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It sounds like you are ultimately just wanting to produce tracks and not take the show on the road. If my assumption is right I would suggest you start building your studio with your computer. First get yourself a decent soundcard with as many inputs as you think you will use at 1 time (M-Audio has some decent ones). Next, get yourself a software program that will record, sequence, and edit sounds (I use FL Studio but you can look around to find what works for you). Then you want to get a mic (choose this depending on what you want sample), mic stand, a controller (a keyboard that sends out midi) and preamp. Finally, you can choose to either get software synths or hardware synths to make your patches(sounds). I make very little hip hop but I use a couple synths as well as vstis for drum and bass and breaks. Software based synths and samples are cheaper than hardware and dont require you to learn their nuances or midi for that matter. Still, real synths have personalities of their own that are hard to emulate on a computer. Hope this helps and remember to report back to us on your progress.
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