Author Topic: Snoop did'nt even sell 200,000 copies...i'am worried for his future (Read 493 times)

P Nelson · « **Reply #15 on:** December 05, 2002, 08:59:32 PM »

lol... I think Snooop is doin better then Tha Row...

FILA::AUS · « **Reply #16 on:** December 06, 2002, 12:44:35 AM »

personally, i think there is 100'S of artists on the west that could become very very very mainstream if they had the right business contacts.

I know for a fact that for example Latino Velvet's old shit could become bigger than Nelly is right now overnight if someone hooked them up wid some cats who were ready to invest money in their promotion.

The reason east sells so much is because they have better businessmen running their rap artists than west coast cats do.

Everybody on the west coast wants to have their own Indepenedent record label, and such labels dont have money to promote.

Only major label of the west coast that had huge promotional money was Death Row and thats why it became so big...but that was the ONLY one, where NY has Def Jam, and wuteva labels Ja Rule is on...blablabla...

smerlus · « **Reply #17 on:** December 06, 2002, 06:13:02 AM »

snoop deserves to go tin when he puts out a weak attempt to go mainstream again. i don't know about you guys but i'll support an underground TRUE westcoast artist more than i'll support a sell out like snoop. go ahead and hit my karma up because i made fun of your daddy's, but you all sit here and make fun of ja rule for putting out love songs (snoop) and wack ass music (snoop) you guys need to look in the mirror.

and how are we supposed to show love for the west when alot of westcoast artists aren't even showing love anymore?

dre doing east coast shit
cube doing movies
snoop putting out wack music
xzibit trying too hard to become a household name

and you guys saying that these "old acts" have to hang it up, when in fact these are the very people that can save westcoast rap. they have the ability to push major units just off of name alone

we'll never see some 21 year old westcoast artist break through.

1st of all, they won't get any radio play.
2nd the record labels will only fuck them over.
3rd you won't see they're videos.

for any of these three problems to be solved, westcoast has to become mainstream. but we all know westcoast rap isn't in a slump, it's dead until it gets it's act together...

Funkadelic · « **Reply #18 on:** December 06, 2002, 06:16:51 AM »

I don't care about sales.

b-PlEaSE · « **Reply #19 on:** December 06, 2002, 06:19:41 AM »

200 thousand units is not bad at all. He's still in the top 20 on the billboard 200 and he's #3 rap hip-hop charts. I'd look for him to go gold in about 2 weeks. If he drops the next single and it does good, I see him going platinum in about 3 months.. If everything stays as it is..

People trip too much, selling around 200 thousand units is not bad at all. Considering that he's going against some real big names. I'd say he's doing good for an experimental album.