Next.’ I’ve learned from going to a bunch of sessions that there’s usually no point for me to be there.” “I’ll go to the studio with a rapper and I'm like, I have four beats-that’s it! Other producers will have 50 beats stocked up and they’ll play them with the rapper going, ‘Next. “I have a few things at a time that I'm happy with,” Volpe, 29, says. ![]() And yet he’s helped shape the sound of some of the most talked about artists in rap today, from 2009 to now, from Lil B to A$AP Rocky to Vince Staples. If Mike WiLL could last 120 hours in the studio, playing through endless beats for an MC to jump on, Volpe would last maybe 12 minutes. ![]() Mike Volpe, who produces and releases music as Clams Casino, is taking the less-traveled path. The most prolific producer usually wins the day. ![]() Take the “five beats a day x three summers” regimen mapped out by Kanye West on his song “Spaceship” Drake producer Frank Dukes and his self-made Kingsway Music Library, a massive collection of affordable original music for other beatmakers to sample or the catalog of beats Atlanta hotshot Mike WiLL Made-It has created (enough that “Mike could lock you in a studio for five days and not play the same beat twice,” according to Miley Cyrus). Read enough interviews with hip-hop producers (or the rappers who use their work) and you’ll come to understand that successfully selling a beat is often a numbers game - and that volume wins.
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