On 06.17.10, In Entrepreneur, Hip Hop Music, by Gerard Spinks
This is a first hand account of how to build your own career in order to get a deal offered to you
At one point, artists really needed to rely on getting a recording contract or having a top management firm such as Violator Management to work their contacts and make a deal happen for the artist. This is a first hand account of how to build your own career in order to get a deal offered to you similar to Drake’s $2.5 Million deal from Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Records.
If you do NOT have a home studio to produce and at least reference tracks, I would start by doing this first. This will stop you from being at the mercy of any producers when you want to jump in a studio because you are creative. Creativity can hit at any moment to an artist. To be dependent upon a producer to get into their studio will hinder you and stop the creativity because you can’t just jump in and create music at will.
I recommend working and saving every dime of your money and buying an iMac computer that I am on right now first and foremost. The iMac comes with a software package called Garageband that will allow you to create music at least on your own. You MUST learn the software and the software instruments in order to become proficient with your tools. Making music is really about being technically proficient. It is a requirement to know how to use the computer, how to use the iMac, and how to really use Garageband effectively to create your own sounds.
Knowing how to use Garageband will allow you to reference your own tracks and not have to wait until you get enough money to pay the producer for studio time. The other alternative is to have great relationships with studio bosses and producers and sound engineers who can get you into the studio for free and reference tracks. Once you’re able to do this and create songs, start creating and getting your best tracks and songs together. Do NOT shop them to a record label! You will become very disgruntled and very discouraged and will go on a 10 year trek to find a recording company to get signed. This will NEVER happen in your lifetime.
On 06.02.10, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
YouTube – Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip Hop Cop Trailer.
On 05.24.10, In Hip Hop Music, by Gerard Spinks
@djmrrogers and @partyboyz up at V103 in Atlanta with DJ Greg Street.
Spotted at Lenox Mall in Atlanta, GA, Chris Brown and artist Tiffany Cheri Price met up for a photo shoot opportunity.
Spotted at Lenox Mall in Atlanta, GA, Chris Brown and artist Tiffany Cheri Price met up for a photo shoot opportunity. Nah, it’s not Chris Brown’s new boo but the R&B singer, Tiffany Cheri Price, pitched a song concept to Chris Brown, got the song to him that she wrote, and will hopefully be working on a collaboration with Chris Brown soon.
On 01.28.10, In Current Events, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks
What do you do then if that seemed like the sure fire way to get noticed and the cheap way and every one tells you to utilize social media and facebook to promote yourself?
Believe in Yourself
Compile your best songs and attempt to put together your own album. Try to be different and make unique music. Once this is done, it is critical to move on to the next phase of the DIY Music Guide and that is to build an audience and build a fan base. This is NOT done the way artists thought it to be done on Myspace. Do NOT go putting your music on other people’s myspace as a comment. Do NOT go sending your music to DJ’s on Twitter via zshare links. Do NOT get an email of all the DJ’s that your boy has and send them emails promoting you as the next Drake and new coming of Hip Hop. This does NOT work and only makes everyone pissed off.
What do you do then if that seemed like the sure fire way to get noticed and the cheap way and every one tells you to utilize social media and facebook to promote yourself? You must find someone around you that has some money or work yourself to do this next part. You must find a sponsor who will help you pay for advertisements on Facebook and Myspace. If you’re utilizing Facebook primarily, you can create a Fan Page on there and upload your tracks to Facebook. You can also easily put your music up on iTunes via a digital distributor such as The Orchard.
The Orchard will create an account for you and allow you to upload your tracks. As a distributor, they will then get your tracks on all major online music retailers including iTunes, Walmart, Napster, etc. Your tracks will be in the online retailers. But being in the retailers and being found in iTunes is still like being on an island. No one knows you’re actually stranded on the island. You must promote yourself. Experiencing sell through of your music is the toughest part of the music industry. Having people buy your music is NOT easy even if you’re music is great. In order to get 1,000 people to click on your music you must have at least 1,000,000 people see your advertisement. This is NOT a joke and no exaggeration. The only way to truly move any type of record and get people’s interest is to literally pay in advertising or pay the DJ to spin your record.
On 01.27.10, In small business enterprise, by Gerard Spinks
Check out Houston TX’s own DJ Mr. Rogers and The Party Boyz video and tuner. The Party Boyz are blazing the Billboard Charts at #43 on the Hip Hop and R&B Charts. Please check it out and buy the album! Let’s go!!!!
Check out Houston TX’s own DJ Mr. Rogers and The Party Boyz video and tuner. The Party Boyz are blazing the Billboard Charts at #43 on the Hip Hop and R&B Charts. Please check it out and buy the album! Let’s go!!!!
On 12.29.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
This is RnB artist Tiffany Cheri Price’s audio/radio interview on Vocus for a television deal with Lifetime Television network. The artist speaks about her upbringing on Foster Care in New Jersey and what it took to come all the way from being abandoned to performing for United States Navy and Army soldiers. Tiffany Cheri Price [...]
This is RnB artist Tiffany Cheri Price’s audio/radio interview on Vocus for a television deal with Lifetime Television network. The artist speaks about her upbringing on Foster Care in New Jersey and what it took to come all the way from being abandoned to performing for United States Navy and Army soldiers.
Tiffany Cheri Price Foster Care’s Greatest Voice (Audio Interview For Lifetime TV)
On 12.29.09, In Current Events, by Gerard Spinks
DJ Mr. Rogers is no stranger to hip hop music. He is the producer for major artists Slim Thug and former Destiny Child star and current chart topper Letoya Luckett.
DJ Mr. Rogers and The Party Boyz whose song FLEX has topped the urban charts in the south.
DJ Mr. Rogers is no stranger to hip hop music. He is the producer for major artists Slim Thug and former Destiny Child star and current chart topper Letoya Luckett. DJ Mr. Rogers’ and the Party Boyz are definitely having success and according to Mr. DJ Rogers Myspace page his song FLEX has over 130,000 spins.
Mr. DJ Rogers has worked with an impressive array of talent on recording labels that include hip hop heavyweights Koch Records, Asylum, Universal, and J Records as well as with artists Slim Thug, Trae Song, Trap Starz, Hurricane Chris, and new artist Dorrough with their popular song “Walk That Walk”. FLEX is a great club song and is getting radio adds across the South and beyond. DJ’s can download the instrumental version of FLEX to add in their mixshows. The FLEX Dirty Version can also be downloaded here.
