Practice your rapping skills and make a great demo or mix tape. Listen to the rappers you like the best and mimic them while also adding your own flavor. The rap game is 50 percent talent and 50 percent the connections you make and your hard work. Go into a professional studio in your area to lay down beats and rhymes and network with producers and beat makers.
Give your demo tape to local radio personalities that spin rap music. Getting on the radio may make it easier for you to get noticed by other, more successful rappers for record labels. Many A&R scouts use their radio connections to track the latest hot rappers and how their already signed artists are doing. Be friendly and make sure you give them your best material.
Work with a reputable manager or entertainment lawyer who can get your demo into the right hands. Send your demo to any lawyers or rap artist managers in your area who work in the hip-hop industry. A&R representatives use lawyers and managers as scouts in many instances, so the better the lawyer or manager you pick the more likely they will give your demo to someone who can help you become successful.
Play as many high-profile local shows as you can. Not only will this give you exposure, but your chances will be better that someone who can get you a record deal will be in the audience. Open for established artists and give them and their business associates your demo as well. The more hype you can create around yourself, the more likely you will get noticed and become successful.
Use social media to build hype. Set up a Facebook page for yourself and include a bio that tells everyone how great you are and how much potential you have in the rap game. Include sound clips to back up your confident demeanor. Add an email address where you can be reached and include pictures that will help you get noticed, where the audience is large or pictures from shows with famous rappers that you have opened. Creating a buzz for yourself is a great way to become successful.