Originally Posted by Status

SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT MUSIC AND ALL THAT SHIT READ IT AND HELP A BROTHER OUT...

yo tell me if this sounds like a good idea?

aight im gonna make enough songs for an album and eventually make a Cd and get it professionally done and get it placed in some local stores and try to buy a spot in the towers records spot over here and pay to get bars then hopefully they can say it

- Spot in Tower = $$$$$$$$$$

once i send my music in to get mastered down(is that even worth it?) "Mixed Down" and "Masterd" are seperate and for what you're looking to accomplish, the latter it isn't worth it. i am goign to release a quick cheaply made mixtape and pass it out for like $2 so i can just make my money back(the money i spent buying the Cds) and hopefullly the poeple who hear the mxtape will try and cop the Cd or someone will hit me up for a show and all that jazz, well that'd be a Demo. A mixtape is a lot different form a Demo. If you tell mixtape heads that your Mixtape is only songs on your album, they're gonna say "is it a demo?" or "AHAHAHAH. Damn bitch, go lay a fuckin track or two! lol!!" because mixtapes by artists are essentially micro-albums of their own, with unique songs and everything. Long story, but to make it short, I wouldn't suggest calling it anything other than a Demo or a Sampler.


i also am goign to put out 3 of my songs from my Cd(before i even put out my mixtape and cd) and put them on vyinl and put those in record stores and use those for promotion also

- Sounds like huge bucks man. You know how much it costs to get work on wax?? How many units are you planning to get printed?

its gonna be exspensive but im only 17 with no bils and get payed farily good at my job

- So far you're lookign at at least $9000 between Tower and the records alone, with no CD's printed yet. Tower's gonna want at least 5k and I'd be shocked if that's all they wanted. Also, being a minor, legally, they're going to ask for a legal guardian to sign off on all your contracts - just a heads up. IF they offer one, and you still have a lot of legal stuff to take care of like copywriting the Music, clearing the samples (if any) and registering with Sond Scan who puts the barcode on your CD and tracks your units sold. Registering with sound scna is pretty cheap, but nothing else mentioned here so far is.


**i knhow a few local MCs that have done this but they just passed out there Cds for free and one guy put his Cd in a store but im not sure on his sales... i can also get radio play once i record a decent sounding track(once i get time)

but yo you think thats a good idea

- It could work, but there's a ton of steps from one goal to another that are not factored in. The main one being $$. The second one after that is timing and the last is the legal stuff. By "timing" what I mean is "putting an album in a store without any heavy circulation of your music, no one knows the artist REALLY, etc has shown in the past to be a big financial loss. You have to promote your self HARD BEFORE the album comes out, and whne it does, you do little college gigs and things like that. "The Underground" is the college age guys/girls at its roots. IMO I feel you should spend more time generating a buzz and getting your own skills honed in so you can have a better album AND a more successful one when you decide to release it. The budget? hell, i dunno how much money you have acess to, but the plan on paper alone with all the hshit you'd have to get done on paper is at least gonna be 10k. And none of that guarantees that you'll sell a single unit. just something to consider. You can get comprable results (depending on what your ultimate goal is) for WAAAAYYYYY less $$


*ive already done a lil show type thing in this lil store/club just freestyled and battled some wack asian guy..yea owned him..<<just something i wanted to brag about