There has to be a theory of how to become rich and famous off of making music, if talentless people such as Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, Lil Yachty, ect. are able to throw on autotune and loaded off of one mixtape it can't be that hard.
My question for Sup Forums is this, what is the recipe for being rich and famous in the music industry? There has to be a way.
trying to make it in the music industry is like trying to win the lottery. retards and talentless people win the lottery all the time. its about luck.
there isn't some special recipe that they mastered that can be applied to anyone. just because the last lotto winner chose the numbers 16, 24, 28, 98, 15, 30 does not mean that choosing those numbers again will yield the same results.
these people were in the right place at the right time. perhaps the right place at the right several times.
the fact that you have to ask shows that you are actually more dumb than those people.
>Create original music
>Have original lyrics
>Put time, effort and heart into it
>Create a CD or tape with at least 8 tracks
>Distribute to friends, clubs, people you know, ect.
>Play your music out in front of other people, get comfortable performing your art
>Annoy the shit out of a decent number of on-par record labels and send material if you get a response w/meeting
Treat it like a career or take it seriously in the sense of wanting to make good music and you will make it somewhere, just like anything else you put your mind into.
Plus lil wayne basically started the entire mixtape generation. And released tha carter 1 and 2 without autotune, and almost all of tha carter 3. In addition he bodied people on their own beats in no ceilings, da drought 3, and a number of other mixtapes. Eminem said wayne was a better rapper than him and that he wouldnt attack him because of it. Lil wayne is top 10 easy all time and his autotune new shit is trash but lets be real thats not how he got famous. He got famous cuz he merked tha carter 1 and tha carter 2 was one of the highest selling rap albums of all time
Apply that logic to an author looking to write a book. If you really fucking try at something you might yeild something from it. Rome wasn't built in a day. Shitty rap songs and plastic pop music was.
A lot of hip hop stars today are former drug dealers and basically buy their way into the industry. To them it's just another hustle. Beyond that there barely is a music industry aside from independent musician releasing shit online and more specialized labels for metal, edm, hardcore etc. Edm would probabaly be your best bet if you just want want to try to make money and aren't concerned with integrity.
Good god.
No, it more complicated the that. Today it's very different depending on genre.
lil wayne doesn't compare to eminem imo
I've listened to all of both of their shit
None of this will help you sell records.
Make people dance and come up with a gimmick and you'll increase your chances of making money in the industry by 3%.
Pander to the lowest aspects of society.
then go lower.
Pretty much sums it up.
>apply that logic to an author looking to write a book.
I would. there is talentless awful drivel out there that gets published all the time.
yes talented people do get picked up, it helps, but even the writer of charlottes web was rejected 100 times, having to redraft it each time, before it was picked up.
if you want to pursue being a musician i say go for it. im out here trying to make it as a writer even though it is the same thing: a lottery. but as long as you are happy producing independently not much else matters.
>no
>it more complicated the that
it is in the sense that literally everything ever described is more complicated than that. but it still boils down to right place right time.
for every 'OH HE TRIED SO HARD AND WAS A STRUGGLING ARTIST FOR YEARS BUT HE STUCK WITH IT AND PROVED THAT YOU CAN MAKE IT BIG IF YOU DO YOUR BEST' there are over a thousand 'hes extremely talented but after forty years of doing some of the best indie work he could, he hasnt been picked up'.
The difference is, people still buy books.
If you want to make money making music be prepared to tour your ass because you won't make money from downloads, and that's if you've even come up with something people actually want to hear.
/bread
>make a metric shit ton of music that people want to hear
>learn how to market and brand yourself
>develop a fanbase
>do shows and learn how to perform well
>network like a madman
I dont think a single other rapper puts in as much work as wayne. Try to name one. Then listen to 10000 bars
The points your making though have nothing to do with the current state of the music industry. Very few bands get "picked up" or signed, it's not even worth it unless you're talking really big money. You're better off doing it yourself.
You don't learn how to market and brand yourself.
