ModernBeats has released a suite of VST plugins aimed at hip hop music production. And now’s the time to start dropping those phat beats — Undercover magazine recently reported that rapper Nas paid superstar producers The Neptunes 2 million dollars for a single music track. If that isn’t inspiration to make music, I don’t know what is.

The five plugins go like this:
WaterVerb – A liquid reverb plugin.
SubAtomik -A subbass enhancer, low band compressor, & woofer buster(!) all in one.
BlazeBox -A wah-wah, phaser, tremelo, and auto-pan effect all rolled into one.
TimeMachine – Make your pristine digital track sound as if it’s being played off a beat-up old vinyl record : “Instantly add years of damage, dirt, and grit to any & all of your samples.”
Transistor – A CB Radio Walkie-Talkie emulator.

Some of these don’t really seem to have much to do with hip hop. But hey, if you can get $2,000,000 for a water reverb-soaked walkie-talkie sound then good luck to you.