What matters is that it sells. Your friends may tell you it sucks, a record label may tell you ‘it’s just not there’, and a studio engineer might say the production is garbage. Don’t get bent out of shape just prove them wrong.
The best way to prove this is through record sales. Record sales prove three things: 1) You have a market/audience 2) Your market/audience has buying power 3) Your music and production quality CAN SELL. Note that the above three concepts do not question whether the music is good or bad. Neither do most record labels or radio stations. Sell, Sell, Sell bottom line.
When I was in college one of my friends kept talking about her homeboy from back home who was going to be a famous rapper. One day she handed us a CD and said check out his music. We popped it in the CD player and listened for a few. We all thought it was garbage. A year the first song an the cd she handed us was all over the radio and and the video was on BET and MTV every five minutes. A few weeks later the second song was all over the radio and he had another hit music video. The songs were ‘Country Grammar’ and ‘E.I’ and the rap artists was Nelly.
Did you like the song ‘Laffy Taffy’ or ‘Chicken Noodle Soup’? No they sucked, but they ended up with record deals. Why? Because they sold! To record labels it does not matter if the song is good or bad, but what matters is that it can sell. You friends may not even like your music, but they’re probably over a 10,000 people on this earth that do (the earth has over 54 billion people).
Ludacris knew this. He did not even waste his time sending in demos or listening to the opinions of studio engineers and friends. He liked his music and he believed other people would. This is also the principle behind The Secret. Ludacris made an album, started selling it himself and over 30,000 people bought it in three months. Soon the labels came to him. He ended up with a great distribution deal (better than a standard record deal) and copyright control over most of his songs. Master P did the same thing.
If ‘Laffy Taffy’ and ‘Chicken Noodle Soup’ could sell, so can you. Write a good quality song, get a producer or buy some beats, and start recording. Don’t forget to copyright your work before you start selling.
By Jamille Luney
Music AnalysT
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