How RUSS makes more than $100k per week

content that he records and then I realized that there is a respect that the producer community in the music community has for him, even if he is not a big name. So I chose someone like that, you know, he is in a good place and he has done a very good brand because if one of their loops gets used or whatever they feel like the producer community would have doubts about success, yeah, yeah, that's the difference. I didn't even think about it that way, yeah, that's what I think, yeah, I think because you know, if you're just a random kid and you know you could really put in a lot of effort, you know, really build a brand and a foundation and your you just get used to it and you don't do it to anybody, nobody owes you, you're there, I don't know, I guess at that point because you know, so you just got a lawsuit and now you're and now you're. in a bad situation, a difficult situation because now you're suing the producer for technically doing nothing wrong and you're not even in the game, but you're already on your way to being banned, basically, right? so the producers have it Rock, look, it's complicated, it's hell, yeah, it's also very complicated and the fact that the producer is the standard producer deal, they get four to five percent on the master side , you know, when you get a placement, it's crazy.

It's crazy, yeah, like you know, I am because then at that point, it's like I said, you know you gotta matter, you can make a million dollars a month and if you're a producer and you've produced, let's say that whole million dollars. Do you produce the entire catalog of million-dollar-a-month artists? You'll get What's that forty thousand dollars? Yes, five percent of 50 thousand dollars of a million. You know, the Zetas produce. This is how the industry has programmed producers. you only care about publishing because that's where you get 50% but by only caring about publishing you almost end up only caring about hits because you don't make money from publishing unless you like the most money you get from publishing . is when you go crazy, yeah, then it's like, damn man, I don't know, it's a complicated world because then you have producers who really only care about chasing AIDS or you MPs who you know don't give a damn and are I'm just trying to get as many placements as possible because most of that money is the upfront fee for the beat, you know, and they already know that in the backend on the master side.

I'm not making that much money from selling the song, right? and if this song doesn't become huge, I'm not going to make a lot of money from publishing it, so whatever is accurate for the beam is really what I'm living off of, you know, it's crazy, it's just crazy, but I mean, there are advantages. and cons, obviously, of everything, but when you know that when you're a producer you have it, you have to pick your battles in a way that you know, at least you know that being an artist you know there's obviously a lot of things. of producers here that want to work with you you know artists like you and other artists what are some like um I don't know man what are some things that you look for in a producer or maybe even just go deeper like yeah?

Do you have any advice for a future producer on some things they can do to get their brand liked or just to get noticed to the point where they know people want to work with them? Yeah, there might be something weird, you know, but no, but you know my other advice to producers and I've always said it's to try, if you can, to find an artist to exploit, you know what I'm saying, yeah, because by doing that, yeah, you get a lot better too because working with an artist you learn a lot about the consistency of working with an artist, you just learned even how to record people, you know you should already be doing that as a producer.

I feel like if you were a producer and they come up and someone wants to use your beat and we don't know anyone and there's no spin-off from the studios and you can't record me on your beat like that's crazy, you know what I'm saying, that's a crazy and feel For me, that was my idea when I wasn't singing or rapping and I was just doing math. I had to record all my friends because we didn't have money to go to the studio yeah I made the beats and the beats are on my laptop so somehow but yeah I recommend going with one go with an artist if you can and develop that sound, it will help you improve, it will help you learn not to overload your rhythms with 87 instruments because you have to go. space for the voices of the artists, this will make you improve.

I feel like an accent making beats for artists. That's a lot of promising producers. They're so busy it's like thank you, thank you, that's why I keep saying it. You have to say it's a soap opera, but you can tell they don't really work with artists like that, you can tell they're making beats and they're just hanging around them and it's cool, but if you're trying to like it. To work with an artist you need to take off all those shoes like Zach, so I used to do the same thing here and I did too and I didn't have any artist and I was always messing with him, it was really like making as many sounds as possible.

Could one beat, you know, saying something like I think I'm looking at a saxophone solo in the middle of the verse, right, yeah, man, the hustle like that's big with minimalist artists? Opie should be able to carry exactly exactly, you know, as far as him, if I stop by grandma or something and I think I'm too big like I said, the earl does a great job, I think in doing this, but I'm too big on all the behind the scenes content and I even started filming

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of that for you just because I saw that number one when I was seventeen on YouTube my favorite videos to watch me work for Kanye in the studio in the studio I like watching this I like watching what happens so I think it's a great way to brand you're a producer and I see it all the time on Instagram there's a lot of things that become pretty easy to use whether you film yourself making beats and if you drop one of those, you know you could probably skip them a couple times a day.

