what would you rather have?

[hector]

i voted for Keep it straight westcoast with a mainstream single  

but for it to sell well it'll need atleast 2 mainstream singles. and there's no reason why a minstream single cant have a westcoast sound to it.



peace

then how come nobody on the west gets any radio or tv play?  there has been plenty of mainstream singles from the westcoast.  Roscoe had a bunch on his album.  Yukmouth, E-40, WC, Knocturnal, DJ Quik, and many more artists had mainstream type songs for singles, but with westcoast appeal, and none of them did well outside the west.  

the westcoast just doesn't have a mainstream appeal, they would totally have to change their style to get a mainstream single.  For instance, have Kayne west produce the track and put jay z as a guest.  Don't give the song a laid back feel (which is imo the signature of the wc) and make the chorus really annoying.  Thats a perfect example of what a mainstream single is these days.

[Diabolical]

I cant understand why we have to change the style for it to be mainstream.
If it did involve changing id say keep it westcoast

[white Boy]

they should make music thats good, mainstream or not, and not sell out like snoop

[HD]

3rd one

[Don Seer]

I cant understand why we have to change the style for it to be mainstream.
If it did involve changing id say keep it westcoast

so MTV and BET will play the videos, and so the radio stations will pump out the singles...

pretty much from day one theres been a 'Radio' song, Eazy simply had 'Radio', NWA had 'Express Yourself'.. etc etc..


does no one understand what i said? i'm still the only one that voted half n half..

why get people to buy an album they -might- not like if they picked it up just for the lead single...

u gotta give them a bit more to enjoy.. -then- they'll tell their friends 'its pretty good' instead of 'yeah its not like the single.. i didn't like the rest'

get em in and get em hooked.. u gotta reuse the formula each time to get new fans...

yes its 'selling out' to an extent.. but in todays market, whats the other answer?

u see?

[Jome]

I cant understand why we have to change the style for it to be mainstream.
If it did involve changing id say keep it westcoast

so MTV and BET will play the videos, and so the radio stations will pump out the singles...

pretty much from day one theres been a 'Radio' song, Eazy simply had 'Radio', NWA had 'Express Yourself'.. etc etc..


does no one understand what i said? i'm still the only one that voted half n half..

why get people to buy an album they -might- not like if they picked it up just for the lead single...

u gotta give them a bit more to enjoy.. -then- they'll tell their friends 'its pretty good' instead of 'yeah its not like the single.. i didn't like the rest'

get em in and get em hooked.. u gotta reuse the formula each time to get new fans...

yes its 'selling out' to an extent.. but in todays market, whats the other answer?

u see?

Yeah, but Snoop's latest had half the album full of MTV-certified singles..
Still it barely went platinum, that's wack with Snoop & Pharells big names all over it.