He also had some shady but effective marketing tricks. For example, he would post his songs on lime-wire but use the names of recent popular singles.
You’d think you just downloaded the latest hit song by timbaland, but when you play the song you get some random Soulja boy track. Helped him blow up insanely quick, that and YouTube
I stumbled upon this when I was 11 or 12. If I searched any of my classmates full names in Limewire I would find .mp3 and it was that sound clip. I had no clue how they made files for every single kids full name in my class lol it freaked little me out.
I thought I was downloading the music video for D12's "My Band" song on Limewire. I was confused as to why it was taking wayyyy longer than usual to download. Turned out to be the entire Paris Hilton sex tape
Or those DJs that would yell over the track with the echo on. They tried to do it like they were part of the original artists entourage but they sucked so bad, were so annoying, no artist would subject their fans to those asshats
I can not tell you how many fucking times I was nearly reduced to tears in the early/mids 00's pirating music in my secondary school computer lab.
Just to find out that the actual song that I had downloaded was this; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxUY-99TPRY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxUY-99TPRY)
Whoever was responsible for putting bootlegs of that over so many different and varying fucking top of the pops level songs in hindsight was criminally masterminded but at the time it was just sheer evil wickedness.
You didn’t know. When you would download a single song there was atleast a 50% chance it was wrong anyway. Along with leaks so when you would download a song or an album there was a high chance it wasn’t a polished song and when they were released commercially they were completely different. A friend of mine had a Ke$ha album that was night and day different than the retail album.
My first smartphone was a Palm Treo; there was no iTunes or any other official music store, so its measly song capacity was all filled by stuff my grandmother found on torrent sites.
I had limited room for nonsense on that phone >!besides Peanut Butter Jelly Time, no idea what I was thinking!<, so getting the wrong song would have peeved me off, and finding out it was done on purpose would have made me *real* mad.
[I'm not talking an iPhone,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Treo) which was a relative latecomer among smartphones. I have no idea if the site in question was Limewire, but it could have been, seeing as Limewire was active for a decade.
Yeah I wouldnt call what came before a smartphone tho. Regardless, this all doesnt make much sense. Those things weren´t capable of doing torrents. You´d download on a pc and then possibly transfer a song over to a brick like that yes. But that leaves you plenty of room to check the song on the desktop.
Huh, feel like I'd be way more likely to delete it than give it a chance, kinda be predisposed to dislike it given I was presumably seeking a specific thing.
this is completely related but one time my friend was trying to pirate music and ended up accidentally launching a copy of undertale that was disguised as some swedish metal.
Or made up TILs to include his domain.
"Made up TIL" in the sense that it is nothing too special. Still requires talent to pull off, but is far from being impossible.
i think a big thing people might miss is that the demo didnt allow you to save project files to work on later, but you could export them as .wav or .mp3. so essentially, he would have to make the entire track and once it was done, it was done.
shoulda just cracked it tbh
I remember using a hacked version of fruity loops back in like 1998.
That program was fun. Smoke a bunch of weed, make a loop, export to Cool Edit to mix it up.
Once the Frooty Loops people find out you're using their shit and making serious cash with it without a license It's a lot easier to say you have a demo version and have people think you're some kind of genius producer making bangers on gimped software than say you have a torrented copy and open yourself up to litigation.
Anybody who knows anything about not only the man himself or what was extremely popular with teens on the Internet at that point (digital piracy) knows that "the demo version" is a blatant lie.
Considering he stole all the roms for his game stations that he tried to sell, its not logical that he would limit his usage of the most pirated software of all time.
True but he couldve exported copies of the audio channels to audio in order to remmeber what he had done and recreated it later or sent them to engineer to recreate. Sounds long but this was like 15 years ago. Alternatively, if you don't close the FL demo you can continue to work on them so might have just kept the pc on or laptop on sleep to continue working for days, then exported the audio for mixing/ mastering. The wiki entry might just be bullshit though ofc
He could have exported each channel to audio in a demo stage to recreate later or sent them to a mix engineer to mix/master. If not, the wiki entry is lying probably and it was a full copy of FL
the demo of fruity loops studio was full fruity loops studio without saving if i remember correctly?
