Shotty's Hip Hop Blog

 How Do You Define Hip Hop as a Genre? By: Shotty Mills In regards to hip hop as a genre. Hip hop is a worldwide known genre to many, and it has influenced the lives of many also around the world. The world of hip hop continually does evolve, and the impact of how artists grow with the genre of hip hop is astounding. And hip hop as an overall culture is very diverse with the amount of sub genres that have developed from hip hop in general. The hip hop industry consists of numerous artists. And the way that hip hop has evolved has allowed more growth within the industry to happen. Even with the early days of Daddy Kane and other hip hop known figures. Hip hop has grown itself into a known genre worldwide. And this allowed for new subgenres to be created within their own particular form. The true definition of hip hop is found from the soul. And I'd say the greatest advice, I have ever been given is to follow your passion for hip hop. And speak from your soul, because when you speak ...

 Targeting your Audience as a Brand By: Shotty Mills As you aim to target your audience as a brand. It's important that you understand the concept behind targeting your audience as an overall brand. As a brand there are numerous ways for you to target your specific audience, but targeting your audience accordingly can pose more of a challenge. Some ways that you can target your audience as an artist is to aim at understanding the demographics behind your audience firstly. Your audience is what you truly do chose to invest into your audience. When you are a brand like Shotty Mills himself, you will know that you yourself are marketing yourself as a business. Therefore, this further stresses the importance of targeting an audience in that marketing yourself as business creates more traction and generates more overall leads.  The moment that you understand who you are audience is and how you are going to target this audience. The more likely you as an audience will find your path...

New YouTube Video with Shotty By: Shotty Mills In Shotty's new YouTube. He gets into the depth about how he felt about recent two opening performances. With one being down in Calgary, Alberta and other being in his hometown of Drayton Valley. These two performances were really eye opening for Shotty. It showed him how his years of hard work and sweat, and late nights has paid it's dues. When asking Shotty himself about how he felt about his recent performance. He said that he felt that this performance made him find his way along his path. And in this video Shotty Mills elaborates on this whole general idea. As a motivated rapper coming into the rap game, and coming in firing from his two fire performances. The young hip hop prodigy is hungry and eager to continually build up the empire. For those looking to watch and hear more details about Shotty's upcoming collaborations, new music and more. Be sure to click the link above to listen for more. Stay tuned everybody for mor...

 How to Write a Song with Shotty Mills By: Shotty Mills Writing a song requires you to understand of logistics behind music. You will have to learn how different drum patterns like a snare drum that dictates flow within a musical piece. Shotty Mills himself who has wrote multiple pieces of music himself. From this he has learned to write songs that relate to a wide range of people. When Shotty himself feels like he relates to people on a higher level. He connects with them on a much higher and profound level. As Shotty gets more into the grain of writing songs he realizes that writing songs that relate to people help tell a story to people. Shotty knows himself that writing a song that resonates with a lot of people requires that you write music like you were in their shoes. Writing takes a while to a hone, but once you get the hang of it. You are truly off the races to making your mark as a lyricist.  If you want to start writing a song, you can start out where you want. Like...