rappers stop going to the studio stop making songs producers stop wasting your
time making more and more beats if you're not seeing the results that you
want it's probably because you're not doing the most important things that you
need to be doing that you're not doing because you're spending your time and
energy creating you're constantly creating it but you're not doing the
things that you should be doing that are the most important things that will get
you to where you want to go we're gonna talk about in this video
stop creating and start doing take a lag go to church everyone my name is
Cracka Lack welcome back to Cracka Lack TV in today's video we're gonna talk about
other things that you should be doing besides creating music creating and
making songs making beats a lot of times with artists what i find ok let's say
you have a 9 to 5 and when you get home from work and you want to put in some
hours towards what you want to be your career whether it's being a music
producer or being a rapper being an artist what's the easiest funnest thing
that we like to do it's creating the fun shit the fun shit is making beats the
fun shit is writing songs but that's also the easy shit picture it like this
with working out and fitness right the easy stuff is going to the gym but but
with actually getting results going to the gym and working out there's only
about 20 to 30% of it the diet the hard stuff controlling what you eat day in
and day out that's what makes up for 70 to 80% of it to get you the actual
results with a career in music building your brand doing marketing running ads
thinking of new ways to grow reach out collaborate network that's the hardest
shit that's the boring stuff that no one likes to do the front shit is sitting in
the studio making music what I'm saying is stop going to the studio and start
doing the hard shit that's the most important thing that's gonna get you
from point A to point B not making song it's not making music you know how often
it is at my studio where an artist comes in and they make a potential hit song it
doesn't excite me because I know and it's sad that majority of the time
they're not gonna do what they need to do to actually get the song out there
and they say they're gonna come right back to the studio
make another one come right back to studio make another one it's like go you
have to reach Fame you have to build a fanbase you have to
do marketing you have to learn how to do SEO you have to you have to get out of
your comfort zone and do the hard shit the difficult sit the boring stuff
the not fun stuff but that's how you actually have a career in this shit
nowadays it's not very often where you'll actually see me in the studio
making beats my life consists of all of the boring stuff all of the business
stuff the building of brand putting out content marketing running ads connecting
with customers that's what majority of my life actually consists of in the
beginning yeah I was sitting in the studio all day making these but no one
was hearing those beats there's a perfect timing for everything and in the
beginning yes I strongly recommend spend those hours in the gym getting better
perfecting your craft sinister er they make beats if your artists spend that
time writing songs recording songs writing songs recording songs getting
good once you're good this is the video for you once you're good you got to
learn all of the business stuff that's how you get to the next level how do you
turn being good at making beats into making beats for a living how do you
turn making good music into making good music for a living that's the boring
stuff the hard stuff that no one wants to actually do but that's the most
important piece to the puzzle that's the piece that you're missing that's the
that's the diet part right now so many are there's so many producers have fire
beats and fire music but again that's what they're working out you know how
let's say you go to the gym you see a lot of the same people and they're there
at the gym every single day but you fast-forward two years later they all
look the same they're all going to the gym they're doing that 20 to 30-percent
but the actual 70 to 80% to actually see the results and see it changing what
they look like that's the dieting stuff they're not
doing that so they're not getting the results you as an artist when you
continues to just go to the studio go to the studio do the same stuff over and
over the stuff that you're comfortable doing the stuff that's easy for you
you're not growing because you're not getting out of your comfort zone as
humans our brains don't like doing uncomfortable things that aren't easy no
risk no reward if you don't feel uncomfortable you're not pushing
yourself enough you know how many producers hit me up every day asking for
advice on their music career and they think it's
all about the beats right there's sending me some beats and their beats
are amazing yet they have 50 followers and they're doing by one beat for six
dollars get 20 free they don't have the actual career their business together
their marketing their brand their authority they'll have that in place
because I'll that's that all their mark yeah I suck at the marketing shit well
that's why your career sucks you have to learn the marketing if you
don't learn it you will never see the results that you want
same thing with artists think about if you were to sign a record deal