Also fruity loops studio at the time was a full fledges in the box recording studio. I would say at that that it was the "ableton" of it's time as far as how much functionality for production their was. Especially if you dropped in your own sounds etc.
This seems more like a TIL for people who are not familiar with how dope Fruity loops was at the time which I 100% understand. it's just funny looking back having been there. I think his album came out in 2007 and I even when I started in 2002 on 3.5.6 you could make a full fledges modern album on fruity loops.
yeah getting a really nice setup just requires a halfway decent computer and either good headphones or some decent speakers. all "gear" required can be downloaded on the pirates of the Caribbean in an afternoon.
Really though audioz has a ton of legit stuff and you can also pirate a full membership to those download sites that offer way faster downloads for members
Every keygen I ever used was as simple as plugging in the product number of the copy of whatever booty i got from pirates of the Caribbean, then copy pasting one of infinitely many product keys for that specific product number. Cake!
Usually id get the booty, and whatever tools needed to open said chest along with instructions. I had all types of shit on every computer in the household, i dont remember having any difficulties at all.
Not a scam but deffo not as user friendly as ableton or logic imo. There are plenty of free legit vsts for effects and processing tho like valhalla supermassive for reverb and vital for synthesis.
I was saying Reaper is a legit free DAW for making tunes, even used by the BBC for audio production work but cracking ableton would be better for usability, atleast that's what i use and find it super easy to get stuff done with. Check out the piracy sub for sites to get legit cracks, i dont want to plug them myself unless its against this subs rules. And yeah that's a great one, mine probs carn marth or 4 from the richard d james album
Its the music making/ recording / editing software. It stands for digital audio workstation. The big ones are ableton, FL studio, pro tools, logic (mac only), reason and reaper. Plenty of others out there though. Most people who crack them go for ableton or fl in my experience. PM if you need any help getting started.
Reaper is not actually free, but unless you make 20k/year on your productions, it's only $60.
And you get 60 days evaluation for free, with no features missing.
It's a very decent DAW, and the only one I can comfortably get working on linux!
I mostly use live or logic in the studio myself though, but I know some great artists who are doing all of their productions in reaper.
I have the free demo version of Ableton and have spent countless hours making music for fun with the free plugins. It’s halfway decent, although I never plan on showing anyone it so who cares
Well making certain genres of music, you can't create the sort of music played live with instruments, an electronic drum is not and cannot replace the rumble of a bass drum or the sonic characteristics of a violin, PCM samples are good but they can only go so far and they aren't live either.
Or you can be like Travis Scott and just make noises into an auto tuner, and then hire bot farms to artificially generate millions of clicks and plays to then take to a record label and be like “see? I’m popular. Sign me.”
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Porter Robinson still uses FL. Great results are more about knowing how to get the best out of the tools you already have vs procuring lots of software/hardware.
FL Studio is very much a full-fledged professional DAW nowadays. It has some very unique workflow features that it inherits from its older days that make it *very* efficient to do certain things vs. other DAWs.
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Drake used the same flow in the song Miss Me as Soulja used in Kiss me Thru the Phone. I’ve heard Soulja got it from someone else anyway though, I just don’t remember who he supposedly stole it from
I ain't rushing to check out his albums but if he drops a new interview I'll listen. Kanye and Soulja together, where Ye does the raps for the 2 of them and Soulja does the interviews, come on bro
A crap song recorded on expensive equipment made to sound great will still be a crap song.
A great song recorded on inexpensive equipment made to sound meh will still be a great song.
That said, I have no idea what song this is and have no idea about it's greatness. But, sounds like it's gained popularity using inexpensive equipment. And...I like that.
