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5 Tips for Promoting Hip Hop Music via Word of Mouth

Watch The Video: Promoting Hip Hop music via word of mouth has been around since the beginning of Hip Hop. Every rapper has promoted new tracks, shows, and tons of other things via word-of-mouth. It’s not only an effective way to promote your music, it’s free as well. This is both a ‘pro’ and a …

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How To Set Goals As A Rapper That Make You Successful

I bet you didn’t think you’d be setting goals when you decided to become a rapper. That’s ok, most don’t. But, most rappers never become successful. So, let’s make sure you’re using the strategies that successful rappers use. Goals are one of the few things you can do as a rapper that can guarantee your …

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How To Build Relationships With Hip Hop Bloggers

  Building relationships with Hip Hop bloggers will be important throughout your entire music career. They’ll help get you in front of your target audience, as well as add credibility to your brand. As you become a bigger artist and begin to build a team, you will assign this job to someone else, like a …

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How To Get Your Music On Hip Hop Blogs

As a hip-hop artist, just making music and putting it out there for the world is not enough anymore. Technology has made it easy for anyone to purchase the basic equipment and become a rapper. Not only has this made promoting your music more difficult, it’s made getting your music featured in hip-hop blogs like …

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The Biggest Lie Rappers Are Told In Hip Hop

I can feel the clouds of controversy slowly gathering around this blog post as I write it. As an upcoming Hip Hop music artist, you’ll hear this “advice” all the time from people in the industry when looking for music promotion tips or music business advice. I’m not sure why they consistently give artist this “advice” when, …

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How To Really Grow Your Fanbase Like A Boss At Your Show

  A big problem I see upcoming Hip Hop artist make when performing live has nothing to do with their stage performance, music selection, or image. The mistake I see upcoming Hip Hop artist make is thinking that a good performance, good music selection, or “raw” clothes is going to make people become loyal fans and …

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How To Check If Your Rap Name is Already Trademarked

I was chatting with an artist recently via email recently and he said something that led me to create this post.  He had recently checked out the article about the mistakes that most rappers make and decided to share where he was at in his music career. In one of our emails, he replied: “I do …

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3 Benefits of Networking in Hip-Hop

In the corporate world, you’ll hear people talk about the benefits of networking all the time. We all have heard the saying “It’s not what you know, but who you know” and understand that there’s a great deal of truth to that statement – but in hip-hop, you rarely hear people talk about the act …

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How To Connect & Work With Any Successful Rapper

  This blog post will be pretty short compared to the ones that I usually write for a few reasons. I’m pretty curious to see if you all like short (less detailed) post better than my longer (more detailed) post. Please leave a comment at the end of this post letting me know which type …

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7 Horrible Mistakes Made By Independent Hip Hop Artist

The steps to becoming a hip-hop artist in 2017 is still a rather “secret” topic that isn’t talked about publicly. With the number of new hip-hop artists entering the industry every day, you’d think there would be a “standard” for things you shouldn’t do if you’re trying to become successful. Since there isn’t, I thought …

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30 Effective Ways To Promote Your Music

I’m sure you’re already aware of how important promoting your music actually is. Getting your music heard is just as important as making the music. It doesn’t matter if you have the best song in the world – if no one listens to it, it’s almost like it doesn’t exist. So, in an attempt to …

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How To Make Your Own Music Website for Hip Hop Artists

Why You Need To Make A Music Website: Most hip-hop artists are relying on social media heavily. The problem with doing that is that your social media accounts could be deleted at any moment, for any reason– and guess what happens to all of those followers and likes that you’ve been working so hard to …

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How To Get Your Mixtape On Spinrilla

Getting your mixtape on Spinrilla, while simple, can be difficult for most artists. However, in this post, we’re going to show you exactly how you can get your mixtape uploaded in as fast as 24 hours.

4 Different Ways To Get Your Mixtape On Livemixtapes

Livemixtapes is an online mixtape hosting platform that allows hip-hop artists to upload their mixtapes, and make it available for streaming and downloading – which can be shared & promoted to their audience online while taking advantage of Livemixtape’s built-in audience. Relevant Read: The Difference Between A Mixtape & An Album How to upload your …

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