Listening To Today’s Music, To Make Your Own Music Better…
If you listen to today’s music on the radio, you will hear a wide variety of songs and beats. You even nowadays hear people singing over hip hop beats, and people rapping over r&b beats! The two genres are blending a lot in today’s music. One of the mistakes that many underground rap artists make is, they are so concerned about being what they call “real” as in being gangsta or hard.
It seems like they are more concerned about being “real” then they are about selling records and making money. So they use only beats that are hard and “gangsta” sounding. They talk about shooting and killing over these hard rap beats. It’s ok for them to do this if this is what they want, but every song on the album can’t be that way if they want to be a successful multi-platinum selling artist. If you want to get your music on the radio, and on BET or MTV, you have to have at least a few singles, that are more commercial.
A lot of artists don’t do this, and they miss out on a whole entire market of possible customers! The goal is to...