"I never made my first $100 dollars, my first transaction was actually to the tune of my first $250 dollars..."

I started off in the game as an MC, I was a member of a hip-hop group back when I was in highschool. I was part of the early 90's generation, so battling other MC's around town for supremacy was a thing we did on a regular basis. Through some of those battles I was actually able to foster quite a few relationships with MC's, DJ's, promoters, A&R's and other industry affliated people. As a result of not being able to find producers that could make the type of tracks that I wanted to spit on, I decided to purchase my first peice of equipment, (the SP-1200) and teach myself how to make beats. I had a few other producer friends of mine that also gave me some tips and insights on how to make beats so once I got to the point where I felt confident in my abilities, I began to shop my beat tapes. At the time there were no CD burners so your best options for recording your beats was either use a cassette or a DAT tape. Ahh, remember those days?

After shopping my beat tapes for awhile, I began to build up quite a buzz for myself and decided to take it to the next level and create my own independent music production company and thus, Maseed Productions was born. My beat tapes passed through quite a few hands and oddly enough, passed through the hands of a female R&B singer of all people. This was pretty surprising to me considering the fact that I based my reputation on being an underground hip-hop producer never the less, it is what it is. There was a beat on my tape that she fell in love with and about a week after officially setting up shop, I sold my very first track. I never made my first $100 dollars, my first sell was actually to the tune of $250 dollars which was not bad considering I had only been in the game for a short while.

In the early 90's, the internet was not the play ground of piracy and file sharing that it is now, so it was relatively easy to do non-exclusive deals for $250 on up. I continued to promote Maseed Productions every chance I got. I would go to talent shows, concerts, clubs, college venues; anywhere that I thought I would find artist in need of production, I would be there. Maseed Productions has been in business for almost 15 years now and since then has gone on to work on several other projects for both independent and major label artist.

Times are changing and so is the way that people are receiving music. Now in 2008, Maseed Productions along with the help of Allen Brown and sellmorebeats.com is preparing to take on the "on-line beat selling market" with the same dedication and enthusiasm as we did when Maseed was first founded back in 1994 by launching our new on-line beat selling website, THEBEATAUTHORITY.COM. I highly encourage anyone that is serious about making money with their music to subscribe to the sellmorebeats.com on-line courses and watch it change every single perception of selling beats on-line that you've ever had.