3 GREAT
MAR
So you put in all this time, money, and
effort working on a body of work (Mixtape, EP,
Album etc.) but you release it and you wonder
why you only have 300-400 views, nobody is
talking about your project, and before you know
it you’ve let another project fall through the
cracks and get overlooked in this Oversaturated
music industry. I’m sure the first question is
“what am I doing wrong?” Then you start
thinking “Well maybe I didn’t promote it
enough!” Then you start flooding your timeline
on FB, Instagram, Twitter, and still don’t get the
results you’re looking for. At this point you’ve
probably been doing this year in- year out. You
know you have the talent, you know you’re capable of doing this, now all of your peers are
looking at you like you’re wasting your time.
You get those “rapping isn’t for everyone”, “go
get a regular job”, “you think you out of the
8,000,000 other people rapping will make it?”.
“Make it”...See the mistake that you’re making
here is that unlike the NBA, or NFL, where there
is limited space, the industry only has a select
few people that “make it”. The music business
like any other business, is open for anyone to
play and just about anybody is fair game as long
as you have the work ethic and resources. Where
you as the artist are messing up at is you have
no strategic plan on releasing your projects. You
believe that maybe somehow you’ll get
“discovered” or “signed”. I’ll let you know
today, that as long as you continue down this
path, you’re leading yourself down a road to
failure and a DEAD music career.
KET
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WRITTEN BY ARTIST, BRI$S
6. |ESTABLISH YOUR GOAL; WITH ALL YOUR TIME, PURSUE IT| - From the “Gospel of Hip Hop,” AUG. 2, p.418