Music Debate: Steve stoute on the joe budden podcast says the older generation didn’t care about lyrics in HipHop
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Respectfully I call bullsh*t
To ignore the economy, singles, mix tapes and the evolving technology is irresponsible when having a serious conversation about this topic.
To ignore the economy, singles, mix tapes and the evolving technology is irresponsible when having a serious conversation about this topic.
Puff cracked him in the head because Puff likes going upside bitches head. If Steve had hair, it would've been pulled too.
As for the point: lyrics never sold. Do you know what is the soup of the day at most of the Jamaican restaurants in Philadelphia? Cow tongue. We have been conditioned to consume garbage as a people. It is why Tyler Perry is a God and Tubi is king. Smart people say we should demand more; that's smart-people dumb shit.
Men want to dance too. The fallacy that the genre demands excellence should stop. White people don't want smart negroes. They want one smart negro. The rest of y'all should get back to work.
Sounds like he's trying to make himself feel better about liking and pushing mumble/trap
He forgets, if lyrics didn't matter why do people know those classics bar for bar and why do rap fans have top 5's ?
Stoute has fallen into the sales vs skills hole. Kinda cat you don't allow to pair with your Bluetooth.
Champagne bottle to the head bars
Illmatic had 5 singles — that’s half the damn album. You can’t sell a book in a club and you can’t play noises in a library. The two are antithetical to each other. How are you supposed to retain knowledge while you’re tipsy off the Yak? Record sales are only stimuli to complete the conditioning. The less words and the more animalistic sounds, the higher the charts. They’re paying negroes to act like “negroes” and we are cashing the check every single time.
When they say that the average American reads at a 5th grade level, what do they mean? Who are they talking about?
Steve Stoute, Variety’s Music Mogul of the Year, on His Rise From the Streets of Queens to Being Jay-Z and Jared Kushner’s Confidante
UnitedMasters and Translation founder Steve Stoute, who Jay-Z calls 'the bridge between hip-hop and business,' is Variety's Music Mogul of 2025.
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