warnin'. wall of text. i always type too much.
people who start their own business don't quit their full time jobs until they own business brings in more income then their full time jobs.
it is the same with music. i won't quit my full time job unless i'm makin' more money in the music business.
as for my passion. i disagree with you. i believe that ppl who do it for the love of the art make better music than those who who do it for the money. money always fuck up the art form. just look at southpark and the simpsons. the early seasons are always better than the new seasons that are on tv now. they lose their "magic" once they start makin' them just for a paycheck.
and you can tell by my typin' that you but more dedication, time, effort and sacrifice into your music???
sorry but i'm one of those people who want to make 100k a year so that i can go buy some motifs, fantoms, korgs, mpc's (i don't like mpc's but my friend got one. i was wrong about it from the net), tr-808's (a classic), andromeda, access virus, i want it all.
i can't afford hardware if i'm makin' 20k a year.
sorry, but i think i have more passion than anybody here. no disrepect but i'm conceited when it comes to my music. i really think that i'm best out there and i'm just not happy to be usin' hacked software all the time. yea, i've gotten alot of software from cp and torrents but some people want something better. just not the free things in life.
now then. i am not a yes man. while everybody else is sayin' "hell yea, go for it". i'm like fuck that shit. i'll rather be real with someone and tell them that they will probably never make it in the music business. so it's better to have a PLAN B in case they don't make. that's plan B (in other words music is PLAN A).
now while i'm sayin' all this shit. i'm still networkin my way into the music business. i already have the email of a producer who has done beats for no limit and other new orleans rappers. i also have the email of a local houston producer who emails me his completed songs and ask for my opinion on them. one day i'll email him my beats and ask his opinion on them (so, that i can sneak in askin' him about some networkin' contacts) i also have a email of another grammy winnin' rapper from houston, tx. but that email is courtesy of the hip hop group that i am with (see my sig for the links). in fact, he get my email spammed when he sent me the link for one of his mixtapes (i had gmail and it was spam free until the recipents startin' spammin' all of the emails that they could see on his mass email). but it was that same mass email where the producer from houston saw my email address and started emailin' me his songs.
so, i'm still workin' my way into the business. networkin' will always take you farther in life.
my grandfather once told me that it is "
who you know" and not "
what you know". so i'm not concerned with bein' famous on the internet while all of the major and major independent labels are ignorant of me.
in fact, i was at the
Guitar Center i was talkin' to a guy who owns a motif xs. some good advice that he gave me was to attend the producer's seminars 'cause all of the major producers in the music industry attend them. you can talk to the producers and network your way into the industry there.
so i'll repeat it. networkin' is what will get you into the industry. not stayin' in the house all day makin' beats. who cares if you spend 24/7/365 workin' on your music and you spend no time networkin'. i had the ex-producer from no limit tell me to email him some beats but all of my beats are on my friend's korg triton le. and it makes no sense to send him my fl v3 beats (the samples sucks). so i'd rather wait for my friend to get a pc, send him some fire (after addin' some accepellas to the beat to make sure that he doesn't steal my shit) and see if he'll actually help me get into the industry (he posted a bulletin on myspace tellin' producers that he can help them out).
so network. i'm one of those ppl who didn't practice my trumpet except in class, i'm the student who didn't practice my piano musicexcept in class, i'm that student who skipped class in college and never studied until test time... and i'll would still get A's and B's. and all of the students who put in 50x more work than me still couldn't get a higher test score than me. remember, i'm conceited when it comes to music and i still think that i can do better than you while puttin' in less time than you.
and while i'm not in the game for the money, my askin' price for my beats are expensive. i want a $500 advance plus my royalties for any beats that anybody wants to buy (i already have ppl on myspace emailin' me about beats and i don't even have my beats on myspace. my groups mixtape songs are on my myspace). but once i get a job for 30k-40k and i start bringin' in 1k paychecks (in other words i can buy a motif or fantom with only 3 paychecks), my price will increase to $1k plus my royalties. sorry, i've always wanted a lamborghini since i was a kid and no job on earth will pay me enough to buy one. so i'm in the music game just as much as everybody else.
but i'm not goin' to tell somebody to make 10k-20k a year, stay poor, stay in the projects, stay in the mother's house, turn 60 and still live in an apartment instead of havin' paid off a mortgage for a house... all as a sacrifice to try to make it into the music industry.
make you money by any means necessary. go to school, go be a construction worker (they make GOOD money with no college education and you have no chance that your job will be sent overseas), go do something that will let you live comfortable. and then when you do make it into the industry, you can quit your job. don't quit your job before you make it and you live on welfare. ppl like justin (a.k.a. republicans. and no disrespect Justin, i'm just usin' your political posts as an example) will not hesitate to get rid of the welfare system.
i believe in work SMARTER, not work HARDER. thos ppl who are worth billions of dollars are always there to take advantage of those who are willin' to work hard for peanuts. sorry, no disrespect but 90% of the ppl in the industry have signed bad contracts just to make it into the industry. and i refuse to sign away my money to some multi-million dollar corporation and make no money from my album sales (an advance is a loan and you must make the same amount of money back in royalties before you receive any royalties. most ppl NEVER even break even in the amount of royalties that they earn). dont' believe me, i already told you what books to go and borrow or buy and read.
i'm still waitin' for somebody on the forum to make it in the music industry. like i said before, it's about networkin'. better hurry 'cause i'm tryin' to make it before you...
you really don't know me from what i type. what i tell others what they should do and what i do is opposite. i won't tell somebody to take the hard path and then they blame when when they fail. it's not my fault. i told you to have a plan B.
Re: Beat Making As A Future
Re: Beat Making As A Future -
05-10-2008, 01:03 AM
