can you make it as a rapper w/out repping your city hard?
 

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Yes

internet

Don't have to rep it hard but still got to rep where u from. IMO

The thing is, especially early on, the majority of gigs etc you'll get will be local ones.

Any music you have to push, you'll probably sell to the people at those gigs, so the 'fanbase' you build at the beginning will most likely be local anyway.