BrickellBayside

5y

Nah it's clout. Clout, fame, network of important people, I mean it's all the same s***.

Clout = popularity. Popularity = mass amounts of people digesting your content = being able to monetize content = boom, a career.

dotM

5y

It’s not impossible. It’s very difficult but not impossible.

You can go to Reddit and find places that will do your artwork for cheap and be great quality for less than 250.

By marketing I mean going to places like creative sxn and other forums were people are interested in up and coming acts. Not just uploading to YouTube and hoping it blows up some day.

The most difficult and costly part would be the recording process whether you go to a studio or you buy a mic and do it from your bedroom. Plus the audio mixing and everything else.

It’s not impossible, it’s not probably gonna happen in 6 months, but if you grind and continue to grow as an artist it can be done it just takes tons of discipline and patience, which in today’s time is limited.

Jason

5y

The people who disagree with this are ignorant. Same as people who can't see how the education system, news media, etc. are compromised and nowhere near as clean/respectable as they'd like to have us believe. They've drank the proverbial Kool-Aid, if you will.

BrickellBayside

5y

I hear you tbh

But this sounds a bit like fantasy.

You can 100% get artwork this way, I've gotten some artwork for clients on the OG KTT through the creative sxn

I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you're trying to turn your career into a lucrative one, one where you make money from merch, touring, etc. then idk how you go from recording (which cost) to that without a lot of money.

BrickellBayside

5y

It's realllll hard making a good living as a rapper being "underground."

No one who starts rapping, does so with the aspirations of being underground.

BrickellBayside

5y

How many acts making records that big with that little resources? Honestly?

I'm not saying it can't happen I'm saying it's pretty unlikely.

BrickellBayside

5y

LMAO f*** no. This is just wrong. I say this factually, it's wrong.

Tons of rappers did not "blow" without a criminal background, and blowing is subjective.

Can you get a lil local buzz without crazy dough? Maybe. But you're not having a real career to live off of without real PR, publicist, management, etc. and that cost a lot of dough

FlyMx

5y

If you’re expecting to seriously compete in any way with say the likes of a Bruno Mars or something who obviously has the resources of the machine behind him, then yes, that requires money and lots of it. If we are talking simply breaking in, c’mon man. Y’all think every single nigga in the last 5 years that has broke had 100k behind him? Really? This nigga Russ been turning his face blue Tryna tell y’all all he did was sign up on distro and front beats from looperman and y’all think you need a 100k...in this era? You don’t even need talent to break in now lmao you literally just have to have the audacity

bloom

5y

You right but my man @JGOGang trying his hardest to ride for his fairytale

BrickellBayside

5y

Yup.

Don't get caught in the weeds. I say this as someone who seriously dabbled in the management side of things. I've had to break this down to indie acts before lol

"could" someone just post their music on social media and it goes viral and they become popular and record labels flock to them? Sure.

But it almost never happens that way. Everything costs, literally everything. And it's exacerbated even more if you're not already popular in your city as a known entity or someone with clout.

BrickellBayside

5y

How many acts making records that big with that little resources? Honestly?

I'm not saying it can't happen I'm saying it's pretty unlikely.

Replica

5y

the b**** in the video looks like jesse ventura lol

knockknockwhoitis

5y

I wish these people could see the invoices. like how Akademiks said Meek doesn't f*** with him, but he's signed deals to promote artists on his page who are signed to Meek. Probably Vory. An AK post (not the ones random underground artists buy that are obvious promo, but the ones designed not to look as much like promo) alone is probably $25k or something

the shade room isn't really used for music marketing (it's moreso used for Fashionnova) but if y'all knew how much a post there cost you'd lose it (and most folks buy a package deal)

1887

5y

People in the video are 40+ Years of age. this doesn’t apply to the last 5 years of rap

BrickellBayside

5y

It's realllll hard making a good living as a rapper being "underground."

No one who starts rapping, does so with the aspirations of being underground.

1887

5y

People in the video are 40+ Years of age. this doesn’t apply to the last 5 years of rap

BrickellBayside

5y

The hell it don't. I seen it first hand