what would the record label do for you what different things would they do like
really think about it if you want to get to that step you have to do all of those
different things that they would do for you and no one's gonna do it for you so
you have to learn how to do this shit I know how it is I don't even know where
to get started I don't know nothing about ass you got to start somewhere do
a Google search so watch the video then watch two videos watch three videos
watch the first 10 videos that come up when you search that now you have a
general understanding now start experimenting there's no excuses
everything is in your hands with your phone there's the answer to everything
out there if you can't find the answer a cheat code is to pay someone that's
already learned how to do it for them to teach you how to do it
I wish personally that I would have started paying to reach out to bigger
people that have already achieved the things that I wanted to achieve to ask
them for advice it's a shortcut cheat code business 101 is all about making
sales not making music not making beats yes you have to make beats to then sell
and yes you have to make music to then sell but once you have the beats once
you have the music then you've got to turn your creative hat off as much as
you don't like it because it's uncomfortable and you got to put on the
marketing hat you got to put on the how can I be creative how can I stand out
from this crowd of other hundreds of thousands of people that are good at
making beats that are good at making music too
you got to find a way to stand out that's the hard part you got to
understand you're a marketer first because this is a business and then
you're a recording artist second or then you're a music producer second and if
you don't want to do that and if you want to be nah bro it's all about the
music man I just created I like creating then you do this for a hobby you don't
do this for a living if you do this for a living you understand business
and business is all about marketing getting your name out there getting your
music out there there's a difference between being busy and actually being
productive so let's say every day three hours a day you put in work towards your
music career and if in those three hours you were doing the creating part right
the fun part three hours a day you wrote songs or recorded songs or you made
beats but the fucked up thing is those three hours give you a sense of like
satisfaction like a pat on the back like yep I put in some work towards my career
today I feel good about myself but the message I'm trying to get across to you
is that's the least important piece to the puzzle if instead for a month you
didn't write a song you didn't make a beat and you challenged yourself to be
productive for three out those same the same amount of time that you put into
creating the music every single day you're gonna actually see results I
promise you all of the hard shit all of the boring shit what would you do three
to four hours a day if you weren't creating music but you needed to be
productive towards your music career what are different things you'd learn
about marketing you'd learn about ads you'd reach out to other artists with a
similar following is you and collaborate with them or you'd reach out to other
producers with the same amount of following is you collab on some beats
with them you'd reach out to bigger artists about synonym beats but if you
spent the same amount of time that you're spending right now instead of
creating the music and actually doing all of the hard stuff that you're
probably neglecting because you're spending majority of your time creating
the music doing the fun stuff I promise you you're gonna see the results that
you want a challenge to you would be spending same amount of time that you're
putting into your music career right now doing this hard stuff that I'm talking
about here then if you do that you can reward yourself with the fun stuff like
let's say you wake up tomorrow and you you feel the urge to make beats but you
know you haven't made a damn beat sale in weeks or months or you're struggling
to get by right now instead of having fun and making that beat do the hard
stuff that I'm talking about here challenge yourself and then reward
yourself or like hey you just did that good job now you get to make a beat now
it's recess time same thing if your artists do the hard marketing sit there
reach out to every single person to send your music video asked them for their
opinion on it that sounds like it would take a lot of time right but that's
gonna get your music out there you have to do that stuff there's small tedious
annoying things that's what's gonna get you the success that you want I hope
this video served as a wake-up call and it helps you in some way or another I
really do want to see each and every one of you succeed and this is the common
thing that I keep seeing over and over and over again it's just artists they
just keep going to the studio they just keep making music and it's like yeah
that's the fun shit if that's all you're doing then I promise you this is a hobby
to you and if it is a hobby to you then have fun but I know that a lot of
artists is like man I wish I could do this for a living this is how you do it
for a living you got to do all the other stuff all the hard shit make sure you
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