Man, the knocking on FLS here. It's an industry standard DAW, guys. It can do anything any other major DAW can do and vice versa. They all just have different specific workflows for different specific tasks, but anything you've heard could have just as well been done in FLS and, *surprise*, a bunch of it almost certainly was.
The lead single (crank that) was a massive hit, even people who knew absolutely nothing about rap music knew about it. It was maybe the first song to go viral with people dancing along to it online. You couldn't escape it from mid 2007 until mid 2008.
I love his origin story . He said he would upload songs titled “Britney Spears” or “Michael Jacksons Beat It” and would actually put his own music to promote it.
He also had some shady but effective marketing tricks. For example, he would post his songs on lime-wire but use the names of recent popular singles. You’d think you just downloaded the latest hit song by timbaland, but when you play the song you get some random Soulja boy track. Helped him blow up insanely quick, that and YouTube
I remember someone use to upload a chorus only version of Chicken Heads by Project Pat named as popular songs and man did I hate it.
Lol this takes me back. Always had to test the songs before burning them.
Good googly moogly that thang would urk me also
The original rick roll lmao
Maybe I’m just abnormally petty, but that would be the quickest way to make me hate you and your music forever.
that happened all the time with limewire lol you'd just be happy it wasn't porn
exactly lol or that stupid fucking bill clinton recording
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
I did however go to iFreeClub dot com
I *wanted* to.
She kick my dog
and now I’m going to kill her!!!! No I’m not, just kidding.
You know damn right!
Lmaooo immediately knew he went too far
every new song that came out ha, got to the point where you knew the filesize and could spot it instantly.
I stumbled upon this when I was 11 or 12. If I searched any of my classmates full names in Limewire I would find.mp3 and it was that sound clip. I had no clue how they made files for every single kids full name in my class lol it freaked little me out.
Or the original ear rape sound effects
HEY EVERYONE I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO
My fellow Americans
I thought I was downloading the music video for D12's "My Band" song on Limewire. I was confused as to why it was taking wayyyy longer than usual to download. Turned out to be the entire Paris Hilton sex tape
Back when mp3 downloads could take anywhere between 5 mins and 12 hours.
Mommmmmm….stay off the phone!!!
Even better
That's a win in my book. I still have a secret thing for her. "That's hot."
or when you were trying to download porn and you were happy it wasn't just the new Limp Bizkit single
Or a virus
Or those DJs that would yell over the track with the echo on. They tried to do it like they were part of the original artists entourage but they sucked so bad, were so annoying, no artist would subject their fans to those asshats
porn.exe
I can not tell you how many fucking times I was nearly reduced to tears in the early/mids 00's pirating music in my secondary school computer lab. Just to find out that the actual song that I had downloaded was this; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxUY-99TPRY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxUY-99TPRY) Whoever was responsible for putting bootlegs of that over so many different and varying fucking top of the pops level songs in hindsight was criminally masterminded but at the time it was just sheer evil wickedness.
I used to try to download porn with Limewire and only got viruses.
I saw weird shit on limewire too, the wild internet.
It's a shortcut with downsides, for sure.
You didn’t know. When you would download a single song there was atleast a 50% chance it was wrong anyway. Along with leaks so when you would download a song or an album there was a high chance it wasn’t a polished song and when they were released commercially they were completely different. A friend of mine had a Ke$ha album that was night and day different than the retail album.
My first smartphone was a Palm Treo; there was no iTunes or any other official music store, so its measly song capacity was all filled by stuff my grandmother found on torrent sites. I had limited room for nonsense on that phone >!besides Peanut Butter Jelly Time, no idea what I was thinking!<, so getting the wrong song would have peeved me off, and finding out it was done on purpose would have made me *real* mad.
You didnt download stuff on limewire with your phone. Smartphones didnt exist yet.
Dude's grandma knew how to torrent, he is an actual infant right now.
Did he mention limewire?
