There will always be people trying to make cash, and one way is to bootleg your music. People will copy your CD’s, and sell it and get rich while you get nothing, and the people selling usually will have no rap talent so they are making money for something they stink at while the artist gets nothing. This is an illegal tactic to get money off of so it will often take place in a hood corner store, or a corner store located in the hood.

Record deals are both good and bad. They will get you money and get you excited, but they take control of all your music that you worked so hard to create.

This is why many rappers choose to be independent and release what they want without record labels telling them what to do.

Issues you can not control will occur on the road to stardom too. CD’s that skip and broken mics will happen and you have to be prepared for those problems to come around.

You need dedication to get your raps to be good. Your verses have to be as good as they can be, and that involves having to stay up all night on just one verse to get it to be really good.

Getting good lyrically is not an easy skill. You will have to practice day and night to get your lyrics respectable, and even harder to get them to be really good.

Many friends and family members of a rapper might not see it as a legit career choice to be a rapper. You will have to ignore those naysayers and continue to pursue the dream to become a famous rapper

Pride in ones city is a common theme for rappers. Making your music good and getting your city to be proud to have you come from there is something many rappers find important. Rino reps his city by constantly wearing a Houston Rockets basketball jersey

Sleep is going to have to be missed in order to make your music well known. You will have to be working and on your grind all day and all night to make your music the best it can possibly be.

Many people just assume the rap game is an easy thing to get into and succeed in, but that is far from the truth. It is much more difficult to find steady success in then it may seem. Some take many years to make it.

Rino has been a part of the rap game a very long time (since 1992 to be exact) and this new kid to the rap game does not understand how it works, since he thinks he can just blow up overnight. Rino knows the ins and outs of the rap game so he decides to offer a helping hand and educate the rapper on what it really takes.