This guy knows what he's talking about.
I mean this is coming from someone with half black women in his sig
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This guy knows what he's talking about.
I mean this is coming from someone with half black women in his sig
i feel yuh yardman! sometimes u just gotta say lets just keep the motor rolling along, hopefully it'll spin off some other major shit for these yungins to be inspired by! to create soem real change and get into major $$ not another singin and dancing outlet ,
He should go the NETFLIX ROUTE
A billion viewers online
money in the bank
just look at AL JAZEERA ONLINE STREAMING
A billion viewers online
money in the bank
just look at AL JAZEERA ONLINE STREAMING
It better have some Making The Band re-runs on it.
diddy has a new nickname now, robert johnson junior.
a music channel?
He's one hell of a salesman, but I just don't see this.
Theres a reason theres no music on MTV or VH1.
Hopefully for him his timing is right. Theres certainly no one else with a better shot at it.
He's one hell of a salesman, but I just don't see this.
Theres a reason theres no music on MTV or VH1.
Hopefully for him his timing is right. Theres certainly no one else with a better shot at it.
On why he decided to launch his own network
I really went the ‘brand’ route. I really put a bet on music and a bet on technology. When I started seeing the festivals go from one weekend to two weekends and just as far as the way music is consumed at an all-time high right now, if you think about it, in about five years, television will actually be everywhere. It will be on your mobile devices, it will be worldwide. So that’s really the opportunity that I saw. I saw that there was no ESPN of music. There was no CNN of music. There was no one trusted destination.
On MTV & VH1 moving away from music and videos
They changed their business plan. Sometimes you gotta focus and be one thing and do one thing great and that’s what we’re gonna do with music. Our whole thing is having enough fearlessness to play what doesn’t normally get played. Different alternative artists are multi-genre…especially in hip hop. Travis Scott, or let’s say back in the day two years ago A$AP Rocky. Like when people were just discovering them on YouTube, we’re gonna really kind of curate it and be a platform for new aspiring artists to grow, for graphic designers, for shooters, really for the culture, but we’re gonna raise the bar from a performance level and from a video level to make sure that we have a bar of excellence that you have to achieve in order to get played on REVOLT.
My whole staff is young. We don’t have a whole lot of veterans. We don’t have new rules, we have no rules.
On starting off as an intern & dreaming of a bigger future
It was less than 200 years [ago] that we were slaves. I was really affected by that movie ['12 Years a Slave'] and you gotta understand, I started out as an intern, man. I started out getting coffee, cleaning bathrooms. I started out sneaking on the train from Howard University, and this is really a dream come true. It’s bigger than me. There’s a lot of people out there that want to be somebody, and it really shows that if you put that hard work into it, you can really get it. I got the same 24 hours as y’all do. We all got the same 24 hours. I just want this network to inspire people all over the world that it can be done.
This is the most fearless generation of all time. They’ve basically said, ‘Eff everything. We gon’ go out there and get it on our own,’ and we want to embrace that whole movement. I used to walk around and just talk to myself, walking from one job to another and I would just be talking to myself. Talking about the things that I [dreamed] and that I wanted to be. This right here goes out to all the people, y’all know who y’all are, and y’all know what I’m talking about. Talking to yourself about how you want to get it and what you want to be and this is something that’s big. People don’t have networks.
On what he learned from OWN
One of the things I learned was that I had to be in the office early. I had to get in there and really work with people to get them to understand what I was doing, was something new. I didn’t want them to just — ’cause I hired the best of the best as far as the team perspective — but I didn’t want them to bring their old ways. I wanted them to bring their infrastructure, but a new way of thinking.[...] The thing I paid attention to with the Oprah network was make sure people understand that this is not the Diddy network. I won’t be all over the network. The network will be different, young, new, fresh faces. My label and myself will be held to a bar, the same bar of excellence and scrutiny that all the other videos and musical content are.
