Beats By the Pound had some good drum patterns, but....

[Buckeye Fever]

....their melodies were kinda generic and some off key.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQqrKV3jfg&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/ame]

@ that piano. shyt sounded like they bought it from a dusty resale shop and big boz, big pokey, and skull duggery loaded it on the truck and didnt get it tuned. And mia x couldnt have recorded her vocals in an official studio. Sounded like a basement recording.

Mannie Fresh sons them nikkaz in every which way.

Dont get me wrong, they had some dope shyt, but they wouldnt be successful in today's market.

 

[Existential]

Even worse is when a melody is good but off by one fukking note.

It's like everything is perfect but you expected the last note to go a little bit up, instead of down or vice versa. Makes you want to remake the song and just change that one note so that it could be perfect to your ears.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Even worse is when a melody is good but off by one fukking note.

It's like everything is perfect but you expected the last note to go a little bit up, instead of down or vice versa. Makes you want to remake the song and just change that one note so that it could be perfect to your ears.

Truth!!!!

You can tell the ones that can read music and the ones that just hit keys on a keyboard

 

[jmspro]

I don't think it was off key, it was an interpolation.

 

[Flav]

i didnt like a lot of No limit music because most of those wack ass fisher price beats.

 

[Cole Cash]

notice how they didnt sucessfully branch out and produce for other people, their beats were generally disposable, but to be fair, they were producing for EVERYONE with deadlines that left them little choice.

In my own albums i generally take 4-6 months to complete the framework for them and try to iron out the quality, and because i generally dont have to worry about rappers its not really a big dea.

But regardless, they had alot of second rate beats, they were purely beatmakers and not producers, "beats by the pound" is right because it was definately quantity over quality

 

[JustCKing]

It depends on the member. Each of them were great at different things. If it's drum programming you want, then KLC was that dude. If you wanted to incorporate melodies, then O'dell was that dude. Craig B. and Mo B. were somewhere in between.

 

[360dagod]

It depends on the member. Each of them were great at different things. If it's drum programming you want, then KLC was that dude. If you wanted to incorporate melodies, then O'dell was that dude. Craig B. and Mo B. were somewhere in between.

he was under Cash Money 4 a bit....

Mo B dikk had some joints...

but klc got the most shine