A fellow underground-producer wanted to charge me 300$ to mix and master ONE track of mine..
He even took the time to write it on my facebook and ask me if I wanted it done..
Though when I told him I could not afford that type of a sum for one track he told me that
"I wasin the wrong "Business" If I cant accept to pay 300$ to master and mix ONE track... I mean?..... The people who take that load of money for that THEY really are in the wrong business, cus 'the Hiphop underground' ain't at all that much of a BUSINESS really...
So my greedy-people out there, please start looking at it from your very own 'business-wise point of view' and STOP with your efforts in trying to make a living on Hiphop!...
Hiphop was never a fuckn product and will never be! If you need money on making music then leave Hiphop!
I'm fed up with people contaminating our underground scene with GREED! that shit's fake.. Period.
No I'm not in the Wrong business! I'm not into Business!
I'm just one of those Mc's who don't give a fuck about the fame...
I ratehr stay true with me and my crew my fam and all me true hiphop-heads out there,
without no monetary gain or involvement..
Hiphop ain't 'business' 2 me.. Hiphop can't be bought...
Though quality is appriciated on the songs, it aint even close too everything!
...if it meant everything too me I would pay for my studio time, but I don't!..
Actually, spitting more tracks and passing through the truth in my lyrics is more important too me than too sound high-tech quality..
"I rather sound like trash and be proud over that.
in fact, the streets ain't clean, and they ain't full of cash"
I don't think that, searching in the underground hiphop-scene for money is a smart move..
It's like searching for something that ain't there..
I believe I could say for a fact that most or atleast many people in the hiphop scene,
came or come from societies 'lowest-classes', from problems, criminality, drugs and a common factor which is 'poverty'...
Hiphop ain't mainstream, hiphop shouldn't be bought,
it's hard to even sell albums these days cus real people who enjoy real hiphop
they don't have the money to spend on all the mc's they like cus most of them, they from the same part of society like the mc's themselves from the beggining..
Hiphop has always been the voice of the streets, of the oppressed..
And I can say for fact that however good quality you may have on your beats,
recordings or mixings that it doesn't matter in the long run...
Sure in the mainstream business you can 'get famous or signed' just by putting some a-tune over some bullshit lyrics.
Bu this ain't how we do it in the underground....
Here we enjoy true mc's with lyrical skills, flow and complexity in rhymes, vocals spoken with feeling from the fucking heart homie!
And that is something REAL. Not like the plastic radio-Hip-Pop shit ya guys are forced to bump everyday.
I mean, there are fellas out there who release mixtapes almost every week dammit and am I supposed too compete with them if I was too pay up too 500-600$ / track (including beats, studio time and mastering)
Then how many tracks would an average fella like me get done per week/month/year???.....
Quantity vs quality, yes that's an interesting duel indeed in Hiphop..
But I still believe for most of us, the lyrical skills, flow and feeling in the song,
are of bigger importance than the quality..
To me and many others 'real Hiphop' (as we use to call it), has gone totally underground by now..
So we can't think about cash when we do our thing, and we never should have done that from the beggining!
I have said it before and I say it again, Hiphop was never meant to be a product!
a business! nor any crap like that...
"Hiphop comes from the soul and heart and that's where it should stay..
The voice of the streets is what hiphop is and where it should remain.."
There are lot's of producers and mc's out there who do shit for free, keep doing that shit my brothers.
Stay real, and you got my respect..
You guys know that the 'competition' if you will, is tough in the underground..
Money fucks the realness in Hiphop up,
so do yourself a favor and 'STAY REAL',
if you haven't forgotten the meaning of that by now and sold out..
And all these mc's who ain't even recognized believing they can take
cash for verses n crap like that, and I neva even heard they name...
Many of you blame it on that 'you need food on the table' I mean man..
Then you don't know how it is to grind from your heart..
Hiphop ain't at all the right business today too use to get 'food on the table', and it never was from the start.
if you want money then you better go mainstream or somethin...
It's sad really... How the corporate ways has contaminated the realness in Hiphop... also tainted our beloved underground scene by now...
Stay Real.
Stay United..
1 Hiphop.
1 People.
1 Movement!
Peace love & truth!!!
...Stay true 2 yaself...
