Shotty's Hip Hop Blog

 New Single from Shotty Mills "Syndrome" Overview By:Shotty Mills With Shotty's upcoming release "Syndrome" it has a unique storyline behind it. It will entice an audience, as it carries a sickness for any hip hop listener to catch. And once you catch it, you better count your symptoms. This new single from the hometown artist out of Drayton Valley will exhibit the idea of how we all carry a sickness within in us. But it's up to you how you manage those symptoms and utilize it to fuel your engine. This song carries a more melodic flow and tone to it that will draw in listeners on a global scale. With a plethora of influences from Shotty Mills. This one is inspired by his idol Eminem, J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar and his 2 Pac. The original storyline behind this will give a listeners only a small sample of what is to come firing at you from Shotty Mills in 2022. Recently, Shotty dropped numerous singles in this past year. Despite, the pandemic occurring.  Shotty Mi...

 How Much Music Should You Release in a Year? By: Shotty Mills Within a year it can be a challenge to figure out how much music to release within a given year. But it's still fairly important to understand and counterbalance everything out. Music is such a diverse culture, and it has such a resound impact on society as a whole. The music industry has changing trends that occur on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. But you have to figure out how music, you should release within a year. This way, you can have set goals that are set and stone. To help you set your long-term goals ahead of time when it comes to the releasing of your music. We all see it, and sometimes we underestimate how music you can release within a given year. But it's also important to place marketing as a factor in play as well. If you release too much music within a year, you will get lots of people interested. But however would this be the ideal marketing strategy to help generate more overall leads. These ...

 When is the Right Time to Release New Music? By: Shotty Mills The timely manner of releasing new music is valuable when it comes to releasing new music. With the drastic amount of music being released each day on stream platforms. It would be labelled as vital to know the timely manner of releasing new music. The world has music playing everywhere, and if you can get the music in front of the right audience. Then you will be more likely to gain a wider audience to share or listen to your music. As music artist we all want to know when the right time would be to release new music. But this answer would vary amongst a wide range of people. As new music is being created on a daily basis. It's important that one must understand the just of releasing music.    As artists sometimes we get too caught up in the creative process of releasing music. It's almost that we forget the appropriate time to release music that would be beneficial for the growth of the artist. This is somet...

 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...