The Thing About Dropping More Music

Every now and again I’ll talk with my friends about my projects and things I’m working on music wise, but then I’ll get hit with this phrase that seems to pop up often: “You just need to drop more music”.

Now it seems that for some reason I’m their minds I’m swaying too deep into the business/thinking side of things and sidetracking myself from the main objective that which is “Just dropping music”.

Well to be honest they’re not completely wrong because In the traditional sense to get known rap artists did really just drop a lot of music. At the same time though as cliche as this sounds it really is easier said than done.

Now don’t get me wrong I could genuinely take two weeks off right now, focus solely on writing, recording, mixing and mastering music, and maybe come out with about two or three songs. Heck if I say two months I might come up with ten. I upload them all into SoundCloud one by one, week after week, and then what?

Let’s suppose I carry on with this trend for two years, what’s gonna happen? My estimate is probably nothing but the worst case scenario isn't actually that.

The worst case scenario would actually be that one of those songs goes viral and now I have to keep people's attention, create and sell merchandise, and book my own shows.

IF that happens during the process where I JUST released music, one thing I can guarantee with almost certainty is that at least half the music I released I won’t be able to perform due to copyright.

If I just focused on releasing music chances are my metadata for each song that I would have needed to establish would have not been done, meaning royalty collection for whatever I’ve made would be a near impossibility.

I would have to go back through EACH and every single song I’ve released to pay attention to the metadata I’ve missed, and the potential leases I would need to buy for each instrumental. This might not be the exact outcome of this scenario but like I said, easier said than done.

I’m glad that my friends can show genuine care in the efforts I’m making to push myself forward, but damn trying to explain the process from where I’m sitting and where they’re not is a tough communication to bridge!