The "Ghetto Setup" Phenomenon

We have all seen them. Anytime a rapper wants to get started and don't quite have the financial backing some people have they resort to "creative" makeshift studio building. It's always been amazing to me that people see this kind of thing (Referring to the picture on the left) and automatically think the person that put this together is deluded and will never make it in the music industry. Well i'm here to tell you. That is simply not the case.

Mc's take pride in their music and any artist worth his salt will put any resources they have into living their dream. I am lucky to have run blogs for a number of years and have been able to visit some setups and talk to people about them. And believe me i have seen worse than this picture. But this doesn't make the artist any less talented. Thye simply want to make music and will do it whether they have the money to invest in a vast array of equipment, or simply use their creative minds to build something like this to allow them to do the bare minimum "Rap To The Beat".

I also have resorted to creative studio setups in harder times, including the almost genius move of making a Pop shield with toilet paper and a kitchen utensil (Yeah, i know), Mic stand with a sweeping brush handle. Mic booth with tables and draped over sheets. Going as far as buying the cheapest laptop i was able to get my hands on that i had to create sparks to get it to powerup (Dangerous).

So i want to celebrate the "Ghetto Setup" today and let those people know it can only get better from now on.

Please send me Pictures of your setups, along with a song you recorded on it.

I will Add a new section to the blog to celebrate this and lets see how it goes. Hopefully we can showcase some talented MC's aswell as showing you don't need to be rich to Rap.

The Ghetto the better.

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