I was having a conversation with an artist on how to really build her situation inside the music industry. Many artist reach a point in their career when the industry (corporations) begins to push you out of, and no longer want to support your artistry. The question is are you to old to rap? When hip hop started in the late seventies no one really took it as a valuable source for income until the corporations got behind it and push it through the main stream media.
In the late 80's hip hop started to sky rocket with groups like Run DMC and Ice T NWA gained world wide acceptance from the public and major record labels. Now its been thirty years later, and many of these same artist are still rapping and selling records. For example, Ice Cube just released I Am The West, and Dr. Dre is set to release Detox some time in the spring. May of these artist are now in their forties and still have a fan base of people who enjoy their music.
The thing that I was trying to explain to this sista was that the corporations are only interested in making money off your talent. You can build and audience for your music and still make a decent living off of ones talent without the corporations involvement. After she listen to what I was preaching she got a different take on the music industry and realized she wasn't really to old to rap.
peace
coolwater
comments are welcomed
No comments:
Post a Comment