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, but you know, I can tell you this, you know, who's going to blow up as a producer is the kid that goes away for a year or however long it takes me to make a hundred crazy beats and then take the best, but don't overdo it even a hundred and save these 500 crazy beats, pick the best 365 movie, all of them, yeah, and then drop it, drop a beat every day, every day, doing it every day after year, your life would look like if that was crazy, maybe you're not Timberland or whatever, but you would do it.

Anyway, it's sure to be a better place than last year. Well, I guess that's filming the content and showing you making the Beatles wait. Yes, that's the wave. Anyone here if he does this in the chat room, we know where he got it from. idea that you know they explode that should be fire yeah we do it because if all the beats were hard and they were like God yeah this guy is every day and just imagine like day 215 all of a sudden an artist from important artists like the album. Zar, that's what happened because people got it: there's something to be said about poking around in the universe until it changes and that's why you can't, you won't be surprised if you only release a song every month or you know.

You're just not consistent that nothing is happening, you have to understand that idea of ​​momentum, so when that's why the song a weak has always worked for me because it's momentum, it's like I'm playing a different game than humanity. , I've gone. like I'm trying to conjure up something that you already know with the universe being conscious and proactive every

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and it's a ball rolling down the hill, you know what I'm saying, so personalized to the moment that it is in the moment that it's the impulse, like If someone had said about that, that the universe is a response to people who are proactive and consistent and their drive is rewarded, so if your producer tells you that a rhythm every day, for me it will take some time. to develop that content, but that's what I did the same way and I did it again this year, but when I went that far, when I say I left, I mean not releasing music for a while, but I left. until I did this was in 2014, until I had a rough blueprint of a solid 14 song album and then I had 50 songs that I was sitting on and I picked the best 26 to start releasing this because 26 is half a year. so I thought if I buy myself half a year at worst, if I get to half a year and I haven't blown up, I know I have another 26 songs, you know, but I waited until I had 26 great songs and an album.

Before I post anything, you know what I'm saying and people should understand what I'm doing this year. Everyone sees me week after week. What do you think I'm sitting on? I didn't even know it, bro. but you know, you know, based on that comedy, you know, I wouldn't release anything unless I had two years notice, bro, I already know you because, look, Ross and I before Covid, it was probably a couple of weeks before Kovac arrest me in his studio, yeah, this guy played me, I probably mean about 30, like about 30 songs, Russell, yeah, and it was like this buffer, he was up there with, you know what I mean, come on , play, play, and play.

It was like oh yeah, this one presents blahblah yadda-yadda. I'm like, okay, press play, boom, enough solo, one solo and then this and then he plays another one. The characteristic of this one is above luck, the whole time I'm sitting there, I don't think I told you this the whole time I was sitting there. I think this guy has literally broken records for the next five years. That was six months ago. I haven't even listened to this thing you recorded since. That's what goes back to this self-sufficiency because I'm sitting in my studio right now. I didn't receive a call from anyone to come to the award.

I'll mix it all up so I've been working like crazy that's why I'm dating now because I'm like a man I have so many things lined up that I'm so prepared for and that's what 2014 was all about, being so prepared and confident that you know something is happening. I'm taking off, so you're ready for it. What I used to always see with artists they blew up and it seems like they didn't think they were going to blow up because now they're struggling and it takes them two years to make an album. and you miss your moment, yeah, that's why the moment it came out, cool, here's young, there really is a platinum wolf, you know, that's the only thing I really ever wanted was a platinum debut album, but I was sitting on it since before I started releasing the songs. you know what I'm saying so it's the same thing now it's like I'm ready like I know that in this race I'm about to continue.

I know something is going to take off and when it does, here's what I did. Same thing I did the same thing last year six songs in a row so it's the best car in the world a month later here's the album why wouldn't you do that? I don't understand it, but it's a foolproof method, number one to build a catalog number for your fans, go back to number three, if it's number three, you figure out what will work the fastest because if I were to do the traditional label approach, which is, and I did this at the beginning of 2019 because I thought, look, I'm going to do This is what everyone does so I can show them that this is wrong and that the label's focus is one song every three months, if that's the case, because in the music industry system, it's about three months to really like working on a record and seeing.

