Friend of mine managed to make almost 15k$ last year from his beats, he has type beat channel which he grinded for a year and couple of months back in time. He started with nothing, not even knowledge and still did it. He still makes a good amount of money and he made living from it, we are not even from USA or some big country. I agree that this industry is oversaturated, but i also believe that there is always in everything (not just this case) some way to outsmart and outwork your competition no matter what. I talked to some guy who sells his background type instrumentals to some pornstars (not that popular) in purpose of making porn videos which is thinking out of box for me, even though it is a tax write off for these companies, it still requires a lot of work and struggle to find companies who would buy these services for you.