This is sad.

[kingwell]

You motherfuckers are critiquing Xzibit's numbers like mad..  When I bet a whole lot of you downloaded that shit and didn't cop it.  If you bought the CD, you have the right to complain about the numbers.  If you didn't, you are the reason you make posts about bad sales....

It's been said, and there is no debating at this point in the Music industry.  THE INTERNET KILLS SALES.  Weigh the promo artists get on the internet through websites/forums, versus the downloads of their albums on any-fucking-site/program-you-can-name....  It comes out in favor of downloading.

BTW I was planning to buy Full Circle, but after I listened to it about twice or thrice all the way through, I rendered it had no replay value and I put it in the recycling bin.  I did not cop it because I was not feeling it.  (Although I was the first listen, but the internet allowed me to ruin a sale for X, deserving or not.)

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[Lil Jay]

[LazyLatino]

You motherfuckers are critiquing Xzibit's numbers like mad..  When I bet a whole lot of you downloaded that shit and didn't cop it.  If you bought the CD, you have the right to complain about the numbers.  If you didn't, you are the reason you make posts about bad sales....It's been said, and there is no debating at this point in the Music industry.  THE INTERNET KILLS SALES.  Weigh the promo artists get on the internet through websites/forums, versus the downloads of their albums on any-fucking-site/program-you-can-name....  It comes out in favor of downloading.

BTW I was planning to buy Full Circle, but after I listened to it about twice or thrice all the way through, I rendered it had no replay value and I put it in the recycling bin.  I did not cop it because I was not feeling it.  (Although I was the first listen, but the internet allowed me to ruin a sale for X, deserving or not.)


Hahahaha am i tha only one that finds this thread a bit confusing? 

[d-nice]

Yeah your kinda contradicting yourself with your point but I understand. The internet is a powerful resource. I can buy your arguement about the internet with sales, but you still downloaded it and did not buy it. It is a decision people make to download. I figure if I support a artist enough to listen to the music, go to concerts and be just a fan of the music, going into my pocket and spending 10-15 bucks for their album is nothing. Yeah, you can formulate a opinion by downloading but it's kinda like voting. The opinion does not count if you like the artist.

[Crip2Nite: South Central LA's HoOdSTAr]

This thread is even more sad....WTF are you talking about?...YOU didn't even buy the album, yet your ranting about what? People making threads about low album sales?  ....The shyt is wacc and we don't need 10,000 threads about Xzibit saying basically the same thing or in this case saying nothing at all

[youngmessnucca]

This is true. Alot of people feel like whats the point of driving to a record store to spend 12.99-18.99 on a cd that, nowadays especially, runs a big risk of never being listened to after a week. I think the reason alot of rappers are making garbage ass albums is because nobody's gonna buy them anyways, so they feel like whats the point of putting your heart into a project you know is going to be bootlegged?.

[LazyLatino]

This thread is even more sad....WTF are you talking about?...YOU didn't even buy the album, yet your ranting about what? People making threads about low album sales?  ....The shyt is wacc and we don't need 10,000 threads about Xzibit saying basically the same thing or in this case saying nothing at all

 

["THE" MoSav]

This is true. Alot of people feel like whats the point of driving to a record store to spend 12.99-18.99 on a cd that, nowadays especially, runs a big risk of never being listened to after a week. I think the reason alot of rappers are making garbage ass albums is because nobody's gonna buy them anyways, so they feel like whats the point of putting your heart into a project you know is going to be bootlegged?.

thats real...cd burners and the internet have ruined rap...like X said "why bother with rap when i can get 20 mill on a flick."

[No Compute]

If everybody on here bought X's album his numbers would still be low. The masses are no longer buying hip-hop, nothing can be done about it.

[WC Iz Active]

If everybody on here bought X's album his numbers would still be low. The masses are no longer buying hip-hop, nothing can be done about it.

yup I agree

[Ðøšïå]

= $15

= $12

i prefer to have 100 cd's over 1. 

[Realbiggsteele]

Me speaking as a Artist, bootlegging is a terrible thing, but it forces you to step ur game up! true fans will still go and cop ur shit if you do what you need to do in the booth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Diggfinger]

Im tempted to download it, but fuck that u always miss good songs and ruin the experience. I will buy it (if I dont get it for christmas it might not be until months from now though )

[Brutus]

if the album is good you can download it listen to it several times and buy it
but these days a little people are getting west coast

[youngmessnucca]

Me speaking as a Artist, bootlegging is a terrible thing, but it forces you to step ur game up! true fans will still go and cop ur shit if you do what you need to do in the booth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

While it's true that real fans will always cop, that may not be enough for them to even release a new album. Even if a rapper is indy, if you keep taking losses ( making less money off the album than it cost to make it ), why even continue on? I like how YOUR coming, saying bootlegging forces rappers to step there game up, but I feel most rappers are the opposite of you. Feelin like, if nobody's really gonna buy this, then why keep losing money?

For example, let's say Daz wants to do another album on Virgin. Seeing as how he only did 50K ( I think ), he's gonna have fewer resources for his next CD. Alot of rappers are thinking why bother with rap, not just X to the Z.