Probably the worst one is this local rapper. The deal we had was $25 if I make the beat plus $25 for tracking vocals. He had about 12 songs done and wanted me to make 5-6 beats. We agreed a total of $450 recording vocals $150 for beats. Did 4 songs the first day in less than 4 hours with the beats he made. The second day I loaded up more of the beats he made and realized on of them was a Kendrick Lamar beat. I knew he made beats himself so I assumed he at least made the other ones . He didn't, all the beats were stolen from other rappers... Famous rappers. He wanted to record a couple less than a minute vocal skits where he just says shit with no music. We agreed that since it's only talking for a minute that I'd let him do two of those for the price of one. Somehow that little agreement evolved into
"since this song (not skit) is less than two minutes, can I do two for one?"
Should never had agreed. That turned into
"how long are those two songs I just did?"
"The first one's about 3:30 and the other one is 3:00"
"Alright, cut out this part in the first one and this part in the second one. How long are they now?"
"Both are under 2 minutes"
"Alright cool. So 2 for the price of 1 (Not a question. A statement)"
Third day he came in with the rest of the beats all edited to be about 2 minutes.
"Alright so that's 4 songs under two minutes so here's $50"
He was in a rush to leave so he did 2 takes per song and left in 20 minutes.
We did the 12 songs he had in 3 days and when I asked about the beats he wanted me to make he said something like
"Nah man I found this site that lets you rip the audio from Youtube videos so I got tons of beats"
He was gonna steal some more beats to finish off his album instead of paying me to make the beats. In those 3 days it was 4 hours, 2 hours, 20-30 minutes for just over $200 So I just said fuck it I'll finish the rest. 4th day he came in with a piece of paper with tons of math written all over it. He says something like
"Okay this skit is 15 seconds, this song is 1:30 and this song is 2 minutes. Since they're under 4 minutes we'll just do these 3 for the price of one (Statement, not a question) And these two both equal 4 minutes and this one I'll just have to pay full price for. Here's $75"
Told him I didn't agree with that, but since he was up all night doing the math on it he only brought $75. I told him to leave and gave him directions and a number to a studio a few miles away. Didn't tell him the studio charges $500 a day, so he was blowin up my phone trying to get me to finish his songs.
During one of the song's chorus I was so blown away by the lyrics I had to pull my phone out a record one of his takes. Guess what the song is called.
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ult2g6vw47pjhvj/Idgaf.mp3?dl=0
After about a month he wrote me that he had like 10 more songs and he'd pay me $100 to record it all and he'd give me some of the cd sale money. Never said anything back and just ignored him.
He would also text me right away asking for the songs. I'd literally still see his car in the window pulling away and I'd get a text "Where are the songs? they're not in my email".