
Every aspiring rapper or hip-hop producer dreams of making it big, but as we all know and history proves; only a mere fraction of those trying to reach fame actually do. I think almost everyone growing in a urban neighborhood that love hip-hop wanted to be a rapper. I remember growing up; there were around twenty kids at school that would rap in talent shows and swear they were great, just waiting on a chance to blow up. The only difference is that now with sites like Youtube, FaceBook, etc., it’s easier to record, produce, and share your music, so you have a lot more people trying to do it. Also, a lot of unconventional rappers are making it—Mac Miller, Odd Future, Lil B—so people see this as their chance when before all you had to do to get a deal was either spend your hard-earned money and drive to a radio station, or the Apollo, to showcase your lyrical ability and if you’re lucky you’ll get it.
If you’re an up-and-coming rapper, don’t get it twisted—I’m not making fun your profession or telling you to quit and find a different career choice. I’m just giving you a reality check in that it’s not hard to be rapper nowadays; however, there is still a chance you may not make it. Every so often it does happen though—an aspiring rapper goes from the bottom of the ladder, right to the top. He went from working two jobs and struggling to make ends meet, to a tour-bus life in which the hardest part of his day is trying to concoct a way to beat his friends over at partycasino.com—sounds difficult, eh? Not! I don’t know about you, but I would much rather spend days at a time on a tour bus than work two jobs for a meager pay that is a barely enough to survive on.
I wonder how the driver of the tour bus feels because that has got to be the worst job. Being paid very little to drive long hours into the night, just to get your rapping cargo to the next venue on time. I can only imagine that feelings of envy, or even resentment, run rampant in the mind of the stereotypical bus-driver.