Should I Pursue Rapping More? - Page 2

ThinkGreen · 05-06-2008, 04:40 AM

Pursue your education

muerteverde · 05-06-2008, 06:52 AM

Check out this website:

SellaBand

Put your music up there for people to listen to and they will invest in you, up to $50,000. You can then use that money to fund your music career, make millions, pay off the investors, and become rich yourself.

Your rapping sounds pretty good. I don't see why you can't do that in your free time though while you concentrate on your education and your other options in the meantime. I say go for it, but don't make that your only bet.

$uperman · 05-06-2008, 07:22 AM

Not bad. You rap decent in my opinion. The music is original.

But I think that your text must more original. Not saying the same words as famous rappers.

I think originality is very important. I think that the Nep tunes and Lil John were populair, because they had a original sound. I could be wrong, because I only follow mainstream music. The rapper Nelly when he became populair. If I can remember well sounded different, than the east coast, west coast music.

Also I think you should rap with more passion, maybe you should write text where you are passioned about. Like you can feel the aggression when DMX raps.

Good luck. Also have something if it don't work fast or never. Like an education or job skills.

Wedgebuster · 05-06-2008, 07:42 AM

Stay in school.

The Stainy Yak · 05-06-2008, 09:31 AM

Stick with guitar and piano.

M.o.A · 05-06-2008, 09:39 AM

Son, what ur goin thru is a phase, like they said in the boiler room the whitemans jump shot is investment banking,i.e. - stay in school, all those suckers are deluded.

NHB7 · 05-06-2008, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by ZachD009

Whats up... Anyways just curious on some various opinions. I dont really get opinions on my music too much except from fans.

MySpace.com - Ace White aKa Big Z DeKalbs Finest - DeKalb, Illinois - Rap / Hip Hop - www.myspace.com/acewhite is my site

I have a mixtape out, its pro pressed and it sells pretty well. I play a lot of shows around here.

I make all my own beats and record in my own studio, i take it serious. I dont jack beats, i dont steal rhymes. I just rap because ive played guitar since i was 11 and piano since i was 15. Check it out. And leave an honest opinion

(PS, im not trying to get cheap advertisement, ive been here forever and like the site, im just curious)

There is nothing wrong with pursuing a passion, the mistake people make is they think they have to drop everything else in their life to pursue that dream because thats what they saw happen in a movie. Stay in school, and pursue your dream. Quick story I've told on here before. I had a buddy that wanted to be a rock star. He didn't know how to play any instruments or sing. He took some drum lessions (stayed in school) and as it turns out, had a talent for it. But he realized he may not make it, so he learned everything he could about the music industry. Anyway, he ended up in the band Stratta, on MTV touring the country and the world. His band did okay in sales, but nothing huge. Had he given up everything for his band, he would be broke now like his bandmates. But he didn't give up everything. He learned everything about the industry, and he now records several major bands and acts as a producer out of his own million dollar plus studio. And he's loving life.

ZachD009 · 05-06-2008, 02:25 PM

Thanks for the advice guys, appreciate it

DeathNTaxes · 05-06-2008, 02:57 PM

If you want to be a skillful rapper.

Learn how to write real poetry.

Rap is not poetry.

Learn what meter is, and how to use other rhymes instead of just being linguistically lazy and using blending and shit to get words to rhyme. End rhyme is out played there is so much more English has to offer that the ignorance of the undereducated prevents from being exploited.

All rap is really, really, bad poetry LOL.

DanaWhite · 05-06-2008, 03:08 PM

I dunno the rhymes are all pretty generic...here is some stuff from the first song.

"Its all the same in the game"

"Fat, white, and I still got hoes on my dick"

"A white boy from the burbs rap circles around your whole crew, now what the fuck you heard"

rapper to sledgehammer?

"yes im from the burbs are you mother fuckers happy now"

I mean youre largely rapping simple shit. These types of rhymes you should be able to freestyle. Quit talking about the burbs so much...no one cares. What does a rapper have to do with a seldgehammer? Your stuff is simple, I am not trying to persude you and im not trying to lecture you like I got a PhD in emceeing, but this isnt really impressive.