Iight so it started with me watching YouTube videos on beat making back freshman year. I probably watched like 3 hours a day just watching tutorials. Then I torrented ableton and made some shitty caca beats. Like a stock 808, snare, and hihat. I knew what was shitty and what could be done to fix it. If you ain't self aware of your problems then you can't fix it. If I ain't know a problem I would ask Google. Like how do I make my 808s louder or how do I side chain (which I still don't know) I decided that ableton was too complicated for my hard head so I switched to fruity loops. It was like going to Dr Seuss after reading Aristotle. FL just clicked for me. So I went into binge mode. Downloading 100 of gbs of VSTs and sound packs and exported every beat I did. It was amazing but nobody heard my shit. Like I felt I was making dope ass songs and people deserved to hear it. So I got a soundcloud account and played my songs to everybody. Still nobody is feeling my shit. Like I was delusional or like Peter and Lois when they made a band. Fuck it. I went and decided to learn how to record my raps too. I don't know how but people assumed I knew how to record so I just faked it till I made it. My recordings at first were shitty, straight exported out of fl studio but people started fucking with what I did. I would slide that I made beats. Boom. Got the ball rolling and ran with it. If I thought I was the best I had to prove I was the best. I made one song where I made the beat in fl studio. Wrote the hook in Evernote. Recorded on Cubase. That was when I found the recipe. To this day I still do it like this except instead of recording in Cubase i just go to a studio. Having your own little bat cave is good and all but networking is key. I go to any studio too. Could be one deep in the wrong part of town where crackheads would steal your whole studio for 20 dollars and it costs a zip to make a project. I could go to the sticks where police might pull you over because you look out of place and its 60 hour but it takes three hours to finish a song because they do it the "right way". That's how you get known. If your name keeps ringing bells the right people talk to the right person. Now I ain't famous yet but people know I ain't no crap rapper, producer, or anything else. That's how I came up.