AI Hip Hop Song Maker — Boom Bap To Drill
Describe the era and get the production that belongs to it — a dusty nineties loop with no 808 anywhere, a West Coast groove with a sliding synth whistle, or a half-time drill beat with an 808 that glides. As an instrumental, or with the words written and sung.
It generates original hip-hop production and, if you want it, the song on top. Hip-hop is not one sound but a series of distinct production lineages, and the differences between them are concrete rather than atmospheric: boom bap runs at 85 to 95 with a swung acoustic kit and no 808 at all, trap runs at 140 felt as half-time with a sustained 808, drill runs at a similar tempo but its 808 glides between notes. Naming the lineage and saying what the bass does gets you the right decade in one line, which asking for a hip-hop beat never will.
15 free credits on signup — enough for one complete track with cover art. No card required.
Eight Production Lineages And What To Name
These are eras and regional scenes with different tempo bands, drum palettes and bass behaviour. The rap page covers flows; this one covers what is playing underneath.
Boom bap
85–95 BPMDusty sampled loop, hard acoustic kick and cracking snare, light swing, and no 808 anywhere.
G-funk
90–100 BPMSliding high sine-wave whistle over a fat synth bass, funk drums and sleigh bells. Slow and hypnotic.
Jazz rap
Live feelUpright bass, brushed or loose drums, horn and Rhodes samples. Harmony doing real work.
Crunk
Chant-ledShouted call-and-response hooks over blaring synth brass and heavy 808. Built for a room.
Trap
130–150, half-timeBooming sustained 808, rapid triplet hi-hat rolls, sparse dark melodic line.
Drill
138–145, half-timeThe 808 slides between notes rather than holding. Colder, more menacing, sparser.
Cloud rap
HazyReverb-drenched pads and pitched vocal textures, soft-edged drums, everything slightly out of focus.
Alternative
Off-gridLive instrumentation, odd time, unquantised playing. Hip-hop built like a band record.
How to Make a Hip Hop Track in 3 Steps
Name the lineage, say what the bass does, then add a flow if you want vocals.
Pick the lineage, not the decade
Boom bap, G-funk, jazz rap, crunk, trap, drill, cloud. Each has its own tempo band and drum palette.
Say what the bass does
Acoustic kick with no 808, a fat synth bassline, a sustained 808, or an 808 that slides. This one detail decides the era.
Add the flow if you want vocals
Triplet, double-time, laid-back pocket. Name the production here and the flow separately, in the same prompt.
The Bass Line Dates The Record
Old school and modern are vague. An acoustic kick with no 808, a sliding sine whistle, or an 808 that glides between notes puts a track in a decade immediately.
“An old school hip hop beat.”
“Instrumental boom bap beat at 90 BPM with a light swing, dusty sampled soul loop with audible sampler grit, hard acoustic kick and a cracking snare well forward, upright bass underneath, absolutely no 808 bass at all, vinyl noise across the whole thing.”
“A West Coast hip hop track.”
“Instrumental G-funk beat at 96 BPM, slow hypnotic groove with a fat synth bassline, high thin sine-wave lead sliding between notes as the main hook, live-feeling funk drums with sleigh bells in the percussion, relaxed and unhurried.”
“A dark modern trap beat.”
“Instrumental drill beat at 142 BPM with a half-time feel, 808 bass gliding between notes rather than holding one, sparse cold string melody in a minor key, skittering hi-hats with occasional stutter rolls, menacing and spacious.”
Two Pages, Two Decisions
Production and rapping are separate choices and they are treated separately here. This page settles what plays underneath — the lineage, the tempo band, the drum palette and what the bass is doing — and the rap page settles the writing and the delivery, meaning bar counts, triplet flow, pocket and rhyme density. A good prompt usually borrows from both. The honest limits are the same either way. One vocal is produced per generation, so doubled ad-libs and feature verses are out. There are no stems, so a finished track cannot be split into an acapella and a beat, though an instrumental can be generated on its own. There is no audio input, so nothing can be sampled or uploaded — the compensating advantage being that the result has no sample to clear and no third-party rights holder behind it. And tempo and key are written into the prompt rather than dialled in, which some competitors do offer as real controls.
- Organised by production lineage, with flows kept on the rap page
- Each era pinned to a tempo band and a specific bass behaviour
- The half-time convention spelled out for trap and drill
- Instrumental or fully written and sung, from the same prompt box
- Honest gaps: no sampling or upload, no stems, no ad-lib layer, no BPM slider
Hip Hop Prompts Worth Copying
Each names a lineage, a tempo and exactly what the low end is doing.
