Hip Hop Sales Collapsing: "They can no longer fool the white kids."

MrMotivator said:
How bout sales are fucked because music is absolute shit right now????

What the fuck i hate that dumb ass downloading argument itunes sold 3 billion songs in 4 years almost all singles why?? Because consumers are fucking tired of a bullshit album with one good song, who is to blame downloaders? consumers? No bullshit Record labels and bullshit artists!!! What the fuck... then they blame us what kinda shit is that. This is the reason music sucks people don't look in the mirror.

Second DOWNLOADING was at its peak during the naptster days of 1999-2001 shit people keep skipping over that fact all these p2p programs combined can't hold a candle to naspter in its prime, And truth be told most people don't have a fucking clue where to get music from we (BGOL etc) are a horrible example most people are tech savy here, the rest of the country thinks the ipod doesn't play mp3s and has trouble putting songs on their ipod for christ sake.

Third WAKE THE FUCK UP MUSIC INDUSTRY for the last 60 odd years you were the only kid on the block today you have to compete your dumbass bullshit corny music against XBOX PS3, DVD, ring tones, ipods, Sneakers, Cellphones, you have to be retarded if you don't realize that disposable income has at least 10 more options to choose from instead of just a cd for legal entertainment.

and finally Bootlegging has been going on for years before all this shit and it will be going on for years after this shit, computers just made it easier for me to not have to leave my house but trust me the cats bootlegging had no intention of ever purchasing music and cannot be counted against the final sales numbers.

NAILED IT

Then add to those facts that the decline in Hip Hop record sales has nothing to do with Al Sharpton bad-mouthing gangsta rap. Music sales are down for a number of reasons. CD's cost too much money, many of today's artist simply aren't producing music thats worth buying, and lets not forget the meddling RIAA. There's many other reasons it's not necessary to get into them but to point fingers at Sharpton or Simmons makes little sense. They have little impact on what artist or the artist fans really think.
 
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It all comes down to perception of worth. Napster KILLED the industry. Now that the majority of people know they can get music for free online, there's no need to buy all the cds you want. You download as much as you can and buy what you can't find or who you wanna support. The music industry as a whole is hurtin, not just HipHop. Shit ain't NEVER goin back to the way it was.
 
Originally Posted by MrMotivator and finally Bootlegging has been going on for years before all this shit and it will be going on for years after this shit, computers just made it easier for me to not have to leave my house but trust me the cats bootlegging had no intention of ever purchasing music and cannot be counted against the final sales numbers.



Difference is the quality of the bootleg -bootlegging arose due to the home cassette - cassettes had the advantage of being portable but with inferior sound quality - in the digital world, mp3 at a decent bitrate are more than good enough for peoples requirements.

My problem with the article is that it focuses on album sales as a measure of popularity when it increasingly obvious that we are moving not just in rap & R&B (genres notorious for filler plus the fact that artists use a multiplicity of producers means that there is little coherent whole or vision to the album in a similar fashion to say a rock album) but other genres to a post album market. And whilst their album sales are in decline, their single sales are still holding up.

Thing about rap & R&B albums is unless the artist or group self produces eg Tribe Called Quest, Dr Dre, Slum Village or is aligned to a primary production team eg PE, early RUN-DMC the album is just an amalgam of tracks

Also illegal downloads continued increasing post Napster - especially few people had broadband due to access & cost - Kazaa, Soulseek, Bittorrent etc all came to prominence with the rise of broadband.

NPD: Illegal Downloads Outpace Legal Downloads By 10:1 Margin

By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 3/26/2007

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — Legal music downloads are gaining in popularity, yet they were outnumbered by their illegal counterparts by a 10:1 margin in 2006, an NPD Group survey of consumers found.

http://www.twice.com/article/CA6428045.html?industryid=23106
 
DaleMabry said:
OK my bad. Fuckin JD Walker got me tight right now with this Hate on the South parade.

lol!

I got you mad ha?

I see that 3 syllable+ words piss you illiterate neo-coons off (because you do have the highest illiteracy rate in the country). lol

If you minstrels are so "Hot", why aren't you selling? And don't say "downloads" cuz the iTunes Store has a Billion served.

