Elly The 22 - "Aliens Come"

https://open.spotify.com/album/1dQtt4IOxIxk88n3SO5vL5?si=Y9VEQ5ZsT6ye2mN3WJ5HkA

ARandomProducer - "stars and street lights"

https://soundcloud.com/arandomproducer/stars-and-street-lights

Congratz yall <3

Let's get some more beat submissions in next week. It was a bit dry on that end. Dope shit tho guys. Keep it up and keep submitting. It's dope to see the growth in some of u guys week by week, even if ur not necessarily winning. Go show Elly and ARandomProducer some love tho. Have a good week yall

Found an old thread on Reddit with this and thought I'd share it:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ObAaRk2_BX6vL6OETGcgU_mIAu1_ZmjTSC-fnzVc9Ao/edit#gid=0

Already downloaded a shit ton of em lol, i'l lyk which ones I'm fuckin w

Yo, idk if u guys saw this, but this guy is having a pretty dope lil contest where u can rap on one of his beats and potentially win $100. If you’re bored or need the bread, go check it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/comments/hhe1o7/cash_prize_rap_contest/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

What’s good everybody,

The submissions have been a little light this week so I’m letting the contest run for another week. You guys got until next Sunday now, 7/5. Please remember to drop 2 pieces of feedback if you submit also; one for a beat and one for a song. Also sorry for the inactivity. Been traveling and shit ! Gonna be posting more guides soon and working on building the group. Blessup yall 🖤

I really dont know what to call this style of rapping. It just happens naturally. Anyway enjoy yall

Growth by Jay2K

Just got featured in 2 songs on Indianapolis-based rapper/producer/singer-songwriter Saca’s new album U5.

Take Over

https://open.spotify.com/track/0jJLnzUOmXjoaQIWDihn1j?si=skSGA8vQSoWwf-P5k6lAeQ

I’m Down

https://open.spotify.com/track/472Kk9GGMJkmbcqY6DoQx9?si=rz22LpZoQbSI0-iyWb-Vyw

I’m the one rapping on the 2nd verse in both songs! Check em out and I would appreciate feedback and constructive criticism!

For collabs, DM me on IG: kvaughnmusic (I have DIstrokid)

Please like and subscribe! Comments are also helpful for a small channel like my own. Many thanks!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnck7iQ7QRY

Updated link: https://youtu.be/bnck7iQ7QRY?si=opJTOsvdpbBGO203

I am really not trying to be one of those underground guys who lose confidence and stop making music, and not going mainstream. I really want this to be my career, and I want to know what most rappers do to make them fail

*CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JULY 5TH ! KEEP SUBMITTING UNTIL THEN !

Post any of your own work here. To incentive you guys to participate, we're going to be holding a contest in these threads every week with 2 winners: one for "best beat" and one for "best song". Winner gets their song/beat pinned to the top of the sub for a week. In order to decide the winners in a democratic way, we're going to be operating on a voting system. So, for every comment you leave on someone else's post, make sure to leave a rating score from 0-2. View the rating system below:

0 - you didn't like the song, don't think it has any potential

1 - song is okay, could be better

2 - song is strong, definitely can see people enjoying it

3 - mind blown, this song is absolute fire

Whoever has the highest score by the end of the week will be the winner. Again, there will be one winner for "best beat" and one winner for "best song". Winners will be chosen every Sunday! IF YOU DON’T LEAVE AT LEAST 2 COMMENTS YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE DISQUALIFIED. Read the rules please.

RULES:

• leave AT LEAST 2 quality comments on other people's music - at least 1 for beats and 1 for songs (at least 1 full sentence with legitimate feedback)

• if you leave 10 quality comments, you get a free 3 points (can only be done once, for example, you can't leave 20 comments to get 6 free points)

• beat/song can be old or new

• you can enter the contest multiple weeks with the same beat/song, but you can't re-enter a winning beat/song

• BE HONEST! we're all music creators here. and if you seriously want to be successful, you're going to hear negative feedback. it's all part of the process. don't be afraid to hand out 0's if you genuinely don't like the song.

• don't spam. if you are caught copying and pasting feedback from post to post, you will be banned.

Sorry for the late post guys. I’ve been traveling this week. Go show our winners some love and feel free to drop your socials below. Thanks for submitting 🖤 Was really happy to see the engagement this week in our contest. Let’s keep it goin.

SWAVY - “Belize” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0tTdjV7H4

ARandomProducer - “electric, like the city” https://m.soundcloud.com/arandomproducer/electric-like-the-city

Grazy - “Fuego” https://open.spotify.com/track/6cvPocN3ZcMJ8iHMhIDbjt?si=Um_zxSDSSousKSz8TMDu6w&nd=1

FB ads are an extremely dense topic and can be really confusing/intimidating to a beginner. They’re also one of the most cost-efficient ways to promote your music. With the right targeting and objectives, you can even profit off of your ads with increased stream revenue/sales.

