March 2010
1 post
Artist Tip #8: Have A Story
As an artist, you should have a story to tell. No matter if its about your life, about your grind, hell, if its about somebody else. Have something to say, other than just club, bitches, and money.
Nowadays you keep hearing that so and so aint rapping about his life. That may be so, but he is doing a damn good job of portraying a lifestyle and delivering it in a unique way.
Whether the story is...
February 2010
2 posts
Artist Tip #7: Being Consistent
Drop, drop, drop! Thats what a serious artist should do when it comes to making songs. Continue to drop material. If you are reading this, you are not at liberty to have old songs out and expect your fans to wait around for new material. The more you drop, the better.
A fan of a new artist needs new songs constantly. The more material a fan can listen to, the more chances they have of passing it...
Artist Tip #6: Practice Your Show
Practice, practice, practice! I can’t preach that enough. You should first off know your entire song before even thinking about performing it. Nobody wants to just see you rapping on stage like a stiff. Nobody wants to see you overdo it and have the song itself playin in the background while u dont even attempt to rap along.
A hype-man work wonders! In the same sentence, your hype-man NEEDS...
January 2010
5 posts
Artist Tip #5: Hot Songs
One thing you need to know about hot songs is that most hit songs from relatively unknown artists is usually bubbling for over a year. A song from an unknown has to make it’s rounds from the underground, college radio, and so on.
Don’t give up on a song that your camp feel is THE ONE. Promote the hell out of that song. Back the song with a lil bit of money. You don’t want to let that hit fall by...
Artist Tip #4: Networking
Networking within the music business has been around forever. It should stay around forever as well, but some artist tend to not use it to its full potential. The saying about, ‘its not what you know, its who you know,’ remains true.
Networking could be something as big as doing a track with a big name artist, or something as small as passing somebody a contact of another artist. In...
Artist Tip #3: Building A Brand
This is something that every serious artist should be attempting to do. A brand separates you from your music. It gives you an identity. It gives fans something to look forward to. It’s a moniker. It’s you WITHOUT your music. It opens up doors for endorsements.
Now building a brand is not the easiest thing in the world to do. It takes a lot of time to even come up with a brand, that...
Artist Tip #2: Create A Visual
I believe this is something every artist should try nowadays, creating a visual. When I say create a visual, i mean within the track itself. Like the song should create a video without a video being available for the current song.
With that said, dont say something in the third verse that should of been said in the first verse. Do it in kinda like in a chronological type of order, that way every...
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Artist Tip #1: Burned Bridges
This is a touchy subject for me, mainly because some people are just assholes and times i dont wanna deal with them at all. But in retrospect, u never know where somebody will be, say 2 years down the line and had u not burned that bridge, u could very well use them to your advantage.
A burned bridge can be acquired a number of ways, but my main thing is just to basically watch what u say. If you...
September 2009
7 posts
Look Inside Yourself First
a lot of ppl are always looking for handouts. like somebody supposed to help them, opposed to them goin out and gettin it themselves. the one’s that went out and got it themselves, are the ceo’s and president’s. and the others arent even the one’s thats working for them, they are still waiting….
R.I.P Chris Brown's career
shotgunnoblitz:
So young… it’s tragic.
never live off what ifs, you are disregarding what u can create now
-Dely
The Thought Of Going To Iraq...
when the thought of me leaving for iraq comes up, i really dont think much of it to be honest with you. but i know as the time nears, it will finally hit me that i will be leavin my family for a full year. its a fucked up situation, but i knew when i joined that i would have to go over there. i joined to give my family a better life and so far thats what we have. the iraq situation will make it...
Some Things Never Change
I left Houston for Kansas a lil over 3 years ago. When i left, my cousins were workin dead end jobs, had i stayed i would’ve been workin the same dead end jobs. When i decided i was gonna join the ARMY, i pitched the good and bad things about it to them and they shrugged it off. I went through basic and AIT and got back to Kansas to my wife a new person. I called my cousins up to see what...