That preschool Mickey Mouse bullshit you call music is complete trash, and unfortunately for you and your fellow slaves, the majority of the U.S. has past second grade, so time's up nigga, kiss your "Coon-Hop" goodbye. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
JD Walker said:
lol!

I got you mad ha?

I see that 3 syllable+ words piss you illiterate neo-coons off (because you do have the highest illiteracy rate in the country). lol

If you minstrels are so "Hot", why aren't you selling? And don't say "downloads" cuz the iTunes Store has a Billion served.

That preschool Mickey Mouse bullshit you call music is complete trash, and unfortunately for you and your fellow slaves, the majority of the U.S. has past second grade, so time's up nigga, kiss your "Coon-Hop" goodbye. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nigga I MURDERED your stupid ass ignorant attempt to defame Southern black folk.

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Now get your musty, ignorant black ass back in your cab, JD Mobutu, and STFU. Your musty ass grandmama needs her weekly shipment of sorghum sent to Bootyscratcherville, West Africa so the fam-O doesn't starve to death, bitch. I'mma wipe with ass with your dollar tip next time I put it in your ashy, callused hands, you boat monkey.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Fuckin dirty ass immigrant bushbitch.
 
JD Walker said:
kiss your "Coon-Hop" goodbye. :lol: :lol: :lol:


It will die an agonizing death in the mainstream. The day of the scatter-brained minstrels and those who enalbe them are coming to an end. :dance: Stick to ringtones coons :yes: because very few of you have the talent to make good albums.
 
THE DRIZZY said:
It will die an agonizing death in the mainstream. The day of the scatter-brained minstrels and those who enalbe them are coming to an end. :dance: Stick to ringtones coons :yes: because very few of you have the talent to make good albums.

Bruh you don't seem like the type to co-sign a dude who called ALL Southern blacks

"Southern Fried coons...[who] haven't contributed anything noteworthy to overall progress within the past 100 years, "

"inept coons"

"porch monkeys"

"slaves to the Caucasoid"

"...everything that is wrong with Black culture today"

"inbreeds [who] would whore out their newborns to "get money",

"minstrels [who] set us back 70 years [with] no class, no self respect, no pride, no education and absolutely nothing to offer to humanity but "junk culture"

and closed by saying he wasnt giving shit for hurricane relief.

http://198.65.131.81/board/showpost.php?p=2596704&postcount=84

Fuck that race traitor African backstabber. Niggas on the West Coast should just murder that niggas' whole family and commit racial addition by subtraction. Yes, even the bootyscratching little babies too. They might grow up to be Jr. JD Walker House Nigga Coons. :hmm:
 
DjMorpheus said:
The music industry as a whole is hurtin, not just HipHop. Shit ain't NEVER goin back to the way it was.

If people (especially kids, rockers and country fans) wanna hear (and own) somethin' badly enough, they'll buy it.

High School Musical 2 obliterated the charts this week with a 615,000 debut. The previous film's soundtrack was the biggest selling album of '06 (3.7M then, up to 4.1M now).

Someone's still out there buying albums, it just ain't those same old-school rap fans (both black and white) who helped propel record-breaking sales in the '90s and early '00s. They've moved on and the new kids have taken over.
 
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DaleMabry said:
Bruh you don't seem like the type to co-sign a dude who called ALL Southern blacks

"Southern Fried coons...[who] haven't contributed anything noteworthy to overall progress within the past 100 years, "

"inept coons"

"porch monkeys"

"slaves to the Caucasoid"

"...everything that is wrong with Black culture today"

"inbreeds [who] would whore out their newborns to "get money",

"minstrels [who] set us back 70 years [with] no class, no self respect, no pride, no education and absolutely nothing to offer to humanity but "junk culture"

and closed by saying he wasnt giving shit for hurricane relief.

http://198.65.131.81/board/showpost.php?p=2596704&postcount=84

Fuck that race traitor African backstabber. Niggas on the West Coast should just murder that niggas' whole family and commit racial addition by subtraction. Yes, even the bootyscratching little babies too. They might grow up to be Jr. JD Walker House Nigga Coons. :hmm:


