How Leasing Beats Works—and Why So Many Hip-Hop Producers Are Doing It
- James Austin
- Sep 2, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: May 1, 2020
The way leasing works is that a producer allows his or her beats to be used by an artist for a price and terms the producer sets—the artist can only have their song available for a limited amount of time, for example, or only sell a certain amount of copies. The catch is, the producer can make that same deal again with a different artist, and then another one, and then another one. So you can have tons of artists doing their thing on the same beat.
