[bgrotto]

This past year or so I've been getting emails and PMs damn near every day from various rappers and beatmakers asking me for my engineering/mixing/production rates, to which I always politely reply with a detailed description of exactly what the service entails and list of rates and options.

Nine out of ten times, I never hear a response back; am I the only one that feels this is rude? Is it so difficult to respond with as little as a "Thanks for your time"?

When I'm in the similar position of calling around town to hammer out logistics for my clients' records, not returning calls to studios and mastering engineers with whom I've been in touch would certainly reflect poorly on me in the professional community. Even a simple "thanks, but no thanks" works.

Maybe it's the Midwestern-raised politeness my mother beat into me as a little kid, but these non-responses strike me as rude and unprofessional.

This rant belongs in the Moan Zone, I suppose, but oddly enough, this all seems to happen almost exclusively with the rap/hip-hop set. What's up with that?!?


My mother would be very disappointed in you. Not angry, just disappointed.