It’s a special type of resentment that builds in you when your own family is against you.

[Wepa Man]

Post your music and we can judge

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

1. Use it as motivation. Cutting your family off over this sounds like a very thin skinned reaction. You need thick skin for this game

2. Can you link to some of your work?

3. If you love it nothing will stop you, keep pushing king 🫡

Bro like I said people tell me I’m trash I don’t take it to heart seriously or I know for a fact they haters but when it’s family it cuts differently. Very differently

Here’s a single I’m working on

Fantasy - Unmastered Mix 5

Listen to a track uploaded by billionZ.

whyp.it

Trust I’m not going to stop when I started out and nikkas called me trash I knew I just had to get better and trust I DID

You don’t need guidance. If music truly is your passion, your innermost desire, then guidance is not what you need. You just need to get your work in front of the right people.

Work made through that natural passion - is of the divine and as such, is easily identified by those specialized talent recognition.

Easier than done, that’s what I mean by guidance someone who can put me in front of people. I been trying but no luck

They being real with you tbh. You most likely won’t make it. They want you to be realistic about shyt. Pursue your dream but be realistic about it too and have fall back plan if that don’t work.

I’m as realistic as it gets bro I know my pit falls and shortcomings

Post your music and we can judge

Up above

 

[get these nets]

Y’all know my story by now Engineer trying pursue music

Lost my job a while back but luckily I got hired by the military & don’t start until a few months from now

But during the process of my unemployment my parents kept constantly telling me to quit music I’ll never make it. I think it was a few weeks ago when my mom said some shyt that pushed over the edge. Her words “If you were any good you would be famous by now”

But we all know this industry doesn’t respect talent just money and clout and some of you heard my shyt and can attest I’m not trash.

Lowkey had me thinking I think I’m halfway done with my family. Cause at this point they just pissing me off

I remember when you first talked about this. Meaning no disrespect, but wouldn't you concede that the advice at the time was sound?

You have credentials and worked in a solid industry, and in modern economy even that wasn't stable. How less stable is a music industry career?

And because of your education/credentials you have options moving forward. You just had a minor setback.

Better to be an aspiring musician with STEM certs. as a backup then without that.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

I remember when you first talked about this. Meaning no disrespect, but wouldn't you concede that the advice at the time was sound?

You have credentials and worked in a solid industry, and in modern economy even that wasn't stable. How less stable is a music industry career?

And because of your education/credentials you have options moving forward. You just had a minor setback.

Better to be an aspiring musician with STEM certs. as a backup then without that.

Here’s the thing I’m not giving up Engineering completely that’s dumb it’s funding My whole lifestyle right now until I get a REAL bag or touch a few Ms then I’ll quit Engineering. my problem is them telling me to drop music completely and only focus on Engineering like if I can do both I’m going to both regardless not one or the other

 

[Amo Husserl]

Do you plug your music across social media?
Are you tapped into your city's music scene?
Does your city have a weak music scene?
Few people I used to show my music to liked it, and wanted to help me develop but I had other priorities.
@GrindtooFilthy

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Do you plug your music across social media?
Are you tapped into your city's music scene?
Does your city have a weak music scene?
Few people I used to show my music to liked it, and wanted to help me develop but I had other priorities.
@GrindtooFilthy

Boston music scene is weak asl, people usually leave the city and go somewhere else to get poppin which is what I’m gonna have to do. The question too now is where?

I been thinking about LA but their music scene doesn’t fit my vibe

My social media is plugged in

 

[Manolo]

Our parents just want a safe life for their kids and their perception of how things work is also rooted in another time. 30-40 years ago, getting a job and buying a home was all there was to life. Pursuing a dream was literally unheard of, your purpose in life back then was to work a job and have kids.

Whether it was music or any other dream, you have to be prepared to do it without support of people around you. Ideally, they would see your vision and believe in you but you cannot take it personally if they don’t. Entrepreneurs have to learn to become so consumed with their vision that they don’t need anyone else to believe.

To bring a vision or dream to life means creating something that literally does not exist. So you cannot fault people for not believing in something that doesn’t exist, especially if it’s not something they’ve seen as possible for themselves.

The only person’s belief you need to make a dream come true is your own. Your self-belief, your faith and your actions are the only things that are going to determine the outcome of your life. You have to take their lack of support as a reminder that you have to do whatever possible to make your dream happen

 

[Sir ZDuke]

Boston music scene is weak asl, people usually leave the city and go somewhere else to get poppin which is what I’m gonna have to do. The question too now is where?

I been thinking about LA but their music scene doesn’t fit my vibe

My social media is plugged in

Snippet you posted sounds like afrobeats. NYC, London or even Lagos may be the move

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Our parents just want a safe life for their kids and their perception of how things work is also rooted in another time. 30-40 years ago, getting a job and buying a home was all there was to life. Pursuing a dream was literally unheard of, your purpose in life back then was to work a job and have kids.

Whether it was music or any other dream, you have to be prepared to do it without support of people around you. Ideally, they would see your vision and believe in you but you cannot take it personally if they don’t. Entrepreneurs have to learn to become so consumed with their vision that they don’t need anyone else to believe.

To bring a vision or dream to life means creating something that literally does not exist. So you cannot fault people for not believing in something that doesn’t exist, especially if it’s not something they’ve seen as possible for themselves.