If you're going to do something, you know, I'm saying that's what they want is someone every three months that they like, to the extent that that's all a label would probably set out to do well because they want you to release the song. I want to work it in the DSPs and take it's a weird video and then record the video and basically go back in three months and see where you are, so okay, that means with that with that man that to drop six songs it would take me 18 months you have you have to think well you have to think that it would have taken me 18 months just to get to the best in the world instead it took me six weeks that's not easy so there's no really it's just counterproductive it's super nice to post it too because look as an artist as a producer we love everything we do we have no idea what's going to work I don't care what other people are talking about because I think every song I make is a hit, but the reality is that not everyone reacts like that, like that that you don't really know and all it means is that you have to publish everything that is correct.

I posted it because I think I don't know what's going to work, especially with the best in the world because that was a song that was like oh I like the song, I love everything I do, but I didn't do it, I didn't think it was going to blow up, you didn't put it , no, you didn't highlight. that one like this is potentially one no, what's crazy, bro, what's crazy, I turned it off because I'm wondering, it was like I was telling you everything's going to be okay, it just has like a Midas touch where I can, I just, no.

I know. I don't even know, I don't get it, yeah, God loves, yeah, he's like yeah, but um, so I put it in, I got it out of the mentality of those first six drops. I'm going to put out what I don't believe. it's going to work first just to get it out of the way and build momentum so that when you get to week seven, eight, nine, ten, you really start dropping the big ones that I think are going to go crazy and literally like the seventh. Thebasically what I'm going to do is, uh, what you want to do now is open a new browser window on your computer and go to Twitch. just go to Twitch TV backslash sick producer of mine, how bad I was preparing for the beat battle, okay, you're okay, I'll bring you both here, yeah, so is it muted right now?

It should be muted, make sure, make sure You know there's a delay. I can do it here, so make sure to mute it on Twitch for now. Rust, okay, so you're going to mute it. Basically, what's going to happen is, uh, I'm going to do what when I start playing the rhythms. I'm basically going to mute you, like Russ, for my part, so we won't be able to hear you, we won't be able to hear you while we're playing the beats, okay, so at that point you can unmute yourself. A little delay, but you can unmute which one and then you'll be able to hear both beats and then after both.

The beats are done, I'll unmute you and then, you know, basically, you'll just like to pick the one that you like the most, just It will be one rhythm each and then we will count the votes. and my lyric assistant who is here with us and that will be very fast, nice, amazing, so in the rhythm game I will activate the tick on my computer, yes, yes, and I will let you know. also and I could just mute you from here so you don't have to worry about your phone or anything okay cool so listen guys coin master be the winner of the battle today's winner gets fifty thousand coins black.

I know I have my own currency here, what would I wear? Sorry I just thought yeah I have a currency here called black coins and basically like what you see on my channel you can earn coins and spend them. in drum kits and things like that so basic, so basically the winner of today's contest will receive 50,000 lab coins that they can use in my hands, which shoot fire, yeah, so the stakes are high and you have Russ here, like this that Russ is heard. I guess the lyrics are going to be very critical here are going to be very critical, so there will be no games today, there will be no games, there will be no games, the stakes are high, so the names of our opponents come first, the name of our first producers , young forever and young forever we will fight against the intellect, a rhythm each, so lyrics. you sent me the beats yes sir okay so good luck to both of you there can only be one oh this is the time well that's dota s okay so one beat each , may the best man and the best woman win, and good luck to both of them. so let me load this up yeah this is going to be fire bro this is going to be a good battle too because both producers have fire so we're about to see okay so first because you're the one coming back. champion, our first, the first beat will be for Young Forever, so good luck to both of you, Young Forever, you guys go first, hurry up to unmute, which is now okay, okay, okay, okay, okay well, forever young, forever young.

Wow, okay, we're not going to do it. We're not going to talk to the judges yet, we're going to play the whole beat and then we're going to deliberate, so we're just going to jump right into the intellect, you're next, let's go to the intellect, good luck, okay, okay, that was. intellect intellect in the intellect okay, okay, very, very different rhythms, two very, very different rhythms. I'm going to go ahead and unmute Russ and we have the lyrics here, but I want to talk to Russ for us, you can go ahead. and silence, which for me, if you haven't already, wait, Russ, I can't hear you, wait, here we go, yeah, we're good, come on, comments, questions, comments, the first beat, I felt like I was a troll .

It was like 20 beats in one, it was like chaos whose chaos I don't know all the time. I thought, wait, he's playing eight different rhythms? Yeah guys, I don't know, especially after we were so busy, yeah, that was it. About that, he was like me once, that was the antithesis of a beat that's too busy, but it's crazy, it bothers me because, like he was young forever, he fought on Monday and he played, he had some fire, So I don't know, I think about what I don't. He definitely wasn't a troll. I think he definitely tried to do some left field and I don't know, but it was like eight beats in one, it was like he was live and it was just, you know what? was happening then ii ii ii ii was uh ii p it was great it was great it was definitely

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digestible yeah I think often those two beats right there I mean I think intellect was second yeah I'm definitely one of those, yes.

