Start selling mixtapes online, do a couple of shows in your hometown and surrounding area, make some money. ![]() And if you’re good at what you’re doing, more and more people will listen to it. In times where people search youtube for instrumentals to drop freestyles on and the world is interconnected through the world wide web, and if you have some friends to “like” your stuff (= grass roots promotion), then your stuff will be found (or stumbled upon) and heard eventually. Crank out some tracks and put them up on Soundcloud or wherever (MySpace is already yesterday). Production equipment is relatively cheap, compared to the beginnings of commerical rap it is no problem to get studio time. Fortunately, artists these days do not have to get a major record label deal-or a label deal at all. ![]() ![]() You all know Industry Rule 4080: Record label people are shady. It is interesting to see how the internet has changed the (rap) game.
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