That's correct but they didn't live in a day and age where everything has been surrounded by hip hop. It didn't really explode until BIG and Pac had died, because then we had the first martyrs of hip hop. Now when you turn on the T.V. stupid commercials are using rappers in them. (Burger King, McDonalds, any freaking little kids toy commercial.)


And yes there are places that will sign you to their record labels based on skill. One is Rawkus Records, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and Skillz (three of the dopest MCees in my opinion.) are on that label. Streetsweeper Entertainment, Kay Slay's label, do a couple freestyles with some hot punches, you might get signed, (ex. Papoose - you don't know who this is, try google and download some of his music) you may never drop a popular album commercial wise, but you will make a good amount of money street wise. Full Surface Records - Swizz Beats label, very good choice and very sturdy ground to be on. Right now his major star is Cassidy, he had Yung One on there too but he flopped and was dropped from the label. So you impress him some and you may get in there. Finally Star Trak, these guys have one of the greatest labels in my opinion, even if you record don't do too good, they won't automatically drop you from what I've heard. They do a good amount of producing in their roster's records (clipse, kelis, roscoe p. coldchain) and they don't seem like label owners.

So there, just look on the back of the CD's that you buy and if you got a demo send them out to the adresses on the back of them.

You can get signed that way.

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