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New Videos

Been grinding like hell working on upcoming events TBA. So in the meantime let me continue providing you the hottest videos in the mean time.

Trina – That’s My Attitude

Jagged Edge (Feat. Gucci Mane Trina) – Tip Of My Tongue

Yo Gotti featuring Lil Wayne – Women Lie, Men Lie

The Dream & Ludacris @ Shawty Lo’s Single Atlanta,GA Video Shoot

My Chick Bad ft Nicki Minaj

Southeast Independent Artist Summit

Please take the time to check out some of our associates and their endeavors. Jamiel Cox and Reddahlia PR bring you the Southeast Independent Artist Summit.

Come be a part of the South East Independent Artist Summit.

The purpose of the SEIA is to promote artist education and give artist the opportunity to highlight their talent in a concert setting, hosted by DJ Traci Steele of 95.5 the beat, this event will give artist the ability to develop, network and rub elbows with industry taste makers that are willing and able to give feed back to them.

Click on Link to Registrar Now!
www.seiasummit.eventbrite.com

For More information on Sponsorship Opportunities please email gardner@reddahliapr.com

Lyricism and Capitalism

While surfing I came across an interesting observation by Jay Smooth. Great statement that is sooo very true. More info about Jay Smooth below.

il Doctrine is a new site from Jay Smooth, creator of the Ill Doctrine videoblog. Jay is also founder of New York’s longest running Hip-Hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM, and pioneer of hip-hop blogging at hiphopmusic.com.

Pocket Studio

Maybe this will help or inspire a few artist..

New Travis Porter – BANANAS!!!

Let’s give it up for Travis Porter with their new video “Bananas” !!!! I get tired of Swagg just like the next person but I will say that it feels good having music in which people are now dancing and having fun again. Kinda comes full circle like back in the 90’s when people really enjoyed themselves while listening to music. *sounding old talkin bout the 90’s* Keep up the good work fellas!!!!!!!!!!

Qtalks Tv hosted by Aquarius

Above video features Qtalks TV and  Prominent Partners, LLC for a charity fund raising entity with a focus on education, health and community awareness. The company is comprised of four successful entrepreneurs who understand that charity and community development are not merely options, but critical elements for a thriving society.

Qtalks TV and Contact Atlanta go back a long way as we always run into one another at events. This year we have some BIG things planned as we have decided to combine forces in 2010. Hang on Atlanta!!!  In the meantime enjoy the above videos.

A Quick Guide To Setting Up A Virtual Studio

Artist check out ” How to Set Up the Ultimate Desktop Recording Studio” by Popular Mechanics and let me know if it help you set up your virtual studio. Sharing information is the name of the game. Enjoy!!!

Consider it another marvel of the digital age—or the latest evidence that the beautifully difficult, soul- taxing art of music creation has irretrievably slid into the hands of talentless idiots. Either way, with the help of a computer, a few peripherals, a variety of entry-level software and two weekends’ worth of struggle, I have produced my first single. ~ For more information please refer to Popular Mechanics

That Retail Chick Has Something On Her Mind

Today while cruising my normal blogs from friends and mentors I read the post “Why the Urban Indie Marketing Plan Is Interrupting the Music Business”. Artist if you aren’t familiar with That Retail Chick (Des) has been a staple in the Atlanta area providing everyone an atmosphere in which artist and customers were provided a wealth of information a relating to music. Keep your eye on That Retail Chick as Des continues rising to the top. *salute That Retail Chick* for keeping it 100 all day an day. Lol. Enjoy the food for thought provided by That Retail Chick. Check out the new video Des dropped explaining which direction she is now headed. *thumbs up*

Quite a title right?  I will put that out later.  I usually type about all the problems and never the solutions.  That’s because “the game is to be sold and not told.”  But since you only know the problem side of me, I decided to show you a different side of me using a series of “What if’s…”

What if…

1. You decided to push 1 song instead of 18 songs.  If you look at the way labels are making any money these days, it’s a digital singles market.  And while you are on promo disc #3 with no buzz, a record label else has taken a single and made a cool 350K.  Makes you wish you had just put that song out through tune core in addition to giving it away instead of signing that single deal huh?
2. When that single came out, you decided to make some money off of “merch” because you had to give the song away and maybe all you saw was show money (which comes to an end at some point) and none off of product.  But if you took that REALLY popular song, made a t-shirt, some panties, or a hoodie for it and advertised it on all those social networks you spend most of your day on; plus posted it for sell on your ning.com site, you could make a few extra bucks to invest in something else
3. You had 13,000 twitter followers, and you just happened to drop your latest mixtape (that got 50,000 views on that free mixtape website) on your own website?  Then you could drive all the traffic that you send to that site to your own and capitalize off of your traffic like that free mixtape website does??? (think THIS IS 50 on a smaller but still lucrative scale)
4. you thought of yourself as more than just an artist and thought of yourself as a business that could make money because you are actually more than music, you, with this hot single have created a brand, that can be sold in many different ways through many different products. I mean if you had the hottest song on the radio and 45,000 followers on twitter how many independent brands would want to advertise on your site?  Is this about making money as many different ways as you can?
5. You actually took the time to think about where your target audience was and stopped promoting to every Tom, Dick, & Harry that you saw walking down the street.  What if you could go straight to those people and promote to them because you know who your demographic is
6. You knew about the words DIRECT TO FAN PLATFORM & PERMISSION MARKETING.  Then all the people in the music industry would not get so many garbage emails and you would actually be sending music updates via email, twitter, facebook, & Myspace to people that really wanted to receive it.

What if all you needed was a little bit of structure, some market research, a great marketing plan, and someone to manage all of these things so you did not waste so much time & money doing the wrong thing.

What if you had just emailed “That Retail Chick”?

I’M JUST SAYING…WHAT IF?

Blueprint 3 Stops Thru Atlanta

For those of us that missed the Blueprint 3 tour this weekend we have footage from the concert and afterparty.  This footage is brought to you by Exclusive Access . Ladies enjoy the video as Trey Songs woos ya’ll and fellas enjoy Jeezy, Plies, and Jay Z. From the looks of things it appears as if this was the place to be as I merely got caught up in the traffic after the concert. 75/85 was on lock and most of the surface streets after leaving a party at Smiths Olde Bar but enough about me enjoy the videos.

Yelawolf – Pop The Trunk

Yelawolf continues to spit straight lava over some very great tracks. If you have never heard of Yela you will shortly as he has signed with Ghetto-Vision. Don’t forget to check out the new album Trunk Muzik by Yelawolf as this album features the following guest Diamond (formerly of Crime Mobb), Juelz Santana, Bun B and Raekwon. Motion Family has given us another great video featuring yet another great artist so enjoy the video collab between Motion Family and Yelawolf.