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Get you a band and go from there
Get you a band and go from there
Is Pursing A Rap Career Really Worth It Long Term? (What Age Should Brehs Stop Pursuing?)
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Indiglow Meta (R$G)
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Learn to do other things when you're learning how to make music.
You need a decent amount of money to even invest in a career.
Studio time costs. Travel costs, promotion costs, staying fresh costs (learn how to shop, this is important), marketing costs, a publicist costs.
Not to mention: production, engineering, graphic design, video editing, filming, photography....
These are also things you can learn to do on your own...to get paid, connect to more people, and acquire more skills.
Working different jobs will expose you to different people. You can ear hustle a lot just by listening to what people are talking about a lot. Use that in your writing.
Make bars out of memes, too.
You need a decent amount of money to even invest in a career.
Studio time costs. Travel costs, promotion costs, staying fresh costs (learn how to shop, this is important), marketing costs, a publicist costs.
Not to mention: production, engineering, graphic design, video editing, filming, photography....
These are also things you can learn to do on your own...to get paid, connect to more people, and acquire more skills.
Working different jobs will expose you to different people. You can ear hustle a lot just by listening to what people are talking about a lot. Use that in your writing.
Make bars out of memes, too.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Ain't no age limit. Do what you love, you can work and work on music. When people think rapper they think some guy rapping about money clothes and hoes and acting a fool. You can make the type of hip hop you want, but if you 35 trying to act 19 then yeah, that's not a good look. Stay true to your yourself.
If you can’t produce, sound engineer, and pen your music, while also networking with more well-known artists to get a springboard, you’re just going to waste a lot of time and money.
“Grind” won’t get you anywhere on today’s rap world, you can’t drop 3 mixtapes a year and sell 1000 of them on the street to get your buzz up like the mid-2000s and there are so many rappers coming fresh out the woodwork that the market is saturated beyond belief.
“Grind” won’t get you anywhere on today’s rap world, you can’t drop 3 mixtapes a year and sell 1000 of them on the street to get your buzz up like the mid-2000s and there are so many rappers coming fresh out the woodwork that the market is saturated beyond belief.
I'm just an okay writer I can't produce (never done it before or engineered sounds).
ultraflexed
Superstar
24 should be your make or break year.....
If you are talented, and music is truly your passion, never stop. I'm 31 years old, I sing/write/rap/produce. I have a stable job that provides everything I need monetarily (although I hate my job). When I was in college, I had a nice buzz on and around campus (a major D1 university). Several times since, I went inactive on my music, for various reasons. However, it always calls me back, and I always come back.
Now, at 31, I feel like I am at the top of my game. I'm dropping an EP this summer, and an album around the end of the year. I still have hope that I can do this for a living one day. I have always been extremely talented, but it took a long time to accept and learn the business side of the game, and I'm still learning. I don't need to be a millionaire from this shyt; I just want to make a living doing it. Even if I don't, music is my gift and passion, so can't nan nikka tell me to give it up.
Now, at 31, I feel like I am at the top of my game. I'm dropping an EP this summer, and an album around the end of the year. I still have hope that I can do this for a living one day. I have always been extremely talented, but it took a long time to accept and learn the business side of the game, and I'm still learning. I don't need to be a millionaire from this shyt; I just want to make a living doing it. Even if I don't, music is my gift and passion, so can't nan nikka tell me to give it up.
What advice do you give to help brehs create better flows? Also, I don't know how to produce, but would learn how to. How hard is it? Besides playing the violin in elementary school I never played a musical instrument. I'd like to do something in music. I suck at rapping, but have a good punk rock voice.
Just want to do it for a hobby.
Production is all about pure practice. I don't have much formal training, but I am a self-taught keyboard player, which helps. However, I know plenty of producers who can't play instruments. If you have a MacBook, just start playing around with GarageBand. If not, get a copy of FL Studio. I definitely don't have any formal production training, but I have gotten good, just with practice. Now, I use Logic Pro X, which is basically a professional grade version of GarageBand. My shyt has gone to the next level. Also, YOUTUBE videos will teach you all you need to know. I can get around pretty well on Logic, but whenever I get stuck or wanna know how to do something, there's guaranteed to be a Youtube video that will teach it to me.
As far as flow, do you mean rap flow? In that case, I can help with that as well. My flow used to be trash, and although I always had a godly pen, nikkas DID NOT wanna hear me rap. The two pieces of advice I can give are:
1. Project your voice more than you think you need to. A lot of time, you could be rapping your ass off on the mic, and that energy doesn't translate to the recording. So, I learned that you kinda have to over-project, and over-emote.
2. Also, listen to yourself obsessively. In addition, have others listen, who will give honest and constructive feedback. You'll be able to pinpoint the things you're doing wrong.
Yeah, a rap type of flow, but I'm trying to do alternative music (like Princess Nokia *girl in my avi*).