18 Gifts for the Aspiring SoundCloud Rapper

So, you know someone interested in SoundCloud Rap. Maybe it’s your son, daughter, niece, or nephew. Maybe it’s a little brother or sister. Whoever it is, your little buddy—or “Lil’ Bud” for short—is showing all the signs of SoundCloud mania: they’re dying their hair a new color every day, and they’re holding a tattoo gun up to their face as you read this.
You won’t let them ink up their cheek, of course. But you will encourage creativity wherever it may be found. Thus, you’d like to buy them a gift to facilitate their dream of making paper and chasing clout. With this in mind, let’s go over some good gifts for Lil’ Bud.

Music Production Software

Your Lil’ Bud, if more enterprising than the common beat-thief, will need a method of producing material. They presumably have a computer; they just need software to make music on this computer. This means a DAW—a digital audio workstation. You want something more advanced than Apple’s GarageBand, yet still within a budget. Indeed, many DAWs can be very expensive. They can also be focused for enterprises other than SoundCloud rap. So, we’d like to point you to two different options perfectly tailored to your needs.
The first is Ableton Live Intro. For a wallet-friendly price, Ableton Live Intro offers a forward-thinking way for fashioning beats, playing chords, and implementing studio-quality effects. This iteration of Ableton Live provides all the same features of the more advanced versions, but it kneecaps you with limited audio tracks, fewer MIDI tracks, and pared-down effects. Still, you get all the functionality of a production workhorse preferred by many in the SoundCloud community, which makes the Intro edition perfectly suited for those just getting into the game.