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Who keeps pushing Rick Ross in the mainstream rap media????

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Hack Wilson - real:
anyone else wonder why his record sales suck yet he keeps getting mentioned??  dude sucks, easily.   i wonder who is behind his fame.


i bet infinite has an answer for us.  After all, Infinite's buddah aka Dr. Dre just gave him an expensive ass watch a few years ago.  Right?



brian, please enlighten us on the Rick Rossian scriptures of the Death Row catacombs that were dug up in 2013. 

Blood$:
he sells 500-600K every release, he's got the right marketing and money behind him plus it goes without saying he has a very good ear for beats

bouli77:
that's a good question in general although Ross is indeed a bad pick. Ross is almost a guaranteed gold album (his latest album didn't go gold).

I think visibility and charisma comes into play, especially for the foreign market. Ross is a worldwide star. Like Snoop hasn't gone platinum or gold since 2006 and TBCT, but if you ask me he's way more popular and known now than he ever was. I mean it may not be obvious for you cause snoop has always been in the mainstream due to controversy but out here in france it really is. Pharrell really gave him a superstar status, and all his collaborations, reality tv gigs, antics, plus that Snoop Lion thing, in a span of a decade it gave him a mainstream visibility he never had before. and all that WHILE his record sales kept decreasing.

Networking is also important. Some artists are in the right circles with other successful artists/producers. Like you see MMG is closely connected to YMCMB and both fuck with Diddy to some level. DJ Khaled fucks wit French Montana, most MMG artiss, etc. You have So So Def who haven't made noise in a while but JD is tight with Ross.

But there's definitely some type of foul play that's going on behind the scenes to see some artists pushed in the media without really viable commercial success.

Blood$:

--- Quote from: bouli77 on September 17, 2014, 01:21:06 AM ---that's a good question in general although Ross is indeed a bad pick. Ross is almost a guaranteed gold album (his latest album didn't go gold).

I think visibility and charisma comes into play, especially for the foreign market. Ross is a worldwide star. Like Snoop hasn't gone platinum or gold since 2006 and TBCT, but if you ask me he's way more popular and known now than he ever was. I mean it may not be obvious for you cause snoop has always been in the mainstream due to controversy but out here in france it really is. Pharrell really gave him a superstar status, and all his collaborations, reality tv gigs, antics, plus that Snoop Lion thing, in a span of a decade it gave him a mainstream visibility he never had before. and all that WHILE his record sales kept decreasing.

Networking is also important. Some artists are in the right circles with other successful artists/producers. Like you see MMG is closely connected to YMCMB and both fuck with Diddy to some level. DJ Khaled fucks wit French Montana, most MMG artiss, etc. You have So So Def who haven't made noise in a while but JD is tight with Ross.

But there's definitely some type of foul play that's going on behind the scenes to see some artists pushed in the media without really viable commercial success.

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+1

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He promotes the brand of coonish ignorant the white people in charge of urban music wish to peddle to the ignorant masses in order to keep liquor sales and other "aspirational lifestyle" choices prevalent in the easily influenced minds of idiots the world over.

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