Rappers Can Buy Beats Online And Promote Themselves Digitally

As a rapper in today's hip hop game there are sure some serious benefits to the time in which you're coming up, especially when you can buy beats online. It was estimated by Billboard Magazine that 50% of all album and single sales in 2009 were from independent artists and record labels. That is a really huge number if compared to what it was perhaps ten years ago! The independent industry is on a monstrous rise and it doesn't look like it's planning on stopping any time soon.

Some are doing amazingly well, obviously, in today's music industry but there's still a lot of room for improvement. Big time artists under mainstream major labels are selling way less records than usual. 50 Cent and other big names are seeing a fraction of the record sales they used to see when it comes to their newer projects but that's because the majors only dominated in yesterday's industry. Music has become a business for all sorts of small time companies but the numbers are falling for big industries. The digital age is blamed.

The internet is blamed for the majority of the major's failing numbers. It's believed by some experts that cyber pirating is the reason for the declining numbers but I have to disagree. Though pirating and cyber crime is on an all time rise, still... Only 20% of people are said to not buy music in the digital age. With all the pirating and stealing going on, 80% of people still buy their music to support the artists. If the numbers are so extremely high, why are the major's falling off?

The digital revolution is the reason for all of this change. You can now distribute yourself as an artist on all the major Mp3 retailers such as iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and many more for extremely cheap! Services such as Tunecore, which is an affordable distribution service, have made it possible for artists to start selling their music right off the bat without a lot of waiting time. You can purchase beats online with companies such as Beats4Legends. You don't need to come up with a huge budget nowadays since not only is distribution cheap but so is promotion. With websites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace it's becoming possible to promote yourself to a wide audience for absolutely no cost at all.

Just remember that no matter what people tell you, now is a great time to get into the industry. You don't even need a huge stack of cash to get yourself set up with a home studio anymore. Back in the day you needed to pay several thousand just to have enough to record but with today's music creation technologies it's become much more affordable. Software is the new wave of the future for studio engineers as programs such Pro Tools have made it possible for nearly anybody on any budget to record professional quality music.

Go to the library and learn all you can about mixing, mastering and recording. After you've read a lot of really great books and you've got a really good understanding of the science behind mixing, go ahead and pick up a recording program such as Adobe Audition, Logic Pro, Pro Tools or otherwise. Honestly that's all you need to get yourself started in the greatest industry there's ever been for independents! Buy beats online, download rap beats and get started promoting yourself today!