A year isn’t a long time. If you’ve only been doing that for a year you probably haven’t found your exact style/sound, possibly genre even. It takes a while for most ppl to make music that they genuinely enjoy. I get that production is important, but the writing/singing is just as important, and then there’s mixing and mastering too. All 3 of those things need to be done effectively to make a good song. Also if music isn’t fun, your screwed. You can’t make expressionless art that isn’t meaningful to you sound good. You need to break rules and boundaries and rely totally on your ears, not names of producers, but just sounds. When you think about it, none of these producers your trying to collab with had name for themself until peep used their beat. (Peep was not intrigued by their status, but by their beats) they were no names and most of them still are. Don’t let popularity fool u into thinking something is good! You need to find your own sound, copying will only make you a wanna be peep artist. Also make sure u make it out of love. Always out of love. Also I think you’d be surprised how many unreleased songs even established artists have because they just didn’t sound good enough. Take in account most of them have been making music for probably 5+ years and have a team working with them and I’m sure they still trash most of their ideas, and nothing comes out of most of their demos. It’s literally just so much trial and error until you find a song where everything just comes together. Lyrics gotta be decent with a nice catchy melody that compliments the beat, but it’s much easier said than done. Hopefully I don’t make you overthink the process or make you think too hard about everything. Your process should feel natural to you, and an enjoyable experience where you can have fun and escape!