Internet marketing has become essential to any hip hop artist who wishes to spread their music abroad, but spending too much time navigating online social networks can take you away from the kinda grassroots street networking that made hip hop the force it is today.  A well developed hip hop movement is and always will be built on the local level first. Read the rest of this entry »

The concept for Tweet For A Track is pretty frickin’ dope.  It’s a free online tool that encourages your Twitter followers to spread download links to your music. The site allows you to tweet a free download link of your music to your Twitter followers. They can only download the music if they repost the link. Their followers must do the same if they wish to download it. …and so on…and so on. This can create great potential for your music to spread rapidly.

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