If you're serious you hire a publicist.
>the difference is people still buy books
that doesn't go against my point. OP asked how to make money off of music, as in, be successful like lil wayne. yes that involves tours. that doesn't go against my point at all.
that being said, people dont buy books as much as you think. like music they buy the best books, but thats it.
my ex is an author, got like 4 books published thus far. the books are sold mostly to libraries. you can get copies its not impossible or hard by any means, but the majority of income comes from libraries and similar.
FUCKING YOU GOTTA BE LEIK.. DOWN FOR THE LIFESTYLE IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY DRINKING IF YOU WANNA ROCK N rOLL. I DONT KNOW THE BLACK MUSIC HOWTA DO THAT.
>the points your making though have nothing to do with the current state of the music industry
they have everything to do with the state of the music industry. if you want to argue other wise please do, but actually argue. this is the second time where you just say
>nuh uh its different cuz i say so
>very few bands get 'picked up' or signed
kind of my point.
>you're better off doing it yourself
if you're good, sure, but thats clearly not what OP is asking.
The point is people buy books. People do not buy music, even when they did the bulk of your money was made from touring. People like lil Wayne are a brand, he's got endless opportunities to make money, getting to that level is very unlikely for most people. It's more than luck or who you know, you've got to have something that's marketable and intriguing.
look at 2 chainz...
dude is mad smart, but puts out crappy music cause that's what hood niggas enjoy
just gotta pick an audience and market the shit out of yourself and your 'brand', and hope someone important notices
When you're talking about "getting signed" you don't understand the modern music industry at all.
if you have the money at first then yeah, but assuming you don't, you'd want to know the basics so you can attract a bigger fan base and start making more money off shows.
People don't understand that most labels want to determine your marketable qualities. The idea that you should create a brand or market yourself if often the worst direction you can go in because a potential label may have a very different idea, then they have to rebrand you and that's more difficult then if you had beeen unknown. If you want to get on a label the best thing to do is make good tracks, get some live experience etc. if you want to try to market yourself, hire a publicist who knows what they're doing.
labels these days don't typically fuck with you unless you already have a fan base. so branding yourself in a way that will attract fans will be better anyway.
Take a look at Russ.
Sheer dumb luck.
put in time and make some good songs
send some songs to djs who spin radio sets and at club, locally and internationally
you need lots of material, dont send the same stuff to all djs,
give them exclusives to promote you
amass more music
take the bangers that get the most club and radio play and make a release
pay a production house to promote your shit and get you on itunes
hire and agent to get you bookings
>My question for Sup Forums is this, what is the recipe for being rich and famous in the music industry? There has to be a way.
Very, very good cocaine connections.
>born into wealthy family
>reap the benefits of having a powerful family
ta da!
>Lil Wayne is talentless
>Eminem greatest rapper
When will this meme end? Eminem is great, but more than half of his content is funny voices and making jokes
In no way does that mean every song Lil Wayne makes is good, he has some hot garbage on albums and mixtapes. The reason Wayne is *great* is because of how much raw effort he puts in. He puts out 35+ tracks a year easily when other artists barely manage 12 (I'm looking at you Ed Sheeran and LDR, give me some fucking content)
He is great to his fans and works his ass off. That's the theory, just like it is for any other industry: hard work.
Be good looking, sexy, hot. Contact record label executives and suck them off and spread your cheeks. That's a good start.
Corporate made gangsters. They're there to sell you an image.
Two words: gay porn
The future in hip hop is obviously promotion of homosexuality. You can already see the signs. Rappers like Young Thug wearing dresses, even hardcore Chicago Drill rappers promoting long hair and feminized looks, other kind of gay-like rappers like Lil Yatchy, Lil Uzi, and Lil B for example started openly showing signs of gayness like him naming an album "I'm Gay" and wearing pink and shit like that.
Find a way to make homosexuality cool and I guarantee you will start a movement. It's going to happen eventually anyway sooner or later. Gay rap is the future.