I took to twitter earlier today in a few different music inspired rants. The first about the quality of mainstream and underground music, in addition to the variety.
The second about how folks are presenting their music.
I once had a conversation with someone about artwork and pictures as it pertained to their music. Their response was simply, "I do it for the music." What folks fail to realize is that the music is much bigger than the music. It's about the package. It's about the artwork (so, the pics with the timestamp in the corner in a dark room, yeah, not so much for your promo shit!). It's ultimately about how you present it and yourself.
It can be about the
music when you're just sharing it with your friends. But once you start trying to blast it to the world wide web, the music is bigger than just the music. Ya dig?!
You know one of the biggest failures with some folks pushing their music? Their inability to tag/format their music properly for download. It's my
hobby job to listen (well, job is something you get paid for but you know what I mean, lol). It's the artist's job to make that shit easy for me (and others). Fuck am I searching in my iTunes for their music for?
Why are the tracks out of order? Where's the artwork? Why are things named "Track 01" or "Track 01 - Name of Artists - Name of song."? That looks unprofessional. Honestly, if you're an artist and you don't know what you're doing, ask someone. It makes it look like you don't care otherwise. And if you don't care about your music, don't expect anyone else to.
Bottom line, format that shit or don't send it out!
I REPEAT, FORMAT OR DON'T SEND!
I'm just being honest. I once had a project I had to search for track by track (okay, more than once but anyway). Then I had to tag and add the artwork myself. What is this a take home test? Gtfoh with that bullshit. Why am I doing all of that? I'm a fan, not an employee.
And if you make music and you think I'm being an asshole, you're too sensitive. Because if your project isn't formatted correctly, folks WONT see your vision because the tracks are out of order. Who's the asshole now?
I bet after all of this, there's some angry rapper sitting somewhere mumbling, "damn that n*gga fucked up."
Look in the mirror and say it again.
Thank me later! (#noDrake)
Peace,
-q
ps: I didn't even mention WAV, Mp3, Mp4 and all that. You know that's an issue too! Ask about it. lol
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