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Errboy into music, and mostly women between the ages of 21 and good lookin 40 year olds.Not at the P-Dub I've moved on to bigger and better things.I'm now at Chocolate City on Conant Just past E7mile. You can catch me at Shafer & Puritan (Confrence Room). Also look for the Hot 313 Detroit Mixtape, YGH, & D.J. Tangaray & Kureius Ent Presentz... Tha Ganz(Detroit Musick)comming soon......We had so much fun Friday Jan (19th)thanks to everyone that made it happen! Doc Chill, and Pistol Atkins(MDB), Malik (Cheda Boy), Crisis, & Tim Black. The DVD will be comming soon! Shoutout to DetroitRaw.com Check the full thing on their website "A day in the life of a TT Bar DJ" The Realest ish you'll ever see. Anotha shout out to Garry C. one of my teachers for checkin' in on a student. **************WARNING SOME OF THE LANGUGAGE MAY BE GRAPHIC. THIS PAGE IS FOR THE 18 AND UP...17 UNDER GO AWAY, GO SEE WHAT YA MAMMA WANT******************** .. width="425" height="350">.. .. ....> Shout out to the BIG lil hommie KellzThe hottest real talk rap and visual let me know what yall think!.. The 10 Commandments for Properly Promoting Your Independent Music1. Thou must BCC on all emails.Nothing pisses people off more than when their email gets passed around to 2,000 people they don't know. Suddenly they're getting random requests for people to play a record they've never heard from an artist they know nothing about. Thanks, as if they didn't get enough emails from people they actually know.2. Thou shall not start conversations with, "Yo, my artist is the next _____".First off, we've all heard it before and honestly, we all know he's not the next 50. How about you build your artist with his own identity and backstory. It's called artist development. Look into it.3. Thou shall not use MySpace as their sole means of promotion.So you bought one of those programs the helps you get 500 new friends a day and send out all kinds of automated messages and event invitations to your wack ass unsigned artists showcase. That's great. Now do some real work. Nobody cares about the fact that you've got 25,000 myspace buddies.4. Thou shall not have your nobody of an artist diss an established artist merely for promotional gain.This is the oldest trick in the book. We really don't care that you and some big artist have history. We don't care that you wrote a record for him. We don't care that you know things about him before he was famous. How about you get famous yourself and stop worrying about the next guy.5. Thou must email music in MP3 format only at 192 kbps or higher, with the file properly named.Guess what, when you send a .WMA file and it's called Track 01, nobody's gonna listen to it let alone play it on the air. You know why, first off nobody uses Windows Media player to listen to music and secondly DJs tend to want to play a decent sounding file. When you send it to them at 96 kbps, it sounds like it was recorded in the shower. They also like know the name of the track they're playing. If you don't know how to use Itunes, find someone who does.6. Thou must do research on your DJs before placing any phone calls.You know what pisses DJs off, calling them and asking them to play a record during the week when they're a weekend mixer or vice versa. You know what pisses a DJ off even more, asking them to play a record on the air when they aren't even at a station. Station websites and DJ myspace pages are your friend. Use them.7. Thou must know what BDS is before taking any meetings.Want to know if your record is actually getting played, register it with BDS. So now when you make a phone call you can let DJs know where it's getting played. It's called having a "story". When you take meetings, you have to know what it is ahead of time. Don't ask what it is and then when it gets explained say, "Yea, I need that shit son."8. Thou must have their local market absolutely on smash before attempting to branch out to other areas.Let's say your from Philly, think somebody in LA is gonna play your record and Cosmic Kev's never even heard of you? They're not. Hire a local street team, get your record on smash in the clubs, on local radio, and develop relationships with the DJs. If your backyard ain't secure, how in the hell do you expect to get played anywhere else. DJ's talk to each other, sometimes your best promo guy is the local DJ.9. Thou must not think that a mixtape hosted by a big name DJ will get you a deal.So you paid DJ ____ to do a mixtape for you. Now you've got a bunch of Mixtapes with a big name guy on it and an artist nobody cares about. How does that transfer into a major deal? It doesn't. Mixtapes are great promo tools, but it's only a small part.10. Thou shall not attempt to sell their music on the street corner.Yes, I do like hip hop and no, I do not want to buy your CD. First off, I've never bought a CD in my life without first hearing what the artist sounds like. I didn't buy Illmatic from some kid on 48th and Broadway and I'm not gonna buy yours there either. Find somebody to invest some dough into you, if you're a decent artist it shouldn't be that hard to find a few hundred dollars to press up come promo CDs to give away. Yes, give them away. No rapper's ever made a living selling their shit on the corner for $5. Special shout out to DJ Brigs on this one!Watch tha CN stunt on this one!