Assembling your team - Part One don't hire people you know
When you start to assemble your team you can't have all you're friends being something. So yes you want people you already know doing the things like riding In cars with you and staying at hotels with you and have full access to you etc those you want people you know.
on the business end accountants , PR , business manager , music manager , etc you want them to all be professional people that you don't know and of course you will get to know them yes but you want to start off NOT knowing them and as you are small you will have to get a solo person but when you get big you want a company , someone you can sue if need be and you will get your bread. This will ensure they do everything by the book.
Hiring people you know also becomes and issue with authority they feel like they don't have to listen to you because they've never seen you as a "Boss" , they also believe that since they are family or friends that you won't fire them or that you will accept more unacceptable behavior and work ethics , which is very true it's hard to fire someone you know.
Why it's important to have your music professionally reviewed
It's important to have your music reviewed professionally , for an honest opinion.
Your family and friends are not going to tell you if it's bad. They don't want to hurt you're feelings , they don't want to discourage you , or not support you. Therefore they will be telling you it's good. Then you get your head all big and you start to post it to people or send it as
"Hot new song" "hottest artist in my city" or "I'm up next" or "here some real music for you"
Then the person /blogger /radio station etc already has an expectation for it to be great. And then sometimes yes people are but at the same time seeing the title the person already expects so much so even being good they are not fully satisfied. Therefore they don't put you in the spot of the blog or radio where you should be you automatically get put in a mediocre section or spinned once a day instead of 5-10 or 7-10 etc.
And that's it's your music is good now the problem with most artists having their music reviewed by family and friends is sometimes it's horrible and they are giving you a false sense that you will go far. You want the truth or you could be wasting a lot of time that you can take the criticism you would get by having it professionally reviewed and then go back to the drawing bored and perfect your craft.
Music distribution and why it's not important right now
Distribution and why and why not it's important
First I want to start by saying distribution is ONLY beneficial if you actually have a following , a fan base , a buzz.
Because for one it's a waste of money
Two it's giving your music more shelf life then it's needed. Therefore the music because old without even becoming popular first which is not a good thing.
These distribution companies are getting rich off excited , motivated artists that feel like they have accomplished something by being able to charge for their music.
Artists are paying monthly fees to have their music sit on the "shelf" of these sites getting old and never getting bought.
What they should be doing is having it everywhere for FREE so people can download and listen and become fans , you create a buzz for yourself so that when it's time to release a track for sale then people will actually buy it.
My advice is to spend the money you would spend on that on promo to get your links seen and heard first. 
King Rico Sway @Sway_4President New Artist
King Rico Sway
Songwriter, Lyricist, and Engineer
There is not one genere as an artist that can not be made into a hip-hop song by Rico Sway the style the skill set and the creativity is so out spoken and set different than other artists a new confirmed sound that's incompatible.
A lot of music has not been leaked but some of sway music can be found on Datpiff.com from Sway's latest mixtape dropped in 2012 summer (Back II Da Bricks Vol. 1) that received over 1400 views in the first 15 minutes it dropped.
Also new songs are relayed on soundcloud with the search engine as King Rico Sway
Music videos and promo videos can be found on YouTube @ http://www.YouTube.com/rocking000
The 24 year old South Chicago native has opened up for numerous of artist in Chicago such as King Louie, Sash Go Hard etc. Also has been invited to 3 paid Tours DMG Tour feat. Y.G. and Lil Chuckee, The Unsigned Tour, and The G Tour as well King Rico Sway music video ace is back was and still is one of the most viewed videos on my16live.com with 1000+ views. Rico Sway now has an EP soon to drop in the beginning of 2015 "Sway 4 President which are full of his top singles such as "Dollar Signs", which was featured on Coast 2 Coast Hottest in Illinois Vol. 1 mixtape oncoast2coast.com, plus featured on ChicagosWay3 mixtape hosted by Dj Nero Maserati , No Hand Outs" and also "Pressure" that also featured on Coast2Coast "NextUp"mixtape . 2015 Spring a follow up EP "D.E.E.P." where Chicagos well known producer J-Hitz has linked with Rico to produce his entire EP. With 1 felony case Rico has still figured out how to make it out on top and has a set goal to gain his entire city plus the nation. Follow King Rico Sway on
Songwriter, Lyricist, and Engineer
There is not one genere as an artist that can not be made into a hip-hop song by Rico Sway the style the skill set and the creativity is so out spoken and set different than other artists a new confirmed sound that's incompatible.
A lot of music has not been leaked but some of sway music can be found on Datpiff.com from Sway's latest mixtape dropped in 2012 summer (Back II Da Bricks Vol. 1) that received over 1400 views in the first 15 minutes it dropped.
Also new songs are relayed on soundcloud with the search engine as King Rico Sway
Music videos and promo videos can be found on YouTube @ http://www.YouTube.com/
The 24 year old South Chicago native has opened up for numerous of artist in Chicago such as King Louie, Sash Go Hard etc. Also has been invited to 3 paid Tours DMG Tour feat. Y.G. and Lil Chuckee, The Unsigned Tour, and The G Tour as well King Rico Sway music video ace is back was and still is one of the most viewed videos on my16live.com with 1000+ views. Rico Sway now has an EP soon to drop in the beginning of 2015 "Sway 4 President which are full of his top singles such as "Dollar Signs", which was featured on Coast 2 Coast Hottest in Illinois Vol. 1 mixtape oncoast2coast.com, plus featured on ChicagosWay3 mixtape hosted by Dj Nero Maserati , No Hand Outs" and also "Pressure" that also featured on Coast2Coast "NextUp"mixtape . 2015 Spring a follow up EP "D.E.E.P." where Chicagos well known producer J-Hitz has linked with Rico to produce his entire EP. With 1 felony case Rico has still figured out how to make it out on top and has a set goal to gain his entire city plus the nation. Follow King Rico Sway on
1.) Twitter 2.) Instagram and 3.) Facebook
1.) Sway_4President
2.) Almighty_Rico400
3.) King IAm Sway
Soundcloud:
http://m.soundcloud.com/king-rico-sway-400
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