How to Find Your Voice as A Young Artist
Finding your voice as a human being is hard; finding your voice as an artist is even harder.
Finding your voice as a human being is hard; finding your voice as an artist is even harder.
A short-sighted flipping mentality doesn’t work in the long run because at some point you have to establish a structure which will continue to generate money for you in the long run or allow for a big payoff in the future.
Artist development has become a lost art in this day and age of microwaved, flash in the plan success.
For all the criticism that Hip Hop gets, there is much to be applauded and learned. We’re seeing real business minds being cultivated and business strategies employed. It is becoming common knowledge that you MUST do things differently in order to succeed and profit within the music business.
Eight bars from a dope lyricist can provide more insight than a doctoral dissertation. Hip-hop is more than just a musical genre, it is a culture and its music is the social commentary of a people and their worldview.
It is important for rappers and anyone else who professes to “move a culture forward” to realize that if you truly want to “advance a culture”, you must think outside of the box and transcend the stereotypes and expectations that have historically been placed upon that culture.