Dale, I am just tired of useless 1 hit wonders and gimmicky kneegrows. I am sick of rappers who glorify negativity no matter what region they rep. I have people from Mississippi and went to school at JSU, therefore I don't trash southerners because that is my roots I am one generation off the Mississippi Delta. I never been one to region hate. A coon can be from the east coast, a city up north(Chi-town/Motown), westcoast, southwest, midwest, etc. Wackness and negativity knows no regional boundaries. Believe me if Chicago rappers were at the forefront of coonery and all things ignorant, I would trash them on a daily basis. I am one of those cats who thought that "Smoking Hay In the Middle of the Barn" and "Rodeo" was some bootylicious wack shit born and I was born and raised in the "Chi". I thought that was some of the wackest shit I ever heard at the time, I was like not a good look for Chicago. NYC'ers have to take their lumps for enabling P-Shitty and all of his flamboyance, but that is another discussion.
 
THE DRIZZY said:
Dale, I am just tired of useless 1 hit wonders and gimmicky kneegrows. I am sick of rappers who glorify negativity no matter what region they rep. I have people from Mississippi and went to school at JSU, therefore I don't trash southerners because that is my roots I am one generation off the Mississippi Delta. I never been one to region hate. A coon can be from the east coast, a city up north(Chi-town/Motown), westcoast, southwest, midwest, etc. Wackness and negativity knows no regional boundaries. Believe me if Chicago rappers were at the forefront of coonery and all things ignorant, I would trash them on a daily basis. I am one of those cats who thought that "Smoking Hay In the Middle of the Barn" and "Rodeo" was some bootylicious wack shit born and I was born and raised in the "Chi". I thought that was some of the wackest shit I ever heard at the time, I was like not a good look for Chicago. NYC'ers have to take their lumps for enabling P-Shitty and all of his flamboyance, but that is another discussion.
Cosign
 
THE DRIZZY said:
Dale, I am just tired of useless 1 hit wonders and gimmicky kneegrows. I am sick of rappers who glorify negativity no matter what region they rep. I have people from Mississippi and went to school at JSU, therefore I don't trash southerners because that is my roots I am one generation off the Mississippi Delta. I never been one to region hate. A coon can be from the east coast, a city up north(Chi-town/Motown), westcoast, southwest, midwest, etc. Wackness and negativity knows no regional boundaries. Believe me if Chicago rappers were at the forefront of coonery and all things ignorant, I would trash them on a daily basis. I am one of those cats who thought that "Smoking Hay In the Middle of the Barn" and "Rodeo" was some bootylicious wack shit born and I was born and raised in the "Chi". I thought that was some of the wackest shit I ever heard at the time, I was like not a good look for Chicago. NYC'ers have to take their lumps for enabling P-Shitty and all of his flamboyance, but that is another discussion.

Shoot we all tired of that but by stressing the South like its responsible for it...its like the crackers blaming gangsta rap for the problems of young black men and lumping all hip-hop together.

OK lets say we get rid of Southern dance rap. Gone.

Now what? Niggas is still gun-clap rapping and bragging on fictional kilos all over the east coast. Niggas is still set-tripping and banging on wax all over the west coast. Niggas is still making dope boy anthems, maybe with better flows but so what.

Either the subject matter is fucked or it isn't. The sudden burst of outrage cause Southern niggas make it simpler and catchier (the South has ALWAYS been good at danceable, commercial rap jingles--from 2 Live Crew and Shy D to 69 Boyz and DJ Jimi to now)...thats bullshit.

I'm all for pushing for better more relevant hip-hop, but lets do so across the board. It don't make no different to me if ignorance is punctuated by "son", "loc" or "dawg." Apparently it does to some of these

FAGGOT ASS SELLOUTS LIKE JD WALKER.

