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10 Ways to Make it Happen by Kevin Liles

Rule One: Find Your Will
You will need that passion to drive you to make it happen against seemingly impossible odds.
Rule Two: Do You
Once you have found your will you have to package it and present it to the world.
Rule Three: Walk This Way
Getting educated is the way to make it happen. Whether you study in college or the school of life, knowledge and experience will give you the tools you need for success.
Rule Four: Create A Blueprint
You’ll need a road map to success. Create a vision to help you see where it all fits. Focusing on the big picture will help you edit out the things that distract you from success.
Rule Five: Play Your Position
Don’t act like you are too full of it. Have the humility and respect to do your job to the best of your ability, whether it’s digging ditches or answering the phone. That’s how all great leaders get started.
Rule Six: The Come Up
Learning to love the hard times can make you stronger, wiser and more willing to take risks.
Rule Seven: Get Connected
Build relationships that last forever because success in business depends on positive human interaction.
Rule Eight: Step Outside Your Box (M.I.X.)
It will help you blow up your ideas to a global level. You have to be open to people from all walks of life because business is the only true melting pot.
Rule Nine: Don’t Let Cash Rule
Greed can trip you up. Money matters, but it’s only a means to more options, freedom and security for the future.
Rule Ten: Flex Purpose, Not Power
It’s never too soon in your career to pick up a few management skills and learn how to lead.

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Is This Young Jeezy–Rick Ross Beef Real?

Ever since 50 Cent started syncing all of his album releases with a fresh batch of beefs, the world has soured on the genre's more obvious WWE-like machinations. Which is why the burgeoning beef between Rick Ross and Young Jeezy — Jeezy just released the veiled Ross diss "Death Before Dishonor" — is so refreshing: Hey, these people may actually not like each other!

The acrimonious back-and-forth began when Ross released “"B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)," a nod to the infamous drug organization Black Mafia Family. Jeezy, who is actually associated with BMF and its now-imprisoned leader Big Meech, responded with “BMF (The Real Blowin' Money Fast),” featuring Meech himself on the phone from prison. And last night, just to make sure his point was coming across, Jeezy followed up with “Death Before Dishonor,” a freestyle over Ross's original “BMF” beat that features the line: “How you blowing money fast, you don't know the crew / Oh, you part of the fam; shit, I never knew.” Ross, ever the gentleman, has yet to respond, although hopefully he changes his mind soon.
So, is this real? On the one hand, Jeezy and Ross are both on Def Jam and have collaborated in the past; also, Jeezy has an impending new album, Thug Motivation 103, to plug. On the other, Jeezy has more than enough motivation not to like Ross: both are of a similar ilk — doughy, Southern rappers obsessed with cocaine — but while Jeezy was on the scene first, Ross has at this point arguably eclipsed him in popularity and general acclaim. Also, Jeezy invented shouting out BMF (on the remix to Ross's “Hustlin',” no less), but it seems to be working out much better for Ross. So, until any further developments — real!

50 Cent's G-Unit Records Inks Distribution Deal With EMI | VIBE

50 Cent's G-Unit Records Inks Distribution Deal With EMI VIBE

(AllHipHop News) It's official: 50 Cent's G-Unit has inked a deal with EMI Label Services to market, promote and distribute releases from the popular New York-based record label.

The first release under the new deal with be Lloyd Banks' third solo album H.F.M. 2 (Hunger For More 2), which is slated for a November 23, release date.

Lloyd Banks' release will be followed by Tony Yayo's untitled follow-up to his 2008 solo debut Thoughts Of A Predicate Felon.

Yayo's album, which will include the single "Pass the Patron," will land in stores in early 2011.

“It’s refreshing to see the EMI staff excited about my project, they have the passion and energy I haven’t seen in while," Lloyd Banks told AllHipHop.com in a statement today (August 13).

READ THE FULL STORY AT ALLHIPHOP

15 Reason Why I didnt listen to your Music

95% of the music I receive is deleted without ever being listened to. Why? Outside of the fact that I get 300-700 records sent to me each week via Email, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Its just impossible for me to listen to every song I receive and still find time for my family and work. In an effort to increase the amount of material I listen to I have outlined “15 Reasons I didn’t listen to your music” in hopes that you will shape up


The List:

1.The first tweet you sent me had a link to your music in it… Try starting out with a “Hello!”

2.You sent me a link to your mixtape or album… I recommend sending a single. I’m not sure if I even want to hear ONE track from you but you just sent me 24 of them.

3.You just sent sent 300 other people the exact same tweet… All those tweets show up on your profile. That will stop people from following you because you look like a spammer and cause followers to unsubscribe because you’re flooding their time-line.

4.You emailed me a CDA File… Learn to rip/import a CD. You can’t just drag the songs off the disc into an email.

5.You emailed me a WMA file… I can playback WMA files but that means I have to download them first instead of just being able to preview them in my browser.

6.You didn’t submit any music for the On The Grind Mixtape (www.OnTheGrindMixtape.com)… This is a program I started to give independent artists major promotion on a very tight budget. Over time it has become my system for weeding out artists that are not serious about their careers. I figure if the artist wouldn’t invest $20 of their own money into their record, its probably not worth me listening to.

7.You sent me a link where I had to go through 2-3 screens of ads and wait 45 seconds before I could download it… I recommend using Z-share. Recipients can immediately preview the music and still have an option to download it.

8.I have no reason to listen to your music… You sent me your music but you really didn’t give me any reason to check it. Why do you want me to listen to your music?

9.You just CC’ed me on an email to like 500 other people… I personally don’t appreciate my email being circulated for any and everybody to have. Setup a Fanbridge account or at least start using the BCC field instead so you aren’t exposing everyone’s email address.

10.YOU sent it to me… If your music was really hot and you were doing the things that you need to be doing, I would be hearing about it from other people (DJs, A&Rs, Publicists, Promoters, FANS, Other Artists or Producers).

11.I’m busy… I may have every intention on listening to your music but as you know sometimes the day can just get a way from you. By the time I had the free time I forgot all about the link you sent me. This can be easily avoided if you focus on building a relationship instead of sending out songs.

12.I’ve already heard about you/your music…. Believe it or not this is a small industry and there are very few people in it that are actually here to help independent artists. Don’t think that we don’t talk to each other. So, if you have a reputation for Bullsh*tting, Trying to get something for nothing, Being lazy, lying or just making Bad Music you’ve probably been the topic of discussion once or twice.

13.You’re not a subscriber… 99% of the people that send us music requesting to be reviewed, interviewed, re-tweeted and put in our Email Blast aren’t even subscribers. Our motto at Makin’ It Magazine is very simple, “Support those that support you!”

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14.You’re more concerned with getting heard than being listened to… You’ve sent me plenty of songs, emails, videos, etc but have never taken time to follow up to see if I’ve listened to any of them or what I thought. You’re more concerned with throwing punches than landing them.

15.You didn’t read this post… This one isn’t meant for you, but there are plenty of people who saw this post on twitter, their inbox or RSS feed and didn’t bother to read it. Those are the same people who will continue to make the mistakes described above. Lack of initiative is probably the #1 reason for failure in our industry.

This is just a personal list of things that deter me from listening to much of the music I am sent. I’m pretty sure most of these reasons may hold true for many of the other Magazines, DJs, Bloggers, Publicists, Promoters and people you send music to. If you know someone that needs to see this post please FWD it along and don’t forget to Retweet it. If you have something that you think is missing from the list please leave it in a comment below so that I can add it.