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WANNA GET KNOWN? This industry.
This twisted music industry has pushed me more into the independent realm.
While the dream is financially sustaining a lifestyle through art, the goal should always be quality. As YOU, the artist, try to master your craft,
there are several people in place poisoning the prize with politics. Critics write reviews and [Censored] on your hard work while
they themselves couldn't play a listenable note. I'm tired of seeing my favorite artists compromising art to?succeed in this business.?
It's time to boycott this bull[Censored]. I have 53 releases and never have compromised my art. Our ancestors would spit on some
of these musicians.? Artists are soul doctors. If artists stopped doing modern day slave music then DJs couldn't poison the masses. Labels
couldn't sign AS MANY artists?who make you sick. Young emcees would be influenced by more skilled artists. People woun't be conditioned to
like a particular style because it is the only thing widely available. Start selling your own music and stop giving all these snakes percentages.?
Labels are waiting to take fifty percent of your profit while the distributors 30,?as they inform?that you just broke even.? ?The Internet is the most
powerful tool for artists. Learn to sell and promote your own Cd and MP3s. Websites would sell your downloads for a dollar a piece. If they made 300
downloads you end up with 30 dollars. Thats some bull[Censored] right there.? The important thing is publicity. Publicists are
between 500-5000 dollars. Press cds, set up your site, then start a promotion campaign. Anything you do should revolve around a finished product.
After that, look at your project as if a new invention. Booking agents, third party merchants, publicists, managers and more all?are not doing you a
favor.?If artists cannot sustains?themselves then this industry would not be one the most profitable one.?After you learn to make your art a
profitable business, then you can hire quality people to run it more effectively.
?While your getting all these things in place, wacked magazines and Internet nerds cramp motivation sometimes. They don't understand what it
means to be an artist. I have to catch a flight now but I just felt like writing rambling words of what nots. Good LuCK
http://www.insight.fm
http://www.lastarc.com
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ChUMaN
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Let'em have it Sight.....
Never understood these wack kids [Censored]ing about how bad Hip-Hop is....yet they're never willing to do anything to make it
better, like COPPING their favorite artists instead of downloading it, trying to group and build with other cats that share your opinions, etc. And
that's real.
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Dj Phology
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thats exactly what im sayin Sight!
when my albums done, im purely guna sell it on my own, that way all profit goes to me, and i will have control.
i totally agree with ur views on music today, i constantly get really angry with what im hearing, everyones just in it either for money, or becuz they
think its "cool"...
peace
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VMC617
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| Quote: | Originally posted by insight
This twisted music industry has pushed me more into the independent realm.
While the dream is financially sustaining a lifestyle through art, the goal should always be quality. As YOU, the artist, try to master your craft,
there are several people in place poisoning the prize with politics. Critics write reviews and [Censored] on your hard work while
they themselves couldn't play a listenable note. I'm tired of seeing my favorite artists compromising art to?succeed in this business.?
It's time to boycott this bull[Censored]. I have 53 releases and never have compromised my art. Our ancestors would spit on some
of these musicians.? Artists are soul doctors. If artists stopped doing modern day slave music then DJs couldn't poison the masses. Labels
couldn't sign AS MANY artists?who make you sick. Young emcees would be influenced by more skilled artists. People woun't be conditioned to
like a particular style because it is the only thing widely available. Start selling your own music and stop giving all these snakes percentages.?
Labels are waiting to take fifty percent of your profit while the distributors 30,?as they inform?that you just broke even.? ?The Internet is the most
powerful tool for artists. Learn to sell and promote your own Cd and MP3s. Websites would sell your downloads for a dollar a piece. If they made 300
downloads you end up with 30 dollars. Thats some bull[Censored] right there.? The important thing is publicity. Publicists are
between 500-5000 dollars. Press cds, set up your site, then start a promotion campaign. Anything you do should revolve around a finished product.
After that, look at your project as if a new invention. Booking agents, third party merchants, publicists, managers and more all?are not doing you a
favor.?If artists cannot sustains?themselves then this industry would not be one the most profitable one.?After you learn to make your art a
profitable business, then you can hire quality people to run it more effectively.
?While your getting all these things in place, wacked magazines and Internet nerds cramp motivation sometimes. They don't understand what it
means to be an artist. I have to catch a flight now but I just felt like writing rambling words of what nots. Good LuCK
http://www.insight.fm
http://www.lastarc.com |
YES
WWW.LASTARC.COM
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Adika
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It's like that
I agree....just seen this thread as a opp to post the sampler from my long awated mixtape "A Break From It all"......still awating
vocal's...here it is..
http://www.soundclick.com/util/streamM3U.m3u?ID=2469921&q=Hi
bosh!
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Eleanore
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Can wait for the final release..This is absolute true..
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