Elephant Tracks

Free Rap Beats

Leases and Rights

There are two ways to acquire and use beats:

  1. Leases
  2. Exclusive rights

First, let’s cover leases.

Leases

At Elephant Tracks, we offer free leases on all of our beats. When you lease a beat, you can use it for non-commercial purposes, such as:

  • Mixtapes
  • Live performances
  • Radio

Here’s what you’re not allowed to do with leased beats:

  • Sell them through distributors like iTunes
  • Use them for major releases
  • Sell/lease them on other beat marketplaces

Leases are non-exclusive, which means you don’t own the rights to the beat, and we (the producers) can sell or give away as many leases as we want.

Important: When you use a leased beat, you must credit the producer whenever possible. For example, if you uploaded your song to SoundCloud, you would call it:

“Name of Your Song (Prod. by Elephant Tracks)”

We also offer exclusive rights to our beats.

Exclusive Rights

When you buy exclusive rights to a beat, it means the producer no longer owns it, so they can’t continue to lease or sell it. Once you own the exclusive rights to a beat, you can:

  • Sell it through distributors like iTunes
  • Use it for a major release
  • Use it for any other commercial purposes

We offer royalty free exclusive rights, so we don’t collect royalties for each sale of a song or album that uses our beats.

But, you will need to credit the producer (Elephant Tracks) if you use one of our beats on a major release, like an album.