:hmm:
 
DaleMabry said:
Bruh you don't seem like the type to co-sign a dude who called ALL Southern blacks

"Southern Fried coons...[who] haven't contributed anything noteworthy to overall progress within the past 100 years, "

"inept coons"

"porch monkeys"

"slaves to the Caucasoid"

"...everything that is wrong with Black culture today"

"inbreeds [who] would whore out their newborns to "get money",

"minstrels [who] set us back 70 years [with] no class, no self respect, no pride, no education and absolutely nothing to offer to humanity but "junk culture"

and closed by saying he wasnt giving shit for hurricane relief.

http://198.65.131.81/board/showpost.php?p=2596704&postcount=84

Fuck that race traitor African backstabber. Niggas on the West Coast should just murder that niggas' whole family and commit racial addition by subtraction. Yes, even the bootyscratching little babies too. They might grow up to be Jr. JD Walker House Nigga Coons. :hmm:

You mad? :lol:

Hurricane relief. lol. Look what you slaves did with the monies. Yall niggas was homeless buying Big Screen TVs, clothes, shoes, livin' in the Superdome. If that ain't some neo-coon shit then I don't know what is.

Black southerners are like that little retarded bastard child ridin the little yellow school bus. No matter how shameful and useless this child is, you still have to claim it. You just don't know any better because you are too stupid to know any better. Until "Big Perm" intervene, your solution to Jena 6 was praying and fasting. So unfortunately for us "progressive" Blacks (West, North East) we are stuck with Black ass dead weight low IQ havin ass Bible thumpin pacifists of the south who do more damage than good.
 
What wrenched the entire music genre is this gimmick the industry is rolling with for years. One decent tune, and the rest of the CD just pure shit. They think a video and some idiot with gold fronts is enough to build a career on.

It ain't.

-VG
 
Ok, album sales are down and everyone is ready to poor some beer out for hip hop/rap.

FOOLS

The digital revolution is here and we should embrace it.

Record companies are on their way out, online music stores/artist's websites/e-record companies are on their way in.

We should take this as an opportunity to take our music and it's profits back.

If rappers were smart they would say fuck it, I dont need a record contract.
I'll record 5 good songs and sell it online/through I-tuned.

imagine if you sell 3 million downloads of a hit song...these rappers are stupid.
 
I do download mad music, but if downloading went away tomorrow, there is no way I would pay for most of the rap out now. There is definitely good stuff still out there, but most of it is garbage. It happens to all genre's after a while.

The genre gets popular and then gets watered down. It happened to R&B, Soul, Alternative rock, heavy metal...etc. But after they get out of the limelight, the true artists who have a passion for the craft stick around and make quality shit.

So yeah, hiphop needs to go bankrupt, so that it can bounce back.
 
JD Walker said:
You mad? :lol:

Hurricane relief. lol. Look what you slaves did with the monies. Yall niggas was homeless buying Big Screen TVs, clothes, shoes, livin' in the Superdome. If that ain't some neo-coon shit then I don't know what is.

Black southerners are like that little retarded bastard child ridin the little yellow school bus. No matter how shameful and useless this child is, you still have to claim it. You just don't know any better because you are too stupid to know any better. Until "Big Perm" intervene, your solution to Jena 6 was praying and fasting. So unfortunately for us "progressive" Blacks (West, North East) we are stuck with Black ass dead weight low IQ havin ass Bible thumpin pacifists of the south who do more damage than good.

co-sign


Coon = only purpose was to be a buffoon jester an insult to Blacks worldwide but entertaining to white folks
Coon rappers insults blacks worldwide & takes ignorance to a whole another level but its entertaining to whites folks cause somebody buying this trash and its not blacks ... right now its an all out assault on Blacks worldwide and theses dumb grown ******* talking about snap yo fingers & dance like me,
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24's this, kilos that, trying to out dance women like some bitches only fags try to out dance women showing their teeth
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(the eastsiders names are sambo wtf!!)

like its cool to been seen as undisciplined inarticulate irresponsible fools like A.D.D children instead of respectful responsible MEN trying to build a STRONG nation of black Men & Women that has their OWN

