West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: rik on September 13, 2006, 02:40:26 PM
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So I was channel surfing earlier today and I come across MTV and TRL is on and "One Blood" was the number 10 video. That's pretty good for a street single, let alone a west coast rap video. I didn't even know they were playing this video on MTV. I never really watch MTV anymore but I can't remember the last time TRL played a rap video. Anyways I thought I'd share this with you guys.
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Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to be JUST a "street single"?
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Not that suprising Obies Cry Now made top 10 too and the video is very simillar. Not to mention Geffen are great when it comes to promotion.
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Nah, this is still just the "street single."
My guess is that label wanted to just throw out one of its less commercially viable tracks as a buzzer and not waste the big name produced ones from Kanye, Scott Storch, Cool n Dre, Timbaland, possibly Dre, etc.
There is no way that Game/Geffen would put out One Blood as the mainstream single when they have so many options from heavy hitter producers.
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i actually like "One Blood" because its got that reggae feel to it like Shynes "Bad Boys"
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doesnt the fact that 'one blood' is on the black wall street journal mixtape indictae that it is indeed a street single and wont be on the album?........am i wrong?
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doesnt the fact that 'one blood' is on the black wall street journal mixtape indictae that it is indeed a street single and wont be on the album?........am i wrong?
That and the fact its not a club joint or a joint for the ladies lol I agree with G-g-g-g-gunit I like that the track has a reggae feel to it.
Co-sign the guy who said they tossed it out there as a buzz tester. I think they ran with the joint to see like 'do people still want to hear Game now that 50 isnt on the track shipping to the radio'
Props on One Blood hitting TRL for Game, I mean TRL is lame as fuck but from an exposure standpoint its a good look.
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it seems like every time i turn on mtv i actually see Game "One Blood" video so it definently getting a buzz.
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Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to be JUST a "street single"?
thats what im thinking.
it may not be the big single but it is the first single. and id bet you that it is on the cd. someone said it probably wasnt gonna be. when are you gonna stop calling it a srteet single? its already on the white girls channel. on the teenage girls music show.
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Yea I saw this 2
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Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to be JUST a "street single"?
i was thinking the same thing
but the album is more than a month and a half away
i can see them droppin a "proper" single late Oct
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I think they ran with the joint to see like 'do people still want to hear Game now that 50 isnt on the track shipping to the radio'
Props on One Blood hitting TRL for Game, I mean TRL is lame as fuck but from an exposure standpoint its a good look.
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I could care less about the proper terminology, "street single" or not. I'm just glad to see a west coast artist getting some national spins for a change.
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they probably made all the Geffen interns call TRL all day, or paid alot of money and did alot of favours to get "One Blood" on TRL, but that's just a guess.
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they probably made all the Geffen interns call TRL all day, or paid alot of money and did alot of favours to get "One Blood" on TRL, but that's just a guess.
hater
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Man, they been runnin' this video on MTV and BET... it was intended as a street single yeah, but if the fans feelin' it and requestin' it... the label going to back it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it and money talks!
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If it is on the album, Game will have to change the last line.
"This ain't but a warning till my album drop"
But it could be a bonus or hidden track. Like Kurupts Callin Out Names or 213's So Fly.
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Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to be JUST a "street single"?
thats what im thinking.
it may not be the big single but it is the first single. and id bet you that it is on the cd. someone said it probably wasnt gonna be. when are you gonna stop calling it a srteet single? its already on the white girls channel. on the teenage girls music show.
It was a street single from the jump the fact that it did better then they thought doesn't change that. It is not an official single because honestly it doesnt fit the same generic lead single formula that seems like the only way to go.
Just because One Blood is a street single should they stop trying to get it played when the record has steam? Why would BWS/Geffen run away from a hit song?
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Single or not it is put up or shut up for Game. He still has a couple of months before the album comes out so he needs as much airplay as he can get. Because if he does not go at least platinum, it is damn near over for him. If it sells well, he will prove 50 wrong and he has his own imprint so it will show he can do it on his own. If this bombs, WHO KNOWS where Game will be after that.
