if the lyrics are good enough then ill still listen over a shitty beat
but seriously beats are gettin easier and easier to make good ones nowadays so there is no excuse for puttin a shitty beat on your album
either way if you dont have the complete package your gettin downloaded so ... STEP IT UP
I can't agree with the statement that good beats are easier to make these days. First, the software has allowed for virtually everybody to become a beatmaker, however it has also been one of the major causes for the connection between hip-hop and actual music (you know, the type of thing where somebody who knows how to play the instruments spends time in the studio creating something) to be lost.
From a purely mathematical point of view, there isn't an infinite number of beats one can make (although there is a very large number), and certainly only a small portion of those are good, so with each year fewer and fewer of the possible good beats remain "undiscovered". You can postpone the "depletion" moment with advances in instrumentation and by creating new sounds, but it is inevitable that with time, it will be increasingly harder to make truly new music. This is especially true for hip-hop which is relies on relatively simple patterns most of the time.
Anyway, the synthetic, computer-generated sound that dominates hip-hop now is much more prone to the "depletion of ideas" problem than playing actual music. Which is evident by the thousands of albums full of the same-sounding shitty beats
