Sounding Like A
Broken Record…
I have been
an artist manager for over two years, and I feel like I have not moved forward
at all. Well, that is what I feel like,
but recently I feel like I might have had a break through with one of my
artist. I have been giving one of my
main artists Dilly Boy advice, and tactics on ways he can get his music out
into the industry. I have been preaching
to Dilly Boy to record songs to get his catalog started, and how important it
is to write everyday, and not to worry about the small things. For example, I would tell do not worry about
the name of your next mixtape, especially when you only have two songs
written. I use to constantly tell him the
more songs you write the more options you will have with your career. But at times I felt like I was sounding like
a broken record because I would tell him this almost every day. And, yes almost everyday because I let him
move in with my partner and I.
What use to
kill me the most is when Dilly Boy would come to me and tell me spoke with
someone else, and this person would give him the same advice I gave him three
months ago, but now that someone else told him the light bulb would go off in
his head. So eventually as a manager I
was putting a lot of money into an artist that would not listen. So I decided to show him tough love. My partner decided to move because we had
recent accident when one of my artists was found in our pool and died from an
accidental drowning while we were on vacation.
We had let her move in with us to help her out with her life, but drugs
took her away from us. So my partner and
I could not live comfortable in our house, and we had Dilly move in with us
because he was the one who found her. So
we felt a little bit sorry for him, but all that came to an end because he was
taking advantage of us.
So Dilly
Boy had to move out on his own, start to make music on his own, and start
paying for his music projects on his own.
Over the summer Dilly Boy started to do all these things, and he kept
hearing from other people the things I was telling him, and what do you know he
is starting to make a little bit of noise.
He has now linked up with Soulja Boy’s camp, and is now getting ready to
do collaboration with one of Soulja Boy’s artist. Also, he was able to reach out T.I. on
twitter and he has found out how to submit songs to become a ghostwriter. All of these things have now woke him up on
the importance of making music, and the importance of him getting this done by
himself.