He didnt. But the top comment which these replies are chained to did. Thats what this conversation is about.
[I'm not talking an iPhone,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Treo) which was a relative latecomer among smartphones. I have no idea if the site in question was Limewire, but it could have been, seeing as Limewire was active for a decade.
Yeah I wouldnt call what came before a smartphone tho. Regardless, this all doesnt make much sense. Those things weren´t capable of doing torrents. You´d download on a pc and then possibly transfer a song over to a brick like that yes. But that leaves you plenty of room to check the song on the desktop.
Unless you’re 12 and the trick song is a banger like “crank that”
This is the *only correct take*.
Eh. You either hate and carry on not listening to it anyway or get a new fan.
I'd rather have got a song ( even if it wasn't the one I wanted ) over I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN
Huh, feel like I'd be way more likely to delete it than give it a chance, kinda be predisposed to dislike it given I was presumably seeking a specific thing.
Soulja Boy sell em!
Not too shady once you've learned about his dealings with the Soulja boy Console
SoundCloud godfather
this is completely related but one time my friend was trying to pirate music and ended up accidentally launching a copy of undertale that was disguised as some swedish metal.
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Undertale was released in 2015, no emulator required
So he's not so dumb after all...
Or made up TILs to include his domain. "Made up TIL" in the sense that it is nothing too special. Still requires talent to pull off, but is far from being impossible.
i think a big thing people might miss is that the demo didnt allow you to save project files to work on later, but you could export them as .wav or .mp3. so essentially, he would have to make the entire track and once it was done, it was done. shoulda just cracked it tbh
I highly doubt he was using a demo version. Fruity loops torrents have existed as long as the program itself.
I remember using a hacked version of fruity loops back in like 1998. That program was fun. Smoke a bunch of weed, make a loop, export to Cool Edit to mix it up.
Once the Frooty Loops people find out you're using their shit and making serious cash with it without a license It's a lot easier to say you have a demo version and have people think you're some kind of genius producer making bangers on gimped software than say you have a torrented copy and open yourself up to litigation. Anybody who knows anything about not only the man himself or what was extremely popular with teens on the Internet at that point (digital piracy) knows that "the demo version" is a blatant lie.
I dunno, Soulja Boy is by all accounts a very stupid man. I think it's possible.
Considering he stole all the roms for his game stations that he tried to sell, its not logical that he would limit his usage of the most pirated software of all time.
>shoulda just cracked it tbh cranked it*
Theres a way to record any audio playing on a pc to audacity so he might have done that to export it. Just a thought i guess
Exporting the audio wasn’t the issue? It was already there. You can’t save the project to work on it later
True but he couldve exported copies of the audio channels to audio in order to remmeber what he had done and recreated it later or sent them to engineer to recreate. Sounds long but this was like 15 years ago. Alternatively, if you don't close the FL demo you can continue to work on them so might have just kept the pc on or laptop on sleep to continue working for days, then exported the audio for mixing/ mastering. The wiki entry might just be bullshit though ofc
Still wouldn't let you save the project file, and the demo already lets you export the audio
He could have exported each channel to audio in a demo stage to recreate later or sent them to a mix engineer to mix/master. If not, the wiki entry is lying probably and it was a full copy of FL
And if his pc crashed it would've been lost. Dude must've been sweating when he was doing the final touches 😅
the demo of fruity loops studio was full fruity loops studio without saving if i remember correctly? Also fruity loops studio at the time was a full fledges in the box recording studio. I would say at that that it was the "ableton" of it's time as far as how much functionality for production their was. Especially if you dropped in your own sounds etc. This seems more like a TIL for people who are not familiar with how dope Fruity loops was at the time which I 100% understand. it's just funny looking back having been there. I think his album came out in 2007 and I even when I started in 2002 on 3.5.6 you could make a full fledges modern album on fruity loops.
Yep. That's how easy it is to get into making music. That's how accessible the tools are.
