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At that point, I realized that beat-making was going to be my lifelong passion."

"This made me appreciate the sonic aspects of the music more than I ever had before and fueled an obsessive curiosity.

"Everything changed when I heard that album for the first time," Jimenez said. His urban journey started his freshman year at the University of Notre Dame when his ears caught wind of Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN.," the rapper's fourth studio album. Airbit CEO Wasim Khamlichi said producers have earned over $32 million on his platform alone with a few producers making six-figures every year selling beats.ĭaniel Jimenez, who produces under the name DVNNY BEATS, does not want people to underestimate the level of work becoming a good producer takes. Two years and a lot of learning later, his annual revenue passed $30,000. In 2013, his first year on the job, he made a mere $500. Wesley found a home for this passion for music in online beat-selling marketplaces Airbit and SoundClick. "And that's how I came across the concept of beat licensing." "I was making music and I started getting more traction online and from local artists and I was just looking into ways to monetize that," Wesley said. His career as a beat maker started organically in 2012, experimenting with recording equipment out of fascination and posting his work on the internet. In an age where becoming a recording artist requires little more than a decent laptop and a quiet closet, the demand for crowd-pleasing beats is high, giving music producers a brand-new opportunity to turn their passion for music into profit.

It's what rappers rap over and songwriters compose over. A beat is the rhythmic and melodic backbone to a song that much of modern music is built from.