The Coon Caricature

The coon caricature is one of the most insulting of all anti-Black caricatures. The coon was portrayed as a lazy, easily frightened, chronically idle, inarticulate, buffoon. The coon differed from the Sambo in subtle but important ways. Sambo was depicted as a perpetual child, not capable of living as an independent adult. The coon acted childish, but he was an adult; albeit a good-for-little adult. Sambo was portrayed as a loyal and contented servant. Indeed, Sambo was offered as a defense for slavery and segregation. How bad could these institutions have been, asked the racialists, if Blacks were contented, even happy, being servants? The coon, although he often worked as a servant, was not happy with his status. He was, simply, too lazy or too cynical to attempt to change his lowly position. Also, by the 1900s, Sambo was identified with older, docile Blacks who accepted Jim Crow laws and etiquette; whereas coons were increasingly identified with young, urban Blacks who disrespected Whites. Stated differently, the coon was a Sambo gone bad.

The prototypical movie coon was Stepin Fetchit, the slow-talking, slow-walking, self-demeaning nitwit. It took his character almost a minute to say: "I'se be catchin' ma feets nah, Boss." Donald Bogle, a cinema historian, lambasted the coon, as played by Stepin Fetchit and others:

Before its death, the coon developed into the most blatantly degrading of all black stereotypes. The pure coons emerged as no-account ******s, those unreliable, crazy, lazy, subhuman creatures good for nothing more than eating watermelons, stealing chickens, shooting crap, or butchering the English language.1

The coon caricature was born during American slavery. Slave masters and overseers often described slaves as "slow," "lazy," "wants pushing," "an eye servant," and "trifling."2 The master and the slave operated with different motives: the master desired to obtain from the slave the greatest labor, by any means; the slave desired to do the least labor while avoiding punishment. The slave registered his protest against slavery by running away, and, when that was not possible, by slowing work, doing shoddy work, destroying work tools, and faking illness. Slave masters attributed the slaves' poor work performance to shiftlessness, stupidity, desire for freedom, and genetic deficiencies.


don't forget Mike Vick was a victim of the south's (keeping it cooning dumb sambo) backwards mentality

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this letter needs to be posted again


Dear Red States




We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin,Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to fans of real hip hop.



To sum up briefly:

You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.

We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We get Hip Hop. You get coon hop(entertainment for whitey).

We get the Obama's You get the Bush's

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom, Enron

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.


We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.



Please be aware that New U.S will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.



With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)

90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.



With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.



Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11.



Sincerely,


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Reference to TCapone's post.

Good reference on the coon history :yes: . However that letter(which I know you did not write) paints too broad of a picture of people in that region. Some of black america's greatest whatever came from the south. Besides I thought this post was about record sales not why the south has a "slow" mentality. I will agree that the crackers down south are stuck in their antebellum ways. Because of their ultra-conservatism they stop progressive things from happening where black folks live. I was born and raised in Chicago but Mississippi is a prime example of how crackers do whatever they can to keep black people down(one of the bottom yearly median income states). I have people down there. When I am out in public and speak black folks in Mississippi can tell I am not a native. :hmm: White people down there change their attitude when they find out I am not a native. Crackers in Mississippi are scared of black people from cities up north.

Anyway on another note what fuck are you going to do about red ass Ohio? :lol:
 
JD Walker said:
You mad? :lol:

Hurricane relief. lol. Look what you slaves did with the monies. Yall niggas was homeless buying Big Screen TVs, clothes, shoes, livin' in the Superdome. If that ain't some neo-coon shit then I don't know what is.

Black southerners are like that little retarded bastard child ridin the little yellow school bus. No matter how shameful and useless this child is, you still have to claim it. You just don't know any better because you are too stupid to know any better. Until "Big Perm" intervene, your solution to Jena 6 was praying and fasting. So unfortunately for us "progressive" Blacks (West, North East) we are stuck with Black ass dead weight low IQ havin ass Bible thumpin pacifists of the south who do more damage than good.

you've outdone Blunt in your level of bullshit
 
Dirty Hubcaps said:
good article, but one line i strongly disagree with is this one


"Since the 1980s, when Run-DMC attracted sponsorship from Adidas, the rap community has aspired to be big business."



