Attention Artists!!!

If you are an artist... send an email to readyandrolled@yahoo.com and I might feature you on the Get Signed Page At The Top!

Do you think you have what it takes to catch the attention of YMCMB??????

When/where you born? What city do you originate? Whats your target audience?

Whats your marketing Scheme? How much money did you invest in your dream? Who do you model after? A summary of your artistic endeavors? The level of success you plan to reach. Who would you like to collab with? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Do you have a plan B? Whats your lyrical style? Do you have any day jobs? Struggles you've overcome? Services you offer. Ways to contact you.

Artists, stop frontin' on Facebook! (And Twitter, Instagram and YouTube)

So you just got paid and you felt the need to take a picture of your little $250 paycheck, but before you did that you made sure you had one hundred dollar bill and the other $150 was in ones so that you could act like you had a stack. Let me ask you something... Why does the opinion of others mean so much to you? I have learned in my 22 years that the only opinion that should matter about me is my own. Most people say they don't care and that they love their haters but I mean it, except the love my haters part, like who does that for real? If you want to be a successful artist you have to stop fronting on facebook. You are not signed or getting booked for any shows right now and everybody knows that you work at Fuddruckers lol, so who do you think you are fooling? I have seen so many so called rappers that get their feelings hurt when someone that really has some money comes along and stunts on them. Flashing one dollar bills online when you are not at the strip club makes you look silly. 

There are only a few unsigned artists that can pull off the flashy lifestyle and that is because they know how to manage their money and appear to be living lavish, but for all of you lames that love to play like you got bank: remember this: Big Bank take little bank anyday. Why am I telling you this? Becuase flashing your rent money is not cool. Pretending to be able to  buy whatever you want is not hot. Remember that some of your internet friends actually know you in REAL life. They might have just asked you to come over their house and you said no because you don't have any gas money, but then they log on and see you flashing a new pair of Jordans that you said you just bought, but in reality it was a picture that you saved off of Google. Doing this can get you exposed if you piss off the wrong person. Screenshot is something else lol.

Stop the lies! People want to be liked too much it is sickening. Let the rich people do their thing and you stay in your own lane. When you get there you can ball too, but for now just take my advice and fall back. This reminds me of that idiot that recently killed his mom with some of his friends so that he could get his mom's $90,000 insurance money and throw it out to his "fans" at one of his shows...This pisses me off to no end! First of all, nobody wanted to hear his wack music, they just wanted the money. Second of all who the hell kills their mom for dumb stuff, or for any reason for that matter? All in the name of being popular right? Give me several breaks, I can't deal with you wanna be popular losers. I am not talking about you if you are reading this unless you are that kind of person. If so, know that I am not trying to be mean spirited, I just want you to know that you are valuable. You mean something and you have absolutely nothing to prove to anyone...EVER. -tiff

Like Wayne said, you are  trying to do what the big guys are doing and it's like we don't have people to look up to anymore...you can't afford certain things, so stop frontin! Check out Wayne's PSA for fronters!

Creating Beefs For Fame SMH

I'm sick of seeing this! Way too many artists and people in general feel like they have to attack another person in order to come up. Your name ain't Nicki Minaj and you are not on the come up lol but forreal, stop it son! If you start beef just to gain recognition, you tun the risk of only having an audience when you are beefing. Your views will be affected. You will notice that when you upload a video of your music you will get a few hits here and there, but when you upload a beef video you will get hundred if not thousands of views. This might seem appealing, but you have to remember that eventually one of two things will happen both leading to the same ending. Your beef will end or it will began to get repetitive and no one will not want to watch you anymore. Either way, you lose in the end. By starting a beef to get fame, you are really just showing the world that you do not believe that your music is good enough to speak for itself. You are showing the world that you are super petty too. Why not take the time to build your buzz from scratch instead of picking on another person? That makes sense to me. Also, I have something to say to all of you artists that feel the need to diss a major artist to get a buzz.I have five words for you: YOU ARE ONLY HURTING YOURSELF. Why get mad at them for having the success you crave? Why get mad because they are in the position that you want to be in? If your music is good and they want to sign you but find out that you have made diss tracks about them, you just ruined your chance to go mainstream. 

Yes it is true, some rappers team up and become public frenemies in order to sale more records, but this is something that is planned out strategically and although I do not condone deceiving the people, I do think that form of marketing is genius. Their way of marketing is carefully planned out and it has a beginning, middle and end. Amateur beefs never seem to really end and it in no way furthers the careers of those  involved. Do yourself a favor, the next time you want to diss a major artist, look at them, and look at you, all them rappers look rich af lol! A major artist is not worried about little you. You can become big  a make some noise though, but you just have to do it the right way. Don't step on others to try and make it to the top, you'll only end up falling down. So delete those back and forth videos with you trying to flash your little money and show how much swag you have. All that is is a distraction when you can be in the studio making hits. -tiff

Connect With Your Fans

    Wayne showing love to one of his biggest fans!

