Welcome @themainmethod love the ILL handle and since you must be a DOOM fan by your avatar we are "SOFA KING" glad you joined. What are/is your fave genre(s) to produce and/or listen to and when you say a while, how long have you been making music?
You @2GooD Productions ain't wrong re: doubts as Hip Hop matured in age but not gracefully as Hip Hop hides from maturity. I love where Redman (who I'm still a fan of by the way) said recently asked about ageism coupled with ignorance in Hip Hop: "No fucking way," he says adamantly. "That's not...
Ask @Dusty B @Greg Savage who is “DiyMusicBiz” at Reddit re: sync as he’s legit. As for “influencer” it’s a dirty word only if you are influencing people to do ignorant shit that the world needs less of!
Find a mixing engineer and maybe offer a “review your mix” stream on YT or anywhere else...
You @Iron Keys forgot that a huge part of the image(s) conveyed by the old was that many artists had industry mentors (hopefully the kind that didn’t try to make “advances” of a sexual nature towards them, especially the women artists) and had artist development and equally important: media...
I @Leopard Cohen always thought since the mid 1990’s onward the “not street enough” bullshit was akin to saying a Black person was not/is not “Black enough” because they ain’t got “ex-thug” or “current thug” in their background.