How To Become a Rapper

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Intro

• The music industry has changed in a major way due to the Internet, especially the rap or hip hop industry.

• The value of a song has dropped significantly.

• In the past rappers did not have to release much music each year at all.

Intro

• All music was released commercially in the form of albums where the fans must pay around fifteen dollars for around fifteen songs pressed on a cd with cover art and a tracklist.

• Once the Internet took over the music industry and people started illegally downloading music for free.

• Rap or hip hop artists needed to use this to their advantage while at the same time finding a way to make a living creating music.

Lesson 1 Mixtapes

• Mixtapes are compilations of hip hop music that are usually given away free for promotion.

• Rappers use these to prove themselves

• In the past these were low quality in comparison to albums

Lesson 1 Mixtapes

• Now these mixtapes are full albums with new beats, videos, and more.

• Good news for fans, but more work for MCs.

• Some MCs are famous today only through mixtapes.

How To Create Mixtape

• You need beats. Here you can find hot beats for cheap CLICK HERE.

• Go there and buy some beats now.

• Or you can make your own beats which is easier than ever. To get the software for that CLICK HERE

• Then you need to record your vocals

• Get some cover art done HERE.

YOUR DONECREATING THE MIXTAPE

Lesson 2 Promotion

• Go where people are looking for music (The Internet)

• Social media will be the main outlet for you if you are serious about becoming a rapper FacebookTwitterYoutube

Lesson 2 Promotion

• Create a Facebook Fanpage

• Create a Twitter account

• Create a Youtube channelBuy a video cameraRecord yourself

• Writing lyrics• Recording music• Making beats• Chillin with your friends• Etc

Lesson 2 Promotion

• Edit the video and put a watermark (some text on the video) telling the viewer to subscribe to your Youtube and check out the description below.

• In the description put a link to your website (tell you more about this later), Twitter, and Facebook.

Lesson 2 Promotion

• Upload tons of pics to your Facebook and Twitter and make sure you are always active on there with at least 5 status updates a day.

• Link them together to make it easy on yourself.

Lesson 3 Website

• Go to blogger.com and create a free blog.

• Title your blog with your artist name.

• Now you must go to godaddy.com and get the exact domain name for your artist name too.

• Make that domain name transfer to your free blog so when you post the link you can post a professional link without the blogger.com name in the link too.

Lesson 4 Website

• Take some time and create a professional website and upload videos and music on there too.

• If you need a tutorial on how to edit your blog just Google or Youtube it and you’ll find some info.

• You can now use this website to sell stuff (music, memorabilia), capture leads, etc.

Lesson 4 Forums

• Be active on hip hop forums. Contribute to the discussion and in the signature of your posts put a link to your website and your social media links.

• The more posts you put the more traffic you get to your site.

• This is an important step.

Final Recap

• Create a mixtape

• Create social media accounts

• Create a website

• Use social media and forum commenting to drive traffic to your website and social media accounts

• Market your music to all the people that visit your sites.

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