While there are many artists who never reach their fullest potential due to outside forces, there are also a lot of artists who fail due to their own mismanagement of their career.  Just when things start to look good for them, they make bad decision after bad decision to set themselves back.  The culprit behind their failures is something that is rarely spoken about–self-sabotage.  In this episode of Super Duty Tough Work, Blueprint and Illogic break…

While every artist wants to be successful and famous, most have never given any thought to how it would change their lives.  They think being a public figure is all sunshine until they are faced with the additional responsibility and expectations that they never imagined when they went down that path.  That pressure can be a lot for some to take.  In this episode, Blueprint and Illogic break down things that people are never told…

One of the biggest benefits of being a touring artist is the number of interesting people artists meet from all over the world.  That’s certainly the case for this week’s guest, Emily Keller, the mayor of Hagerstown, MD.  Long before becoming the mayor, Emily was a big supporter of Rhymesayers, forming friendships with them at the shows she attended. Little did we know that she would eventually try her hand in politics!  In this episode,…

As two artists who have been a part of the music industry for the better part of twenty years, we’ve seen a lot.  Along the way, we’ve seen a lot of artists get disappointed because they made assumptions about the industry that simply weren’t true.  We’ve even believed many of these myths at different points in time.  In this episode, Blueprint and Illogic break down ten big myths in the music industry in an attempt…

This week we are joined by hip-hop producer and label owner IMAKEBADBEATS of the Unapologetic crew.  While his production credits are vast–he actually produced the song “Perspective” for Blueprint–it is his business acumen that has propelled his label and artists to the forefront of the Memphis music scene.  One of their many forward thinking ideas is their own app that has thousands of fans tuned into what they’re doing in a way that social media…

Whether we like it or not, classic movies like Good Fellas and Scarface have had a heavy impact on hip-hop culture.  So much so that dozens of artists have borrowed their names, look, and slang from the drug dealing street characters in these movies.  Unfortunately, most artists have ignored some of the most important aspects of these characters.  In this episode, we break down ten things that artists can learn from drug dealers that will…

As artists we often tell ourselves that the solution to our problems is money. And while money would definitely help us reach many of our goals faster, viewing things that way causes us to overlook the simple and cheap things that are right under our noses and can help us perform our jobs better. In this episode, Blueprint and Illogic break down 10 cheap things that every artist needs to have.  Episode 238 of Super…

While we may speak often on this show about achieving goals and pushing forward, we rarely speak about what happens after you achieve those goals.  Most people relax and get comfortable.  In fact, the more success you have, the more opportunities you will have to get comfortable, which works against your future success.  In this episode, we break down the unspoken downside of success and how you can make sure you don’t get too comfortable…

If you’ve been paying attention to the show, then you know we started another 90 Days of Discipline Challenge to ourselves in October.  We also invited our listeners to join in on this challenge, where we choose a goal and focus on it for 90 days to see how far along we can get.  In this episode, Blueprint and Illogic play the calls from our listeners who participated as well as go over our results. …

While we often speak about the need to be as ambitious as possible when it comes to achieving your goals, we’ve rarely spoken about what happens after you do. One unfortunate thing that can happen is feeling burnt out and that is where we find ourselves this week as we push into the final few weeks of our 90-Days of Discipline Challenge. In this episode, we break down how easy it is to feel artistically…

If there’s one thing that this year has shown us, it’s that the future is uncertain and unpredictable. Along with that unpredictable nature comes a lot of ups and downs.  Good situations and bad situations.  But how we view to those bad situations plays a big part in how we handle them.  In this episode of the most infamous podcast on planet earth, Blueprint and Illogic breakdown how certain bad situations can actually be good…

One of our most popular episodes in the last two years was one titled “Dating Uncreative People.”  In that episode, we laid out all the challenges that creative people face when dating people who aren’t involved in the creative arts.  This time around Blueprint and Illogic speak about what it’s like to date ambitious people, why it’s so different from dating regular people, and how to make it work!  If you’re a super-ambitious person you…

Although we’ve had legendary underground MC Mr. Lif appear on the show before during our real estate episode, we haven’t had a chance to chop it up with him about music.  That changes this week, when Blueprint and Mr Lif sit down to speak about his brand new collaborative project Vangarde with producer Stu Bangas.  It’s been a long time since we’ve done an interview so get ready because when two artists chop it up…