On coming back to being happy and not so serious
You know that recession when it was going down, I had to get serious. I’ve definitely been having some personal breakthroughs in my life and just on a man in the mirror side of things and taking accountability for me being happy, me being balanced, and me growing as a person. I think when you get closer to God you’re happier and when you get closer to the knowledge of yourself and you’re not afraid to go on that journey to find out how messed up you are, how good you are, but your overall result is that you want to be a better man and a better father and it puts you in that spirit.
On Marriage
I’m just closer to growing up. I’m not against marriage. I think people think that’s something I’m against. I just wanna do it when I’m ready to do it. But what I’m ready to do today is I’m ready to launch this network! I’m happy though.
On NYC hip hop
Our competitive nature and a lot of the music lost it’s soul. Like, the track ain’t hot. You can’t start out and the track ain’t hot. So, the New York style of producing changed. A lot of people abandoned it and got confused and the whole dance movement and the whole turn up movement in Atlanta or whatever, and New York tried to conform. Conformity of music of any art form is the death of it. New York artists at the end of the day, we still I feel this is still a home of hip hop but at the same time we lost our championship. We lost our dynasty of it. That’s just real talk. I think that the other regions put their soul into it. When you hear Future, that’s really him baring his soul. And it starts with the track. The track is fire. It’s where he’s from, but we don’t make stuff that’s authentic to us anymore or where we’re from. It ain’t a lot of dope MCs that have gotten a chance. We can’t blame nobody but ourselves. I can’t even blame the radio station because I feel like there’s some stuff that we haven’t delivered that was hotter than the other region’s music.
On Kendrick Lamar
I was a king before Kendrick and I’ll be a king after Kendrick. I think that Kendrick is a young king. I think that people use the words too lightly, but if you know the whole knowledge of back in the day of the Tudors and the crowns, you had to go and get that. He put it on the game so I feel like he deserves it. He ain’t the king of New York, though. I’m the king of New York. That’s what it is.
On Jay Z being King of NY too
That’s my boy and we congratulate each other, but on this New York thing, he can be king of Brooklyn.*laughs* Nah, that’s my man Hov. But this year I am the king of New York, you gotta give me that. If not I’ll take it.
Five Keys to Success For Diddy's All-Music Cable TV Network Revolt
https://twitter.com/RevoltCable
Sean “Diddy” Combs, after becoming established as a hip-hop mogul, artist and entrepreneur, gained a different kind of acclaim for his annual White Party in East Hampton, N.Y. The exuberant (read: over-the-top) gatherings always had
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unerringly excellent music playlists, of course, long before before playlists were carried around in the palm of one’s hand and revelers “Shazam-ed” their favorite tracks. Now, a mass-market, younger version of the White Party is coming to cable TV: Revolt, Combs’ new all-music channel, launches this evening on Comcast and Time Warner systems in more than 20 million U.S. homes.
Combs, who recently topped the Forbes Five list of richest hip-hop artists, with a net worth of $580 million, has never been one to stand pat. He has spoken of identifying “white space” in the market where MTV withdrew to focus on reality series and stopped playing videos. While Fuse, AXS, Palladia and, to some extent, VH1 are keeping the old-school notion of Music Television alive, Revolt wants to superserve younger music fans more comprehensively than any rival. Cable operators, as part of a regulatory arrangement designed to ensure greater diversity on the airwaves, have offered Revolt favorable initial carriage terms. The network’s value proposition is that music may have been through bumpy times as an industry but the fundamental hunger for new content is as great as ever and the media environment has never been more perfectly conditioned for a nimble, low-overhead, open-source entry. The new network aims to do old-fashioned things like premiere new videos and break news about new songs or scandals in the works and serve as music’s virtual town square. CEO Keith Clinkscales cut his media teeth as an executive at ESPN and points to its well-honed knack for flooding the zone — and scoring clicks and ratings — when it comes to major stories about key sports figures. “For fans, there is no such thing as ‘enough,’” Clinkscales says.
When I spoke to Clinkscales recently for a Broadcasting & Cable interview, he was quick to invoke Combs’ Gatsby-esque stint as a Hamptons impresario as a curatorial model. “I remember for years going to Sean’s parties,” he said. When you were at his parties, he didn’t just play his music. He would play whoever was banging, killing it at the time. ‘They’re killing it. Run it back. Run it back.’ He’s a fan of music.”
