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Hip-Hop loops to build on
From dusty sample flips to conscious and underground production. The widest room on ColabLoop — narrow it with a style below.
Producers working in Hip-Hop1
vorxshadeVerified producer
Hip-Hop · Boom Bap · Old School
- Loops
- 17
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- 1
- Replies
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What Hip-Hop loops usually bring
Hip-hop loops cover more ground than any other genre here: sampled-sounding soul and jazz, live keys and bass, dusty guitar, synth pads, and anything else a producer can loop for four bars and rap over. What they share is a groove that holds up on repeat, because a hip-hop beat is often built on one loop that runs for a whole verse.
Most of it sits between 80 and 100 BPM, though plenty of modern hip-hop is programmed double-time over the same grid. Loops tend to be two, four or eight bars, often swung, and they usually leave the drums to the producer, so the kick and snare can sit in the pocket of the loop.
Collaborating on Hip-Hop loops
The classic hip-hop collaboration is a loop maker and a beatmaker: one brings the loop, the other chops it, adds drums and bass, and arranges it into a beat an artist can use. When the loop is original, credit is simple to agree between the two of you. When it contains a sample of someone else's record, that sample needs clearing, and that is a separate question from your agreement with each other.
On ColabLoop, you ask the loop's owner to build on it, and if they accept, a private room opens with the full WAV to take into your own DAW. When the beat is released, both of you attest that the owner is on the split. ColabLoop records those attestations; registering the split with a PRO or distributor is still yours to do.