PT416 wrote:Boogie! wrote:PT416 wrote:Yes. He does more work than the artist. He makes the beat. He tweaks and constructs the artists rough sounding vocal into a smooth voice and then adds the effects that compliment the voice as it sits at the perfect spot on the groove of the beat using software that these "super talented" artists would never be able to learn nor have the intelligence to comprehend. So yeah, sound engineers/producers do a lot. But to all the casuals you guys think the artists go into a studio and perform magic and it just happens somehow, and thats because the media makes it seem that way.
Khalid doesnt make the beat. He has beat makers. He just listens to it and gives his ideas and recruits the artists he wants for each song.
I’m not even a Khaled hater but he’s not even dr Dre or timbaland in terms of how he’s involved in constructing the whole song. He used to make beats and maybe he’s involved in the arrangement of the song, but he’s more a manager/agent/producer than a musician. And when I say producer I don’t mean in the same way as Quincy Jones or even new Kanye. Producer in the sense that he maybe comes up with an idea and gathers everyone else to actually construct the song.
That's not what got him to where he is now though. I'm sure he had to work his way up and learn and do those things well first.
Is that so, though? He was a DJ in New Orleans, and then hosted a radio show in Miami. Do we actually know that he has ever created beats or arranged a song? I thought he was just a glorified hype man who got rappers together for tracks.
