Written by Sometimes people can fall into a funk about not being able to get their music before and audience, but you can remedy this problem by remixing some of your favorite personal tracks over club beats. By doing this you automatically increase the size of the audience who are willing to listen, and the size of the audience who will be able to listen to you music. And one of the most precious things you can have as a young rapper, aside from money, is exposure. You need people to be exposed to your music or it will never get off the ground.
First off, by remixing a few of your favorite songs to a club beat you have the automatic advantage of increasing the number of people who will be willing to listen to your music in the first place. There are a lot of fans of rap music and yet there are still more who don’t listen to rap at all. But there is another group of listeners, they are those people who don’t particularly like rap music per se, but who do go the club and enjoy listening to rap songs over hot club beats. So by putting you lyrics over a hot club beat you can capture this audience who you would otherwise have never reached. And to start out as a young artist, you are going to need all the reach that you can get.
The second reason that it’s a good idea to remix songs to club beats is that you have a place to air your music. There are still some strictly hip hop clubs out there, but they often specialize in music that people already know, but with a club beat you can go after the club set. Those people who work all week and hit the clubs on the weekend just looking for some good music and a good time. These are the same people who will leave the floor and possibly never come back to a club when the music starts to go down hill.
This is a captive audience that you can go after by approaching DJs with your music and getting them to play it at the club. Some DJs just won’t play any unheard of music before, but then again others will. And if you’re able to build up any local support whatsoever you can argue that angle to the DJ to try and get him to play it. The interesting thing with DJs is that they’re not under any obligation to play any music that they think their audience won’t like. And in this case, if you present them with a track over a club beat that they will like then your chances are pretty good that they will play it. You’ve just got to be willing to go out and put yourself out there so that people can get a chance to hear your music. Remixing your songs over club beats isn’t going to make you a million dollars off the bat, but it just might get you in the door.
