West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: west_coast_rider on June 11, 2002, 04:52:39 AM
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he has only sold 20,000 units. i bet he wont sell more than 70,000 by the time the final numbers come in. he deserves to be number 1.
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I only have the mp3s so far. Still need to order my us-import version, although I don't like the album. I'll buy just to support him. I can understand why it isn't selling that good.
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At Amazon.com Sales rank it`s around 440 or something, wich is quite good..... I bet the album will go gold eventually like all his other albums...
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This is still pretty coo' for Quik, he deserves to be #1 but then so do so many others from the west that don't get the recognition they deserve. Sales don't mean shit anyways, big up to Quik, one of the great pioneers in hip-hop.
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Quik is one of my favourite rappers and producers ever, but no way in hell this cd deserves to be number 1. THe single is Quik's least catchy single ever (it ain't bad, just average)....and this album is his second worst. I don't see why he didn't keep Put it in the Air with Talib for his album, that would have blown up and sold him some copies guaranteed.
I really don't hear many guaranteed singles on this album like i do on all his other cd's......
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i got my copy today and gave it a close listen....and boom...im getting into it, feeling it...dope album. One On 1 is a tight cut.
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what do yall expect?
DJ Quik is a West Coast artist who doesn't make commercial mainstream music, he isnt signed to no conglomerate like Def Jam
he had virtually no promotion/advertisement
the fact that he's been in the game 10 years dont mean shit,
fuck the game
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what do yall expect?
DJ Quik is a West Coast artist who doesn't make commercial mainstream music, he isnt signed to no conglomerate like Def Jam
he had virtually no promotion/advertisement
the fact that he's been in the game 10 years dont mean shit,
fuck the game
Yup
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Well this is just wack.
The people at warehouse predcited that he would be number 2 behind eminem. (from hits daily double) lets hope he does what truth hurts did and come on slow, but gain as time goes on... Im really dissapointed. Oh well, It still blows my mind when: TOTALLY HITS 2002 can do better than one of the most musically talanted persons of our time.
-Engelwood
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I am a little surprised, because I went to 2 Circuit Citys and a Best Buy and all of them were sold out of the album. I am in Los Angeles so he obviously sells more here than anywhere else, but I was still hopping that he would sell more than 70,000. Especially because he will be getting most of the money from the sales this time around.
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Well this is just wack.
The people at warehouse predcited that he would be number 2 behind eminem. (from hits daily double) lets hope he does what truth hurts did and come on slow, but gain as time goes on... Im really dissapointed. Oh well, It still blows my mind when: TOTALLY HITS 2002 can do better than one of the most musically talanted persons of our time.
-Engelwood
What Warehouse is saying that for THEIR store it is probably going to come in at #2...but Warehouse's sales are only a small fraction of the overall sales. Oh yah..and the DJ Quik album officially sold a little over 41,000 copies to land at #23--yikes. And yah-the album isnt good...I only like about 6 tracks.
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yeah I still gota pic his album up, i'm gonna do this soon since i finally got a job now
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Quik is one of my favourite rappers and producers ever, but no way in hell this cd deserves to be number 1.
Why doesn't he deserve to be #1? He surely deserves it over half the joke MC's/rappers that are breaking through nowadays. It's not his best album, no, but none of his albums have been short of dope imo so it doesn't really matter to me. Quik has always been consistent in my eyes and he deserves alot more recognition than he gets, alot more.
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believe me , he's just happy with it , sure he wish to sell more but he know he can't so sellin all that to get his doe doe , he's just happy with it , if so he would have say fuck tha game 10 years ago after his first album
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believe me , he's just happy with it , sure he wish to sell more but he know he can't so sellin all that to get his doe doe , he's just happy with it , if so he would have say fuck tha game 10 years ago after his first album
Yup, he's obviously in it for the music, which is the most important thing. The interview I just posted up he explains how he's been aproached by so many people to produce hits for them but he's turned them down due to commitments with other projects, he could be blowing up like the Neptunes right now but he's not like that, they've gotten played out, Quik doesn't want that, it's about the music to him, not the money, that only leads to over-exposure.
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Why doesn't he deserve to be #1? He surely deserves it over half the joke MC's/rappers that are breaking through nowadays. It's not his best album, no, but none of his albums have been short of dope imo so it doesn't really matter to me. Quik has always been consistent in my eyes and he deserves alot more recognition than he gets, alot more.
Besides Nelly and Ja Rule --who are these other "joke" rappers that sell?
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Besides Nelly and Ja Rule --who are these other "joke" rappers that sell?
Off the top of my head...Puffy, DMX (well in some I can stand him but in all), any cash money affiliate (excluding TQ since, he's not an MC so he shouldn't be including anyways but he's still dope), Lil' Romeo and some other No Limit affiliates are pretty shitty, Fabolous....
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Off the top of my head...Puffy, DMX (well in some I can stand him but in all), any cash money affiliate (excluding TQ since, he's not an MC so he shouldn't be including anyways but he's still dope), Lil' Romeo and some other No Limit affiliates are pretty shitty, Fabolous.... >>
Let's go through your little list...
P-Diddy-Im sorry..but he's been putting out some hot records lately. I Need a Girl 1 and 2, Special Delivery, Bad Boy 4 Life were all bangers. I dont like P-Diddy but I certainly dont have a problem with him getting paper.
DMX-I dont like DMX-but I certainly dont put him in the Nelly category.
"Cash Money Affiliates"-Hmm..Both the Mack 10 and Big Tymers CDs are bangin. And Juvy, Turk, and BG arent on Cash Money anymore. So lets see here..You got the hot Mack 10 album-but that didnt sell..and you got the Big Tymer album which is on fire on the charts and one of the best albums of the year..certainly no problem here.
Lil Romeo-Okay..thats cool--Teeny bopper rap is DEFINITELY not for everyone.
No Limit affiliates-I enjoy No Limit, but they dont push big units and your original argument was that crap artists push big units.
Fabolous-I like Fabolous--tight flow and great wordplay. He also had some hot beats behind him and some good collabos.
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Regardless of who still does or doesn't sell in the list I gave Quik is still doper than every one of them. You see the mainstream audiences give the majority of sales to the likes of the artists i've mentioned above, and in some cases artists like Quik who have been around for some time but havn't pushed mad units from the very beginning of their career the mainstream audiences don't seem to have much faith in their material. Mainstream audiences tend to put their faith in sales when it comes to choosing an album to buy, if someone is selling then that automatically means to them that it's good quality, but in most cases that isn't exactly true.
With Quik he seems to sell around about the same amount with every album, which to me means he has quite a solid and loyal fanbase. You best believe Quik would still be pushing units today if his material did alot sales-wise from the start of his career.
Sales don't particularly matter to me , if an artist I like manages to sell well then thats good, well done to them but it won't influence my choice of whether to buy their material or not. Maybe if everyone thought like this we would see a drastic change in the sales figures of particular artists...