I see there is alot of back and forth going on here but ill just chime in for the sake of it.
I said it once and ill say it again, you have to know someone, sometimes spending money gets you nowhere as well if you dont forge a relationship with the individuals you are spending money with.
One thing i will say is blog posts in general provide very little exposure but it does give a sense of credibility. Ill give you an example, ive been in complez, 2 dope boyz, ego trip, byron crawford, unkut, grandgood, etcc etc, but it was less about getting numbers and more about solidifying a profile and some sort of familiarity. You have to more or less use these blog posts as a profile of who you are and turn that into something bigger,
I took those blog posts and used that to leverage MCs to show them "This is who i am, this is why you should work with me" and it worked. Thats how i built my team of about 6 core MCs. Also, for my next album on top of the kickstarter, i ABSOLUTELY used my relationships to contact managers and rappers directly to get HUGE discounts on verses. I have spent on my own money, 2000 on verses from various cats on my next album (ag da coroner, blaq poet etc) so that when my shyt for street champion drops, people will have NO CHOICE but to fukk with it. my name, plus their names, EVERYONE wins fukkin with me.
Sometimes if you arent hot, you need to get someone who is, do a song with them, put it out and give people a reason to fukk with you. People these days aint gonna fukk with you on general principle, so fukk it, give them a reason. I wear a fukking mask, i was homeless, im a dope fiend but i make good music, thats why epople fukk with me, because people can relate to all of the above (lmao)
Man, i did a fukking porn album, got a real pornstars to be on it, got some big titties on the cover, got her to help me promote it etc and people were interested in that. that bbw album was on over 13 blogs and not one of them i had to pay for coverage
did i buy advertising? ABSOLUTELY. I bought banners on kevin nottingham and unkut, i had to make sure people knew about it and i put some big ass titties to make sure you couldnt deny it (damn my baby kacey got some huge t*ts
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I then contacted
@Walt to write a piece about me because i figured he would be able to personify a sense of story about me, in other words, I had something more than just music for you to believe in, i had fought through the worst life has to offer to get where I am at and it further got people to believe in my story and it personified my music even further.
i dont have 4,000 for vinyl, cds etc, so what did i do? a fukking kickstarter and i have a meeting with more donors today after securing 1k from another donor. it takes money to make money. and if youre serious about this shyt, youre going to spend money and if you dont have it, youll get it one way or another.
People fukk with me heavy now because of that, but even more than that, this all started because i am very close to writer robbie ettelson who is my friend, my brother and biggest champion of my work, but i forged that relationship years before i ever did anything relevant. You want blogs etc to fukk with you, you need to either
spend money
spend money on a feature who people care about
start meeting people
start your own site and post your material on there
dont whine about the love of music, man fukk all that, just make yourself hot, do something crazy, do something people relate to, have astory, do something different. Id like to think with all the views, posts and magazine articles about me, yall would wanna heed my word and listen to me.
I have had some folks inquire to me to this day about buying some of your beats from the tourneys...if you still got tracks hit me up. Out of ALL the tracks I used to play from the tourneys your got the most praise.
