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The Hip-Hop Industry: How To Enter It and How To Survive

The Hip-Hop Industry: How To Enter It and How To Survive
Music, it’s a major part of the driving force behind the personality, thoughts, beliefs, and ideas of today’s youth. There once was a time when there were musicians and there were normal people, but sometime within the last decade, the line that separated the two was somewhat blurred, and now it seems as if the saying, “Everyone has some sort of talent,” is being proven true almost daily. There is a lot of talent in the world, unfortunately, many of these diamonds in the rough generally haven’t the slightest idea as to what it takes to get into the music industry. Many think that it takes only a demo and a dream, or simply that someday they will be discovered by some record executive. Sad to say, those ways of thinking are highly inaccurate. There is a systematic approach to breaking into the music industry that is slightly more complicated than perceived by the thoughts of the typical hip hop fan. There are...

Posted by: Melissa T. Littlefield

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