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This is a community focused on learning and improvement.Įxplore the wealth of resources here and elsewhere before asking for help, do your own research. In hip-hop today, the tags add to a song, creating hype and anticipation when the song has barely started.Community Guidelines - Resources - Gear Guide - Discord Chat - IRC Chat - 2016 MIXTAPE Here, XXL highlights some of the most popular producer tags, from the names you need to know in hip-hop.įrom ChaseTheMoney's "ChaseTheMoney ChaseTheMoney," voiced by Valee, to EarDrummers' pitched-down tag or the internet favorite P'ierre Bourne catchphrase, "Yo, Pi'erre, you wanna come out here?," rap listeners already know what they are in for, just off of a short audio clip. Add in the prevalence of social media and the much smaller proximity of producers to fans and your tag can become huge. Surging to popularity in the early 2000s, producer tags are everywhere now. One of the ways producers separate themselves from the pack is with a tag, an audio drop that plays during their beats that makes it clear who produced the track. In hip-hop, there's always been appreciation for having a "calling card." Whether it's a rapper having a go-to ad-lib or a production style being so unique that you know it every time a song plays, artists within the genre want to stick out.
