Updated 8 Nov 2026
guccihighwaters is Morgan Murphy, an emo-rap artist on Epitaph who produced his own records first under the name notmorgn. The sound is sad and dreamy: one simple minor idea, a lot of reverb, and drums that stay soft. A guccihighwaters type beat is built from space, not from layers. Drop a free minor melody loop in, add light drums, and let the reverb carry the mood.
You do not need a finished beat to start. The guccihighwaters loops sit in step 1 and again at the bottom, ready to play.
Most of these beats sit around 140 to 150 BPM but feel slow because the drums hit in half-time, so the groove reads like 70 to 75. That half-time feel is the whole point: it gives the vocal room to drag and the reverb time to breathe.
The key is almost always minor. Cmin, D#min and A#min are safe choices and match the free loops here. Minor is where the sad, confessional mood lives, so start there before you touch anything else.
Keep the drums quiet and simple. A soft kick, a rimshot or muffled snare on the backbeat, and light hi-hats are enough. This is not loud trap. The drums should bounce without pulling attention away from the melody and voice.
Use the 808 as a melodic bassline, not just low end. Slide it slowly between two notes of the minor scale for that crying feel. Roll hats only in short fills, and leave long stretches with almost no percussion so the beat can open up.
Start with one washed-out element: a soft synth, a wide piano, or a choir pad drowned in reverb. That airy, far-away texture is the guccihighwaters signature, what the label calls the drowned out sound. A free minor melody loop with the Ambient, Floating or Choir tag gives you this in one drop.
Keep the melody small, four to eight notes from the minor scale, leaning on the minor 3rd and 7th. Do not stack three counter-melodies. One idea with heavy reverb and a little delay does more than a busy arrangement ever will.
Arrange around emptiness. Let the intro run on the melody loop alone, bring the soft drums in under the verse, and pull them back out for a hook or a bridge. The contrast between full and empty is what makes the drop land.
High-pass the reverb so the low end stays clean, and sidechain the pads lightly to the kick so they duck and swell. A guccihighwaters type beat should feel underwater, never cluttered. If a section sounds crowded, mute something rather than adding more.
guccihighwaters produces most of his own work, so the clearest reference is the catalogue itself: the album joke's on you (2021) and the 2025 record Death By Desire, where he handled production and vocals with a few trusted collaborators like DJ TOOPOOR. Pull up a track like shame to hear the minor-key, reverb-heavy approach.
For kindred sounds, nothing,nowhere. sits right next to this lane, blending hip-hop drums with emo texture. Study how those records keep the drums restrained and let one sad melody run the whole song.
The biggest mistake is loud, busy drums. Hard trap hats and a booming 808 kill the dreamy mood instantly. Keep everything soft and half-time.
The second is too many layers. If you stack synth, piano, choir and guitar all at once, the space disappears and the beat stops sounding like guccihighwaters. Pick one lead, drench it in reverb, and build around the emptiness.
Pick a loop and drag it into your DAW. 808 under it, clap on top, your first guccihighwaters beat is running.
All guccihighwaters loopsTempo, key and mood of the guccihighwaters loops, straight from our catalog.
| Loop | BPM | Key | Vibe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enter the Matrix | 140 | A#min | Ambient, Beautiful, Sad |
| El Problems | 84 | Cmin | Ambient, Floating, Sad |
| Dont Mind | 140 | D#min | Ambient, Floating, Sad, Virtual |
| Fiverr | 96 | Cmin | Ambient |
| High | 132 | Fmin | Dark, Sad |
| Floralys | 140 | D#min | Ambient, Sad |
| Endless | 140 | Ambient, Sad | |
| desert | 140 | Ambient, Sad | |
| Orivon | 123 | Dmin | Ambient, Sad |
| Departure | 115 | D#maj | Ambient, Sad |
Around 140 to 150 BPM with a half-time feel, so it grooves like 70 to 75. Slow and dreamy is the goal.
A minor key. Cmin, D#min or A#min work well and match the free loops here.
Heavy reverb on a single simple melody, soft emo-trap drums, and a lot of empty space. The label calls it the drowned out sound.
Soft kick, muffled snare or rimshot on the backbeat, light hi-hats, and an 808 that slides melodically between minor-scale notes.
No. The melody loops here are free. Grab one with the Ambient, Sad, Choir or Floating tag in a minor key and build from there.
They are not royalty-free. Free in your own beats; a 50/50 publishing split with NDA Company applies to every commercial release. License Terms
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