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Description: In this clip, Lil’ Wayne demonstrates the persistence and single-minded focus often required of artists in music who would like to learn how to get signed and start a rap career. ------------------ The Top 20 Songwriting Secrets of Professional Rappers (FREE VIDEO COURSE): rebrand.ly/srmyz1j ------------------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Lil’ Wayne Teaches How To Get Signed Clip #1 0:44 Step #1 Single-Minded Focus 2:47 Lil’ Wayne Teaches How To Get Signed Clip #2 3:32 Step #2 Chance Favors The Prepared Musician 4:03 Free Rap Songwriting Course 4:55 J. Cole Teaches How To Get Signed 6:08 Lil’ Wayne Teaches How To Get Signed Clip #3 6:47 Step #3 Take This As A Life-Changing Opportunity 7:44 Kendrick Lamar Teaches How To Get Signed 9:15 Comment and Pick Up Your Free Course! ————— FULL ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC: rapgamenow.com/lil-wayne-teaches-how-to-get-signed “He introduced me to Baby and he gave me a card… I ain’t never stop calling the number on that [thing]  There were two numbers on there: 522-3660 and 596-5109.  3660 was the office number and 5109 was Baby’s beeper number.  [They] would be in that office until at least 8-9 morning to about 8-9 and night. And after that you gotta beep ‘em.  That’s how it went with Baby and Slim and I kept beeping those [dudes].” Lil’ Wayne Interview on The Come Up (2006) In a minute, we’ll hear how Wayne teaches what to actually do once multimillionaire record label owners such as his future mentors Baby and Slim start answering the phone and invite him (or eventually you) up to the studio… Now, on How To Rap, as YouTube’s most subscribed and respected channel to learn how to rap to transition from an amateur to professional-level artist, we see a lot of “dabblers” come through the rap game.  A “dabbler” is someone who might write a song here or there, spit a freestyle, or maybe even release a quick little mixtape to get some traction.  However, you can always tell they’re not really in this for the long haul because they don’t actually execute any “follow-up” when it comes to the next steps for their career:  They’ve never tried to hire anybody to build out their street team (or their digital street team, as is becoming more common in our internet-first promotional music industry)…  They are never networking with other artists, producers, or music industry insiders to get that edge of the next potential music star…  Overall the difference between a “dabbler” and a “don” is all in the single-minded focus that is required to learn how to start a rap career and know how to get signed, if that is your path.  Even if an artist such as yourself does NOT want to get signed to a major record label and is trying to avoid the dreaded 360 contracts we’ve heard so much of recently…  (Wayne himself reportedly was the victim of some of those same shenanigans) Step #1 of “single-minded focus” is still a mental requirement of building out your PERSONAL music empire if it’s fully independent.  But what are you going to do once that label (or those managers and agents if you’re going independent) actually picks up the phone?  That’s all revealed in… FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED: rapgamenow.com/lil-wayne-teaches-how-to-get-signed