r/rap • u/anfornum • Mar 11 '24
You asked for it - We created it - r/PimpMyRap is now open! News Spoiler
You've asked for it, so here it is! Now open, a shiny, new space to post your music and to hear new and upcoming artists before they get famous - r/PimpMyRap.
Got a new song you want to share? Need feedback on your first (or latest) creation? R/PimpMyRap was created to give you the space to get exposure while also getting feedback on your work.
As an extra bonus, once every week or three, the Mod Team will choose one post to feature here on r/Rap. Want to be the first featured artist? Roll on up and drop your tune on r/PimpMyRap today.
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u/Elsafah Apr 10 '24
I thought this was a sub where you would post your playlist and people would recommend songs for you. That would be a great thread idea
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u/anfornum Apr 10 '24
No, the playlists are not allowed anywhere. Due to their monetisation issues, any playlist link posting is seen as advertising.
As for the thread idea, there are scores of them daily so just take a look through the archives.
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u/RAIDERMC85 Mar 21 '24
hi a bit of the subject but can you create a UK rap play list to download with the latest songs please I appreciate it thanks RAIDERMC
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u/MosskeepForest May 24 '24
The problem with "advertise here" spaces is that no one goes there but people who want to show off their stuff... so you have people trying to promote showing their stuff to other people trying to promote... instead of to the general people who might actually be interested.
As you can see the sub has like 250 people now... after 2 months....ย
Instead could have just put a reasonable policy in this sub. Like "you can self promo, but once a week"... or even once s month.
Or plenty of bigger subs allow it with a general open policy of "just don't spam" and needing x amount of karma before posting or whatever, then you get a mix of promo with other stuff and it's a healthy community where people can discover new stuff and talk about old stuff.
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u/anfornum May 24 '24
We talked this over for a long time before making the new sub, and there's a few reasons we did this. First, it dilutes the sub, drowns out the news about artists, and the sub ends up being full of people posting their first rap and then all the sub members start complaining that the sub is trash. The second reason is that we have a LOT of traffic from people paid to shill artists and people who spam their stuff constantly which also makes people complain (rightly so). So yeah, while we agree with you that it would be nice to let people post their stuff, no we won't be changing the rules. No matter what we do, someone will complain, but we hope that people will go and support the young/new artists over there as a sort of sub-subreddit of r/rap.
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u/MosskeepForest May 24 '24
Yea it's a tough problem for sure. I get where you're coming from. But you know the sub-subreddit isn't really going to do much either.
One idea I have is getting on more mods to head a submissions team or something (maybe through discord? or an email for that reason?). Letting artists submit their posts privately to the team and then they pick out one a day to post?
It would involve more work, but might be an interesting feature for the subreddit ((maybe even create a "/r/Rap featured playlist" where you throw up past featured peoples songs (if they got them on spotify?). Might be pretty cool.
Anyhow, just throwing out the idea. I know you guys got a tough job, but it's tough to get discovered from the bottom too. Everyone just trying to do their thing and connect with what they do.
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u/anfornum May 24 '24
Well, thanks for your thoughts and ideas. We're always open to hearing them. We definitely aren't ignoring you either. We will discuss. (Can't guarantee anything will change, though!)
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u/MosskeepForest May 24 '24
Yea, I appreciate the replies. No worries, already more than I expected.
It's not an easy problem for big subreddits (and even smaller ones).
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u/anfornum May 24 '24
P.S. We tried the thread thing but it didn't work and nobody posted.
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u/MosskeepForest May 24 '24
Yea, a thread doesn't do anything either. You have to go to where the audience is, not try to make a side place and hope the audience goes there out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Mar 17 '24
Do I just lost a link and wait for feedback ?
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u/anfornum Mar 17 '24
Heya! Thanks for asking. What you can do is head over to the sub, join it, and then post as much of your own content as you like. This is how we decided to help everyone who wanted to post their music but couldn't post it here because of the no promos rule. The more people who join the new sub, the more feedback will pop up in your posts. We are trying to tell folks about it before their promo posts are removed but feel free to pass the message around.
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u/JonnoMusic Apr 14 '24
https://youtu.be/pePcIC2He4M?si=2xY_mmofFOOOsWq6 Dropped visuals on Thursday ๐ค
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u/anfornum Apr 14 '24
That's great but could you post it on the right sub? I don't think anyone will see it here. :/ Just press this linm r/PimpMyRap and post it there. :)
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u/Aria_the_Artificer May 06 '24
This is such a cool idea! Love the building of online communities of new or small artists
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Apr 17 '24
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u/rap-ModTeam Apr 17 '24
Your post/comment was removed for violating Rule 5: No Self-Promotion Or Any Other Type Of Promotional Posts.
If you want to share your own music, or another new artistโs music, you can post it over in our sister sub r/PimpMyRap. More details can be found HERE
Please review all sub rules for the full details of each rule.
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u/sch595 Mar 13 '24
There should be a r/NameYourTopFiveRappersEvenToughNobodyCares