thats simply not true. matter of fact what made hip hop so dope was that it didnt want or need external validation from those who werent down with the culture. dudes used to say "no sellout!" and meant it. epmd did "crossover" and everyone pretty much identified with it. shyt, niccas used to look at you sideways if you had an r&b chick :angry: on your hook! shyt done changed. niccas bite lyrics now & dont even care. i mean true, they werent getting what they were worth & they were getting jerked on their deals but their music came from a genuine place :wepraise: . when hip hop started looking like a good way to make a quick buck :smh: it was the beginning of the end as i knew it. hip hop was better when it was broke
:yes: :yes: :yes:

U R THA F'N MAN... :yes: :yes: :yes:
It could NOT have been said any BETTER!
 
Lotta self hate in this thread...

In other BGOL news, since the burying of the "N" word, the word "coon" is enjoying a resurgence. Keyword searches show that "sambo" seems to be growing in popularity as well.
 
JD Walker said:
You mad? :lol:

Hurricane relief. lol. Look what you slaves did with the monies. Yall niggas was homeless buying Big Screen TVs, clothes, shoes, livin' in the Superdome. If that ain't some neo-coon shit then I don't know what is.

Black southerners are like that little retarded bastard child ridin the little yellow school bus. No matter how shameful and useless this child is, you still have to claim it. You just don't know any better because you are too stupid to know any better. Until "Big Perm" intervene, your solution to Jena 6 was praying and fasting. So unfortunately for us "progressive" Blacks (West, North East) we are stuck with Black ass dead weight low IQ havin ass Bible thumpin pacifists of the south who do more damage than good.

Progressive? What the fuck is progressive about your bitch ass?

Nothing. You do SHIT to uplift your people but dog them out, you backseat driving faggot.

Now get back in the front seat and drive off in your shitty cab, you stankin-ass Janjaweed slavetrader.

Oh and TCapone, fuck you too dickface. You're displaying a coon mentality right now and don't even know it, you 4th grade dropout.

(Oh and JD Janjaweed, I peep how you aint have shit to say when I corrected your greasy little monkey ass about the Black Panthers. Grow some nuts, faggot.)
 
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We who? There is no "we" just a backstabbing African faggot who hates the majority of Black America.

You DO know the majority of Black America is in the South, don't you?

I guess the sailors neglected to tell you that when they smuggled your musty ass over here from whatever Gambian slavetrading port your sellout ancestors came from.
 
Nobody said:
rappers release far more material than any other genre of music. it's oversaturated.

That's a pet Peeve of mine. Outkast was one of the last groups that used to go "Back to the Lab" and then re-emerge with some mind blowing material every 2 years. Nowadays, artists are releasing 3 albums a year (Master P theory - flood the market) which makes me sick of them even faster and makes their material sound forced. One of the laws of power is to use absence as a way of making someone appreciate you or anticipate you much more. Rappers and their labels don't do this. Instead it's a total blitzkrieg of that person's image that gets real old real fast. Look at the people who've been in the game longest...they at least have a 1.5 year stretch between releases. I don't even listen to mixtapes a lot of times because it spoils an entire album by the time it's released.
 
CPT Callamity said:
That's a pet Peeve of mine. Outkast was one of the last groups that used to go "Back to the Lab" and then re-emerge with some mind blowing material every 2 years. Nowadays, artists are releasing 3 albums a year (Master P theory - flood the market) which makes me sick of them even faster and makes their material sound forced. One of the laws of power is to use absence as a way of making someone appreciate you or anticipate you much more. Rappers and their labels don't do this. Instead it's a total blitzkrieg of that person's image that gets real old real fast. Look at the people who've been in the game longest...they at least have a 1.5 year stretch between releases. I don't even listen to mixtapes a lot of times because it spoils an entire album by the time it's released.

Yeah Lyor Cohen used to push his artists on Def Jam to flood the market with product--remember when DMX was dropping an LP every year?

I'll also never forget something Snoop said about how Puffy taught him (by example) that there was no such thing as overexposure.
 
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