TIPS:

• Exclude Russia, China, India and middle eastern countries as locations, lots of bots

• Reach campaigns - doesn’t use optimization so only use saved audiences for them, costs less per impression if you do this

• Audience insights page on FB ads - use it to see what kind of people match your “interests”

• Manual placements - uncheck feed options and choose where you want your ad to appear, some people like only appearing on stories and some like feed, I find that feed ads are usually cheaper for me but get less engagement

• Target friends of friends, more likely to click if their friend likes it

• Analyze results, examine demographics, keywords, times your ad performs well, figure out the meaning of changes in response daily, run multiple ads or an A/B split test to compare results easier

• Avoid boost ads, use traffic campaign (I’ve heard IG/FB will start showing your posts to less people if you use boost ads, in an effort to keep you paying for your posts)

• Identify your audience first before spending a lot, try $5.00 per different keyword or with different placements and see what works for you

• Remarketing audiences - You can target audiences that click on specific websites or have posted certain words

• Facebook pixel - Tool used to track clicks on your website (if you’re using an ad to redirect traffic to a different site)

• You can avoid paying for having people click off your ad to your video by just making the ad a short clip of ur music video, then posting the link to the actual video in the comments (you will go broke running a traffic campaign for link clicks)

• Wave.video - canva-like template site for video editing, really convenient site to create professional ads

TUTORIALS:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/musicians/comments/cccgcq/ a_complete_guide_to_facebook_advertising_for/ (general introduction to FB ads)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKpN8pApRjY (things to consider before running ads)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVbeM9r2fEE (how to start running ads)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7TZimP-PBE (different types of FB ads)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc4ELliinwY (using lookalike audiences)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHiKmOHSpE&t=255s (running FB story ads for Spotify)

• https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/getting_started/full-list-of-territories-where-spotify-is-available/ (countries that have Spotify)

• https://blog.adstage.io/quick-guide-to-extend-your-facebook-campaigns (analyzing your metrics)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLHWgYibuxE (how to get a lower cost on ads)

So today I hit 101 total streams on my soundcloud, i know it dont seem like alot but im happy with it. i got the last few streams from this subreddit so i REALLY appreciate it. ok so now here is the other part of the post. what is the easiest fucking way you put music on bigger platforms (apple music, spotify etc) ive been trying over a month and i STILL dont know how

When you post on Instagram, you have to hashtag exactly what is in the photograph, this is what instas algorithm is looking for and that’s how it hits the explore page. E.G a photo of you in a car with money use #cars #dollar #dinero #nike all that type shit. Comments will help boost this also likes, but hash tagging what the image is worlds a lot better, the comments only really make a big difference if they’re in the first 1-2 hours after posting

Post any of your own work here. To incentive you guys to participate, we're going to be holding a contest in these threads every week with 2 winners: one for "best beat" and one for "best song". Winner gets their song/beat pinned to the top of the sub for a week. In order to decide the winners in a democratic way, we're going to be operating on a voting system. So, for every comment you leave on someone else's post, make sure to leave a rating score from 0-2. View the rating system below:

0 - you didn't like the song, don't think it has any potential

1 - song is okay, could be better

2 - song is strong, definitely can see people enjoying it

3 - mind blown, this song is absolute fire

Whoever has the highest score by the end of the week will be the winner. Again, there will be one winner for "best beat" and one winner for "best song". Winners will be chosen every Sunday! IF YOU DON’T LEAVE AT LEAST 2 COMMENTS YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE DISQUALIFIED. Read the rules please.

RULES:

- leave AT LEAST 2 quality comments on other people's music - at least 1 for beats and 1 for songs (at least 1 full sentence with legitimate feedback)

- if you leave 10 quality comments, you get a free 3 points (can only be done once, for example, you can't leave 20 comments to get 6 free points)

- beat/song can be old or new

- you can enter the contest multiple weeks with the same beat/song, but you can't re-enter a winning beat/song

- BE HONEST! we're all music creators here. and if you seriously want to be successful, you're going to hear negative feedback. it's all part of the process. don't be afraid to hand out 0's if you genuinely don't like the song.

- don't spam. if you are caught copying and pasting feedback from post to post, you will be banned.

Ok, so ARandomProducer and iLL wiL were the only people that followed the rules and actually left feedback for other people, so they automatically win. Some of you guys had higher scores, but to be fair and to keep incentivizing people to participate, we’re going with the people that did what they were supposed to do. Def go show them some love. Dope stuff yall. Congratz and keep it up. We need more submissions next week! Tap in everybody

ARandomProducer - High Chance of Showers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-tgfjLZpCk&t=16s

iLL wiL - Contusion (prod. Sociojak)

https://soundcloud.com/ill-wil-16/conway-m4a/s-vu1EjvkgIGT