What to do, if u want to be heard?
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ill o.g.
EVERY producer feels their beats are good enough - but the ones who make it are the individuals who put in that extra time and effort to bring their music closer to the people who make decisions and offer deals.
There is a hip hop scene damn near everywhere nowadays and if there isn't one where you are at you can hop on one of those airplanes to get there.
Keep making the music but also take some risks and go to other places to be heard. Good luck!
my best advice i could give anyone ....
DONT BE STINGY WIT THE BEATS!!
in reality it doesnt matter where u are as much as it used to even a couple years ago.... i live in nyc but my manager lives in chicago ( go figure) and an artist that ive been producing for and is now most likely gonna be picked up by sony lives in buffalo, ny!!
ps: i think that those cats that produced alot of Neyo's hits are from norway if im not mistaken...
DONT BE STINGY WIT THE BEATS!!
in reality it doesnt matter where u are as much as it used to even a couple years ago.... i live in nyc but my manager lives in chicago ( go figure) and an artist that ive been producing for and is now most likely gonna be picked up by sony lives in buffalo, ny!!
ps: i think that those cats that produced alot of Neyo's hits are from norway if im not mistaken...
Agent Smith
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ill o.g.
youd be surprised how many labels accept stuff as simple as e-mail demos for beat makers. one's i'm currently in contact with are ubiquity and babygrande...all you do for babygrande is make a crackspace, (crackspace.com) and e-mail them the link. start e-mailing labels about being on compilations and even just submitting beats.
Symphonic
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ill o.g.
i fid it hard to find a decent rapper with a mic, most cats i run up have only one of the 2 not both 
but if you made some solid tracks you can try and send them to a local radio or a national hiphop station. If it has the quality they might play your songs, it'a always worth to try.
but if you made some solid tracks you can try and send them to a local radio or a national hiphop station. If it has the quality they might play your songs, it'a always worth to try.
thedreampolice
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Network, Network, Network.
i fid it hard to find a decent rapper with a mic, most cats i run up have only one of the 2 not both
It IS worth a try but Im cynical about radio nowdays..You have to make that cookie cuttr sound to get backing it feels like..But I aint the biggest fan of local radio here since they turned it into a clear channel monopoly umpteen years ago.
Agent Smith
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ill o.g.
i think babygrande has a deal going with crackspace or something but their demo policy strictly says make one and e-mail them the link. which means i gotta upload all my tracks.
cash money.
cash money.
Agent Smith
IllMuzik Junkie
ill o.g.
You would think that...i did too. but basically what i learned is is that the submittal system (as far as major labels are concerned) is just as grimey as any other part of the music business and an artist trying to send a cd straight to a label is like trying to feed a shark by throwing a goldfish in the ocean.
for example, a&r's are usually in charge of getting beats...so the hierarchy goes like this...
producer has hot beats. he hires a manager. the manager keeps an eye on who needs beats etc and submits to a&r's...who (correct me if i'm wrong) only someone in his position has access to.
then, it's the a&r's job to get placements with the projects from his label. the only slight drawback is that the a&r might know a wack producer from high school or something and he might have promised to get placement for him yada yada and all this bullshit. the way you circumvent that is exactly what thedreampolice said...network...that way you or your manager can drop names...as long as there is substance behind the name drop, it's priceless...(you can't necessarily be like "yea i know spliff star" if you accidentally stepped on his jordans once at a club).
as far as indie labels are concerned (from my personal experience which is sort of limited so take it with a grain of salt): a lot of them are actually moving towards digital submission. one example that was already used was babygrande...in fact they don't even accept cd's...since they get swamped with them can't keep track of them. Ubiquity records is the other one i mentioned. i hit up the vp asking about demo policy...he said you can either send a cd or just e-mail me your tracks through yousendit...so i e-mailed them and he got back to me in like a day or two. haha...i got turned down...BUT i don't really have an "Ubiquitous" sound anyway...
anyway yea...this is basically what i learned from a couple people that i've been blessed to connect with. from my experience though, if you e-mail an indie label, they almost always get back to you...so i would start with that.
Start your own hip hop movement
If all else fails you can always start your own movement in your own community. Like Guerilla Union says Educate. Organize. Uprise. My homie threw his own hip hop show in his backyard and charged like $3 entry fee. He promoted it through myspace and got a nice number of people to show up. PEace.
If all else fails you can always start your own movement in your own community. Like Guerilla Union says Educate. Organize. Uprise. My homie threw his own hip hop show in his backyard and charged like $3 entry fee. He promoted it through myspace and got a nice number of people to show up. PEace.
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turn up the speakers as loud as possible.boost the shit out of the master level get your mic ready and FART into the mic.
voila.now your neighbours have heard a sound from you aint that magic?
You've been doing good OM....don't start fucking up now!
Chrono
polyphonically beyond me
ill o.g.
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if your beasts are that god then you definetly want them heard. moreover, if they truely are beasts then they want to be heard. saying all this is so, you want to blast locally at all your local stations, groups, and straggler mcs. internet is not the way. walk your blocks and speak your clout! get to know your local scene, moreover you want your local scene to get to know u
take care,
m/a