I am very critical with the music I purchase, as I’m sure you are too. This album is worth purchasing. It is a great album. Go buy it and tell me what you think. Or don’t buy it and continue to be a douche.

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So, we made this little ditty in hopes that a certain company who shall remain nameless for legal reasons (hint: rhymes with “DJ Schwartz”) might pick it up and use it however they see fit. The wheels are in motion. Cross your fingers.

“That’s Money”
Richie Cunning & Q’m
Produced by Richie Cunning

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September 25, 2008

7:00 pm

The Cavern
1914 Lower Greenville Ave.
Dallas, TX, 75206

Get Directions

Fab Deuce will tear it down, i will tear part of it down.

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Well, Holidays, you’ve done it again. You screwed up the shipping schedule, and now my comicky books won’t be out ’til Thursday. Drat. But you know what? It’s cool. Last week’s load of garbage is still stinking up my house, so one more day won’t hurt me. Not the Spider-Man comic One More Day, that shit did hurt me. I mean one more day waiting for what will surely be, if last week’s bulging batch is any indicator, another mediocre stack of crap. (more…)

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Let me first say that I don’t “eat off rap” so I am not qualified to give advice on “what to do”, but I have seen first hand some of my friends make their entire living off rap.

If you are anything like me (the fact that you are reading this at routinefly means you are) there’s nothing you would love more than to create/perform rap music and get paid well for it. 

I’m going to direct this post towards rappers, i suppose it could be used for producers/djs as well but that’s another post.

As I write this I realize this topic is way bigger than I though and there is no way I can touch on every aspect, so I will focus on one of the most important/difficult ones

MAKE A LOT OF SONGS!

The more music you make the more money you’ll make. The game has changed, it’s not 12″ singles and radio shows anymore, it’s blogs and mixtapes (why are they still called tapes?). This is what separates successful artists from wannabes.

Every artist who has “made it” can write and record a song in 1 day.

If you can’t produce a steady stream of songs to keep fans interested, no one will be interested. If you don’t have a new cd to sell at shows you aren’t going to make any money. Rap is here today, gone today. That little freestyle that got posted at www.nahright.com is already off the front page, no one cares. You have to keep cranking out product.

There is no need to get signed to a record label anymore. (Not that it wouldn’t be nice) If you have the motivation and product (songs) there are tons of ways to get them out to the public, and best of all, places like www.tunecore.com where you can upload your music digitally for sale all over the world.

All the artists who cannot produce enough product will not be able to eat off rap.

…I have to get back to work. I have a “job”. rap is only a hobby for me…

Oh yeah, you have to do a shitload of shows too.

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So this was made this for Kevvy Kev’s radio show “The Drum“. If you don’t know about Kev, his show and what goes on there, then you are truly depriving yourself of crucial knowledge. Enjoy.

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This is the lead single off Mike Relm’s new album Spectacle, featuring raps by none other than my brother-from-another-mother Adeem.
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www.mikerelm.com
www.myspace.com/adeem

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if you don’t think this is funny you can fuck right off

and yes i know the audio is fucked up. fuckin’ codecs make no sense to me.

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