Getting Signed...
 

...is played as fuck.

Rap for the music or dont at all.

word bitches. :bored:

fuck gettin signed do like me , get alll ya nigga that can rap and start a label sign yourself

*nuffsaid*

too many people dont understand this rap shit and do it for the money, i do it for the love of it... i got a lable puttin my cd out but after that, im setting up some savings and setting my lable up properly.

now thats some grown man shit ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ye man... looking into it, im probably gonna have to take out a nice fat loan to help me lol

in the UK, "getting signed" sint as advamtageous as in the USA..the majority of artists are signed to independant and indie labels and have prospered and developed from it...

indipendant labels and indie labels = the same thing... indie being an abreviation for indipendant

this guy correcting him,but failed to spell it right.


Im not stressing bout getting signed, but if it comes my way then fuck yeh.

i feel ya on that shit

*does it for the money*

speaking of getting signed, i almost got signed last week, and the music industry is just fucked up, they wanted to change everything single thing, they wanted to tell me what too writt about and all. so imma stick to havin fun with my home equipement

-Has rejected two indy deals-

The people wanted me just because I beat one of their arists in a freestyle battle...never heard a track of mine before.

So I was like fuck that.

You new age fools..

I'm lookin to do it like the old days... Get signed to a decent size label on a 1 to 2 cd contract and use the exposure to later jump onto a bigger label so I can start fucking with TV charts and music awards...

None of this "ooh I just wanna stay indie cause I wanna make music for the love of it" horsecrap.. I make music cause its what I love doing, but it aint gonna stop me trying to take my artform to a higher level and start living lux on this shit if I can........

If people do it just for the love, then your indie labels will die.

indie can make u more money than some large lables they pay moreper cd with out the middle shit its just alot tougher to get ya name out but cats like royce 5.9 is bankin hard change CHA CHING

^finally someone said it...yall all know you would love to be living wealthy and famous...like everytime you step out a camera flashs...dont lie and say b/c its for the love...we know on ya mind its ya wondering how much money ya getting.and the exposure you will get.so you can go to school or hoemtown and brag

exactly.

fuck majour labels.... they fuck u over, ive seen it happen so many times... you dont realise how much cost, they give u a budget to use, u have to make enough to pay it back aswell as make profit yourself and pay for all the other shit that needs paying for.... its much harder.

the indie lable putting my CD out for me, give me a percentage of my CD's which if i sell them all, ill make a nice little earner, they keep a percentage to sell themselves in order to make the money and hopefully make a profit for themselves... thats it, no extra costs, much easier that way and alot safer, signing to a big label you may aswell sign your life away unless you can guarantee yourself that you will make it big, unless you know 200% youll blow up, its not worth it.

I remember when i got signed once... Those were the days, those were the days.

im not really in it for that.

and honestly, id hate that, paparazzi following me everywhere watching everything i do, getting next to know privacy, worrying what i do and dont do in fear of ruining my career/reputation, it has more downs than ups.

music for me is a hobby, and im happy doing it and just making a little bit of extra cash one the side of my main job doing it, im not bothered if i blow up or not, im just pushing my music out and willbe happy with however far i can take it.

and being rich would be boring as shit.... think about it, you can afford and probs will have everything you could dream of, meaning youd having nothing to dream of, no inspiration or motivation to do something for an achievement, cos youd have it all, and life is made up of dreams... seriously, its not all what its cracked up to be.

U got to about the money some what... I mean I love rap and everything about it but I got a familly to take care of so if I aint about making some money then im wasting my time and money

^^again not really.

my new job will pay may about 18-20 thousand a year(us $.. roughly exchanged from british currency).

ill be performing again within the next month n making like just short of $200 per performance i do, aswell as selling my CD's which is looking at a possible $3,000 extra, aswell the odd nights i DJ here and there and when shit gets abit better im gonna be hosting my own night in my city and the next city which will bring atleast an extra thousand.

so its not about the money i dont need it, i do what i do cos i enjoy it, if i can earn enough to quit all i do and live as nice, then sure thing, if not, then cool still, either way im doing what i love doing.