Revolt CEO Keith Clinkscales
Speaking with Clinkscales, it’s easy to feel the persuasive pull of Revolt’s mission. (While I am not a millennial, the degree to which the emergence of MTV defined my childhood makes me an alpha target for Revolt in other respects.) Still, there are undoubtedly some steep challenges ahead. And there are reasons MTV long ago ditched its original setup. Here are the five things Revolt needs to do well in order to make good on its strategy:
Deploy Diddy wisely. As much as Combs will power the network, in the manner of Oprah Winfrey with her channel, OWN, the scope of Revolt will be far broader than hip-hop. It will seek to have tentacles in every direction — pop, country, EDM, etc. As Clinkscales says, “If you make a network for fans and you stay true to that mission that we want to be for the fans, then you can’t have it be from one person’s point of view. We got to have as much dialogue as possible. That’s what music is. It creates dialogue. It creates discussion. Do you like it? Do you not like it? And that’s the kind of thing that I think is missing in the music game.”
Combs is a peerless marketer and a titan of social media. His fans pay attention to what he thinks and does. The critical thing will be to use that when it counts. When Revolt was looking to get on the radar of more consumer brands, for example, executives traveled to Cannes Lions this year for some key meetings, which came together as a result of Combs being on the ground.
Never mind the ratings — for now. Executives insist they are not under the gun in terms of generating big ratings right out of the gate. At launch, the ad-supported network will have commitments from about 10 sponsors, and to grow that figure, viewers will obviously be counted. But the low profile of where Revolt sits at launch is far better than Fox Sports 1 or FXX, which have cleared more than 70 million homes in launches this year. MTV’s tack away from music and news and toward reality has brought big success but also escalating pressure to outperform. The privately held Revolt won’t be under the same scrutiny, so it should revel in that freedom. One tends to forget that MTV was commercial-free at launch. How else do you think they were able to veer so appealingly far from center?
Earn a good rep. Combs spoke last summer during the Television Critics Association press tour about Revolt’s goal to develop into a CNN-type brand (echoing Public Enemy rapper Chuck D’s famous declaration about rap music being “CNN for black people”). This can happen over time, but it will depend on a relentless focus on the caliber of news (balance and an avoidance of glaring inaccuracies will help); a keen tastemaking ear and eye; and a feel for the artists and images that deserve to break out, as opposed to just catering to labels, publicists and managers. Music is bubbling up in more settings than ever — videos, declared dead just a couple of years ago, now command tens of millions of YouTube views and propel independent, fringe artists like The Weekend or Macklemore & Ryan Lewis into the mainstream. If Revolt can manage to serve as a reliable guide through this dynamic, ever-shifting landscape, that alone will prove its worth.
Mix and match platforms. If Revolt succeeds, it will be as a full-blown transmedia play, with news breaking on the website and then driving tune-in to the linear channel and vice versa, with social channels amplifying the effect. It is no accident that YouTube clips, Instagram images and a host of other digital messages have preceded the launch of the linear channel. Having closely observed how different networks handle this orchestration, it continues to surprise me how much separation there is at many big TV players, with digital and linear operations still not fully integrated. Revolt has a chance to blaze a trail in that way, and in fact its ability to be truly platform-agnostic (a concept many speak about, few convincingly) will be a key measure of its early performance.
Build trust with millennials. Combs has talked about not wanting to use the term “millennials.” He prefers “young people” or “kids,” as in his statement of purpose about Revolt: “My mission is to get kids back to TV.” It is a fickle crowd to win over, and several others are sniffing the ground where Revolt is hunting. Maybe a more flexible posture should inform the mission. Rather than rallying them “back to TV,” it would suffice to convince millennials to at least keep TV in their media diet instead of cutting the cord.
like i said in another post about this same subject. fuse tried the same idea of a all video music channel. who watches that channel?
these two points are strongpoints. Again, if anyone can do it, it's Diddy. He's a relentless marketer, and never sleeps. He's gonna have to will this to work.
