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181: Building A Career Overseas with DJ Criminal Oct 21, 2019

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One of the biggest benefits of building an artistic career is the ability to travel the world and experience different cities and cultures. It's a dream that works out for some, but not for others. In this episode, Blueprint interviews Pittsburg native DJ Criminal about how his relocation to Southeast Asia led him to building a DJ career, touring remote countries, and ultimately becoming a published author.

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180: Finding New Mountains To Climb Oct 14, 2019

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There comes a point in everybody's career where you feel like you've hit a wall. Not because of the lack of achievement, but because you've actually achieved what you set out to do. We all know what it's like to celebrate after achieving our goal, but what comes after the celebration? For many, what follows are feelings of anxiety, depression, and confusion about what to do next, but we're firm believers that these feelings occur when we don't have a new mountain to climb. In this episode of the most infamous podcast on planet earth, Blueprint & Illogic talk about how to recognize when you need a new challenge, why it's so important, and how to narrow in on what you need to be doing. Let's go!

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179: The Best Promotional Strategies Oct 07, 2019

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In last week's episode, we covered the worst promotional strategies that artists are employing nowadays, often times hurting themselves in the process. During that episode we said that we would do a follow-up to it where we covered the best promotional strategies. Well, here it is. In this episode, we breakdown the best ways to promote yourself, so that you aren't wasting your time or annoying the people you're trying to get to pay attention. Even better is that the majority of these strategies cost you nothing. Let's go!

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178: The Worst Promotional Strategies Sep 30, 2019

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In the rapidly changing digital landscape, where every artist is capable of building their own platform and people are more accessible than ever, there tends to be a belief that overnight success happens all the time. We are frequently given abbreviated stories about how artist blew up simply by promoting themselves to everybody they could. This has created a situation where artists are promoting themselves more than ever, but often having less results due to how they are promoting themselves. In this episode, we break down the ten worst promotional strategies that we see nowadays, so hopefully you can avoid them and ultimately get more people to actually pay attention to what you're doing.

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177: Digging in The Crates 101 Sep 23, 2019

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Although we are both MCs, we are also avid beat-makers. And as beat-makers we have both been in our fair share of record stores hunting for the dopest records to use in our beat-making process. In this episode, we're talking about record shopping or "diggin in the crates" as they say, giving 8 tips on how to get better at it. Even though this conversation is for beginners, it should still be relevant for the experienced crate-digger. Let's go!

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176: How Performers Get Screwed Out of Money Sep 16, 2019

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As guys who have toured the world over, we have made our fair share of money on stage. We have also missed out on a lot of money performing. Whether due to our own negligence or shiesty promoters, we've been screwed over many times and left plenty of money on the table. In this episode, we bread down TEN WAYS that performers miss out on money when they perform so that you don't have to make the same mistakes and can get your money right! Let's go!

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175: Old Dogs and NewTricks Sep 09, 2019

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While it's very easy to look around and see older people who have given up on learning new things and become satisfied, there are also many examples of older people still learning new skills and interests as they get older. It makes you wonder is the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" really true? Based on our careers, we don't think so. In this episode of the most infamous podcast on planet earth. We break down why learning gets more difficult as you get older, how to pick up new skills, and why Blueprint decided to try to learn how to play the drums.

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174: Album Reviews Sep 02, 2019

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Although this is a hip-hop podcast, very rarely do we discuss hip-hop albums. It's not that we don't enjoy them, we just haven't had a way to discuss them properly in the past. That all changed this month when a bunch of highly anticipated albums all dropped in a two week period. In this episode, the most infamous does album reviews of new albums from Little Brother, Murs, Rapsody, Rick Ross, and Supastition. Let us know your thoughts on these albums in the comments. Let's go!

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173: Lessons From Our Fathers Aug 26, 2019

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While we both have amazing mothers who have played incredible roles in our development as men, we very rarely speak about our fathers on this show. In fact, we've found it very rare for fathers to get their just due at all. So in this episode, we breakdown ten critical lessons we learned from our fathers that have shaped who we are and made us the men that we are today. Let's go!

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172: The Life of A Freelancer Aug 19, 2019

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While we've had requests to speak on the topic of freelancing for quite a while, we didn't want to tackle it until we could sit down with someone who really does it. This week, we sit down with MC/Producer and graphic designer Ill Poetic about his life as a freelancer. As the man who has done the layout for several of our albums, merchandise, the logo for this podcast we cosign and know his work well. In this episode, we dive deep into the life of a Freelancer; how to get started, building your skills, gaining clients, and most importantly, making a living. Let's go!

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