Ebro Says He Got A Call From Record Labels Saying “It Should Be Noted Many Major Record Labels Have Deprioritized Signing Rappers”

[Biscayne]

UK rappers running laps around these dudes

In which ways?

 

[Biscayne]

Ebro is wishful thinking oldheads who projecting his frustration in modern rap.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Blame social media and technology.

This generation has more ways to get money besides being a rapper.

Because of sample clearance bullshyt, you also won’t get anymore ground breaking production.

New artists don’t stand a chance anymore. Radio is dead, and you got social media influencers who are getting more money than a lot of artists now.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Ebro is wishful thinking oldheads who projecting his frustration in modern rap.

That plus his primary job right now is to produce monetized babble…nikkas just be talking man lol…it’s like the sports talking head shows where these guys are talking into a mic everyday for hours …it gets to a point where they’re just saying shyt, and we’re all just supposed to pretend like it’s all serious, well thought out and valid …last year’s fake ass crisis about “there not being a #1 rap song at some arbitrary point of last year” comes to mind…all the wannabe think pieces and concern trolling that bullshyt birthed …or how muhfukkas be putting all this mental bandwidth into the random bullshyt the dumb nikkas on the Joe budden podcast talk about every week…completely unserious intellectually dishonest bullshyt about things that don’t even matter

 

[Insensitive]

All of the indie musicians I've met are part time social media influencers.

You're expected to expand and monetize your brand.

Music is just a "piece" now, not the whole and if you don't participate people

will think you're a bullshytter.

The energy I've felt with a more fleshed out online presence vs. having nothing is vastly

different and it opens doors tbh.

You'd be shocked how easy it is to get next to names that get posted on this site daily.
lol.

Be cool.
Play your cards right.
Be in LA or NY and the opportunities BRUH, the opportunities.

 

[BEN23]

The money just isn't there to nurture talent.
Brehs already know I'm out here in LA, I've started to make inroads into trying to produce and there
are artists with FUNDING that can barely afford to get their projects out.
Like anyone close to TDE basically has unlimited studio time, access to Engineers etc.
Or if you're closed to any one of the majors in LA, you're OKAY not GOOD but at least OKAY.
If you aren't in that arena, then you're scraping by with garbage gigs to maybe record at a decent non-shady spot.

You can't work on your craft if you're criminally broke.

It's to the point even the metal and rock bands in the area are recording at "The homies house" because paying for a studio
with good amenities and the necessary space to record four or five dudes at a time can easily run you $4k A DAY.

People really don't get it like at all.
The indie grind is NOT for the faint of heart or the BROKE.

Lol...just buy your own gear on the used market.....studio time is not the problem...let alone money for recording

 

[Insensitive]

I have my own gear.
I have a full home studio.

I'm not talking about myself whatsoever in that post.

I'm talking about the average indie musician.

Many of these people barely have working cell phones let alone a laptop, monitors, keyboards, basses, guitars, all
of the associated software and the time to learn it all.

Again, you gotta be in the mix to see what I'm talking about.

:edit:
I won't dox myself but an artist I'm working with RIGHT NOW, just got hit with a budget off of a viral record.
They don't even have a home studio.
They record damn near exclusively in Hollywood with their own personal engineer and they DO NOT work.
Everything is music because of the funding they have.

If you're indie and you don't eat, breathe, sleep producing/song writing.
You ARE NOT about to fukk with someone like that.

 

[papa pimp]

That plus his primary job right now is to produce monetized babble…nikkas just be talking man lol…it’s like the sports talking head shows where these guys are talking into a mic everyday for hours …it gets to a point where they’re just saying shyt, and we’re all just supposed to pretend like it’s all serious, well thought out and valid …last year’s fake ass crisis about “there not being a #1 rap song at some arbitrary point of last year” comes to mind…all the wannabe think pieces and concern trolling that bullshyt birthed …or how muhfukkas be putting all this mental bandwidth into the random bullshyt the dumb nikkas on the Joe budden podcast talk about every week…completely unserious intellectually dishonest bullshyt about things that don’t even matter

You hit the nail on the head but the sad thing is plenty of people actually do eat it up.

