Words of Wisdom...Can I tell you the truth about how wanting to be a rapper is no different than wanting to be an author, according to scripture? One conversation that I use to have with my husband about rap was that the person who is rapping isn't to blame for the lyrics becuz he/she didn't write them most of the time. Well, this is far from the truth.
To be a rapper, or at least one that makes some money is virtually impossible. Let me show you how...when you are starting out you are writing on a sheet on paper your personal testimony, of what you been through, or what someone took you through. You are spilling your life on this sheet of paper. And as you go on further you start looking for a beat to rap it to, if you don't already have one. You find out that you could be a producer becuz you produced a demo. See, this is all a producer does is complete a song, whether they ask one of their friends to come on to the track, and make it better. See, you couldn't get lil Wayne to come on the track, but certain producers could. And soon as he gets on the track your demo/single takes off.
Okay, are you looking at this situation and saying what's wrong with that at least you are making money? But this isn't the truth. When you took the producing writes out your hand, you gave copyright permission of the song which is your testimony of what you been through, and placed it in the hands of someone else who did not cry the tears, or endure the physical pain you did. When you saw your mommy get high, and go in the room with the dude she didn't know to get some money....that is what you went through not some producer. You had to suffer, and you came out alive. How much is all of that worth? Because as soon as your song hits iTunes, people listening is only truly affected by your part, when your part said, "Nobody could be trusted everybody broke and disgusted, mommy tricking in da next room, felt like bussin dude in the head wit a iron broom."
See, ppl can relate to your part because that's your testimony, the hook only got ppl to dance in the club, but your part actually got ppl to buy it. This is know different from an author. We write books either about our testimony or what we hope to be our testimony called fantasy. We do all the work, and give our rights over to a publishing company who is know different from a music producer. They take our work, and they get us hooked up with someone that could say they read the book just like lil wayne on the rappers track. And based upon that your book takes off, but it has costyou. Becuz ppl didn't keep purchasing the book becuz someone reviewed it. They purchased it becuz your testimony affected them. And had you trusted God enough to draw the people your piece of paper called your life could have brought you more money in your hands then in the hands of another.
Do you know this is scripture? The bible tells us we have over come by the blood of the land, and by the words of our testimony. The bible also says tell them what the Lord has done, how He brought you out. If we take these two biblical principles and put a cost on them you can calculate how much your problems are worth. If your rap song was worth at the end when all the hyped died down worth 80,000. Say they gave you a 5000 advance. But they told you the beat cost, the producer, and to get Wayne on cost.
So, they tell you you owe them some money back. So, what do you do...you go in the studio and slave. You see that you make the best music when you are high, and so you are using your advance money to get higher, so that you can get another hit. But, you are burning the 5 stacks becuz getting high isn't free, and nor is getting fitted for the club, as you are in there every other night so that you can make a name for yourself; this surely isn't free either. So, you are broke and you are back on the block you left. You are back out there hustling so you can go back in the studio.
My Living and Breathing God only if you stopped, and took a good look around you. You mean more to the label then you think, you have earning potential. Your life/ testimony is powerful, but they need you at their mercy, so they created a situation for you called desperation. You made them more money than what you knew, and if they told you how much money you actually made them you would shop yourself around, demanding more money. But, seeing as they told you that you owe them, you now are stuck and desperate. Now you are going to work harder not knowing that it has always been the two biblical principles operating in your life drawing ppl to overcome the same way you did....stay tuned in. More next week. EBH
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Author: Ebony Blackmon Humphrey
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