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Beat This!The next Beat This! Competition is from November 27-28th!
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What's hot?
Live instrumentation a la The Roots - or something else? I assume you're talking about live instrumentation on the tracks themselves... but NOT sampled tracks. That's good. I'm thinking a full album with live instrumentation. A take on that would be done that's also dumbed down enough for...- God
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What's hot?
I know this sounds like a dumb question but it's worth asking - since you never know what's out there. (Yes, yes - I know your record is hot, but TRENDS people... or anything going on socially with music... what's hot?) For example, learning about hyphy before hyphy went mainstream - that was...- God
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The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme
Evidence of an industry that can't take care of itself: The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme URL: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/the-music-industrys-new-extortion-scheme/ Text: The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme 139 Comments by Michael Arrington on March 27... -
Selling Beats To Industry Connects
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not business or legal advice: I'm surprised nobody told this cat to make an LLC (limited liability company.) It's affordable and easy to do in most states in the U.S. Having a Tax I.D. number still means that you're personally liable. Another entity has to be created...- God
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50's Project Hit Squad
I apologize, let me give you some background on writing pools. I wrote a detailed thread about the practice several years ago. It is my estimation that 50 is creating such a writing pool to create a new revenue stream from song publishing - both for his own records and for others willing to... -
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50's Project Hit Squad
Translation: 50 Cent realizes he doesn't have leverage without creating songs - increasing his negotiating position at the table. He figured out if he screws over more of the big-name producers he won't have anymore hits. 50 is now exploiting talented producers to write songs for him under... -
48 Laws of Power - YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS FOR THE RAP GAME.
This book was written 400 years ago by Niccolo Machiavelli called "The Prince." Greene basically modernized Machiavelli's amoral (not IMMoral - look it up) philosophy of the world. It's not anything new. The 50 laws - lmao. That's both 50 Cent and Greene cashing in on Greene's concept. -
48 Laws of Power - YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS FOR THE RAP GAME.
I don't know if cats posted this before. But if you want to get in the game, the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is ESSENTIAL reading. Once you are in the biz, the game is ruthless. All people that have ambition should read this. I've included all 48 laws in this post, as well. The book... -
Death of Sampling=Watering down of hiphop
This is not legal or business advice: Dude - you're taking an instrumental performance, that is a copyrighted sound OWNED by someone, and using it for yourself. If you take the same performance and interpolate it, you can get around a lot of stuff. But in essence - taking the performance... -
Death of Sampling=Watering down of hiphop
Again, I'm talking about recognizable samples from songs, not a shitty snare or a kick drum you took from a Parliament song. Okay, but if you were making a living off music - wouldn't you want to get paid. As an owner of a song that you wrote - and someone else obviously samples it and... -
Hoes
Yo I thought this shit was funny. Thought I'd share. I texted some chick I knew when I was a lil' "under the weather" and asked her if she wanted to go check out the philarmonic. You know, classy night out. She's never been and I was like... what the hell. Then I gets a call from...- God
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Death of Sampling=Watering down of hiphop
What if they sign you with that billion dollar budget? Then it's OK? You might even have the budget to do a couple proper sample clearances. In all honesty, Slik, I get your point and I'm with you guys on this. Hip-hop's not going to die, just like LDB said - it's gonna evolve... to what... -
When should Dre have dropped Detox?
1) I disagree, since he's responsible for a lot of shit that Interscope puts out - though it might not have his name on it. He's asked to "give up" beats to artists by the upper management. There's a lot of cross-pollination of ideas and music and Interscope, where artists are actively... -
Ludacris- Theater of the Mind
Good album. I think that it will fly under the radar if it doesn't get a full cut of the promo dollars for this quarter. He's going up against a lot of competition. He deserves to hold his own, since IMHO he's a great rapper. -
Kanye wants to intern for Louis Vuitton - NYTimes article
From what I know about Kanye, he was enrolled in an art school of some sort and wanted to study design prior to dropping out - if I have my facts correct. I don't know what kind of design that would be... fashion, furniture or other products. He posts stuff about aesthetic design on his blog -... -
Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak
I disagree. This is a golden rule of celebrity public relations. If you're not being talked about... if you're not being written about... if you're not being seen on TV... You aren't seen as relevant. Paris Hilton made an estimated $20 million in one year by fame-whoring herself... -
Kanye wants to intern for Louis Vuitton - NYTimes article
New York Times Intern With Entourage By KARIN NELSON Published: December 3, 2008 KANYE WEST, the infamously self-assured singer who stated to The Associated Press last month that he “will go down as the voice of this generation,” is apparently far more humble when it comes to fashion. In... -
The best sales pitch from an artist I have EVER received!
If millions of people had access to the artist - the artist would be signed, trust me. Millions of people have accessed your MySpace page I assume? No. Same point. By having the remote possibility that someone who read my hype - which in retrospect should not have been posted - since I'm... -
The best sales pitch from an artist I have EVER received!
Businesswise... Why would I link to a site I hyped up - only for the artist to find out who I am (really) and that will put him in a better bargaining position AGAINST me, because he read about how excited I was about the project? I gotta act like it's no big deal. It's about the $$$$$.