West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Dave Shining on March 10, 2004, 01:56:56 PM
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You know what, I’m a fan of hip-hop too. If I had a chance to get a hold of one of my favorite artists CD’s early, I would jump at it. So if some asshole from a recording studio leaks my unfinished, unmixed and uneven album, consider it a personal triumph. Play it for your friends, and if you like it, buy the version I want you to have. If you are a fan of my music, allow me to live off it so I can continue to bring it to you. But once you put it on a website and encourage people to download it, you become the bigger asshole. You are not respecting my artistic process and worse, you are taking food out of my children’s mouth. The shit is depressing really because I work so hard and I deserve the right to determine how I want my music presented. If you are truly a fan of my music, please do not support people who do this, no matter what the temptation might be. This music is what I have to live on. You also disrespect the other artists by spreading rough vocals and rough mixes. You really don’t give a fuck about nobody but yourself. It’s sad.
ImRickJamesBitch, are you that much of a loser that you gotta live off another man’s work? Put your own fuckin’ album on your website. Get you some pro tools, pay producers and studio time, get guest artits to come be on your shit. Then maybe you won’t be tempted to just disrespect somebody’s craft. Kanye shipped 800,000 records. How many records do you think I will ship? But yet you couldn’t resist to expose MY album? That shit is not fly. I will find out who you are and you will be dealt with accordingly. This is no threat. To everyone else, I am blessed that there is so much anticipation for what I hope will be a great album. I have never gone gold or platinum. If you think I should be by now please don’t support or do shit like ImRickJamesBitch; that shit does not help. I have a mixtape coming next week. Download that. Please help my cause, don’t hurt it, and I will always be the best artist I can be.
-Talib Kweli
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damn...now i feel bad i wanted it so bad. but regardless, it doesn't really matter cuz i'm buying it no matter what
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dayum talib spittin knowledge.....if i feel an artist imma spend cash on that cd...it that simple...
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What site did you get this from?
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probably the most convincing anti-downloading argument i've ever heard
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speaking of: can someone post a link to the album? LOL
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dayum talib spittin knowledge.....if i feel an artist imma spend cash on that cd...it that simple...
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where did he write this?
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dayum talib spittin knowledge.....if i feel an artist imma spend cash on that cd...it that simple...
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wow, i fuckin feel bad, i didnt download it yet, but im def buying this album, i feel bad casue hes so right, he deserves to go 3-4-5 x plat, and this shit is fucked up, wonder who imrickjamesbitch is
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Yeah ImRickJamesBitch is the one who leaked it....
here is Talibs original post, but he didnt post it himself..the statement was sent to the staff at Okayplayer as a Word Doc that was likely trasncribed out of Talibs management's office.
http://www.okayplayer.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_announcements
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look, you can download the album here, http://www.imrickjamesbitch.com/ (http://www.imrickjamesbitch.com/) ;)
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look, you can download the album here, http://www.imrickjamesbitch.com/ (http://www.imrickjamesbitch.com/) ;)
that is the most annoying site ever
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WOW good think I changed my name from I'm Rick James...BITCH! last week, I'd look mighty stupid if I didn't. pretty damn convincing argument wasn't expecting to see Talib Kweli at the end.
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Damn, Talib is getting emotional, cry me a god damn river. It's his own fault that he couldn't keep it from getting in the wrong hands or that he didn't have control over his music. If it was already finished and ready to be pressed then you have to expect that and live with it. That happends to everyone.
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yeah no kidding. its unavoidable.
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I see why Talib is pissed off, because people will now be judging his album on a unmastered and probably unfinished leak, and may not now buy the album. I feel where he is coming from, but I would say also that most people who buy Talib's music are pretty dedicated fans anyway, so people like me who have downloaded the advance are still gonna buy the album regardless. And if he manages to pull in any of the MTV crowd with a first single, then they will buy his album then, they ain't gonna download an advance now because most of them don't know of him. As long as people realise that this is a advance and is not the final product then its cool.
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talib is one of the last few that i respect, but i gotta say that artists that bitch about their albums being downloaded need to wake up. i'm not about to spend money on something that i perceive as garbage, period. and no one should ask us to buy their shit without making sure that we like it first. that is our right as a consumer to make sure we like what we buy.
but the problem is, and where i agree with talib, is that we got millions of people downloading shit that they bump day in and day out without giving a goddam about the artist. that's where the problem is. that's what's disrespecting people's art. not the fact that we listen to it before we buy it, that should be a give in.....but the fact that some people d/l everything that they like and never buy it, that's the problem....it's pretty simple really, but with a $6.99 price tag (like quality), it'd be almost impossible not to buy it if you're a fan of talib.
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talib is one of the last few that i respect, but i gotta say that artists that bitch about their albums being downloaded need to wake up. i'm not about to spend money on something that i perceive as garbage, period. and no one should ask us to buy their shit without making sure that we like it first. that is our right as a consumer to make sure we like what we buy.
but the problem is, and where i agree with talib, is that we got millions of people downloading shit that they bump day in and day out without giving a goddam about the artist. that's where the problem is. that's what's disrespecting people's art. not the fact that we listen to it before we buy it, that should be a give in.....but the fact that some people d/l everything that they like and never buy it, that's the problem....it's pretty simple really, but with a $6.99 price tag (like quality), it'd be almost impossible not to buy it if you're a fan of talib.
i agree. i often d/l parts of an album before i buy it, but if i like it i will