Your image is just at important as your music. Especially in hip hop. Most people will try to determine what kind of music you make just from a glance of your pic. This is why you should give serious thought about the promotional pictures you send out with your music.

You can’t imagine some of the horrible pics artists send me to post on this blog. The above pic is a recreation, but a very mild example.  I get bad mobile phone pics in the bathroom, with their children, with their girlfriends, got one in the kitchen, driving in the car….you get my point. Blog and website owners put a lot into making sure their sites are visually appealing. Well, at least most of them do. And they don’t wont crappy pics detracting from that.

If the music is really good, I’ll take the time of asking an artist for another pic, but I know people in the industry who won’t even listen to your music if the the promo pic looks terrible. This is a blog for independent hip hop artists so I understand that not everyone has the budget to hire a professional photographer for a photo shoot , but it doesn’t take much to get a photo taken with a digital camera with decent resolution.  Take your music career seriously. If this is your hobby, cool.  Just don’t expect anything great to come of it if you don’t take the necessary steps to be the best you can be.

Garbage in…garbage out.

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