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YBN Dougie is an up and coming rapper out of Texas with a smooth @$$ flow I have been hyping for a minute, and he’s back, this time with an official mixtape release and a little teaser video to support it.
Check it out and go run his views up, I really think dougie has a potential to be a big name in this hip hop shxt. His flow is beyond smooth and its only a matter of time before people his music starts filtering out of his hometown of his Dallas.
I hadn’t heard of 22Gz until I was perusing WSHH and his video came up. This was 6 days ago and since then this track has been on steady repeat on my YouTube Red and Spotify.
I am not usually into “diss songs” but 22Gz is a straight savage in this track which serves as a diss to a variety of rappers that include, Tory Lanez, G Herbo, D Savage, and 6ix9ine.
And the craziest lyric of them all is something that I find a little risky for a rapper to be saying at this moment and time, towards the end 22Gz says, “Killin nxggas & I rap about it, like I’m Melly Nxgga”. I don’t know man, with the rising amount of florida rappers being investigated and charged for crimes, simply because of rap lyrics… I wouldn’t be so brazen but hey thats what makes 22Gz stand out, and thats what makes rap…RAP.
I’ve been out for awhile, starting the next phase of Curated Flame.
In that time, I have been contacted by dozens of wanna be rappers, sending me various dms or emails and unfortunately, I just haven’t been impressed. That is, until now.
Sixteenleo, might not have the best name, and he’s still very raw and early, I mean he literally only has 19 followers on Soundcloud right now. But he impressed me enough that I am writing for the first time in a couple months.
When I first got his email and saw that he said I have “heavy anxiety and that’s why I been in my room making music for the last two years” I rolled my eyes, I am not even going to lie though. I’ve heard this before, from this generation of rappers whose top 5’s all have at least 4 “Lil’s”.
Then when I started listening to his first track, I liked it, but I was kind of annoyed that I liked it. I’m thinking to myself, this kid’s just doing it as a joke, but you know what, fxck it. I think it might not be a joke, he’s really committed to the craft, he switches up his flows, and his awkward flows are even dope.
If his tracks, Rick James and No Pretenda, are any inkling of what his music is going to be like in the future, then I think this dude is going places. His style sounds like a blend of Lil Pump & Hooligan Chase and I fux with it heavy.
I might be the nicejewboy but like any reform jew in the American diaspora, I get the christmas spirit too:)
I also am continuing to grow and pursue other endeavors such as my new business which I sell rare and/or unique rolling papers and pre – rolled cones on etsy and my site cfrollingpapers.com
Anyways to all you producers, videographers, and graphic designers, I hope you can get something out of this to help your business grow!
Original email pack (344 rappers)
In return for being able to download this and the others for free, all that I ask, is that you do one of the following;
If you could do any of the following above, that would be great and really help me out with my other endeavors. I never got in this to make money from producers so now that I am starting to see a little bit of success with my other business interest it just doesn’t feel right to keep charging producers for these email packs and guide when I could be helping others continue to their growth hopefully.
GlokkNine has been an artist I have been listening to for a hot minute now and I have been watching his career grow and grow and grow. So imagine my surprise when I see he has released a new music video and this is the first one that I know of, that is not directed by Drewfilmedit.
Why does this matter?
In the grand scheme of things, it doesnt. But I have just become so use to hearing “if drew didn’t film it, then it aint filmed right” at the beginning of every glokknine video.
GlokkNine needs to get back to working with that kid cause drews tagline is almost as good as metro boomin’s or halfpint filmz.
In the meantime, you should check out his newest tape Lil Glokk That Stole Khristmas and you absolutely musttttt listen to his track “Xmas Song” which I pray he does a video for!
London Yellow isn’t a rapper.
He is a meme troll rap auteur.
His most recent song is called, well you can just see below, what it is called.
Now what is his motivation behind the song? I don’t know and I don’t really know if its worth reading into it to much. Entire thesis papers could be spawned off of this song if you sat down and think to hard about it.
