Collab with Talib Kweli -- Contest

[Noctrine]

Posted this before, but I guess the title wasn't catchy enough and the full rules weren't in it so for want of an edit button.

BLACKSMITH PRESENTS

THE COMMUNITY MIXTAPE CONTEST

Starting April 12, 2010 Blacksmith Music Corp is giving loyal fans a chance to collaborate with their favorite artists. Blacksmith will be holding "The Community Mixtape Contest." Registered members of Blacksmith's website, Yearoftheblacksmith.com, will submit their beats or completed songs (beats and vocals). Each week Talib Kweli, Blacksmith CEO, Corey Smyth, and Blacksmith staff member, Brandon Torres will review each submission. On June 7, 2010, contest winners will be notified about the next step they must take. The completed songs will be featured on The Community Mixtape, a free mixtape mixed by Mick Boogie. The Community Mixtape will be available on Yearoftheblacksmith.com and other mixtape websites.

RULES

1. Age Requirement: You must be 18 years or older in order to participate.
2. Membership: You must be a member of Yearoftheblacksmith.com in order to participate.
3. Number of Submissions: Each participant can only submit three tracks, so choose your best.
4. Track Length:Submitted tracks would ideally be in length of around 3 minutes, tracks over 6 minutes will be discarded.
5. We will accept original instrumentals, sample-based instrumentals, and completed songs.
6. Format: All submitted tracks must be in mp3 format, to ensure that submissions are received properly please use the template on the website.
7. Email: The email address is on the official posting at the Yearoftheblacksmith site.
8. Contact Information: Each time a participant submits a track, he/she must provide his/her: (1) name, (2) phone number, and (3) email address.
9. Contest Length: The contest begins April 12, 2010 and ends June 1, 2010. Blacksmith will only accept submissions received within that time period.
10. Notification: June 7, 2010 Blacksmith Music Corp will release two emails. One will thank all participants. The other will inform contest winners of the next step they must take.
11. Ownership: You (the artist) retain all of your ownership rights to your tracks. However, by submitting a track you hereby grant Blacksmith Music Corp a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the tracks in connection with the YEAR OF THE BLACKSMITH website, and Blacksmith Music Corp's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of The Community Mixtape in any media formats and through any media channels. The above licenses granted by you above are perpetual and irrevocable.

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF YEAROFTHEBLACKSMITH.COM

1. Go to www.Yearoftheblacksmith.com.
2. Press "Sign Up."
3. Enter all of the required information. Then press the "Sign Up" button.
4. Enter your name, gender, and country of residence. Then press the "Join" button.

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I think there are some pretty amazing people in the audio portal here so I felt as though it would be good to post here. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask them on the FAQs topic on the site. You can ask questions here, but I don't always think to check the forums when I come to listen to music.

[IKONiC]

So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

[Gravey]

So you posted this before, and nobody responded. And based on that information you felt that you just had to create a new thread with the same information? Please tell me the logic behind that?

Also, the fact that you have to become a member of their site to participate will probably turn off nearly everyone here.

[Blasphem-E]

At 4/20/10 08:55 PM, IKONiC wrote: So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

You've never heard of Talib Kweli?

[IKONiC]

At 4/21/10 12:53 AM, Wyze-Stingray wrote:

At 4/20/10 08:55 PM, IKONiC wrote: So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

You've never heard of Talib Kweli?

No, and that's a pretty big deal for me to not want to join the contest.

[WrightOnTarget]

At 4/21/10 02:55 PM, IKONiC wrote:

At 4/21/10 12:53 AM, Wyze-Stingray wrote:

At 4/20/10 08:55 PM, IKONiC wrote: So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

You've never heard of Talib Kweli?

No, and that's a pretty big deal for me to not want to join the contest.

:Hey, man, exposure's exposure.
I mean, I've never heard of the guy, either, but work is work, right? Even if you don't get paid, you keep busy and hone your skills. I'm just sayin'.
Unfortunately, I have no musical talent, so I can't partake in said collab.
I do know a turntablist, though, maybe I could recommend him to this. He's worked with The Grammar Club, MC Frontalot, and YT Cracker.

[BigRed]

At 4/21/10 02:55 PM, IKONiC wrote:

At 4/21/10 12:53 AM, Wyze-Stingray wrote:

At 4/20/10 08:55 PM, IKONiC wrote: So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

You've never heard of Talib Kweli?

No, and that's a pretty big deal for me to not want to join the contest.

Talib Kweli is big, check him out.

[Syztm]

At 4/20/10 08:55 PM, IKONiC wrote: So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

Dude, Talib Kweli is REALLY big in the hiphop scene, like P Diddy big.

[Envy]

At 4/21/10 03:11 PM, tingtonger wrote:

At 4/21/10 02:55 PM, IKONiC wrote:

At 4/21/10 12:53 AM, Wyze-Stingray wrote:

At 4/20/10 08:55 PM, IKONiC wrote: So all you get is to be featured on a free mixtape by some people I've never heard of? Lame...

You've never heard of Talib Kweli?

No, and that's a pretty big deal for me to not want to join the contest.

Talib Kweli is big, check him out.

He's a pretty original guy too. beena round for a LONG ass time in the hiphop scene. I wouldn't say he's "P diddy big" like the previous poster, but he's pretty well known and if you havn't heard of him youre probably someone who has his head up Lil Wayne's ass.

[AMP]

One of the most lyrically talented artists in the Hip-Hop genre IMO.

[SymbolCymbal]

talib kwali is the man
http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/track s#lions%20of%20hip%20hop/all/1

[DropToZero]

Not heard of Talib Kweli? I'm not exactly surprised, but still fairly appalled. Talib Kweli is one of the best lyricists and rappers out there, and he's been around for a long time. He's never exactly gone "mainstream", which is one of the reasons he's stayed so true and successful all these years he's been in the game.

[Noctrine]

At 4/20/10 09:19 PM, Gravey wrote: So you posted this before, and nobody responded. And based on that information you felt that you just had to create a new thread with the same information? Please tell me the logic behind that?

Also, the fact that you have to become a member of their site to participate will probably turn off nearly everyone here.

As I said. I also neglected to put the entire rules list in and for want of an edit button. All I put in was the first bit of information without much to go on, also I believe more than a week had passed.

There is no longer any age limit
After getting a lot of responses from his younger fans he decided to relax the age limit so minors can now compete.

And yes, this was mostly going out to the people who are interested in hiphop, but Kweli isn't discriminating in who he collaborates with.

As for how well known he is, this contest was mostly conceived because of the amount of mail he receives by people wanting him to listen to their work, or to consider them for his record label.