It’s been a long time since my last official song, Chillen With My Folks was released last July. I have spent the majority of my time since then perfecting my website, and building my brand through marketing on Facebook and Twitter. I feel like I am at a point where I am happy with the site and can now get back to making music and doing everything else I need to be doing. The top of my priorities for this week is to get the graphics done for my tee, it’s been pushed back so that I can finish the website. I am also still working on several new songs and beats, one of which I am hoping to release this next week, as I stated in my last blog post; The Life of a DIY’er .  Click through for more.

I started somewhat mentoring someone I met off of Twitter. He messaged me wanting to collaborate and we met up and I gave him some good constructive criticism. I am really surprised with how many connections I have made through Twitter, I can’t keep up with all of the messages from people wanting to collaborate. One of the artists I have collaborated with in the past, my friend Dante, is coming through Tuesday and Thursday so we can work on beats for his album. Making beats for another artist other than myself will be a nice change, and I’m looking forward to seeing what we do together.

The changes I made to this site were incorporating ads, adding Facebook and Twitter icons at the top of the page, and making it easier for people to login by allowing people to connect through their Facebook, Twitter, and other accounts. I did this so people could login to comment easier, and so people can also stay updated at the same time. The majority of comments I was getting before were haters, and I wanted to make it harder for them to leave comments by making people register and login.  Sorry to those that wanted to leave a positive comment, but now have to register to do so.  Luckily it’s as easy as clicking two buttons, so register and let me know what you think.

My theory is that my actual fans will want to take the time to register, while the haters won’t. It sucks that I had to do that, but success always brings haters, and I have a lot of them. I look at it as a good thing though, they wouldn’t hate unless I was really talented, right?  It’s funny that when people leave comments it achieves the opposite effect of what they wanted, instead of bringing me down, it just makes me realize that all of my hard work is paying off.  So to the haters, thanks, and keep on hating…

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