Is this the end of an era or are we slippin

[Fatdodger]

I dont think snoop is gonna go plat on this one and to tell you the truth i really didnt feel ego trippin thats me thats why didnt purchase the album i liked blue carpet thats why i bought it but to tell the truth snoop should of sold way more albums that he did his first week because he had that sexual eruption and heard alot of people say they loved that video they said they loved the show and then nobody bought the album and i feel that snoop really exposed himself pop on this one but nobody fucked with it i think he should just stick to his gangsta rap core fans cuz it really doesnt matter anymore and also and this goes for me as well because i do this alot is when you download an album hear and like it you should buy it but also if you think about it the quality of music has really gone down over the years but when good albums come out nobody buys them like the W.C album i promised myself that i would buy it i listened to it i loved it and then i never bought it and now there is gonna start to be quality music on the westcoast j rock game suga free glasses malone just to name a few and if you listen to something like it try to purchase it so the west could be on top once again

[Lunatic]

i think he'll go gold in USA, plat worldwide. I am def coppin a whole lot of new west albums (rock, malone, etc.)

[UCC]

I dont think snoop is gonna go plat on this one and to tell you the truth i really didnt feel ego trippin thats me thats why didnt purchase the album i liked blue carpet thats why i bought it but to tell the truth snoop should of sold way more albums that he did his first week because he had that sexual eruption and heard alot of people say they loved that video they said they loved the show and then nobody bought the album and i feel that snoop really exposed himself pop on this one but nobody fucked with it i think he should just stick to his gangsta rap core fans cuz it really doesnt matter anymore and also and this goes for me as well because i do this alot is when you download an album hear and like it you should buy it but also if you think about it the quality of music has really gone down over the years but when good albums come out nobody buys them like the W.C album i promised myself that i would buy it i listened to it i loved it and then i never bought it and now there is gonna start to be quality music on the westcoast j rock game suga free glasses malone just to name a few and if you listen to something like it try to purchase it so the west could be on top once again

That was the longest sentence ever


But yeah, I don't know if any of the really big artists are that in touch with how much downloading is hurting them yet, as it's only just started to have a really major major impact. Like Snoops stuff has always sold a consistent number, even as the quality differed, but this time round he may be like, uh oh, only went Gold, what did I do wrong? Be interesting to see if he realizes it's more to do with downloading than the quality of the album, like he may think, better go back to gangsta shit, only to find he still doesn't pick the same numbers up again

I think I read on mtv recently that 50 Cent was saying his last album wasn't that great, and also the timing of the singles and promotion was bad and so that's why he didn't sell any where near as much with Curtis, and how he's going to try to get back to that mixtape hunger he used to have..... but it sounds like he doesn't realize that it won't matter - everyone downloads now and so anything you bring out won't sell that well

Artists for a while weren't too bothered about illegal downloading as they were still selling millions, but now that it's really starting to hurt them in the pocket I wonder if they'll start to be more vocal about the whole downloading thing and lobby for tougher laws, etc

[Al Bundy]

so many different factors to the sales being low. you can't pinpoint the exact cause.

[Fatdodger]

That was the longest sentence ever

Haha maybe ill slip some periods in there

[UCC]

so many different factors to the sales being low.

Like? I know it's recession time coming soon, but sales have been slipping for a minute now, Curtis was out when people weren't even talking about recession, so I don't buy that excuse

The only other factor I've heard is that quality of music is falling, but that never made a difference in the past, people always bought wack-ass albums, and no way in hell did the entire US just suddenly get higher musical standards randomly, especially when downloading is the real obvious answer

[therealtran]

snoop's sales are low and everybody says it's a failure. snoop's sells and everybody says wow, snoop's a genius! i loved the album, no redundant gangster stuff, just new and dynamic. whether it sold or not shouldn't matter because regardless. Musically, this album still shit's all over half of what's on the radio right now.

But i'm also not hating on mindless mainstream rap, that shit's GREAT for college house parties when you're tipssy, makes white bitches dance awesome

[FreeMac]

I dissagree completely. I think "Ego Trippin" was better than the last 3 albums Snoop Dogg dropped (solo albums at least). Too early to call it a classic but the album definately has classic songs ("Press Play", "Neva Hafta Worry", "Can't Say Goodbye", "SD Is Out")


The only problem with Ego Trippin is the filler tracks, but Snoop's had that problem since Tha Doggfather.

This definately isn't the end of an era, with Tha Dogg Pound dropping as many projects as they are, the new QDT team, Kurupt and Quik on a whole album, and Bad Azz coming back. I'm lookin forward to everything dropping from that whole camp this year.