 

[Mindfield333]

Since 2020 rap has gone really downhill. Just bytches talking abt shaking their ass and nikkas killing other nikkas. African and Latin music is a lot more chill. I like Burna boy

I actually don’t have a problem with the bolded… And most genres probably focus on that because music is to dance to

 

[Mindfield333]

I have my own gear.
I have a full home studio.

I'm not talking about myself whatsoever in that post.

I'm talking about the average indie musician.

Many of these people barely have working cell phones let alone a laptop, monitors, keyboards, basses, guitars, all
of the associated software and the time to learn it all.

Again, you gotta be in the mix to see what I'm talking about.

:edit:
I won't dox myself but an artist I'm working with RIGHT NOW, just got hit with a budget off of a viral record.
They don't even have a home studio.
They record damn near exclusively in Hollywood with their own personal engineer and they DO NOT work.
Everything is music because of the funding they have.

If you're indie and you don't eat, breathe, sleep producing/song writing.
You ARE NOT about to fukk with someone like that.

I know hip-hop artist are seen as being a one man, Swiss Army knife doing everything solo… But in the grand scheme of things, that has really hurt the quality of the music. Most of the timeless records across all genres were a group effort.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

if that shyt dies in the mainstream its gone be just like jazz. dead af.

It’s not dying, nowhere near close to dying.

The money just isn't there to nurture talent.
Brehs already know I'm out here in LA, I've started to make inroads into trying to produce and there
are artists with FUNDING that can barely afford to get their projects out.
Like anyone close to TDE basically has unlimited studio time, access to Engineers etc.
Or if you're closed to any one of the majors in LA, you're OKAY not GOOD but at least OKAY.
If you aren't in that arena, then you're scraping by with garbage gigs to maybe record at a decent non-shady spot.

You can't work on your craft if you're criminally broke.

It's to the point even the metal and rock bands in the area are recording at "The homies house" because paying for a studio
with good amenities and the necessary space to record four or five dudes at a time can easily run you $4k A DAY.

People really don't get it like at all.
The indie grind is NOT for the faint of heart or the BROKE.

I mean, you need some type of money to record but not major label money. And it’s plenty of people out here who can put music out with no issue. The average artist is broke and has always been. But there is still no shortage of people out here with a little bit of paper to invest in artist. shyt, damn near every hood in America got a nikka or crew with some street money investing in a rapper. You still have artist with regular jobs who save money from their check to put into their music.

Now marketing is a white lie different beast but it’s no big financial barriers to actually make music

 

[Easy-E]

All of the indie musicians I've met are part time social media influencers.

You're expected to expand and monetize your brand.

Music is just a "piece" now, not the whole and if you don't participate people

will think you're a bullshytter.

The energy I've felt with a more fleshed out online presence vs. having nothing is vastly

different and it opens doors tbh.

You'd be shocked how easy it is to get next to names that get posted on this site daily.
lol.

Be cool.
Play your cards right.
Be in LA or NY and the opportunities BRUH, the opportunities.

People trying to make this about culture

But, people don't consume newer artists for their music...it's the full package.

 

[ISO]

Have they really though?

I’ve seen a grip of New York drill rappers get signed in the last year and a half

I don’t think they stopped signing guys…they disinvested in a lot of artists is more what it seems like to me.

 

[SupaVillain]

Who is calling this old ass nikka

 

[Insensitive]

It’s not dying, nowhere near close to dying.


I mean, you need some type of money to record but not major label money. And it’s plenty of people out here who can put music out with no issue. The average artist is broke and has always been. But there is still no shortage of people out here with a little bit of paper to invest in artist. shyt, damn near every hood in America got a nikka or crew with some street money investing in a rapper. You still have artist with regular jobs who save money from their check to put into their music.

Now marketing is a white lie different beast but it’s no big financial barriers to actually make music

If you want any kind of reach, you need a team and most broke musicians (not even really a rap thing tbh) can't
put together the team or get next to the right people.

Not everyone is going to want to shoot your visuals for free.
Mix your record for free.
Make your album art etc.
You gotta be the homie or be proven, otherwise, you'll get the if you pull up broke.


I've spoken a couple times about some of the things I've seen so far in the past two and a half years or so
but the amount of money that's poured into just getting an artist SHARP, is no different than pouring
money into a young boxer or soccer player.

You gotta be in the gym (Studio) OFTEN.