How To Become a Rapper

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How To Become a Rapper

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Intro

• The music industry has changed in a major way due
  to the Internet, especially the rap or hip hop
  industry.
• The value of a song has dropped significantly.
• In the past rappers did not have to release much
  music each year at all.

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Intro

• All music was released commercially in the form
  of albums where the fans must pay around fifteen
  dollars for around fifteen songs pressed on a cd
  with cover art and a tracklist.
• Once the Internet took over the music industry
  and people started illegally downloading music
  for free.
• Rap or hip hop artists needed to use this to
  their advantage while at the same time finding a
  way to make a living creating music.

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Lesson 1 Mixtapes

• Mixtapes are compilations of hip hop music that
  are usually given away free for promotion.
• Rappers use these to prove themselves
• In the past these were low quality in comparison
  to albums

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Lesson 1 Mixtapes

• Now these mixtapes are full albums with new
  beats, videos, and more.
• Good news for fans, but more work for MCs.
• Some MCs are famous today only through mixtapes.

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How To Create Mixtape

• You need beats. Here you can find hot beats for
  cheap CLICK HERE.
• Go there and buy some beats now.
• Or you can make your own beats which is easier
  than ever. To get the software for that CLICK
  HERE
• Then you need to record your vocals
• Get some cover art done HERE.

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YOUR DONECREATING THE MIXTAPE
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Lesson 2 Promotion

• Go where people are looking for music (The
  Internet)
• Social media will be the main outlet for you if
  you are serious about becoming a rapper
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Youtube

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Lesson 2 Promotion

• Create a Facebook Fanpage
• Create a Twitter account
• Create a Youtube channel
• Buy a video camera
• Record yourself
• Writing lyrics
• Recording music
• Making beats
• Chillin with your friends
• Etc

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Lesson 2 Promotion

• Edit the video and put a watermark (some text on
  the video) telling the viewer to subscribe to
  your Youtube and check out the description below.
  
• In the description put a link to your website
  (tell you more about this later), Twitter, and
  Facebook.

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Lesson 2 Promotion

• Upload tons of pics to your Facebook and Twitter
  and make sure you are always active on there with
  at least 5 status updates a day.
• Link them together to make it easy on yourself.

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Lesson 3 Website

• Go to blogger.com and create a free blog.
• Title your blog with your artist name.
• Now you must go to godaddy.com and get the exact
  domain name for your artist name too.
• Make that domain name transfer to your free blog
  so when you post the link you can post a
  professional link without the blogger.com name in
  the link too.

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Lesson 4 Website

• Take some time and create a professional website
  and upload videos and music on there too.
• If you need a tutorial on how to edit your blog
  just Google or Youtube it and youll find some
  info.
• You can now use this website to sell stuff
  (music, memorabilia), capture leads, etc.

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Lesson 4 Forums

• Be active on hip hop forums. Contribute to the
  discussion and in the signature of your posts put
  a link to your website and your social media
  links.
• The more posts you put the more traffic you get
  to your site.
• This is an important step.

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Final Recap

• Create a mixtape
• Create social media accounts
• Create a website
• Use social media and forum commenting to drive
  traffic to your website and social media accounts
• Market your music to all the people that visit
  your sites.

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