Tips to Become a Famous Rapper On YouTube

1.  Build your following by following the people most likely to be interested in you.  Try to find people who are actively searching for underground/up and coming rappers.

For example:
Go to the 106th And Park twitter and follow their followers

Go to Lil' B's twitter and follow his followers.

Do a search for "Underground Rappers" and follow the people you find.  Lots of positive sentiment I found.


2.  Network with people, and try to find someone influential in your niche.  Simply asking them to "check out your video" is probably not the best way to get their attention.  Try to say what's up in as concise and sincere a way as possible that is somehow relevant to them.  Find out what you can about them by reading some of their past tweets and watching their videos/listening to their music so you can actually say something that gets their attention.  Then try to ask a small favor of them.  Something like "I got this line that's dope as hell but I just can't get it right.  Got any ideas?" etc.  This asking a "small favor" of an enemy or even just someone above you is something you'll have heard of before if you've ever read "48 Laws of Power."

3.  Be on as many social networks as you can.  Use Tweetdeck or better yet HootSuite to manage multiple accounts and multiple social networks all from one site.  You can also schedule Tweets to go out at any time you want so you don't even have to think about them.

4.  Use keyword research tools and strategies to find out the best keywords to tag your videos with.  This will take a much longer tutorial if you aren't already familiar with these concepts.  I'll put that out in the near future, but in the mean time just make sure you are always tagging your videos with specific keywords and using a decent amount of them.

5.  Creatively, I would suggest trying to write a song every now and then with a good gimmick to it.  Think of the massive success of "The Motto" because of the YOLO trend.  Also if you have a catchy song you really think has promise, leverage it to the hilt.  Come up with some simple choreography that ANYBODY can dance to and do it in your video.  Think of the massive success Solja Boy had because of the Superman dance.  Other ideas include trying to write relatable lines that make people go "oh shit!" as they hear them.  Hell write a line or two about Twitter, I can't believe I've never heard it mentioned by name in a song before.

3 Ways to Twitter a Little Better

I know it's Tweet better.  I was being ironic.  Also I'm drinking a PBR and listening to Dirty Projectors...
On with the tips.

1.  Find lists in your niche, and then identify the people creating lists.  Then follow the person who created that list and attempt to interact with them.  If you're a beauty vlogger and you found someone who created a list that follows beauty vloggers, than chances are she'll find you relevant and add you to that list.

2.  There's nothing wrong with F4F.  The more people who follow you the more there are who might see your tweets, links, etc.  Thus the much greater chance of being retweeted.  Go to some Followback Twitters like @TeamFollowWacky and follow their followers.  The one's with decent bios are those most likely to not be bots and to be engaging people.  Even if they're not in your particular niche, their in your niche of being human!

3.  Ask people short, simple questions.  If someone follows you or you see a person you'd like to follow, simply send them an @reply saying "Thanks for the follow.  So what are you about?"  or even something like "What do you have planned this week?"  It seems irrelevant but the idea to networking is making actual friends in a similar way to how you would IRL.

But who cares about IRL.  Real life is so 2008.
@SpecialFester