It's June 10, 2024, 05:04:35 AM
only new albums i bought last year are trauma and in the midnite hour
These cry baby artists need to shut their mouths and make good music.
Nelly, Eminem, Jay-Z and plenty of other artist have all seen their sales stay the same during the downloading era. The reason album sales are down is because the industry has taken Hip-Hop, and gutted it for the commercial appeal. People are eventually going to get sick of it, which I think is happening, and they are going to stop buying. Busta is just a sad side effect. I have yet to buy the album myself, though I will very soon. For me, it's money. Need more money.
Quote from: M Dogg of the Dipset West Chapter on July 10, 2006, 07:12:43 PMNelly, Eminem, Jay-Z and plenty of other artist have all seen their sales stay the same during the downloading era. The reason album sales are down is because the industry has taken Hip-Hop, and gutted it for the commercial appeal. People are eventually going to get sick of it, which I think is happening, and they are going to stop buying. Busta is just a sad side effect. I have yet to buy the album myself, though I will very soon. For me, it's money. Need more money.Hip Hop was going to die out as the number 1 genre of popular music in America no matter how good it was quality wise. The new generation never wants to listen to the same stuff the the old one did. The children of hair metal became the teens of Grunge, and the children of Grunge became the teens of boy/girl band bubble gum. N Synch is clearly inferior to Pearl Jam musically but the teen girls that bought "Ten" had little sisters that grew up to buy "No Strings Attached".I can't wait for Hip Hop to fall from the main stream. It'll mean that industry snakes will leave it alone and rappers won't be pressured to fit the mold, and they'll start making creative music again, hopefully.
Blaming downloading is bullshit in my opinion. Downloading only helps if the music is good, and if the music sucks people either delete or never listen to the albums anyway.
Quote from: Shallow on July 10, 2006, 04:40:43 PMBlaming downloading is bullshit in my opinion. Downloading only helps if the music is good, and if the music sucks people either delete or never listen to the albums anyway. ... but yet Overseer starts it off by saying Bustas album is great (so he obviously listens to it frequently) but he hasn't bought it.... why? ... because he downloaded it. So, blaming downloading is bullshit. riiiiight. Here's the deal: I DON'T BUY SHIT! Why should I? I can just download it. I haven't bought a rap album in years, and I WON'T buy a rap album for years. I'll buy "detox", the rest can fuck off. I'll download plenty, though. Now. I just told you that I personally don't buy because I download now. Can you STILL deny that it's a problem? I'M PART OF THE PROBLEM, don't tell me it's bullshit, it's what *I* do. If I'm doing it, imagine how many others are. Here, how many ways can I say this. Lets see.1. I don't buy albums anymore.2. I used to buy them all the time.3. The reason I don't buy them is because I download them.4. Artists make less money becuase I no longer buy from them.5. I don't give a fuck if it's illegal because you can't be caught.6. It's easy to do.7. I feel no remorse because most of the rappers are assholes anyways.8. I'd rather I have the money than them. 9. One time, I thought about buying a CD, then thought "Fuck that, i'll download it". I was really close that time, too.Now... 'downloading doesn't hurt cd sales". come on man. Man up. Take responsibility. Admit the truth, don't just argue something that there's no argument against.
Quote from: Shallow on July 10, 2006, 08:40:50 PMQuote from: M Dogg of the Dipset West Chapter on July 10, 2006, 07:12:43 PMNelly, Eminem, Jay-Z and plenty of other artist have all seen their sales stay the same during the downloading era. The reason album sales are down is because the industry has taken Hip-Hop, and gutted it for the commercial appeal. People are eventually going to get sick of it, which I think is happening, and they are going to stop buying. Busta is just a sad side effect. I have yet to buy the album myself, though I will very soon. For me, it's money. Need more money.Hip Hop was going to die out as the number 1 genre of popular music in America no matter how good it was quality wise. The new generation never wants to listen to the same stuff the the old one did. The children of hair metal became the teens of Grunge, and the children of Grunge became the teens of boy/girl band bubble gum. N Synch is clearly inferior to Pearl Jam musically but the teen girls that bought "Ten" had little sisters that grew up to buy "No Strings Attached".I can't wait for Hip Hop to fall from the main stream. It'll mean that industry snakes will leave it alone and rappers won't be pressured to fit the mold, and they'll start making creative music again, hopefully.actually, that's a very bad thing. Hip-Hop needs balence, even KRS admits that. There needs to be the party aspect of it, and there needs to be the commercial side of it. What was Run DMC, what was Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow, sure there was Melle Mel, but Caz was the one that wrote Rappers Delight talking about Superman and shit. Hip-Hop was commerical in the early 90's, and it was just as creative. What you want is Hip-Hop to become underground, that's not good, as every single Hip-Hop founder will tell you they want to see Hip-Hop in the mainstream. The difference is we need labels that are independent once again. The mergers on the late 90's hurt everything, but if artist can sell using pure Hip-Hop, then that's better. Columbia left Nas alone after Stillmatic, because they knew he'd sell no matter what. Interscope let Jada have his Kiss of Death because they knew political controversy will see during an election year. The only problem is, not many artist are willing to take a chance. Hip-Hop needs balence, ask any old school Hip-Hop founder.