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Single or not it is put up or shut up for Game. He still has a couple of months before the album comes out so he needs as much airplay as he can get. Because if he does not go at least platinum, it is damn near over for him. If it sells well, he will prove 50 wrong and he has his own imprint so it will show he can do it on his own. If this bombs, WHO KNOWS where Game will be after that.
I wouldnt worry about Game selling. Hes on Geffen and they are doing a great job at promotinh( Snoop, Mary, Nelly Furtado), hes creating hype with the whole "lets-diss-another-rapper promotion, all that Dre talk... which is sad, becuase the music should create the hype but thats how it is these days.
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I'm not really familiar with Geffen. They used to be distributed by another company before Interscope right? Real talk though Detox. I hope he does sell but off of his talent and not following 50's formula.
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Single or not it is put up or shut up for Game. He still has a couple of months before the album comes out so he needs as much airplay as he can get. Because if he does not go at least platinum, it is damn near over for him. If it sells well, he will prove 50 wrong and he has his own imprint so it will show he can do it on his own. If this bombs, WHO KNOWS where Game will be after that.
I wouldnt worry about Game selling. Hes on Geffen and they are doing a great job at promotinh( Snoop, Mary, Nelly Furtado), hes creating hype with the whole "lets-diss-another-rapper promotion, all that Dre talk... which is sad, becuase the music should create the hype but thats how it is these days.
aint BEP on Geffen aswell? iŽd rather be on Geffen then Shady or G-Unit coz Geffen even pushed Mos Def to gold.
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Is it true Mike Dean mixed it?
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Single or not it is put up or shut up for Game. He still has a couple of months before the album comes out so he needs as much airplay as he can get. Because if he does not go at least platinum, it is damn near over for him. If it sells well, he will prove 50 wrong and he has his own imprint so it will show he can do it on his own. If this bombs, WHO KNOWS where Game will be after that.
I wouldnt worry about Game selling. Hes on Geffen and they are doing a great job at promotinh( Snoop, Mary, Nelly Furtado), hes creating hype with the whole "lets-diss-another-rapper promotion, all that Dre talk... which is sad, becuase the music should create the hype but thats how it is these days.
aint BEP on Geffen aswell? iŽd rather be on Geffen then Shady or G-Unit coz Geffen even pushed Mos Def to gold.
No BEP is on Interscope
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they probably made all the Geffen interns call TRL all day, or paid alot of money and did alot of favours to get "One Blood" on TRL, but that's just a guess.
hater
You confused my statements, it wasn't a disrespect to Game it was a disrespect to TRL fans, meaning it's unlikely that the TRL audience would have called in and voted for the "One Blood" video so I was suggesting that Geffen hooked it up.
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Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to be JUST a "street single"?
thats what im thinking.
it may not be the big single but it is the first single. and id bet you that it is on the cd. someone said it probably wasnt gonna be. when are you gonna stop calling it a srteet single? its already on the white girls channel. on the teenage girls music show.
lol well yeah that too. but i said what i said because everything just seems odd with this album. its supposed to drop in 2 months but there is ZER0 promotion.
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Nah, this is still just the "street single."
My guess is that label wanted to just throw out one of its less commercially viable tracks as a buzzer and not waste the big name produced ones from Kanye, Scott Storch, Cool n Dre, Timbaland, possibly Dre, etc.
There is no way that Game/Geffen would put out One Blood as the mainstream single when they have so many options from heavy hitter producers.
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they probably made all the Geffen interns call TRL all day, or paid alot of money and did alot of favours to get "One Blood" on TRL, but that's just a guess.
actually people in ny and all over thought tht the one blood was like game featured.... they thought that it was not his track, until the mixtapes. then rotten apple was supposed to drop..... people wanted g-unit to flop......so thus, u got one blood on trl now.