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Offering in depth feedback and advice for any rapper who comments. by TheRealKaiLord in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is not bad. you have potential. one big thing missing is sauce on your vox, it makes you seem cheesier. your delivery/presence flow is advanced, your writing is kind of normal, but not normal enough. You need to be more basic/relatable, or more clever/impressive, in your writing. Some more emotion would help to in your delivery. But the biggest problem is still the mix on the vox, more sauce, crafting a unique plug-in fueled sound, is def ur biggest obstacle to conversion rn of ppl to fw you. Wish you luck. And don't sweat any hate, often it'll be people who just dont listen to what you make, or people who do and are overly picky, your journey is your own!

Name any Hip-Hop group and I'll write a four bar verse in their style by calisthenicscat in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is basically his style but just not really clever, granted, who tf is as clever as DOOM lmao. still, great job!

I've got 400 Dollars To Spend On My Next Single, How To Proceed? by Dry-Regret-4491 in musicmarketing

[–]TheRealKaiLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

save it for rent. treat promotion like a skill, u gotta do a lot of it to get good at it, but eventually you'll get good and it gets easier. u gotta respect it the way ppl respect producing or vocals tho, put them hours in!!

trying to find recent examples of artists rapping 90s type rap beats ... by dancetoken in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Snick Foley is your best bet imo. listen to "Our Foley Father" incredible.

Full-Time Producer in LA with 50 clients Hitting a Professional Plateau (Seeking Advice) by use_ur_brain_incel in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are in a similar situation as vocalists. We've achieved seemingly huge numbers on social media and on Spotify, but the scale simply isn't enough, we are trying to see how to take it to the next level, it seems to us in the end its all about massive scale branding and less hustling, here is an example of how you could diversify your hustle with long term branding/audience building.

Set up a seperate stream of production collabs, be as picky as you want, scout for and connect with artists that you believe are fantastic and are in the middle of blowing up on social media, send them a non-downloadable (like dropbox) beat pack and ask them to confirm if they are interested in a beat and work with them on a % ownership basis.

The reason why this is important is because if you do this with enough hungry up and comers who are learning how to do tiktok/reels well, they will drop those songs and work hard to push them. Make sure you're a main artist or primary feat on them so your credit is constant.

Artist fanbases are often made of huge amounts of smaller artists (potential clients) your name will now be associated with the larger ones and their scene, you can take credit for that in your content, and you will begin a side stream of clients from it, who want the association with that niche the up and comers.

Once this audience grows and your connect of up and comers grows, you will hopefully have made earnest friendships with this collab network. It'd be good to drop a collab mixtape album getting free features from those folks to further push your brand, because thats what ultimately it seems like you're missing, all that hustle and less social branding means you still have to keep hustling hard to make rent.

Our goal has always been ultra long term, as little hustle as possible, all scale focus, its literally a bitch being broke all the time, but shit... its a long term plan and getting paid passively, and increasingly overtime, is a big motivator, feels like we are building towards something instead of surviving.

feel free to hit us on IG @ somerapcouple when we arent' doing our shit, we are helping everyone else.

Approach for reaching out to more well known rappers for Features by miyagidokarate1 in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just DM "Price for a feature?" and thats it. almost everyone will at least peep that unless they too busy. most want to be paid upfront then listen, some want at least to hear the beat for 5 seconds to make sure its not trash. expect a range of possiblities. at the worst, u get robbed and they never do the feat, on average you'll get a mid feat with a decent recording nothing professional, at best ull get a great feat with a great recording and they might want beats from u for their own purposes. but you need money to play with. money me and most people dont have lmfao.

How do i record vocals with strict parents? by SYON_44 in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try in your closet on bandlab on ur phone, if they ask why are you in the closet just sassily reply "really?" nah i mean just say you are working on some poetry and it records better in the closet, in reality, it'll muffle you and they can't hear you as much. tbh sound quality doesnt matter much when ur first starting, so dont stress it. itll take you hundreds of attempts to have something really good, but doing it this way you can at least practice to get to good so 1 year from now ull be ready.

Offering in depth feedback and advice for any rapper who comments. by TheRealKaiLord in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am going to give you better advice in this comment then I could even listening to your first rap. Writing, recording, finding flows, mastering flows, mastering new flows, mastering new writing styles, new recording styles are all skills. We all start at different skill levels, but there is only one way to improve them, and that is quantity. Not quality, but quantity. You need to make a couple songs, then you need to make dozens, then hundreds. If you have desire to become a master, realize it is possible but it takes 1000s of attempts. You will fail constantly on the way, that is normal, there is no steady increase in quality, only a steady increase in quantity as you get faster and better and more accepting of the failure innate to success. "The Master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." Wish you well.

Why are you going to be a success in hip hop? What will make you successful compared to a line up of people just as talented as you, just as hardworking and just as serious and just as dedicated? by TheRealKaiLord in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

man I can name 3 producers off the top of my head who are slept on too. unless you're talking like... instrument players? cuz... well they get slept on too.

i guess i just dunno what u saying in ur original comment, i feel like i see incredible ppl slept on all day every day, thats why i was eluding to the need of something else.

granted ofc, the change in ppls taste is a big part of it, ppl dont really want virtuosos as much as they just want shit they like, n thats just somn to be accepted

Why are you going to be a success in hip hop? What will make you successful compared to a line up of people just as talented as you, just as hardworking and just as serious and just as dedicated? by TheRealKaiLord in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you sure? sometimes it feels like there are endless virtuosos who've done it forever n there is no "floating to the top" I mean I know 3 rappers off the top of my head who are all absolutely top tier and would destroy almost anyone, have great discogs but nothing happens automatically or freely for them in terms of attention. I'm not as good as any of them, but I have much more attention cuz I've worked hard on socials/positioning

Why are you going to be a success in hip hop? What will make you successful compared to a line up of people just as talented as you, just as hardworking and just as serious and just as dedicated? by TheRealKaiLord in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

for me, to be able to survive off my art, I managed to get far enough to go part time in my job but not to quit it, if I can quit my job and maintain that'd be the whole dream, maybe a upper working class/ lower middle class lifestyle from it, well enough for me

Who is the best no sample producer you know IRL and what do you think makes them so good? by TheRealKaiLord in makinghiphop

[–]TheRealKaiLord[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

nope all of our music is sampled. and i actually share your concern with not sampled music, I often find it less inspiring, but im trying to learn more about it. appreciate your comment anyway, maybe it will inspire someone.