Invitation for the Steem hip hop community to help write “#thecut agreement”. Here AND on Discord!
The cut is the idea of a sustainable hip hop-creators community on Steem! This is a continuation on my proposal for a more sustainable community. In short my goal is to create an attractive tag for people to use for original hip hop music on Steem. For this to be attractive I'm really pushing that as many of us as possible help out to create the terms for how to use it. And then release it at full force for everyone but owned by no one.
I’m happy to inform that #thecut seems to have the most approval amongst the Steemit heads! We’re now moving on to the next phase. I’ve talked to the great people moderating the SMA (Steem Music Alliance) discord channel and we have gotten our very own #thecut room! Special thanks to @seveaux, @macchiata, @djlethalskillz and @chiefmappster, some of the helpful moderators at SMA. This post have two purposes, first I want to invite all rappers and beat makers to #thecut on discord and then I’m going through what I think the next steps are to make this come to life!
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https://discord.gg/VWZ84WE
If you haven’t used discord before you’re like me until I found SMA. It’s really simple to use, their community is already filled with musicians who wants to collab and the server can even host “radio shows” streaming music from Soundcloud or Youtube. If you still feel like staying on Steem I will keep updating here on what’s happening at discord as well. And look for opinions everywhere as we create “The cut agreement”. The goal right now is to have it posted january 1 and after that no one can change this initial agreement. You can of course start using the tag already but remember that until this agreement is posted we really have nothing to refer back to and it’s not as stable as it could be with more initial support. We, everyone interested in a tag for original hip hop on Steem are creators now. But after January 1 #thecut will cut loose from us to gain immortality and a life of its own. This is supposed to be a tag that nobody owns but respects on Steem, but the initial agreement will be passed back and forth on the above discord channel until it’s finished.
Please help to invite every rapper and beatmaker on Steem by creating your own similar post or resteeming this! This project is all of ours until January 1, after that it will belong to nobody and is instead supposed to be an open arena that we all can benefit from.
So what’s the next step now?
We need to agree on some small things like the name of the agreement, who’s going to post it or if everyone that wants should do it on the same date. Maybe create a picture for inviting people to read these guidelines in the future. Just basically create some attraction to this original white paper/bible we're writing, if you will. Phrase these very simple guidelines nicely. Open for everyone but saying that this is the original purpose of the tag, do what you want with that. I’m not thinking rules just very clear communication from us to the future.
I will try to write up an example for people to pick apart on discord, feel free to do the same or just get to know the SMA community if you’re joining there! Otherwise please leave a comment here with your ideas on what to include for this tag to make it as useful as possible!
Again, I’m not doing this alone. We all need to be able to be proud coming from the cut. To represent the cut without owning it and align the elements of hip hop on Steem! See you in the comments and on discord, peace!!
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@djlethalskillz brought me here if there's anything going on with the upbringing of hip-hop, I want in. My steemit page is all about hip-hop history, the elements, politics, entrepreneurship, finance, fashion and tons more. If there's anyway we can help, please let me know. This seems like it's super legit. You can count on us to use #thecut from this point on. Peace and love hip-hop fams!
great to see u reaching out to the community, Big and great things to come i feel it! Kudos
Peace and love!! Good to hear you're on board with this, we could need some more input on the idea of making an agreement. I'm thinking #thecut was needed,because #hiphop is too broad to make a community here.
Quick history so far: First I was thinking that the rappers needed our own tag because we had a nice community going until @rondonson took a break from hosting the #rapchallenge. Next step was that if I'm going to propose a tag for original Steem rap, why not try to get the beat makers on it as well? Now it seems obvious that all elements should be included in the cut. But why not just use #hiphop then? I'm still thinking that could be too broad to create a sense of community here.
The cut, I'm thinking needs to specialize in original STEEM hip hop and that's why we kind of have to make some kind of unofficial "'Black paper' Steem hip hop apprehension". Something very simple to respect but I'm not sure how to put it yet.. Trying to gather as many opinions from everywhere but so far we seem to kind of agree on that #thecut should be a place for the community here. Perhaps any original art from the original elements should get this tag. As well as original posts addressing not hip hop in general but "Steem hip hop". Like community discussions, showcasing Steem artists or hip hop competitions on Steem?
You seem to know a lot about the history of hip hop so any help to formulate these things would probably benefit the community a lot! And since not all of your posts have to do with Steem hip hop you can also help a lot on how to formulate what posts should go under #thecut and which ones should just have #hiphop as a tag. Thank you for the support!
@privat Saw u needed an artwork im no designer but i like to mess with all, in support to this initiative and my love to hip hop did this haha if u dig it use it as u please, Salute!
Wow this is great! Definatly going to use this to promote #thecut! We should all do that. I also think the slow growth can be good to let as many as possible be part of the origin though :)
@kenentertainment
@privat love this just hopped on the chat.
Thank you and great to have you there! The rappers seems to be a bit slower but I've got some faith in us being able to agree on some simple terms soon. Haven't heard from @kenentertainment in a few days now hope he's good!
I’m down with this. I’m bringing a lot of fellow artists I’ll be sure to learn more and find out how to add my following to this. ✌🏾
Woho good news and happy you're down!!
Sounds like a good idea. Let me know if you need any help!
DOPE!!! Good work man on pushing this!!!!
@privat Kudos on taking the step forward, so happy to see yall with us on SMA discord, Salute for a great step and bigger things to come ! Resteemed
Thanks a lot!! All I want is for the cut to be bigger than all of us!
Haha we'll see about that!
dope initiative!
Thanks, I hope! I see some potential if it catches on. If we can get on terms together and all promote the tag naturally eventually. This is still not promoting anything, just proposing one possible solution to see if there could be even better ones out there. Haha not that you asked just wanted to write that down somewhere..
Super you found a place with SMA!
Yes thank you! Everyone I've talked to there have been super friendly and helpful. No intention to compete on discord in anyway and that place isn't "the real cut" either just an hopefully really great extension! #thecut is just an idea that belongs to everyone that believe in it's value. Haha I realize that I've been reading too much about decentralization etc recently..
Any project regarding music is an addition to Steemit! I dont see competition at all. Super you hav this project and really hope you'll be successful.
Appreciate the support! I'm really hoping it could solve this small problem in our community :)
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