I think he sees something a lot of us don't see.
I'll give him credit for being a visionary and a badass when it comes to putting in work. If this was anyone else, I'd be laughing at them.
The CNN of music idea can be made to happen... maybe.
I truly don't see it, but I like the idea. If he can make something out of nothing, he'll have a real valuable network.
It would be a good thing t have a central place on tv to promote music- but people don't seem to want that.
Man Diddy, I'm actually nervous for ya bruh
I hope the channel is good and not revolting.
Well isn't TV a dying medium...but I see what he did there. try to pump
life back into the dying medium.
life back into the dying medium.
I swear cablevision is always the last company to get a damn channel. I remember having to wait 7-8 years for the nfl network
but why is Diddy acting like we've NEVER had a Black owned TV network before?
Thanks for the praise HF. Im trying to convince my wife to see the film,but she has a low tolerance for violence,she even flinches at the violence in trailers.She says she will read the book first then ease into watching the film.
Sure thing. I appreciate the fact that you're able to see many of the current ones & give immediate feedback on them. Very helpful when I look for new titles to see, or movie passes to enter for with contests, etc. I wish they did more ROE (run of engagement) drawings as it gets a bit tricky with all the Mon, Wed, Thurs advance screenings (or if you have other plans). As for violence in flicks ... yeah ... it's a slippery slope with many people. I don't mind violence when it's called for ... agreed upon ... in self-defense ... necessary, and so on. What turns my stomach is the gratuitous stuff in some movies and forms of entertainment (i.e. - someone has been beaten/assaulted and the attacker(s) continue(s) on and on ... and the visuals are ramped up. The shit that goes overboard and ends up turning your stomach; i.e. - when people are being victimized 0(often children, women). Then it becomes upsetting & troubling with more difficult subject matter and material. Challenging too when we think about many of the notable film titles over the years such as 12 Years a Slave ... Schindler's List ... and many more (slavery, genocide, racism, etc).
I agree its why i dont watch a lot of horror films. Like the film Maniac with Elijah Wood never watched the whole thing but the shite he was doing to people in the flick was way over the top.I used to laugh at the Freddy and Jason flicks because they were silly by the time they got to the fourth or fifth films,but now people hype up the gore just for the hell of it,and they can have it.
Good point, man. Yeah ... I can understand various genres appealing to a great deal of people, but at times in music and film it seems like directors and talent put out content just for the sheer fuck of it (freedom of speech and artistic license). I haven't gotten around to watching Maniac yet, but I've heard about the various key scenes & have it at home set aside somewhere. As for movies that push it over the top ... I liken it a bit to the music game. Stuff like heavy metal or horrorcore or whatever the fuck. When you see and hear people who love that shit and crank it to extreme levels. To an outsider ... it comes across as sheer noise and a headache (screaming and yelling ... lyrics that you can't make out ... guitars and drums ramped up). Or just music in general ... we all like our music loud every now and again ... but what the fuck's up with people cranking their home & car stereos up so loud? People straight destroying their hearing in their teens and 20s.
- shit ... I went to the Up In Smoke tour in 2000 and I was deaf during the R&B portion of the show .. TQ was performing, etc. Shit was so loud in the venue (arena show) I couldn't hear the person yelling next to me ... and my shirt was moving as the bass blasted out. I knew I was fucked for the hiphop portion later in the night ... shit was on timew arner cable in ny and they took it down. they have some good news coverage around the world and documentaries.naturally DirectTV didnt get in on this
because we haven't.
You're either joking, a CAC or a nigga who think he a CAC
The Counselor
The Counselor is a tale of heists gone bad,and fatal decisions.It's a film that amazes me,not because its great
but that i found portions of the film to be very good with salty dialogue and humor,and the other portions have scenes
that go nowhere,and that are so full of pretentious jabber,and campiness it becomes laughable.
One scene really stood out with such a long drawn out speech that adds up to nothing , i literally almost fell out of my seat
and rolled down the steps with laughter.A talented cast and great visuals wasted,in this over mixed bag of a movie.