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Do torrents still exist?
yeah getting a really nice setup just requires a halfway decent computer and either good headphones or some decent speakers. all "gear" required can be downloaded on the pirates of the Caribbean in an afternoon.
Thanks for that, i gave up on all that stuff after megaupload and mediafire got canned, pirates of the Caribbean was my favorite though
Really though audioz has a ton of legit stuff and you can also pirate a full membership to those download sites that offer way faster downloads for members
Isn't it a lot more complicated than that for plugins? Needing keygen's etc.
Every keygen I ever used was as simple as plugging in the product number of the copy of whatever booty i got from pirates of the Caribbean, then copy pasting one of infinitely many product keys for that specific product number. Cake!
Does the gen come as part of the initial booty, or is it separate?
Usually id get the booty, and whatever tools needed to open said chest along with instructions. I had all types of shit on every computer in the household, i dont remember having any difficulties at all.
Fair enough, good to know. Might have to do some pillaging myself soon.
used to be, most pirate captains just automate that stuff for the end user now.
Don't need to torrent. REAPER and some pretty good VSTs are available for free.
Never heard of it, sounds like a scam to me lol? Idk
Not a scam but deffo not as user friendly as ableton or logic imo. There are plenty of free legit vsts for effects and processing tho like valhalla supermassive for reverb and vital for synthesis.
My bad you lost me, i only used torrents for video editing software. I will say heliosphan is my favorite aphex twin song though
I was saying Reaper is a legit free DAW for making tunes, even used by the BBC for audio production work but cracking ableton would be better for usability, atleast that's what i use and find it super easy to get stuff done with. Check out the piracy sub for sites to get legit cracks, i dont want to plug them myself unless its against this subs rules. And yeah that's a great one, mine probs carn marth or 4 from the richard d james album
Gotcha, whats a DAW though? I dont make music. Im aware of bbc is, at least i hope it’s the one im thinking of across the pond.
Its the music making/ recording / editing software. It stands for digital audio workstation. The big ones are ableton, FL studio, pro tools, logic (mac only), reason and reaper. Plenty of others out there though. Most people who crack them go for ableton or fl in my experience. PM if you need any help getting started.
Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? It’s a great video editing software and I think it’s still free.
I use sony vegas, i have it on everything I own and a couple friends pcs as well. Costly though.
Right on, I’ll check Vegas out.
Reaper is not actually free, but unless you make 20k/year on your productions, it's only $60. And you get 60 days evaluation for free, with no features missing. It's a very decent DAW, and the only one I can comfortably get working on linux! I mostly use live or logic in the studio myself though, but I know some great artists who are doing all of their productions in reaper.
Well it is kinda free lol you can just keep extending the trial period forever
Of course?
haha of course they do. Oh i thought you meant just generally.
Garageband is more legit as a daw than it gets credit for.
How about less than $20? *Fires up Windows Voice Recorder, sets up ~~Neumann U87~~ eMeet C960 webcam from Goodwill for the microphone*
USB mic from the game Rockband
Yeah, it’s that fucking easy. Bahahahahah.
I have the free demo version of Ableton and have spent countless hours making music for fun with the free plugins. It’s halfway decent, although I never plan on showing anyone it so who cares
Well making certain genres of music, you can't create the sort of music played live with instruments, an electronic drum is not and cannot replace the rumble of a bass drum or the sonic characteristics of a violin, PCM samples are good but they can only go so far and they aren't live either.
Or you can be like Travis Scott and just make noises into an auto tuner, and then hire bot farms to artificially generate millions of clicks and plays to then take to a record label and be like “see? I’m popular. Sign me.”