Indie heads can be real hippocritical at times too.. They say they stay indie cause they dont give a fuck about money..

Then they'll talk about how they make more money per cd and they "dont wanna get with a label cause the label fucks around with their earnings"....

Bah....

i know where ur comin from nos.

but look at it this way.

chances are on indie labels, u sell less due to less promotion(depending on the funds available really)... but u get more per CD.

but the different between indie and majour labels is... if you dont meet the required minimu, you loose everything, contract, money, house, car everything u bought from money u got from the contract and whatever else u done in order for them to get the money back... its a big risk.

but also they make it out like ur gonna make this n make that, but make it hard to understand exactly how many costs will be taken from ur money... on an indie label, i probs wont make enough to be rich, but puttin the work in, i can definately make enough to live happily off of.

i still do it for the money....


fuck hip hop

Fuck doing it for the love, and for the money, do it for the groupies, THE GROUPIES!


:)


Word, this is my intelligent post on the day, -_-, carry on gentleman..

i agree.... groupies = better than the rest haha

But thats just the thing.. You put extremily hard work in.. Meet their deadlines and take the risks..

People never get anywhere without taking atleast SOME risks in their careers.. Thats how things work.. And the upside is, that after your first cd or two.. Its not you whos working for the labels.. Its the labels that are working for you...

If you can literally blow up off their promotion, then you will become a figure head and YOU will be the one taking THEM up with you... Not the other way around.... Thats when you can win back your control.. Its like any career, you start off small and take risks, and eventually if you are good enough.. Things will pay off...

The problem with rappers is they want everything to come at once and they wanna be lazy cunts who just make music and lead more simple lives..... And THATS why not everyone is cut out for the music industry.. And thats another reason why so many underground nerds complain.. Cause they literally dont have what it takes...

im willing to put in the work, but after seeing whats happened to some heads that have signed with majour labels before and failed it really made me question "is it worth it??", i mean once i get my cd finished i know im looking to perform atleast once a week, keep dropping on radios n mixtapes, ive got a few interviews lined up for when the cd is ready n shit like that... im willing to put my work in, but im not willing to let some dick fuck me about and 90% of my money that I did all the work to make.

To be honest I was bored today and heard some shit on the news and was like blahhh, lets post a thread.

Do whatever you want, lol.

I aint no rapper so I could care less.

Nos on the other hand, I actually envy him to get signed and hop on the coolness band-wagon.

*Waits for a Nostrodamus music video on TV*

Furthermore...

..word up to JTR for making me scream "BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA" outloud once again.

But hold up..

Are you rapping to make money or are you rapping to get heard by as many people as possible and fuck it if some snot nosed record exec is making more than you to start with... Thats what I was sayin before.. Dont say you only make music for the love of it if your not prepared to get fucked around a bit money wise when you only just start...

Its business... They dont give a fuck about your music..... They give a fuck about you making them money... What you have to do is rise above their level and become something more than just a throw away artist... Thats all about playing your cards right and the things you do and say while your in the position to rise up.. (IE: when your on a decent label getting good promotion and not being ultra rich off it untill later on in your career)

Rappers that hit the big time have usually been in the industry for around 3 to 5 years before they get to where their at the point of being really famous... But a lot of kids dont see that stage... They think these people just jumped onto a label.. Got mass appeal and then boom, they got famous...

Shit just doesent work like that.. And it will never work for anyone when their trying to just stick around in the underground on an indie label getting very little promotion in contrast to artists that do let record labels run over them a bit to begin with, but more importantly, get their name heard everywhere....

You gotta have the right mindframe about it.. Fuck what some geek ass clown told you about hip hop... Its a dirty game.. And you have to do what it takes to get where you want.........

I'm not saying go suck someones cock to get famous.. I'm saying if their playing rough.. You play twice as rough...