The only person’s belief you need to make a dream come true is your own. Your self-belief, your faith and your actions are the only things that are going to determine the outcome of your life. You have to take their lack of support as a reminder that you have to do whatever possible to make your dream happen

I agree with everything you said, just don’t kick a breh when he’s down and that’s what their doing. I got tunnel vision atp only thing I do is eat and breathe music

Snippet you posted sounds like afrobeats. NYC, London or even Lagos may be the move

Been trying to move to London for a minute only problem is I need some type of work visa because I can’t stay there for more than 6 months at a time. Military made me give up my 9ja passport so that’s super dead. Only option might be nyc

 

[Ɀoᥱɣ]

Depending on the type of music you are making and your age it may be too late to break out (Ex. Don't be the 40 year old trying to be a rapper since 2005 it's never gonna happen) but if you are finding semi-success and actually making progress with it then just keep going IMO.

Before I was able to post on here I heard some beat you did with a Japanese instrument and some other stuff as well. It was fire.

This creative shyt can be a tough road, mostly because it takes most of our own blood, sweat and tears. The average person is used to following a linear path to regular employment. Music mostly isn't that unless you have some connections or musical family from a young age.

You have the engineering gig, so that's making you money. But the real passion is the art. Keep doing what you're doing but don't hold a resentment of them for it. They truly just don't understand.

The bolded is also true with music unless you have something unique or something that can go viral easily but the downside to that is that 99% of the time you and your music will just be a fad that will die out unless you are genuinely entertaining and not just a gimmick.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Post your music and we can judge

For real, momma probably heard that shyt like

 

[Harry Sax]

U GOT BEATS? LET ME HEAR SOME

 

[Amo Husserl]

Boston music scene is weak asl, people usually leave the city and go somewhere else to get poppin which is what I’m gonna have to do. The question too nope is where?

I been thinking about LA but their music scene doesn’t fit my vibe

My social media is plugged in

DC, NY, Philly, Chicago, Atlanta probably the closest and best choices, you got demographics on your side if you're doing hip-hop.
You could even stretch to Toronto. LA music scene, if you doin' hip-hop, ain't it chief. Scene been undergoing a lot of changes.

If you got your social plugged take twenty of your best beats, mix and match ten of them and put them out as a press kit in the areas I just mentioned.
It was audio engineers, not musicians, checking for my music. Check out studios in those areas and try to plug your music with the engineers. If they like your music, it will get around. Copyright your music.

You could also talk to DJs, they will tell you about your mixing on tracks and probably play your music at their sets and offer to polish it for you so when you make that bigger connect, you got a pipeline. If you're trying to link with rappers, you hustling backwards. By the time I realized it was too late.

If you got all this time and money, do your Googles and spend a week in each area plugging directly at the studios and with people in the scene.
Drop your contact and hit the next town. You gotta do your own A&R.

 

[Sauce and Footwork]

You are being dramatic. If you are an adult, your parents are gonna tell you don’t worry about pursuing dreams. Live in the real world, be practical, get a real job. Creatives and the like have to just accept that’s how your family gonna look at it til you make it because they just want you to make responsible life decisions financially. When you got dreams you pursuing on the side you just do like the rest of us do and don’t tell people who you don’t want to hear a opinion from and then you don’t have to harbor anger against them. Parents will smile and say keep going when you young, but literally every parent is like that as an adult. You being way to dramatic against your own parents for shyt you choosing to talk to them about. You a grown ass adult. You can even lie to them and say you not even pursuing the music shyt anymore just so you don’t have to hear they mouths. You an adult. Don’t have to even discuss it. They spent they whole lives working 9 to 5 so of course they gonna say you wasting your time and the only way is to get money the 9 to 5 route. This is the same advice every single parent would say to they child. YOU ARE BEING SENSITIVE. It would be nice if they supported you more, but bro again…. Parents are like that at first when you younger, but as time passes and your money not straight they be like”alright maybe it’s time to put that down” .. that’s they natural caring instinct. They love the fukk out of you. Nobody against you.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

You are being dramatic. If you are an adult, your parents are gonna tell you don’t worry about pursuing dreams. Live in the real world, be practical, get a real job. Creatives and the like have to just accept that’s how your family gonna look at it til you make it because they just want you to make responsible life decisions financially. When you got dreams you pursuing on the side you just do like the rest of us do and don’t tell people who you don’t want to hear a opinion from and then you don’t have to harbor anger against them. Parents will smile and say keep going when you young, but literally every parent is like that as an adult. You being way to dramatic against your own parents for shyt you choosing to talk to them about. You a grown ass adult. You can even lie to them and say you not even pursuing the music shyt anymore just so you don’t have to hear they mouths. You an adult. Don’t have to even discuss it.

I don't discuss anything with them they will randomly bring it up when they hear music from my room, it's actually very infuriating, I'm not quitting my 9-5 i just got laid off luckily I have a new job lined right up.

DC, NY, Philly, Chicago, Atlanta probably the closest and best choices, you got demographics on your side if you're doing hip-hop.
You could even stretch to Toronto. LA music scene, if you doin' hip-hop, ain't it chief. Scene been undergoing a lot of changes.

If you got your social plugged take twenty of your best beats, mix and match ten of them and put them out as a press kit in the areas I just mentioned.
It was audio engineers, not musicians, checking for my music. Check out studios in those areas and try to plug your music with the engineers. If they like your music, it will get around. Copyright your music.

You could also talk to DJs, they will tell you about your mixing on tracks and probably play your music at their sets and offer to polish it for you so when you make that bigger connect, you got a pipeline. If you're trying to link with rappers, you hustling backwards. By the time I realized it was too late.

If you got all this time and money, do your Googles and spend a week in each area plugging directly at the studios and with people in the scene.
Drop your contact and hit the next town. You gotta do your own A&R.

As another poster said it has to be London or NYC for me since I'm not doing hip hop atm, most likely NYC

U GOT BEATS? LET ME HEAR SOME

couleur

Listen to a track uploaded by billionZ.

whyp.it