Targets & Results

Alright, Saturday the 15th of February 2025 and I want to talk a little bit about targets and results. Yeah? Especially in the context of trying to become a rap artist because these things are very very important. So, again, targets and results, they inform us and they tell us when

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we're kind of like achieving something, when we're in the process of achieving that which we desire or when we're not getting that which we desire. I find it hilarious that something so simple is something that many artists, many of us

just basically don't have and as a result we don't know whether we're doing well or not. It's a little bit of a touchy subject because many of us, for example I'm going to talk about, you know, the targets and results that I'm trying to put in place, I guess, for 2025. I want to be able to, again, build a community where I can have a core fan base, I can begin to cultivate a core fan base. And you know, but I also want to be able to get on the train, get on the train that, it's

not an actual train, but I'm trying to get on the rhythm, I'm trying to get in the rhythm of releasing music more consistently and I want the releases to be more impactful because at the moment, like irrespective of what I do and irrespective of when I do it, when I release a song, it's not making an impact. People aren't hearing it, people aren't, like literally people aren't hearing it. I don't even think that people are seeing it, believe it or not. And I feel like many of us are just basically, not necessarily wasting our time but we're

not really being honest with the fact that we don't have like a target or specific target for like what we want to kind of like achieve with you know maybe a particular song or a particular year that we're releasing music and so as a result we don't really kind of like achieve anything like trying to effectively become successful from like being a rap artist with no results to prove or to back that what you're doing is working is the equivalent of effectively having a bow and arrow and just basically going down to

a shooting range but you're shooting at nothing, there's no target to hit it with. And so you keep shooting these arrows, you keep shooting these arrows but you have no record and you have no account of how well or how bad you're doing. What dictates whether you shot that arrow in the right direction if you have nothing to hit. Normally there's a bullseye to hit and you can tell whether you hit the bullseye or not because that you'll see that the arrow has gone into the bullseye or you can see that the arrow has not gone into a bullseye but if there's no

ring like there's nothing to hit and you shot a arrow into blank space what have you hit like is like you know have you hit anything like oh you know we might as well imagine if each arrow actually represented like a song so like every time you shoot an arrow, it's like a song that you've released, right? If it hits the bullseye, maybe, you know, the bullseye might represent like, you know, I don't know, 200 likes, it might represent 500 comments, however many views, you know, you've made like maybe 50 fans or whatever it is.

But, you know, if you just keep on releasing music, keep on releasing music, keep shooting arrow after arrow, it's not really going anywhere, it's just shooting it, shooting it, and you don't know who's hearing it, you don't know if somebody's hearing it. And it's a bit of a sore subject but it's kind of like this is the reason why targets and results are important.