Shotty's Hip Hop Blog

 New Singles Releasing Soon .                                        By: Shotty Mills                                                                The one and only Shotty Mills has new singles releasing soon. After his highly anticipated release of Shotty’s album release “Show and Tell”. The up and coming rap artist “Shotty Mills” has a couple new singles. It’s a surprise release after this last year. He released his first studio rap album “Show and Tell”. These upcoming singles are different than anything Shotty has ever released before in his past album. As for influences of his new and upcoming singles. Some influences of his for his new singles are the likes of: J.Cole, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar.       ...

 What Can Music Teach you About Life .                     By: Shotty Mills.                                                              In particular music can teach you various lessons about your life. When you listen to music, it teaches you the importance of listening and valuing a moment. An artist, producer and songwriter all come together to put music together. Not everyone that listens to your music would understand the long tedious hours put in. The only that is really seen is the results that follow. In the studio artists take numerous takes to record a track to perfection. There’s no easy way out, you have to build up from a solid foundation and work your way up the ladder. In the music industry there are tons of lessons to be learned that you can takeaway. But for me ...

 How Does Your Music Resonate?                                  By: Shotty Mills.                                                            Ask yourself this question: how does your music resonate? Music is and it’s art should be intended to resonate with its intended audience. In different crowds the music can resonate with different feelings,  and moods. This is what I take into consideration myself. When I craft together my lyrics, I take into consideration my audience. And see how they would react to the certain moods and vibe they depict from a track. Up to now, I wrote over a hundred blogposts to this day, and I’m still going strong. With my upcoming releases this is a technique that I applied to help target my audience more accordingly....

 Does your Music Provide Value?                                   By: Shotty Mills.                                                            Ask yourself: what value does your music carry along with it? Music carries a heavy heart amongst the variety of all of its listeners. If music was seen in the form of value. It will embody the service that one aims to provide. Within the music industry there’s a streamline of music that is seen as taboo. Since that music doesn’t provide reasonable value to its target audience. Musically speaking as an artist. The music that we deliver to our desired audience should provide value. When your music provides value, it changes the landscape of music overall. Never sell yourself short of your capability to change th...

 Singles or Album Releases .                                             By: Shotty Mills.                                                               It’s a heated debate. One may ask do musicians have a preference for single and album releases. The answer is would vary amongst a crowd of people. Albums these days seem to be to thrown a little onto the wayside. Singles as a whole seem to be more widely accepted now. But in all though who wouldn’t want to listen to a whole music album. As music artists, we spend countless hours crafting together beats, writing and composing. It still is a huge accomplishment, as an Artist to release an album. You can’t liquefy an artists accomplishment of them releasing an album.