Showing posts with label Reverbnation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reverbnation. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Many developments!

A lot of developments have happened lately. I'm on Eminem's upcoming mixtape, which should be out within a week or so. I will be on the cover of the mixtape (shout out to my photographer Dietrich Graves @DietrichGraves) and another track that I remixed will be on the mixtape as well. A track that me and Yung Miss did back in the day called "Lemme Hold Suhn" will be on another mixtape that is going to drop soon. Some complications with DJ Bankrupt's mixtape has resulted in "Up At The Club" being used instead of "Get Ya Where I Want Ya", so it looks like I'll find another home for that song. Also, an open collab track by me and Tequila from back in the day made it on to a mixtape called "My Better Half" (hosted by Three Words).

The song "Keep On Pushing" has continued to spread around the world. My stream team has almost finished all of the French-speaking world, after which we plan to hit Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, and Kenya before focusing on the German-speaking world. Lately, we've been interviewed by the media in the USA, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Mauritius, Senegal, Chad, and several other nations. The songs is receiving airplay in many more nations than that, as well. The song performed so well after first appearing on DJ Insane's mixtape "Hood Games Vol. 4", that it was reissued on Three Words' mixtape "Welcome To Germany". We plan to promote this song around the entire globe. In fact, everything has been going so well that there will be another collaboration between Godhand Black and Three Words on another positive vibe song similar to "Keep On Pushing".

There are also several other projects that I am working on. First is a song called "Runaway" by Turkish musician ASAP that I was supposed to finish years ago but never got around to because the Great Recession stopped me from doing anything but paying down debt for a few years. Next, there's a song called "Demolition Man" that Kriojinix and C Vegus will join me on. I found an old copy of a little-known remix of Adam F and MC Conrad's "F-Jam" that I rapped on way back in the day. I think that I'll touch it back up with my current set of plug-ins and se what happens. There is a song called "Tropic Thunder Kryptonite" that I've written the chorus and lift for, but still need to write the verses. It has an Andre 3000 meets Kid Cudi kind of vibe to it, though the delivery is nothing like either artist.

I'm about to get a radio show on Crescent Hill Radio, a local internet radio station that is going to get a low-power FM station. The show will be called "The Weekly Grind" and will cover news about that local music scene and advice for aspiring musicians. Several of my songs will also be featured in African movies this year, which is great! Also, spring is almost here so I will be hitting the road soon. I plan to put together a show or two in West Virginia in a month or so, as well as a radio appearance or two in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this May. I will also hit South Carolina in June, but I haven't mapped out the details yet. Other than that, I'm working on bringing a major music conference here to Louisville. But there aren't enough details ye for me to say more about it at this time.

I have been systematically weeding out egg followers, spammers, and bot followers from my Twitter account. I typically follow back anybody that follows me because I think that the whole point of social media is to be social and accessible. But I've picked up a lot of followers that are getting banned and suspended lately. This has caused my ReverbNation rank to drop occasionally. But after I'm done weeding them out, my Twitter fanbase will me much more interactive and my timeline will be more usable. I really enjoy connecting with followers on the Twitter platform and its hard to do that when there is so much spam in my timeline that I often dread looking at it.

I will also be performing at Poetry Night at the Wagon Wheel Lounge in Louisville, Kentucky this upcoming Friday at 8pm ($5 admission). There are also about a hundred other developements that I am forgetting right now. I am also to a point of needing either an artist manager or a fan club manager because it is getting difficult to handle all of the business side, fan interactions, and creative side (including engineering and producing my own tracks). Right now I'm doing most everything in-house and its starting to become a headache to manage on my own. But anyways, thank you for reading and I hope you have a great week ahead!

~Godhand Black~
@Godhand502

Friday, January 3, 2014

New Mixtape!

This week has been hectic. I've begun changing my photos on social networking sites to transition away from the pimp image that I had. So far, I've changed the pics on Twitter, Facebook (but only the main pic), and ReverbNation. In favoring visually exciting backgrounds over relying solely on female eye candy to draw attention.

I've also amassed enough quality beats to do 3 albums. I will be in a recording frenzy for the next few months. My goal is to have a commercially released full-length album on my own label and a 2014 wall calendar ready to go by the Kentucky Derby (early May). Live performances will not be a major focus for me during the first half of 2014.

I've started to dabble with search engine optimization. I have two street team members working on optimizing the keywords for my sites. Hopefully, it'll help me get on the first page of Google searches more often. I've added backgrounds, headers, and themes to a few pages and I have 3 intro videos made. Next, I'll work on a YouTube channel introduction video. I already have the spokesperson, I just need to get it done.

I have a song that will be released on a mixtape later this month. A remixed, remastered version of "Get Ya Where I Want Ya" featuring The Event will be on DJ Bankrupt's new mixtape 'The End Game', which drops Sunday, January 26, 2014. The original version of the track was from a live performance at Highlands Taproom back in 2003. I found a surviving copy of it on an archived mirror of one of my old websites. After touching it back up, I figured why not let people enjoy it? So I decided to throw it on a free mixtape as opposed to letting it continue to collect dust.

I'm thinking about throwing a mixtape release party at a local strip club as opposed to a music venue because I don't really want to have to come up with a few sets of songs and carry the entertainment for the entire night. At a strip club, the entertainment is already there and there are enough people that will come anyway, regardless of wether there are any special events or not. As long as a strip club can spin a few of my songs during the course of the night and possibly allow one song to be performed, I'm cool.

I've recently started to receive some very interesting fan mail in my email account. A few female fans are starting to send me pics and even twerk videos of them dancing to "On Lock" (maybe I should make a YouTube video for "Drinks Up"). It got me thinking that maybe I need to start a new online show. Nothing like "Godhand's Casino of Gold" or "Godhand's Counsel". The new show will be similar to an urban take on the Howard Stern type of format. It will be more free wheeling and will involve eye candy. I'll probably start featuring the fan pics and videos in a segment of the show.

I recently had a producer send me a track that was subpar and I mentioned it on Twitter this week. I'm actually not that mad anymore. I've decided to simply use the beat as background music for suspense scenes in films (free use in exchange for screen credit). One of my personal assistants is working on contacting film production companies.

There have also been a few scrapped projects. I've scrapped the idea of writing an erotica e-book. It just doesn't work with the image change and doesn't provide enough of a boost for how much effort would go into it. I will, however try to complete a cookbook this year (proceeds of which will help fund the family reunions).

But aside from all that, the next big project will be getting professional quality promo photos made so I can fully change up my image. I will try to find a relative that does photography (in order to keep it all in the family) before turning to Deal Chicken, Groupon, or any of the other big discount sites. Once that is done, my digital graphics team will have something to work with.

Until the next time...



Godhand Black
@Godhand502