There are some things that many aspiring artist need to know and many industry professionals claim they don’t have time to share any knowledge. Anyway, on this very site www.qthequestion.com each Wednesday we’ll have some advice to share. To set everything off this week, Q The Question will drop some instructions on what not to do when sending songs to a major media outlet.

Last week I sent out a tweet in regards to new artist sending me music for possible post on QtheQuestion.com. I got hundreds of records in a matter of minutes and to be honest... the majority of them were not good at all. One thing that became a pet peeve and turned me off from some of the emails I received, was that a good handful of the artist would send five or more records. This alone is a huge problem that needs to be addressed.

Many major media publications in the hip-hop industry do  feature new artists in addition major artists.  With that being said, there are times when they’ll promote this matter to let new artists know how and where to send the music. When it’s a major media publication requesting music that other artists fiend to get on everyday, please be aware that they receive thousands of records. If I’m the editor of a popular magazine I’m already expecting to get a few hundred emails within minutes.

As a new artist you should only send that publication two of your best  records that your confident about. Last week when going through my inbox I had some artists that sent me five records at a time. One artist even got crazy with it and sent ten records. Thinking realistically, do you really think someone has time to go through all five or ten records when hundreds of other artists sent music as well? I’m not going to even lie to you -- when some of these artists sent 5 records too many I automatically deleted it the email and went on to the next.

 Trust me... I know many of you are very confident in your music. But some of you think: “Man I’m going to send like eight joints that way the site/mag has a lot to choose from”. This is a huge no-no.  The funny thing is that some of those records probably were hot but the fact that you turned the editor or staff off by sending so many, you hurt your chances of a possible post on a major site/online publication.  So for now, just send 1-2 songs and if the music is right you might get some love. By the way, if you don’t have a tie with certain publications to get some possible love, hire a publicist who does. That’s where I come in as well, but that’s another story.

 By the way of all the new records I received that day only one, yes one was actually good. Well yeah that’s opinionated but anyway the record was from female artist Hea-Von out of Detroit called “#1 D-Girl”.

Hear Hea-Von “#1 D-Girl” below

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