21/07/2022
For anybody tryna break into the music industry, I outlined a list of 20 things you should know. Things I personally went through and mistakes I have made, or mistakes I’ve seen other people make.
(Disclaimer, THIS IS A LONG AND INFORMATIVE POST SO SKIP IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ‼️)
1- stop hiring your friends and family to be a manager or CEO and run the business. I understand you want to hold them down but the majority has no idea wtf they doing and the personal relationship makes ni**az too comfortable. Find someone who knows what they doing. Keep family, friends and business seperate. This includes hiring family members to work for you in any capacity. At some point you will regret it
2- put out as much music as you can until something sticks. Stop putting out dates of when your new album or song or mixtape is dropping. Nobody gives a f**k because you haven’t built a big enough audience who is waiting for it. All your doing is dropping songs to your friends and family. 🤷🏽♂️
3- paying for views on YouTube is working againts you. Not only that, but it’s obvious you paid. Your views don’t match your comments. lol if your video has 2 thousand views today and tomorrow it has 250k views and 22 comments, your still in the same position my n***a. Lol jus sayin
4- there are no short cuts. You cannot skip steps. You have to go through it. you have to struggle in order to learn how to have the hunger you need to get where you need to go. You will end up falling a thousand times before you can stand.
5- talent is 10% of the battle. Your determination and how bad you want it is 50% and the other 40% is relationships. You can be as talented as drake and Eminem and jay z and Chris brown but if you don’t have the same hunger they had, then you a dub. That means taking advantage of every opportunity, sacrificing everything and staying focused. That means saying no to “fun nights out with your peoples” and staying in the studio instead. That means valuing relationships a
