It doesn't matter that you don't listen to pop music or at least you don't think you listen to pop music beats. The truth is that of course you listen to and enjoy some pop music sometime even if you don't like to admit it. But that's not even the point. The point is that so many people listen to and love pop music that it's foolish not to target the interests of the audience. It's not as if you have to alter your style of flow, all you have to do is put down one of your tracks to a pop music beat and then let people hear it. You will still be respected for your lyrical skills, as long as you have them, but you will simply produce your lyrics over a beat that makes a lot more people stand up and take notice.

Pop music beats are good because they make people get up and move around. They make people heads bob and have an appealing flavor. This is a good thing for any rapper to be associated with a beat that makes people get up and move. And besides that you can expose an entirely new audience to your music just by rapping to a pop music beat. Some rappers are rather reluctant to put a track down over a pop music beat as if their integrity were on the line. But this is foolish. Every rapper that you know of, well almost all, have put lyrics down to pop music beats. What type of beats do you suppose Timbaland specializes in making? What kind of beats do you think Dre specializes in making? The answer is that both artists create pop music beats for the masses to listen to.

There's no problem with their creation of pop music beats in the industry. And most rapper seem just fine rapping over a Dre or Timbaland beat. Eminem doesn't stop to think twice before he raps to Dre and neither should you. Fifty Cent doesn't stop before he raps to Dre to ask whether or not he's rapping to a pop music beat. The reason why is because it doesn't matter. What matters is that the beat is hot. And with pop music the goal has always been to make people move around and to enjoy what they were listening to. This is exactly the effect you want to create. You want people to stop and listen when they hear the beat. Then when your lyrics come up, and if they're tight, people will take notice to who you are and what you're doing.

Don't ever stop what your doing with rap just to work with pop music. Or put another way, don't think that you have to become a pop music artist to rap to pop music beats. The truth is that really your personal style decides what type of rapper you are. And by putting your words to a pop music beat you are simply broadening your horizons not limiting your style.