I'm a couple years into making beats now and I have seen myself improve over time but still not enough. I was always stuck between making my own samples and getting samples from websites like looperman. Eventually, I began doing both like I should've been doing from the beginning.
Guitar
FL Studio
M-Audio Code 25 Midi-Keyboard
Anything I find interesting. I'm listening to anything that catches my ear.
Don't really have one. I often find that albums have a number of songs I don't like among the songs I do like. So I have many albums that I like but non that are my favourite.
I have too many influences to count, even influences that I don't remember. Ever since I was little I loved Michael Jackson, my sister gifted me bits of his music. Now, I my influences are Trippie, Juice, Polo G, Kendrick Lammar, Don Toliver, The kid Laroi etc.
I make all sorts of music. Different beats sound like different music.
I change jobs every other week, I'm trying to accommodate music as a hobby.