Basics of making a Hip Hop/ Rap Beat

Step 1: Find a wide range of effective kicks, snares, hi hats, and claps. If you are using the same kicks and snares drum on all of your tracks people are going to get tired of listening to them.

Step 2: With your wide variety of sounds make an instrumental loop that works. Most of rap or hip hop beats are made with a repetitive loop. The type of sounds you use should reflect on the emotions of the lyrics. For example if you want a aggressive track use heavy and loud drums.

Step 3: Add Bass. Almost 100% of Rap/ Hip hop tracks have some type of bass in the beat.

Step 4: Add effects. you can add small effects to your snare or claps, or add more boost to your bass to make it more pleasing to listen to.

Step 5:Master the track make sure the beat is loud enough to be heard without overpowering the main melody. Experiment with the sound levels until you are satisfied.