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Originally Posted by L. Veracity
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...
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This is why I love Australia..
I am maticulous about my music and I am dedicated to pushing a revolutionary style to innovate the game over here. I got what it takes to get where I want to go and I got real large ambitions. Over here they arnt like America, the mainstream still runs on whats hot.. But talent IS the basis of our industry.. I know I can use this to my advantage and my style of music although it boasts underground rhyme schemes, really wouldnt sound out of place being played in mainstream places..
I am out for fame, but not because I want it on a personal level. I have ultimate goals I want to achieve through my music career that go beyond just getting rich and having groupies.. I feel through influence I can genuinly start a movement that will inspire people to think in new ways..
I am 100% dedicated to my career, rap aint just a hobby or something I do to express myself. I write basically every day, perfecting my style and technique to get my point accross.. I study career's of highly successful music artist's and what made them who they are, what made them get to the places they got to etc and I learn new things every day..
In 2007 if my time schedual permits, I'll be doing an international level 5 sound engineering course to become more pro in the studio and with making beats.. And most importantly, I plan my career precisly, I'm not the type who will bumble around in the underground for 10 years searching for opportunitys..
I plan on having a deal by early next year at the latest and my groups doing up a sick demo EP at the moment which well be recording closer to christmas and pressing a few hundred copies to hand out around shitloads of people.. I got connections that can hook me up gigs around this area and I'm guessing sometime next year well PROBABLY end up moving down to sydney where theres a load more opportunity for up and comming hip hop acts..
But at the end of the day, I think being in Australia is really going to pay off for me.. Our industry is on the come up, were kind of at the stage where rappers in our country are actually just starting to bust out and become popular.. Its a real interesting time to be getting into rap over here and theres already some real talented dudes out there doing their thing and starting to get big..
And I will say, theres more to me than just music.........