London might be one of the few rappers out there making true art. A lot of rappers claim they do but if you look into this dudes discography and watch some of his videos. They are a blend of foolishness and poignant observations on controversial subject matter. Art is suppose to invoke conversation or thought, and I bet anyone who has viewed his video above has had one, both, or the other.
The only reason why this song might not get as big as it should is because of its subject matter and title. Which I guess is part of the whole thing?
This is for my producers, graphic designers, writers, and more. People that are making a living from the music business among various ways, but for the most part, you are “working from home”.
You see, Tulsa, Oklahoma is paying people 10k to move there for one year. They want people who work remotely, i.e. at home. Which for a lot of us, is right up our wheelhouse! I am just throwing out an idea but what if we, and by we I mean all of us writers, producers, engineers, graphic designers, n videographers. What if we all apply to this and use it to fund the next great hip hop/rap community
Just a thought, either way, this could be a great opportunity for many of us. So I encourage you to apply, the application is pretty painless and can be found at tulsaremote.com
When you apply and they ask you where you heard about this, plz tell them Curated Flame.
For the producers, rappers, and music entrepreneurs who read this site, you will know that I often pursue business interests in other areas besides Hip Hop/Rap but I always come back with something interesting to share that I think can translate to the music business. So today I want to talk about reviews!
A little background:
In late September I created an Etsy shop where I sell several kinds of rolling papers.
Etsy has a great marketplace and its customers are willing to take a risk on new shop BUT just like with any other shop or online market place, you want to have reviews. People are just more willing to shop with you if they see 50+ reviews compared to 3.
Now I read and have heard different ratios that say on average for etsy, you will get 1 review for every 10 or 25 customers you have. So if someone had 320 sales (249 completed orders), like I do, they should expect to have about 10 to 25 reviews but notice above that my shop actually has 65! That is a ratio of not only just 1 review, but one 5 star review for every 4 customers on average! To put this in perspective, another shop in the same category as me, has 1144 sales but only 46 reviews.
Why do I have a great ratio for reviews?
Every day or two, I go and I check what orders have been delivered. I then send a message to the customer saying something like the following;
“1. I want to make sure they got to you safely and undamaged.
2. Are you enjoying them?:)
3. Is there any chance you could leave a review on Etsy?
4. Here is a discount code for your next purchase.”
That’s the special trick, reaching out to the customers.
How does this translate to me? a music entrepreneur, rapper, or producer?
For a beatmaker, graphic designer, etc. I would recommend reaching out to all of your previous customers, no matter how long its been since they purchased something from you, be it a design or beat, etc. Its about to be December, if you have been selling for a little bit you should have data of your customers.
Reach out to these customers and email / dm them a message that goes a little something like;
“Hey (rappers name);
I am messaging you because;
That is it everyone, seriously.
I know a lot of people in this game focus a lot on getting customers but then never do, what I would call, customer maintenance. I mean, ok, say you sold 250 beats this year, great! But how many of those were repeat customers?
I mean seriously. This track “Dukez of Hazard” is a banger and I think that if it doesn’t get to big the only reason might be is because its Riff Raff. I know that’s a weird dichotomy, like the video is going to definitely get hundreds of thousands if not a couple million views at least, but at the same time there’s a limited cap most likely of how big it could get. That’s just what happens for the most part when you get to the point of being a veteran in the rap game and truth be told at this point, Riff Raff is a veteran, and to a lot of people, a legend.
The first minute and a half of “Dukes of Hazard” is a weirdly deep voice that is not what you normally expect from Riff but its surprisingly good. Later on, in the song, he switches his flow back up to his classic Riff Raff voice and the song maintains.
I don’t know, I feel like if Riff starts to put out more bangers like this then homie might just have a renaissance.
Riff Raff’s real first name is Horace, and I love that.
