if it was the old days some of yall tapes would still get dubbed
or yo cd would still get burned
or you woulda been on someones big ass 1st generation 2gb ipod
as long as they hear you, you should be good
your music will speak for itself at the end of the day when you hit the shelves and if you have true fans theyll spend that 10 when its time for you to perform or drop your album you put money and time behind
if you dont have true fans that will do that then i would say maybe something needs to change in your music so you can reflect how detrimental support is to your type of art
thats why twitter exists , specifically for artists. so they (fans, potential fans) can see up to date how much work you really are putting into the album/line of work, outside of talkin about smoking or whatever. they get to learn the bits and pieces about you that you dont add in your album.
but most people aint gon catch up to how to make money on the net till like 2014..and by then itll be a new way....so if you missed out on the hustle you just missed out by not being up on it
this may not make sense but ill try anyway: a piece of string on a stick with a piece of cheese on it might catch one stupid, hungry fish..but if you actually get a fishing pole and some bait, and maybe read up on fishing you might leave home with a cooler full of fish.
theres more fish on the internet than outside. use that to your advantage somehow
edit: lemme say one other thing. in the graf world, i can make money doing art for people, but i can just as well take my art to the streets, on a wall, and make no money and do it to make a statement; fuck your law, i write my own laws. you see it, and thats what it is. many artists have become world famous by doing this. they started at the bottom to get to the top. and sometimes, went back to the bottom just for fun. i say if youre complaining about dough slowing up due to technology and not finding another way to get your bread you aint really built for the shit in the first place.
and that is to no one in particular but its to anyone reading
niggas is ridiculous. like i can youtube half of yall shit. i aint even gotta download it. i can just play the song and save my hard drive space. niggas should be happy they album even exists in someones personal belongings lol whats next i gotta send boosie 50 cent to rock his video on my signature?
the word of the day is: support
PS: get used to it, were not going to go back to 1980 all the sudden. none of us are marty mcfly and the car aint big enough for the entire world. its gon get worse.
solution: study 'hacking'. learn about 15+ years of computer knowledge. buy ninja swords. cut the head of every fat kid leaking music at his mothers basement across the world. break into file hosting services in russia, korea, guam, and angola. kill everyone. do all this undetected by dna, fingerprints, footprints, hairs, sneakerprints, skin, videocameras, IP adresses, and those fucking cameras on street lights, and you may save the world.
oh yeah and dont take planes. take jets, or mules to your destination. sneak across borders through intricate tunnels you learned through african-american slavery smuggling. be smart, young warrior..and we might be back to buying cds again. wouldnt that be great?
