1. Rap Beats – Get Your Music Heard! – Music Marketing 101
– Rap Music Production Tips
Rapping Beats
Marketing of your music product (mixed and mastered vocals on Rapping Beats or R&B
Instrumentals) is probably the most important part of the music BUSINESS. In this Rap Beats
and Instrumentals support article Ill give you an intro in the MASSIVE world of Music Marketing.
This article is part of a series on how to become a successful Rapper or Singer. You can view
all the articles in this series on the authors page.
You can have the craziest lyrics and the hottest rapping beats and R&B instrumentals in the
world, but if no one knows about you and your music, it makes NO difference. You can even
have distribution with the biggest distributors in the world. But without proper marketing it wont
mean anything. If you dont promote your music heavily, youll get lost in the ocean of rappers
and singers that are online and in stores. Ill give you an intro here, but the topic is way to huge
to discuss in one article.
Q: Once my song is ready, where and how can I promote it and get it heard?
A: Like I said earlier this is a big subject which cant be explained in a couple of paragraphs. But
once you have a fully mixed and mastered song with solid lyrics on a really HOT rapping beat or
R&B instrumental, youre ready to get it out there into the world. (Remember, as important as
marketing is, music quality still matters). One thing you definitely want to keep doing is
constantly learn all you can about Music Marketing. The key is to get AS MANY PEOPLE AS
POSSIBLE to hear (to actually listen to) your song. Post your music up everywhere online. Give
it to all your friends and tell them to make copies and share it with their own friends. Hand CDs
out at clubs and concerts where they play music similar to yours. When youre first starting out
dont be afraid to give your music away for free. Yes I said FREE. (well Almost free, the only
thing you should ask for in return is the persons Email Address more on this later.) People wont
pay to listen to a song from an unknown artist they might not like. They have to trust and like
you before they buy from you. Trust me, giving away your music to gain a true fan will PAY OFF
in the end.
The next thing to do is get your music on the internet and let the world hear. Upload your music
to any music related website you know of. POST IT EVERYWHERE YOU CAN! Some good
ones to focus on are iLike, ReverbNation, MySpace (yes MySpace still matters), Last.fm, Jango
and BandCamp but the list goes on and on. After that get on social media sites like Facebook
and Twitter and socialize with different people tell them about your music! Its important NOT to
be annoying and spam people with ads of your music. That is one SURE way to get potential
fans to HATE you. (Do you ever click on those kinds of posts? Didnt think so) You have to start
or join in conversations and build personal relationships with people. Thats the key to social
networking Its hard work, but it WILL pay off.
Another thing you dont want to forget about is having your OWN website it looks professional
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2. and will give you credibility as an independent artist. Having a MySpace of Facebook Page is
great but you need a HOME your personal website will be your own store-front where you can
gather fans. A good solution for this is BandZoogle. You can easily design a professional
looking website with them and get your own domain (something like
www.YourArtistOrBandName.com). BandZoogle also has a great Mailing List application that
will let you collect all your fans email addresses so you can keep in touch with them. This is
VERY important. When you give your music away to fans, make sure to get an email address in
return and keep them updated on all your new releases. Its much easier to keep old fans
(customers) than it is to get new ones! Well this is the longest article in the series so Ill leave it
at that for now! Keep learning about Music Marketing Its Important! Hope this helped.
Holla @ ur boy!
DatPaki
Producer/Songwriter
PBE Music
Rap Beats – DatPaki is a producer with PBE MUSIC – an urban music production and music
marketing company. He creates a unique style of Rap, R&B, Dancehall and Dance-Pop
instrumentals. He regularly contributes tutorial articles and videos on the music biz.
His latest video series, 10 TIPS TO BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL URBAN MUSIC ARTIST, is
available for free online – Sign up today and get 5 FREE RAP BEATS
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