id try give you advice, but if your taking a serious run at being a working artist id probably fuck it up for you.

so instead of giving particularly bad advice about mixing your vocals/making beats ill tell you this. rape pillage and plunder. there is so many free beat packs (good ones too) and the ones that arent free you can steal (piracy ftw). also for now when your making beats stick with the basics kick snare kick kick snare on a 4 bar FLS loop. as you go youll figure it out.

you just gotta dig for it. i have about 20 or so different beat packs, yeah there are some double up samples but i have access to about 400 different kicks/snares/symbals and several thousand variants of instruments through VST's and such.

and if you give up on beats, sign up for the anno domini nation news letter. i got a   6 gig beat pack from his site for like 14 bucks. with lease distribution rights and such. while you learn to make beats its definitely a good idea. i also get week free beats from them. cant go wrong with it.As for you vocals. maybe approach a professional engineer. @leksisamisfit was doing free mixing/recording for people a while back. not sure if that is still happening but its a thought. if you suck at mixing your own shit, pay someone to make it not sound like a butthole.

other than that, good luck and i hope you have an actual job and arent trying to get paid in your first 5 minutes.

 ill do a track with you, but i dont really have much (if any) of a following. i do this for fun.

you should look at Twine aswell. its kinda like facebook for creatives. its a pretty good outlet and good for collabrating. ive been on a few random mixtapes from there.

Ill add my 2 cents.

Dude, basically just start digging around Fruity Loops and start to learn it.  You have to get familiar with your DAW, like I mentioned go to that YouTube page and watch the videos for beginners.  Follow step by step, to be honest I'm more of a hardware beat-maker, but I did just recently get into FL 10 (That's why I know that YouTube page).  Trust me that guy kills it, that's the best advice you can get when it come to learning that DAW.  He's great at showing you step by step.  As far as mixing, you really need to do some reading/research on what exactly mixing is and what it does (Cutting and adding frequencies).  Learn what an EQ does, learn what compression is, google "how to structure beats".  There a TON of shit out there, if you really want to do this, than I'm assuming you've already done this....correct?  

If you want to learn how to do ANYTHING - Google and YouTube my friend.  There's a lot of dudes in these forums that have massive music/mixing knowledge.  But just going to a forum would be my last choice on trying to really learn making beats.  Now get out there and fuckin impress ME!!!!!!!!!  haha

Happy beat making brotha!  

Good man!  Glad you really checked out his page.  He teaches how to mix beats too, so watch those videos!  But you said it.......patience that's what it takes man.  Ill tell you what I do (this makes it much easier, I've been doing this for years).  Tell yourself that "today I'm going to learn just ONE thing".  It only really takes about 15-20 minutes everyday.  Try and just learn one thing everyday, get a good understanding of what your trying to learn too.  And that's it, just one fucking thing per day.  Trust me dude, I suffer from extreme ADHD and I cant concentrate for more that 30 minutes.  But doing it this way really helps, and once you start doing it, you'll be like OH SHIT!  I'm starting to kick some ass here!  

Like today (for you), I'm going to exactly learn what an EQ is and does, watch some videos, go step by step, apply it to what your trying to do and then FUCKING BOOM!  MY beats just got a 1000% better sounding because I took the time and just learned what an EQ is!!!  I know it can be overwhelming at times, but I'm telling you from experience the One thing a day is awesome.