill check out those songs later, I have not delved deep into his material, only heard a couple tracks here and there. The first time I heard of him, I was not into beatmaking as much, my vision was that of a rappers, and his beats are for "listening pleasure only". That means you cant rap over his beats. Knowing this he went on the list of less than worthy producers. However over the years, I have found that he makes good beats. Cozy beats.

There is also this guy called Ameba. You have probably heard of him.

https://soundcloud.com/amebaa

you're making me so sad and nostalgic right now
yeah, the first song i heard from him was his j dilla tribute, and it's still in my favorite playlist, but i never really listened to any of his other shit, just liked a couple of his beats way back years ago https://soundcloud.com/amebaa/everyday
but this hoe^^^^ when i heard it back then, i was bumping it on repeat

So I have to use another internet browser to see whats happening on soundcloud.

Its a decent beat that one. The JDilla one by Ameba.

A lot of his stuff he took down. Fortunately I have some of it downloaded in WAV. He had a lot of good stuff. I cant find them online anymore.

- Qwaint

you should check this out https://soundcloud.com/zendanisdead/hiss-hurt-ep
still on soundcloud, very rare, very inspiring