Learn how the industry works, and how to tip the odds in your favour and get your beats heard. Multi-platinum producer Sahpreem King of Miami's South Beach club scene gives you his expert guide to the games of Hip Hop production, exposing the pitfalls and giving you a step-by-step approach to developing your profile and getting your unique sound out into the ears of your audience. You will learn...
- What a producer really does
- How to set up you lab and get the sounds from your head into the speakers
- Who to trust, and how to build your team
- Promotion and marketing
- Networking
- Money and accounting
- The secrets of A&R - what they don't want you to know
- Getting published
Written in King's own style of street language, this guide is hugely entertaining and packed with funny stories and facts rather than jargon. The book also features a generous industry-resource section, with the names and numbers you need to get ahead of the game.