Because at least it was audible and digestible, yes it was, it was simple, it was a little, but I will say this about the inter as deep, it was simple, it was basic, I am very minimal, but once again I understand Beast because you put a artist there that

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melodies and can make that beat kind of crazy, so it's yeah, intellect for sure, although the first one I don't know what happened there, it's there, it's in the intellect, you have to do it. vote number one okay letter let me move on to the letter lists of letters in my motivator what's up my G?

What are your thoughts? comments and who you vote for first. I like to fly loose. I like the tracks that play. Wow, you know what's great, but. that literally the sound of the lake, like what anxiety feels like, it was like you knew yourself in life and you were driving in the front seat and that's right, but you weren't in that chair, you just went wherever. It took me like I had never experienced anything like that in my life, yeah, that was almost like a bad acid trip; it was so crazy that I forgot he was Filipino, but the interesting thing about About Young Forever is that Beto was like there was definitely energy, I think I think we were young forever, the misstep to being young forever was that if you were going to be five different gears or eight different gears, at least have something there that

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it all make sense together, like you really do.

Sir, it wasn't like that, he said yes, so that was my problem. I never forget that meeting of my life and I never do anything like it. If I tried, no, oh yeah, I would, I would, I would pay a questionable amount of money to see the process of doing that Thank you, yeah, yeah, again, I mean, I mean, look, it's a pacing battle , so I understand why Young Forever would come up with a beat like that and then also, on the other side, your intellect, yours was, you know? more like a p-placement but very well structured, you know what I'm saying, so lirik, what do you think man, what do you think they should go for?

I'll do the girl from Los Angeles, you know, very well. one leg and you know you got my vote too, so congratulations to the intellect, clap your hands man, come on, some bombs, no, some claps, send some emails, everything Congratulations to the intellect, you're the one for today, let me write this here, You are the master of today's coins. be a winner, worth 50.50 racks fifty thousand black coins right there I say 50,000 50,000 for the intellect you are the winner today you will move on to battle on Friday you know, I am saying a new opponent so congratulations intellect, you have to bring some fire Friday because there's about to be a competition, so Ross, thank you brother, thank you very much.

I just heard that beat of it. It's crazy, yeah, no, it was crazy. I mean, look, I understand why he did it that way. why he don't understand that all I think I think it's my thing my thing I think is that Heath might have thought that sending a beat with a million changes could give him a win over something that's a regular thing like waiting until I played, but it was a mistake, like it's not good, you know, so yeah, I don't know who knows, yeah, lyrics, thanks so much for joining Ross, I appreciate you bro, I know you gotta go, so thanks for Julia. and you know, kick it with us and drop gems, man, anything you want to annoy our fans or any advice you want to leave them, man, we said a lot, I'll tell both producers, forever young intellect, just keep going. making beats you know what I'm saying because honestly the crazy thing about this is that uh my opinion doesn't matter Oh, the opinion of the mind doesn't matter the lyrics the opinion doesn't know one's opinion matters except yours, you know I say it it's like had this part in my book where I say: you know, to be honest, looking back at when I was fifteen, doing beads for tea, doing beads, looking back, they were terrible and I think and and I and I say in the book, looking back to that fifteen year old kid, he would have approached the 27 year old kid, now he was playing his beats to me, uh, in my head, I would have said this is so bad and I don't even see how this is going to be. work that it's like there's no potential, yeah that's what I would have thought listening to my old beats.

I like 14, however the reality is that I am 14 and would never have asked. 27 years old needs opinion, you know what I am. Saying exactly honestly how I feel about you, vegan, damn, I froze them. I'm leaving frozen, can you hear me? Okay, sorry, yeah, you know, it's doubts, doubts, pure facts, brother, can you imagine if you listened to a 27-year-old kid? you wouldn't be back then you probably wouldn't be where you are today yes it's the mentality of even thinking that someone else's pain is sighs it's like that exactly exactly it's very rusty I appreciate it brother, scream all night and I'm here you know , sorry, B crash, yeah, stay and rust, I'll hit you bro, I've got more to send you, by the way, yeah, the real baseline broke, set me up, I've got you with the baselines, the piece of my G, later, letter.