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honestly, I'm not out to be a legend, I just wanna be good at what I do, be respected for being good at what I do and make some decent money off of it...going mainstream kills your regular fanbase that you've built trying to GET "famous" and sign on a major label...going mainstream is the death of YOUR career and the beginning of whatever personification and "image" of you the label wants to put out...

in order to make it on YOUR terms in the rap game, right now, you'd have to do something completely different from what everyone out now isdoing, change the formula up but still have relevant lyrics...come with something that nobody's though of before and revolutioniZe the game...

you can either spend your time trying to be innovative to become famous and take your chances on that, or continue doing your music on a smaller independent label where all the decisions are made by a smaller group of individiauls, the music is yours, and you see more profits because the money goes through less hands...

personally I'd rather do the latter and combine it with the first...but shit isn't about fame, it's about the art of rap being your self eXpression, and mainstream music of ANY genre is NOT about self eXpression, it's about what will sell and what won't sell...

the music industry is shallow as FUCK, there's no substance to anything, that's why you got groups like Manilli Vanillie that ended up winning a Grammy Award then it being found out that they never sang any of their "hits" because they had the right image...ya'll might not agree with me, but I believe shit like that is STILL going on in the industry today, they just cover it up better...

most people's careers in rap (played eXampe, but 50CENT) is all smoke and mirrors, it's ALL image and nothing really there...I'm not tryina be another rapper that'll be in for now and forgotten in the long run, I wanna be respected by my true fans, and though there won't be millions, TRUE fans are the ones that will go and BUY your latest CD, a fair weather fan is the one that will go download it from the internet because they wanna jam your music, but don't support you as an artist...