Scale of 1-10 a 5
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Jackass crew who excel at prank stunts have blended the story of a Grandfather ,Johnny Knoxville as Irving Zisman
and his Grandson Jackson Nicoll as Billy on a cross country road trip pulling shock ,stunt, pranks on people along the way.
My only 2 complaints the trailer gave away to much and some of the stunts end to abruptly.I needed a good laugh and
JPGP provided plenty of them.
Scale of 1-10 an 8½
The Counselor is a tale of heists gone bad,and fatal decisions.It's a film that amazes me,not because its great
but that i found portions of the film to be very good with salty dialogue and humor,and the other portions have scenes
that go nowhere,and that are so full of pretentious jabber,and campiness it becomes laughable.
One scene really stood out with such a long drawn out speech that adds up to nothing , i literally almost fell out of my seat
and rolled down the steps with laughter.A talented cast and great visuals wasted,in this over mixed bag of a movie.
Scale of 1-10 a 5
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Jackass crew who excel at prank stunts have blended the story of a Grandfather ,Johnny Knoxville as Irving Zisman
and his Grandson Jackson Nicoll as Billy on a cross country road trip pulling shock ,stunt, pranks on people along the way.
My only 2 complaints the trailer gave away to much and some of the stunts end to abruptly.I needed a good laugh and
JPGP provided plenty of them.
Scale of 1-10 an 8½
Good intel re: The Counselor and Bad Grandpa. Been seeing some reviews which noted they weren't sure who the movie (Counselor) was for aside for say Cormac McCarthy & Ridley Scott making it for themselves in a way.
As for Bad Grandpa ... gotta give respect to Jeff Tremaine, MTV, and all those guys with Jackass, CKY, etc. Knoxville's a cool cat in that he's genuinely likable. Example being him laughing in recent interviews and shit about being in character during a promo tour, and some cats at a college spiking his beer with ecstasy and him going off his rocker for a bit & injuring part of his hand (ruptured tendon). No complaints though. Hadn't done ecstasy in quite some time
http://www.tmz.com/2013/10/17/johnny-knoxville-ecstacy-hand-ruptured-tendon-bad-grandpa-jackass/
As for Bad Grandpa ... gotta give respect to Jeff Tremaine, MTV, and all those guys with Jackass, CKY, etc. Knoxville's a cool cat in that he's genuinely likable. Example being him laughing in recent interviews and shit about being in character during a promo tour, and some cats at a college spiking his beer with ecstasy and him going off his rocker for a bit & injuring part of his hand (ruptured tendon). No complaints though. Hadn't done ecstasy in quite some time
http://www.tmz.com/2013/10/17/johnny-knoxville-ecstacy-hand-ruptured-tendon-bad-grandpa-jackass/
I'll still end up seeing both, but I'm disappointed that you rated The Counselor so low. I wanted to believe that it was going to be a really good movie. The previews make it look good as shit. Oh well.The Counselor
The Counselor is a tale of heists gone bad,and fatal decisions.It's a film that amazes me,not because its great
but that i found portions of the film to be very good with salty dialogue and humor,and the other portions have scenes
that go nowhere,and that are so full of pretentious jabber,and campiness it becomes laughable.
One scene really stood out with such a long drawn out speech that adds up to nothing , i literally almost fell out of my seat
and rolled down the steps with laughter.A talented cast and great visuals wasted,in this over mixed bag of a movie.
Scale of 1-10 a 5
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Jackass crew who excel at prank stunts have blended the story of a Grandfather ,Johnny Knoxville as Irving Zisman
and his Grandson Jackson Nicoll as Billy on a cross country road trip pulling shock ,stunt, pranks on people along the way.
My only 2 complaints the trailer gave away to much and some of the stunts end to abruptly.I needed a good laugh and
JPGP provided plenty of them.
Scale of 1-10 an 8½
The Counselor was such a let down and i was so hyped up to see it after watching the HBO First Look.I love Ridley Scott's work and despite the box office receipts for The Counselor i hear 20th Century Fox is 100 % percent behind a sequel to Prometheus
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