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Rappers should do kickstarter and have fans preorder/buy their album beforehand

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TraceOneInfinite:
I heard something about this in the Ras Kass interview and I thought it was kind of an interesting way around the problem of illegal downloading.

...like you take a rapper like Ras who does have loyal fans.  And basically, kind of be like.... once I raise $50,000 dollars then I will produce an album (and until then you don't get an album from me).

...Or you could do it off of sales like, once I get $25,000 dollars worth of pre-order I will produce an album and whoever preordered gets the first copies (and until then ya'll ain't get shit from me ever again)


Think about it.  If Dre promised an album at some large figure like $5,000,000 I think that eventually the number would get up to that on kickstarter and then he would be obligated to release it to everyone who contributed.

Of course while the money was being raised they would be working on material but keepin it in the vault until they reached their goal, kind of like what Gobi is doing with the 2pac thing.

What do you think?

CORREA:
illegal downloading will never end  ;)

Shallow:
Or artists could just focus on creating great albums with a lot of great songs and the people will buy them and buy more and more as the years go by. In the end the cream always rises to the top.

That bring said Kickstarter would work for a lot of rappers if they were Indy and not already being paid by major labels.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: Do Buy Albums on June 09, 2015, 10:37:37 PM ---De La Soul just did this


That asked for 200k and raised over a million

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Interesting... Ras also said it worked well for him previously.  The way he described it, is "it is still supply and demand, you are just putting the demand before the supply".

...because if you do the opposite and supply the album, putting it out and hoping for people to buy, they will just download it.  So instead, you make people demand the album by contributing to your kickstarter goal, and then take the album out of the vault.  Of course at that point if it is illegally downloaded it won't matter because you have already reached your goal.

Don Seer:

--- Quote from: Infinite Trapped In 1996 on June 09, 2015, 09:09:50 AM --- I think that eventually

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--- Quote from: Infinite Trapped In 1996 on June 09, 2015, 09:09:50 AM ---What do you think?

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I think you misunderstand how Kickstarter works. there is a relatively short time limit, something like 2 months tops., it doesn't sit around forever waiting to reach the end.

Plus, a successful kickstarter  is NOT a  guarantee of the end product. You still might never get the album.

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