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Artist DevelopmentA&R and artist development
Every submission gets reviewed by a person on our roster, not a queue. Five people across Salt Lake City, Ontario, Anaheim and Santa Cruz, each with their own lane.
Email partnerships@musicpromoclippers.com and you get a reply from a named person within 24 hours. That's the whole difference between this and a submission portal.
What we do
🎤 Paid A&R consultations
A one to one session with the person whose lane fits your record, covering song selection, rollout, and what to fix before you spend anything on promo. Booked by email.
✂️ Clipping campaigns
Your track put in front of a vetted network of short-form creators, screened for bots before anyone gets paid. How campaigns work →
📱 Social media coaching
Hook structure, posting cadence, format per platform, and a read of your own analytics you can actually act on.
🎧 Curator and playlist pitching
Targeted submissions through MPC Submit, with pitch copy written by someone who receives these every week.
📅 Release strategy
Rollout timing, what happens the two weeks after the drop, and how the reach turns into royalty income instead of disappearing.
Pick the lane that fits your record
Rather than sending everything to one inbox, send it to the person who actually works your genre or problem. Full bios, follower counts and links are on the A&R roster.
| Lead | Lane | Based | Best fit for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yukio Leo OminousyL |
Alt rap, emo rap, campaign strategy | Salt Lake City, Utah | Artists sitting on unreleased songs who don't know which one to push. |
| Evan Kyes uxly |
Playlisting, curator strategy, pitch copy | Ontario, Canada | Artists whose streaming numbers are flat and who need placement rather than more views. |
| Mahaji Daniels Mahaji |
Release strategy, royalties, monetization | Santa Cruz, California | Artists with a release date who have no plan for the two weeks after it. |
| Yutaro Leo tempurq |
Bot screening, content coaching, profile audits | Salt Lake City, Utah | Artists whose music is ready but whose own accounts aren't. |
| Matthew Barrera Xaiah |
Hip-hop, rap, page growth | Anaheim, California | Rap and hip-hop artists who want to hear a real plan before spending anything. |
Two of our three published campaigns are in-house. Feeling Kinda Sad is Yukio's own record, taken to 21.7M views off 400 clips before the network was ever sold to a client. Purple Sky is co-founder Mahaji's. We weren't willing to sell a service we hadn't put our own music through.
What a consultation actually is
Consultations are paid and quoted per artist depending on scope. You're paying for a working session with someone who runs campaigns and releases music, not a form response.
The useful outcome is often being told not to spend. If a record isn't ready, a campaign makes that more visible, not less. We'd rather say so than take the budget. Campaign quotes themselves are separate and free.
Common questions
Who actually reviews my submission?
One of five named people, chosen by which lane fits your record: alt and emo rap, playlisting and curator strategy, release strategy and royalties, content and bot screening, or hip-hop and rap. Every submission is reviewed by a person rather than a queue, and every email gets a reply from a named person within 24 hours.
How much does an A&R consultation cost?
Consultations are paid and quoted per artist depending on scope. You are paying for a working session with someone who runs campaigns and releases music, not a form response. Campaign quotes are separate and free.
What happens in an A&R consultation?
A one to one session with the person whose lane fits your record, covering song selection, rollout, and what to fix before you spend anything on promotion. The goal is to tell you whether a record is ready and which one to push, rather than selling you a campaign for a song that is not.