Finding jobs in this industry is…

Difficult!

Looking through vast postings on craigslist.com, or any music career site you will sift through scams, underpaid jobs, and jobs that are only listed for legal reasons when they’re not even hiring! You consider entrepreneurship but at what cost is it? You can go to Minnesota’s Secretary of state to submit your forms and all together with trademarks, your DBA forms (which include a fee to put your business in newspapers), copyrights, websites and more this could cost well over a couple hundred dollars before the investments into the actual business itself.

Either passage you take, this music industry is not a cake walk. You can not sit in your moms basement, record on pro tools, and just let your music sit in space. So you love graphic design or video? There are many postings for freelance work with restaurants and other places of business its just a matter of taking action. Even the most proactive people find looking for jobs difficult, but when something opens up they are the first to get it.

So in terms of waiting or entrepreneurship, my message to everybody is just don’t ever give up. Live your dream, and if you can’t do it alone… find people close to help you out. Form a family in the music world like The Roots (I’ve never really seen them apart) or any group in this economic times. DIY means Do It Yourself, and it does not have to mean Do It byYourself.

When doors open, opportunities arise. Its just a matter of taking that step through the door to capture what should be yours.

From the mind of

Keveeno Reeverts

Kevin Reeverts

Career Services Coordinator

The Intitute of Production and Recording

KReeverts@ipr.edu

http://careerservices.ipr.edu/

Keveeno.wordpress.com

Introduction

Hey how are yall doing. My name is Kevin, but most people call me Keveeno. I am a recipient of a AAS in Music and Entertainment Business from the great school The Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis, MN, and have a internship currently with 50 Entertainment that I am very glad to have gotten.

I believe that every step of the way to a dream is an accomplishment in its way, so each show that I help create is its own entity in a way. I believe that if music came out as more of an accomplishment of goals for the artist, rather than an accomplishment of money, than possible music will be better. I don’t mean that all music is bad but as a avid hip hop fan, it seems that it has lost its roots and came to something more about money rather than about people. Hip Hop use to tell stories of struggles, and now its stories on gang relations that are more fake than KFC’s chicken.

There are some people out there who come out lyrical but have no substance to it. It seems that everybody is trying to rap these days, and that dilutes what we hear which causes our ears to pick and choose something good out of what we hear rather than going out of our way to hear whats good.

As I babble on whats on my mind, I have my first day of my internship tomorrow so I’m off to dream of what could be if I get rich. But don’t worry, I won’t rap about it.

Peace and love

The mind of Keveeno

PS if you are wondering what aritsts I do like…

1- Talib Kweli

2- Nas

3- The Roots

4- Anthony Hamilton

5- Lauryn Hill

6- Alicia Keys

7-Mos Def

8- Immortal Technique

9- Alicia Keys

10- Amy Winehouse

Edit— I forgot Nas!