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Beats with the hiss left in.
Ghost
Tapes
Beats for lease, the studio by the hour, and a producer who still runs every beat through a cassette deck once before it goes out.
Press a pad, or keys 1–4, Q–R, A–F, Z–V
Peach Static88 BPM · F min · soul chop, dusty drums
Lease it- 312beats leased this year
- 41artists in the room
- $60an hour, engineer included
- 1ghost pass on every beat
▶ The store
Lease it tonight. Own it outright.
Every beat comes with a tagged preview. Pick the license, pay, and the files land in your inbox in a minute. Exclusives come down from the store the same day.
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Peach StaticNewsoul chop, dusty drums
88 BPMF min
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MagnoliaR&B, warm keys
90 BPMB♭ maj
From $35 -
Bankhead 2amtrap, long 808s
140 BPMC♯ min
From $35 -
Box Fanboom bap, summer
96 BPMC maj
Sold exclusive
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Sunday TapeNewgospel chop, organ
84 BPME♭ maj
From $35 -
TrackingVHS sample, warble
86 BPMG maj
From $35 -
Chrome Hissdrill, sliding 808
150 BPMG min
From $35 -
Crate 9jazz chop, upright bass
93 BPMD maj
From $35
186 more beats in the full store · new ones every Friday
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Type IC-30
MP3 lease
$35
For the demo, the mixtape, the first single.
- Untagged MP3
- 5,000 streams
- One music video
- Credit: prod. Ghost Tapes
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Type IIC-46
WAV lease
$60
The one most people buy.
- WAV and MP3
- 50,000 streams
- Two music videos
- Live shows, no limit
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Type IVC-60
Trackouts
$120
Stems for your engineer to mix it right.
- Every track as a WAV
- 250,000 streams
- Unlimited videos
- Radio play
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Type XC-90
Unlimited
$250
No caps, still shared with others.
- Stems and WAV
- Unlimited streams and sales
- Sync on request
- Upgrade credit toward exclusive
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Type XLC-120
Exclusive
from $1,200
Yours only. It comes down from the store.
- Stems, WAV, project notes
- Full rights, one contract
- Off the store the same day
- Leases already sold stay valid
▶ The studio
The Garage, West End.
A two-car garage Malik soundproofed himself in 2021: a vocal booth that fits one, a couch that fits four, and the sampler, the keys and the tape deck every beat on this site went through. Malik engineers every session unless you bring your own.
- $60an hour, 2 hours minimum
- $275a 5-hour lockout, the room is yours
- $400make a beat from scratch, in the room
- $150mix and master, one song
In the room A 16-pad sampler from 1998 · electric piano · a large-diaphragm condenser in the booth · two pairs of monitors · a cassette deck for the ghost pass (+$25 on any mix) · free coffee
Book a session▶ Credits
On the shelf.
Songs with a Ghost Tapes beat under them. Every one started as a lease or a session in the Garage.
- 2025 Peach StaticTre Monroe Produced
- 2025 Magnolia StreetNia Delacroix Produced, mixed
- 2024 Box Fan SummerKid Cardigan Produced
- 2024 WestviewAmari Vance Co-produced
- 2023 Bankhead 2amJ. Rivers Produced
- 2023 Cutlass SeasonSouthside Lou Produced
- 2022 RerunTasia Bloom Produced, in an indie film
- 2022 Sunday TapeDeacon Pryor Produced
▶ Who
Why they’re called ghost tapes.
My uncle Dre kept a shoebox of cassettes and a stack of VHS tapes he’d taped off TV. When I was eleven I started recording radio mixes over them. Whenever the new song got quiet, you could still hear the old one underneath, faint, like somebody in the next room.
He called them ghost tapes. He wasn’t mad. He said that was the best part.
I made my first beats at fifteen in my grandmother’s house in College Park, on a sampler with sixteen pads I bought from a pawn shop for ninety dollars, chopping her soul records and sitcom theme songs off old tapes. I sold my first beat online in 2016 for twenty dollars to a rapper in Decatur. I fixed VCRs at a repair shop for six years, and in 2021 I turned my garage in West End into the studio.
Every beat still goes through a cassette deck once before it goes in the store. I call it the ghost pass. You can’t always hear it. You can always feel it.
Malik
▶ Tapes from the room
Rewind.
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Nia hearing the hook back
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Third take, the one we kept
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Chopping Sunday Tape
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The shelf, about 900 tapes
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The ghost pass
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Driving home down the connector
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Saturday crate dig
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A tape that didn’t make it
▶ From the couch
What artists say.
“Booked two hours, stayed six, left with the song that got me on the radio.”
Tre M.9 sessions“Malik hears the hook before you do. He will stop you mid-take and he is always right.”
Nia D.14 sessions“Leased Box Fan for sixty dollars, it did 400k. Bought the exclusive after. Easiest money I spent.”
Kid CardiganWAV lease, then exclusive“The booth is cold, the couch is warm and the coffee is free.”
Amari V.6 sessions
▶ Where
West End, Atlanta.
Ten minutes from downtown, off the BeltLine’s west side. Two cars fit in the driveway; the street is easy after six. The address comes with your booking.
▶ Questions
Before you press record.
What is the difference between a lease and an exclusive?
A lease lets you release a song on the beat while others can lease it too, up to the stream count on your license. An exclusive is yours alone: the beat comes down from the store that day, and anyone who leased it before keeps their license.
Can I hear a beat before I buy it?
Every beat in the store has a tagged preview. Press its pad up top or its play button in the store. What you buy has no tag.
How does the studio rate work?
Sixty dollars an hour, two hours minimum, with Malik engineering. The deposit holds your time and comes off the total. You leave with the session files and a rough mix the same night.
Can I bring my own engineer?
Yes, same rate. Malik sets the room up, then gets out of the way unless you want him.
How many people can come?
Four in the room with you. The couch is good, the booth fits one.
What if I need to move my session?
Move it up to 24 hours ahead and the deposit moves with you. Inside 24 hours the deposit stays, unless it is an emergency, and Malik has never said no to an emergency.
Do you make custom beats for remote artists?
Yes. Book "Make a beat from scratch" and choose video call in the notes. You watch it built and leave with the stems.
▶ Book
Book the Garage.
Sessions start at noon and run late. Pick a day and a start time, put down the deposit, and Malik texts you within the day to ask what you’re working on.
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Bring your lyrics. Coffee’s on me.
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