Lil Fats
This is Lil Fats doing my intro to the New Industry Tips blog on Newindustrytips.com! I am the Founder/Owner/CEO of Hi Rollerz Records, Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes & Magazine and Coast 2 Coast Mixtape DJs. You can check all these out at the sites below:
www.coast2coastmixtapes.com
www.hirollerz.com
www.coast2coastmixtapedjs.com
www.coast2coastcommunity.com
Me and my brother Nick started these companies together when I was still under 18, when Nick got his Business degree from U of O, it allowed him to help me out full time with the companies so we are proud to say at that point we started doing music full time for a living! A while later, here we are, over 80 official mixtapes deep in the game with a brand new DJ Coalition and thriving record label as well as many other biz in the works! We made this blog to share many of the methods that allowed us to get to the point that we are at now, as well as just share valuable industry information with people who may not have access to it otherwise or it may not all be laid out in one place right in front of people. I know there’s a lot of so called “industry resource” places online now days but most of them are bullshit honestly, and none of them are specifically for Hip-Hop and R&B and mixtapes, etc.
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