I'm 19 now, I've been producing for about 5 years now and I'm just now confident enough in my work where I'm starting to focus on the networking and business side of things. I want to start getting into contact with rappers to try to get some placements but I'm not sure how to approach it. Most of the guys I want to work with are still "relatively" underground (<500,000 plays on their top tracks), and they all have a "inquires" email linked to their soundcloud or twitter. Do I just get straight to it and send beats to that email? Do I introduce myself first? Do I DM them on social media and try to build a relationship and then bring up sending beats? Not to toot my own horn, but I know but shit is good enough to get placements. I just am clueless when it comes to networking and approaching this side of it.