The one thing that I have always hated was to see celebrities always promoting themselves on social networks without ever communicating with their fans on a personal level. That's like saying I want you to care about me, but I could care less about you. You would not like being in a one sided relationship like that, so why would you treat your fans like that? Do you know how many celebs loose fans for not interacting with their fans? I've seen fans literally pour out their hearts on social media and get absolutely no response. I'm not saying celebs should or can respond to all of their fans because that would be virtually impossible, but they should make an effort to talk to them. They should also not just talk to them when they want to re-tweet or share something a fan says about them. Stop just using fans to promote yourself and stop promoting yourself so much is what I am trying to say darn it! Now, lets move on. While we are at it, lets talk about what real fans are. If you have 3 comments by the same 3 people on everything that you put out, you don't have fans, you just have 3 really dedicated admirers. Your potential fans want to see the real you. Stop acting as if you are bigger than what you really are. Getting real fans takes work and it won't be easy. Loosing a fan takes not effort and it happens all the time. You have to give them a reason to keep coming back to you. They must be addicted to your music and content. You want them to wake up and search for you everyday as if they cannot go a day without you. This is a fan! They will comment on all of your videos and constantly re-tweet you, etc. When you get a fan, try to keep them!

 Let me give you an example. I was once a fan of this marketing expert guy on Youtube. I watched all of his videos and applied his techniques in order to drive traffic to my website and master the point of sale. I finally contacted him after I launched this website in order to invite him to place an AD on this site. I simply messaged him publicly (since Youtube no longer lets you send private messages lol) stating that I wanted  him to contact with me because I wanted to share some knowledge with him, Well, he is a MLM guy and he thought I was trying to recruit him to join my MLM team. There is just one BIG problem, I do not have a MLM team because I do not do MLM. He responded to my Youtube comment quite harsh and told me basically to piss off. Guess what? He lost a fan, for life. He also lost the opportunity to be on the front page of what now is a popular website. He is arrogant and self centered . This type of attitude will not help you keep fans. His attitude will not take away from what he is teaches, but it will prevent me from leaving comments on his posts and engaging with him. I am not the type of person to blast people online (anymore lol) so I simply told him God Bless you and thank you for your time. I have a professional image to maintain, that is why I did not give him the business aka tell him off. But it just hurts when someone you look up to disses you, but anyway, let me stay on point. So, I'm telling you this so that you never get big headed and forget that fans make you who you are. You never want people to associate arrogance with your brand. Having a horrible attitude can get you blacklisted in this industry. Nobody likes an arrogant broke boy (or girl) with no real experience, just a bunch of fake followers and so called fans.

Make good quality music and respect them enough not to spam them with garbage music that will never go mainstream do to lack of quality. I am telling you to learn how to correctly connect with them. Instead of tweeting your new mixtape 20 times a day, tweet about it 10 times a day and dedicate the other 10 tweets to your fans. I don't mean tweeting them directly about your mixtape, but making an effort to get to know them. Ask them how their day has been or whatever you can think of to connect with them on a personal level. People want to know you before they buy from you. I am aware of a lot of people but there are only a few people that I actually know. You want your potential fans to think of you as family. Family are people that you can trust or at least people you think you can trust lol. If you just blast out tweets all day to your say 4,000 followers without getting to know them, when you drop a new album, don't expect them to buy it. You may sale 10 to 20 copies if you beg them to buy it, but what if you actually took the time to check on them daily and actually care about them? Re-tweet them when they are not promoting you, comment on their statuses, like their pics, just always be on their mind! The trick is to make it about them and it will be about you at the same time. If you do this, you could sale way more copies! Why? Because people buy from people they like, not strangers! Remember... IF THEY KNOW YOU THEY WILL BUY FROM YOU MORE THAN LIKELY, BUT THEY HAVE TO KNOW THE REAL YOU! NOT JUST THE MUSIC SIDE OF YOU.

Think of your brand as a restaurant for a second. You will be more likely to break even and make a profit faster if you own a well known franchise eatery than if you start a small mom and pop restaurant. Why? Because people would already trust the brand behind the food BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT! Don't see your potential fans as dollar signs! Provide them with good music, and give them some value! In order to be "famous" you have to stop being so selfish and egotistical. Learn to put emphasis on your followers not just you! In conclusion, you need to find a balance between promoting yourself online and getting personal online. Marketing yourself is good, but over marketing yourself will only make you look disconnected from your fans.-tiff

P.S, Try to follow some of your followers back on twitter. Nobody likes a cocky wannabe celeb that doesn't want to follow back, it's only right. :)