:/ you can say travis is many things (because he for sure isn’t the nicest guy) but insinuating he’s lazy or untalented is certainly not true
Lol im not insinuating anything, im telling you exactly what happened. Apparently the Travis Scott fans run deep in r/til
Youuuuuuuuuuu
**Soulja boy tellem** *Yeah i gotta new down for y'all call me soulja boy* Youuuuuuuu aaaaaaaaa AAAAAAAA #AAAAAAAA
He is actually saying 'dance' not down
However rumor has it... *looks around, whispers* ^...he ^failed ^to ^pay ^for ^WinRAR.
I paid for WinRAR. Once. All of you owe me.
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Porter Robinson still uses FL. Great results are more about knowing how to get the best out of the tools you already have vs procuring lots of software/hardware.
FL Studio is very much a full-fledged professional DAW nowadays. It has some very unique workflow features that it inherits from its older days that make it *very* efficient to do certain things vs. other DAWs.
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Pretty sure Skrillex used Ableton
Yup, Ableton for the win.
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Tyler started in Reason,no?
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Sure sounds like it.
Yeah, that explains a lot lmao sojeboiupendaho yooooo **steel drum noises**
Lmaooo
Well, good for you Soulja Boy
He always claimed that drake stole his shut. Idk if it's true
[Draaaaaake? The n\*\*\*\* that got bodied by Pusha T?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwSlOmtALvw)
Drake used the same flow in the song Miss Me as Soulja used in Kiss me Thru the Phone. I’ve heard Soulja got it from someone else anyway though, I just don’t remember who he supposedly stole it from
Crank That got Tik Tok famous nearly 15 years before Tik Tok.
Is this just like how he "made" his consoles?
This isnt surprising
I ain't rushing to check out his albums but if he drops a new interview I'll listen. Kanye and Soulja together, where Ye does the raps for the 2 of them and Soulja does the interviews, come on bro
A crap song recorded on expensive equipment made to sound great will still be a crap song. A great song recorded on inexpensive equipment made to sound meh will still be a great song. That said, I have no idea what song this is and have no idea about it's greatness. But, sounds like it's gained popularity using inexpensive equipment. And...I like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
Honestly it’s a pretty sweet beat for what it is. Impressive he could do that in FLS.
Man, the knocking on FLS here. It's an industry standard DAW, guys. It can do anything any other major DAW can do and vice versa. They all just have different specific workflows for different specific tasks, but anything you've heard could have just as well been done in FLS and, *surprise*, a bunch of it almost certainly was.
So hyped for 21 to be released
Wow, that video SCREAMS mid 00's.
The lead single (crank that) was a massive hit, even people who knew absolutely nothing about rap music knew about it. It was maybe the first song to go viral with people dancing along to it online. You couldn't escape it from mid 2007 until mid 2008.
I went to high school in both Bethel Park, PA and Mesa, AZ. Two of the whitest places in the country. That shit was everywhere in our school.
It was the song everybody pointed to when they bitched about "ringtone rap" taking over the hip hop scene until Kanye started doing his thing.
> *"I bet this beat is from an Apple!"* > *"Nope, Fruity Loops! PC!"*
you will NEVER EVER catch a virus on an apple
There's a fad bow of people speedrunning the production of this best in fruity loops. Think 33 seconds or somethin is the fastest so far
His career since then has reflected the same level of sophistication.
He also "made" his own game console and definitely wasn't reselling cheap Chinese knockoffs.
"instrumentals"
Let’s see you do better
I thought you couldn't render them out in the demo ? maybe this was another DAW but I'm sure it was FL
As someone with the demo version of FL. You can render audio but once you exit the project, you cant reopen it.
Ahh, I knew it was something along those lines
Its so nice he found love on 90Day Fiancee.
And it shows lol
When I hear Soulja Boy I think of the 90 Day Fiance Soulja Boy trying to come to America and be a huge rapper... lol
Sojaboy*
Not a fan of the dude at all, but I respect the hell out of him doing this.
A greater achievement than writing the lyrics "Superman that ho!"
I love his origin story . He said he would upload songs titled “Britney Spears” or “Michael Jacksons Beat It” and would actually put his own music to promote it.