dotM

5y

If you make a post in Reddit logodesign people will flood your inbox with portfolios and prices.

Also you can try on freshalbumart. Try to find a user that posts stuff you like and try to get in touch with them.

throwawayokay

5y

interesting
AK does the fashinova sponsors from time to time too. he’s said it once before that he has a crazy partnership with them

edit: this is also interesting. he describes a bit more on how he does business with labels and artists
https://youtu.be/PJKAG7RusHo

neu

5y

It was to be a machine behind you to become a mainstream act

In the other hand you could reach a certain amount of fanbase - so you can become an indie artist, or some mysterious

Anyway sending demos is still a good way to get into some label, otherwise when you could pop in some blog or go viral in social media or youtube - so the labels might start a bidding war to get you

insertcoolnamehere

5y

Soulja Boy was 16, unsigned, working at Burger King, and using an illegally downloaded version of FL Studio when he blew up.

nigga was posting s*** on soundclick before he even made his myspace and youtube channel.

https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=372975

all it takes is an innovative mind and you can bypass paying $150 f***ing thousand to break into the game.

Mitch Baker

5y

Chance the rapper’s Ex manager spent 2.5 mill of his own money on chance

insertcoolnamehere

5y

You been posting generalizations this whole thread like you some kind of A&R and most of it has been bullshit.

Paak recorded majority of Malibu vocals on a dented f***ed up Garage Band mic and got a Dr. Dre deal out of that at the age of 30.

Hella successful "low quality/badly mixed" rap artists that have a very loyal and paying fanbase on sites like bandcamp (e.g. mike, mach hommy, etc.)

Just because you talk in absolutes don't make it true bruh lol.

insertcoolnamehere

5y

if anything the cost has lowered over the decades lol.

Have you seen how easily accessible and low quality it is now to shoot visuals/music videos?

Back in the day you had to actually have a CAMERA. F*** knowing how to shoot it and how to direct it, you had to own a camera or at least know someone that did.

Now you can just grab an iphone and call it a f***ing day.

@op has no idea what he's talking about.

SlamDunk

5y

Wow thanks, you know how this would work for videos?

JR

5y

They're not trappers. They're signed to the guys who do.

bloom

5y

Nah bro

Artists do get extorted which is why they need to be with the s***s or with the goons if they dont wanna pay up

But these calculations are way off

Lil Pump blew up off a soundcloud song and video that cost him 200 dollars total. His career cost him next to nothing til that point

Tons of rappers blew without any criminal background

insertcoolnamehere

5y

Soulja Boy was 16, unsigned, working at Burger King, and using an illegally downloaded version of FL Studio when he blew up.

nigga was posting s*** on soundclick before he even made his myspace and youtube channel.

https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=372975

all it takes is an innovative mind and you can bypass paying $150 f***ing thousand to break into the game.

yungking

5y

Yes and no

Their have been rappers that had the machine behind them to blow up and they do but sometimes they don't.

It's all about connections and getting your song out there, but I'm sure their have been unsigned rappers who have gotten lucky off memes and had their song blow up from there.

insertcoolnamehere

5y

Soulja Boy was 16, unsigned, working at Burger King, and using an illegally downloaded version of FL Studio when he blew up.

nigga was posting s*** on soundclick before he even made his myspace and youtube channel.

https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=372975

all it takes is an innovative mind and you can bypass paying $150 f***ing thousand to break into the game.

The Darkest Angel

5y

I'm assuming this whole "150k to blow" is actually just a marketing gimmick geared toward trust fund babies with no real experience. There's no way anyone is gullible to believe it costs that much good ideas literally cost nothing, you make them up in your head for free. After you have one you're set as long as you're dedicated.

dotM

5y

what kind of videos? music videos I assume?

CLB YoungJAhhhh

5y

Op actually blxst? Would lowkey be hilarious

whippet volverse

5y

this is why I have an issue with ppl bashing labels so much. like yeah in certain instances there's bullshit involved & bad contracts, but how the f*** else is this nondescript rapper from the hood gonna get the money to pop off?

being an industry slave is almost the only way people will care

SlamDunk

5y

Yeah. The community/subreddit doesn’t even have to have intentions for music videos either.