Hip Hop Record Labels By Dewayne Hill

When you are looking for labels to submit your demo tracks to, you should make sure that the label is affiliated with the type of music that you play. Labels foster a relationship with their clientele and cater to a certain niche in the market. This means that the label becomes a specialist in a certain area of the music business and is better equipped to sell you and your music if you fit into that certain area. If you play hip hop or other urban music, it is best for you to look for hip hop record labels.

Fortunately, if you combine the major and independent hip hop record labels there are at least three hundred different labels actively producing in the United States. That number might be even higher if you count in all the self-produced albums with local distribution. As long as you are willing to send out a lot of demos, there should be a label that will take on you and your music.

Hip hop records labels range from large to small. For instance, Imperial Records was one of the earliest labels in nascent urban music in the late 1940's. Today it is a sub-label of industry giant EMI and enjoys worldwide distribution. On the other hand, Poe Boy Entertainment is a local record label that got its start in 1999. It has signed a number of Miami area artists and concentrates on mostly local distribution and promotion.

These two examples are just a couple of the hundreds of hip hop record labels in the United States and around the globe. There is no comprehensive list available on the internet to date, but you can find fairly exhaustive lists at Hip-hopdirectory.com and Wikipedia.com.

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Straight from that Bodega Chronicles, in the opening verse he alludes to resurrecting New York hip hop. In a time where New york is in need a new idea, Mr Ortiz reminds New York of where it's been, while hinting at where it's going, A true spitter who pays homage and still sounds fresh.

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The expression of real hip hop

What is real hip hop? This is a constant debate with in the community that keeps hip hop on it's toes, constantly sharpening its proverbial blade. The more hip hop is expressed the more it expands, you might argue there is as many forms of hip hop as there are people to express and interpret it.



I had a small disagreement with some one, he though the rapper Common, had sold out because his most current music is not his usual subject matter, instead he was having more fun making music you can dance to. I told him "I understand what your saying but, I forgive artist who switch their style because their only human and get bored with the same old shit like all of us do. Plus he had to start having more fun instead of serious music all the time. Plus he doubled his dollar, why not get paid." I want you to keep in mind the dichotomies of being real vs sold out, old vs. new.

The hip hopas of the future should be able to deal with paradox. The reality if the human condition is that contradiction governs our experience. Think about it, we are alive yet at the same time we are dying. There's usually a whole half of reality that is obscured and hidden from our conscious view, it's usually the part that scares us the most, that's why the average person doesn't consider something like were all slowly but surely moving closer to the end of life.

So when we consider hip hop music and culture, we ought to bring the opposites to gather. From this point of understanding the old and the new Common are just the two sides of the same coin.

If we go further in the direction of this concept we will see with out mainstream hip hop there is no underground hip hop. both depend on one anther. If everyone sounded like a underground rapper, then it wouldn't be underground. Underground compared to what? It's like if there were no woman how could I be called a man.

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The Journey

Nation today I come to you as your president, to tell you that hip hop is all about the dead presidents. lol. But seriously I had a passion for this music and culture every since the '93-'94 season. I called it rap back then, the concept of there being this greater umbrella that rapping or rap music fell under was at the time a hunch a mere sense in my intuition that there was something special in this music, that so captivated my mind I could not here the teachers at school when they talked, it was gibberish underneath the RZA beats looping in my head, round and round never ending. Even then I some how knew just how these beats were made as I started making beats of my own in my head by taking parts of other songs heard and looping them and then imagining the kick and snare. Anyways my love for the music began then and it was like a part of me for ever evolving into something I didn't always like, but I found away to stay in love. I've grown in my understanding and now see things in reality as reflections of myself, really there were parts of me that I didn't like. To name a few of my favorites there are Nas, Wu Tang, Busta, The Fugess, Erikha Badu, Common, Mos def, Talib, Lil wayne, Out Kast, Saul Williams Who if you don't know you should check out, Dr Dre, eminem, and so many I can't say all



Well this is my first real blog hope some one out there feels me

one question before I go, is it just me or is hip hop not suck no more?, I feel its changed and has become well rounded, I mean you have to take in the a broader perspective, in other words there is some thing out there for everyone, and a little taste of everything is what I subscribe to. Also I think there is some thing about this new i pod culture, I mean when you can walk around with an encyclopedia of music on you, your bound to start liking everything.