I would like to add a few questions:
1. Should you get your beats mastered first before going out and showing people? I don't necessarily mean mastered by means of getting it ready for CD production because you need the vocals in there as well to complete the track, but just for an overall enhancement and polish of your beats. For example, should you take your tracks to a decent studio and hear them on high quality monitors, then try to enhance them? Other wise if you just hit export to .wav and slap your beats on a CD without any decent attempt to enhance your $hit, don't you think it would all might sound a bit thin or weak especially if your only a bedroom producer and making your beats on some basic desktop Logitech speakers or something. To sum it all up simple, does the sound quality of your beats play a factor when presenting your beats?
2. When going about creating a portfolio for your beats, do you think it's wise to stick to one genre or sub-genre? For example, I personally like to make beats ranging from different styles, from WestCoast G-Funk $hit, Bay Area Mobb $hit, underground EastCoast lo-fi sounding grimey $hit, to RnB. When going about beats I usually don't think about the genre I'm going for either, I just hit the keys and whatever happens to come up, I go with the flow. Whatever sounds good at that moment and whatever vibe I'm feelin, I make. But anyways, do you guys think you should just stick to one genre/sub-genre or what? I'm thinking too many styles might complicate things, yet it might probably help since it shows you have the ability to create other styles.
I guess this is where Supavillain is trying to get at in his last post. Should you try to create your own signiture sound, your own indentity?