It’s been a busy last couple weeks for me. I spent the greater part producing a mixtape for my friend Nique, which is all done and just needs to be mixed and mastered. I have also been working on some new beats for my next project. I decided I wanted to wait to start working on my album again until my studio is complete, but I decided to start working on my next Mixtape, which is un-named at the moment. My next mixtape will also serve as my demo, as I decided I want to get my music on the radio and also start performing live to promote my debut album “J-Xile”. Click through for more.
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Something I have always been huge on ever since I started making music is to constantly be improving. One of the ways I do this is assessing my strengths and weaknesses, and making my weaknesses one of my strengths. Everything I have done up to this point has been me learning and bettering myself. I look at it like warming up and practicing. I feel like every song I put out is better than the last, and as long as that continues I feel like I will achive my modest goals of success.
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As I said in my last post, Getting Back to the Music, I am now getting back to working on music after most of my time has been spent on marketing. Tha One and Only is my current mixtape I have been working on, but in reality it is a collection of my best songs up until this point. While I still bump it like it’s the first time I’ve ever heard it, I feel like it is time to move on to my next project. I have one song I am finishing for it, a song I wrote back in 2008, We Out Here. We Out Here is a song that I gave up on after hours of recording and becoming frustrated with the result. Click through for the rest.

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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.
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I’m feeling stretched pretty thin this week, with a lot of work to do on the website, finishing my t-shirt, and trying to finish multiple songs and beats.  Sometimes I wish I could add about 10 hours to my day, but I realize I can’t.  These days it’s about prioritizing my time and making sure the most important things get done first.  My hard work is starting to pay off, as I am now getting a lot more traffic from search engines.  I rank number one for “Up and Coming Rap” and several similar variations, which is huge for me.

I started marketing myself on Twitter this last week, which has built me several new relationships and brought me some new wonderful fans, even a few that want to collaborate from across the world. I never thought Twitter could be as good as it has been.  My followers have jumped from 97 before marketing, to over 300 in just over a week.  A lot of which are from my target market, which is important as I build my brand locally first.  I’m still getting the hang of it, but I can see Twitter being a big part of my success in 2011.