Jun 9, 2015

I think you should try to get a hip hop site like complex or bossip to interview in front of a billboard that is scheduled to come down...but make sure you hire your own guy to take it down an hour before it is scheduled. In the act of taking the billboard down, have your guy fall off the platform with his safety harness on... Then, while the website's cameraman is filming you climb up to the top as fast as you can and pull him back to safety. Then descend the billboard's ladder, pick up the boombox you staged next to it earlier and start blasting your new single with it on your shoulder.

 

Jun 8, 2015

eh, i'm probably the only one who can speak to this with any sort of authority.

lots of collabs are a bad idea. songs with two or three rappers don't get placements, even if one of the guests is, as you put it, a d-list rapper.

posting on forums is a bad look and makes you look like an amateur if you get outed. (also, there's almost no one on a rap forum who can give you meaningful advice.)

you need to create a consistent (as in internally consistent) sound, preferably one that's unique to you. you don't garner a reputation for this by jumping on a bunch of songs or being overexposed online.