Boom bap instrumental
“Instrumental boom bap beat at 90 BPM with a light swing, dusty sampled soul loop with audible sampler grit, hard acoustic kick and a cracking snare well forward, upright bass underneath, absolutely no 808 bass at all, vinyl noise across the whole thing”
G-funk
“Instrumental G-funk beat at 96 BPM, slow hypnotic groove with a fat synth bassline, high thin sine-wave lead sliding between notes as the main hook, live-feeling funk drums with sleigh bells in the percussion, relaxed and unhurried”
Drill
“Instrumental drill beat at 142 BPM with a half-time feel, 808 bass gliding between notes rather than holding one, sparse cold string melody in a minor key, skittering hi-hats with occasional stutter rolls, menacing and spacious”
Jazz rap, with vocals
“Write and sing a jazz rap track at 88 BPM, upright bass and loosely played brushed drums with a Rhodes chord loop and a muted trumpet answering, sixteen-bar verses in a laid-back pocket, male vocalist conversational rather than aggressive, about a bus route he has taken for eleven years”
Crunk
“Write and sing a crunk track around 75 BPM, blaring synth brass stabs over a heavy 808 and hard claps, shouted call-and-response hook with the crowd answering every line, deliberately simple and repetitive, male vocalist at full volume, built for a packed room”
Cloud rap
“Write and sing a cloud rap track at 70 BPM, reverb-drenched synth pads with pitched vocal textures floating underneath, soft-edged drums low in the mix, everything slightly out of focus and washed out, female vocalist half-sung and distant, about not sleeping properly for a month”
Who Makes Hip Hop Here
Beatmakers
Instrumentals to write over, with no vocal in the way.
Reels & shorts creators
Original beats with no copyright claim attached.
Artists demoing
A lineage-accurate bed to test an idea against quickly.
Video editors
Tracks that clear without a sample to license.
What You Get
A finished track
Stereo MP3, near three minutes, instrumental or sung.
Lyrics if you want them
Tagged by section and editable before performance.
Download on paid plans
Full commercial rights, no attribution, no expiry.
Free share link
Stream it and send it before spending a download.
Frequently Asked Questions
Starting with how this page differs from the rap one, since the two are easy to confuse.
What is the difference between this and your rap page?
This one is about the track; the rap page is about the rapping. Here the taxonomy is production lineage — the eras and regional scenes that made hip-hop sound different from decade to decade, specified by tempo, drum palette and what the bass does. The rap page covers the writing and delivery instead: bar counts, triplet flow, double-time, multisyllabic rhyme and pocket. In practice you often want both in one prompt, naming the production from here and the flow from there. They are split because they are genuinely separate decisions and confusing them is why a lot of prompts return something generic.
How do I get a boom bap sound rather than a modern one?
Tempo, drums and the absence of an 808. Boom bap sits around 85 to 95 BPM with a light swing rather than a rigid grid, and the low end comes from a hard acoustic-sounding kick rather than a sustained sub. Ask for a dusty sampled loop — soul or jazz — with the sampler grit left in, a cracking snare well forward, and explicitly no 808 bass at all. That last instruction matters more than any of the others, because an 808 is the single quickest way to drag an otherwise correct arrangement into the present day.
What actually defines the G-funk sound?
A specific synth and a specific tempo, and once you name them it is unmistakable. G-funk came out of the West Coast in the early nineties and sits around 90 to 100 BPM in a slow hypnotic groove. Its signature is the portamento whistle — a high, thin sine-wave lead that slides between notes rather than stepping cleanly — over a fat synth bassline, with live-feeling funk drums and, very often, sleigh bells in the percussion. The whole style descends from seventies P-Funk, so asking for a relaxed funk groove with a sliding high synth whistle and sleigh bells gets you there in one line.
How do I ask for trap or drill specifically?
Give the tempo, the feel and the bass behaviour together. Trap is written around 130 to 150 BPM but felt at half that, since the snare lands on beat three, so ask for the tempo and add with a half-time feel — otherwise you will be tempted to request 70 and get something that plods. Trap uses a booming sustained 808 with rapid triplet hi-hat rolls. Drill sits at a similar 138 to 145 with the same half-time feel, and its defining feature is the sliding 808 that glides between notes rather than holding one, under a colder and more menacing melodic line.
Can it write and rap the lyrics too, or only make beats?
Both, and you choose. Ask for a song and the lyrics are written for you, shown as a tagged sheet you can read and edit, and then performed by a male or female vocalist. Ask for an instrumental and the lyric stage is skipped entirely and you get the beat on its own, which is what most people want if they intend to write over it themselves. It is worth knowing that one vocal is produced per generation, so doubled ad-libs behind the lead, a feature verse in a second voice, and two artists trading bars are all outside what this can do.
Can it sample a record, or can I upload a loop to rap over?
No to both. There is no audio input of any kind here — no upload, no sampling from an existing recording, no stem separation. Everything is generated from a written description. In this genre that cuts both ways honestly: you lose the ability to work from a loop you already have, and you gain a track with nothing to clear, since it is not derived from an existing master. If your workflow depends on chopping records, this is the wrong tool and a sampler is the right one.
Is there a BPM control or a key control?
No sliders for either — tempo and key are requests you write into the prompt as words, and they are interpreted rather than set exactly. In practice naming a number works reasonably well when it comes with a feel, which is why every example here says something like 142 BPM with a half-time feel rather than a bare number. Several generators on this search do expose tempo and key as real controls you dial in, and for a producer syncing to an existing project that is a meaningful advantage worth knowing about.
Is it free, and can I release the track?
15 credits on signup with no card, enough for one complete generation, plus free streaming and a public share link. Downloading and commercial use need a paid plan from $15 a month for 250 credits, carrying a full commercial licence with no attribution and no expiry. There is no third-party rights holder in the recording, which is the practical upside of not sampling — nothing to clear before release. Credits refund automatically if a generation fails. Output is stereo MP3 near three minutes, with no stems, no WAV and no length control.
More Beat & Song Tools
Same studio, same credits — the beat or the bars.
Say What The Bass Does.
No 808 at all, a fat synth line, a sustained 808 or one that slides. That single detail picks the decade. 15 credits, no card.