A record deal aint based on SHIT but cat and mouse...
^---...you send in your demo, someone listens...99/100 times, your shit gets thrown away...if your name pops up somewhere, some A&R/ceo might remember it...if your name KEEPS popping up, they'll DEFINATELY know it....
this is where most artists fuck up when they get overconfident, gassed up, whiny, and start thinkin they're owed somethin...the key is to have your name in everybody's mouth, and at the same time, be under NOBODY's controll but your own.....if your agent/manager tells you you should sign an offer you just got, ax him "Are you paying me, or AM I PAYING YOU?"...
You go in it like a kid, you get the R Kelly treatment from the execs (just kidding Rob..we all know you didnt do it!)....you go in it like "FUCK YOU! cuz Im gettin paid REGUARDLESS!" then your stock turns from a longshot into an instant money-maker...
.........but then again, what the fuck i know, i aint even got my own deal :x