Why This Comparison Matters In the rapidly evolving landscape of music production, Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic novelty but a foundational tool. For years, the AI mastering space has been defined by pioneering platforms like Landr and eMastered—generalist engines trained on vast, diverse libraries to serve every possible genre. They established the paradigm … Read more
Hands down, instrumental hip hop isn’t background noise—it’s a frontal assault on how we define rap. No barbershop boasts, no mic-check bravado. Just raw, unfiltered grooves that demand you listen close. (And yeah, that’s exactly why you’re here.) You’ve got a deadline, a mountain of unread emails, the existential dread of choosing between Creative Cloud … Read more
Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive technical survey of deep learning-based Music Source Separation (MSS). We trace the evolution of the field, beginning with early statistical methods and advancing to today’s dominant neural network paradigms. We conduct a detailed architectural and mathematical analysis of two seminal approaches: the spectrogram-masking paradigm, exemplified by Open-Unmix, and the … Read more
Big shoutout to all the artists lighting up the BeatstoRapOn community! 🌟Check out our June 2025 Winners—straight fire across Hip Hop, Trap, Freestyle, Afrobeat, R&B, and more.Want your name up here next month? 🚀 Get your tracks in, build your profile, and climb the leaderboard at 👉 https://beatstorapon.com 👇 Listen to this month’s champions: 👇 … Read more
You cue up an old soul record – lush strings, gritty drums – and wonder what it’d feel like to bend those sounds to your will. The beat is almost there in your mind, but the sample won’t give up its secrets. What now? In 1970s Bronx block parties, the answer was two turntables and … Read more
Start with a hiss. A vinyl crackle. Not with an answer, but with a vibe. You know the one. You’ve heard it—3 AM, headphones on, apartment humming, scrolling through Reddit instead of sleeping. Or maybe you’re on the 5 train, city sliding past, lo-fi’s gentle knock bleeding through your earbuds while you avoid eye contact … Read more
Start here: A cold loop, someone’s snare crawling over a bassline pulled from the ether. A voice cracks. A sampled scream. This isn’t 1993 and it’s not the Bronx—hell, it’s not even the timeline you know. This is hip-hop in the age of AI, and the studio is everywhere. The engineer’s name? BeatsToRapOn, or maybe … Read more
What’s that sound in your headphones right now?No, not the clack of subway wheels or the background gossip in the café you ducked into to escape the noise. I mean that other noise—the fuzzy, warbling lull that’s been bleeding into hip-hop’s bloodstream for the past decade. The static. The crackle. The rain-soaked keys and loose … Read more
A Tuesday night on Edgewood. The club’s too dark for comfort, the lights a little too bright. Outside, it’s all blue vape haze and scuffed Jordans, the wet sound of someone just missed by a bottle. Inside, that MC’s voice is fighting to be heard above a sound system built for somewhere twice the size—this … Read more
It starts in the back row—always. Someone, hoodie up, thumb already poised, not really watching the opener, just flicking TikTok, head half in the feed, half in the moment. Next thing: a hook hits, a flash of phone light, some snippet—raw, jagged, 14 seconds that somehow say it all. And before the night’s even over, … Read more