I just decided to put this post up becaause of something my homie Rene put up about artists making love songs...so here it is:
This ain't directed to nobody so don't trip but it is some food for thought.
All I ever hear is "the Bay is dead", then I hear "we gonna do it big", then I hear a bunch of other shit that is hella contracdictory of other posts. Mostly I ignore it. But it's 2004 and I want to see where everybody is at with all the statements that were made about how big cats were gonna do it or watch when this album drops and all kinds of shit like that.
Now, I know I'm not the most well liked cat on here but I am definitely one of the ones with the most credentials like it or not and I don't even run around hyping up shit on every post etc. Now the latest complaint from a few cats is top making love songs blah, blah , blah. The thing is though I have to ask "why?".
We have two latino artists from the Bay on a major right now and we have Keak on a major and 40 and Short still have deals and Quinn, Balance, Cellski and a few others are being scouted as we speak but otherwise I want to know what authority anyone has to speak on anyone else's hustle or music right now when ain't no one really selling significant units or getting significant airplay?
City Hall and Urbanlife and I guess 101 and R&D is all that is giving so called "deals" out but otherwise there are really nobody out there with the pull or power to help us, we have to do it ourselves. I admit it...Bayside made alot of cats lazy because of the marketing, advances, pressing and all that we gave out. Good or bad, like me or not, Bayside kept the Bay on life support from '99 to '02 when I left.
If the Bay is dead...we killed it. Don't blame KMEL. It wasn't that they stopped playing us but we stopped making hits like the early and mid 90's and 90% of everyone's business game ain't up to par.
How many of you go to music meetings at Wild or KMEL? How many of you service The Pros record pool. How many of you belong to AFIM or NARM or one of the many industry organizations.
How many of you belong to AFTRA and honor union scale payments? How many of actually mail out radio in-store copies to retailers? If you don't do all of this and more...you ain't doing your job then. Period. Ask Chuck at Done Deal how real this shit is. Ask Black C who still handles all of his business. Ask JT The Bigga Figga who no matter what yall think still makes more moves than most of us and still is a certified boss.
My other complaint is get off the "legends" and so called "old school" Bay rappers dicks. I dont give a fuck what Bay you claim. They paved it and they still are the only cats selling records on a good enough scale to live off of. Black C, Taydatay, Jay Tee, JT The Bigga Figga, and Cellski have all made some of their best albums in the last two years so implying they don't have it is plain blaspemy.
I'm not having a holier than thou attitude because we are on Universal I'm actually thankful and blessed to be where we are at and it could be over tommorow so we are making the most of it while we have another chance. And in case anybody didn't know why Jay Tee and 40 Ounce got picked up by Universal here it is...
Kinda the short version: Our project coordinator LMD1510 (Lisa donahue) sends out our mailers every project to radio and retail. Long story short...our CD sat in the program director's car in Sacramento and his lady opened it, played it and told him it's a hit. KSFM started bangin' it...and Universal called them and said who is hot and they said Jay Tee and then they called Jay Tee while we were at the barber shop. A month later we signed with Tommy Mottola. That's some lightning strikes twice type shit right there! I also got to give it up to DJ Mark 7 for making the song aware to his PD/MD and they jumped on it at 98.7. Our first airplay. Thats love. And before all of that, Jay Tee made a hit. Pure and simple. Talent and business = success.
The moral of the story is not that you have to do what Jay Tee does because Keak is doing his own thing and so is Balance, and so is Sean T, and so is Quinn, and so is NBD and so is Cellski, and so is Playa Rae. But you do have to step your business game up. this shit is 10% music. Believe it.
That's just my 12 cents. Like it or not I preach the gospel. There was no other reason for this post except Im frustrated. Peace.
If this dont apply to you, dont trip. Good luck, we all need it.
PS
Watch for Silas and I-Rocc to be the next surprise from our camp on labels I can't disclose yet. Stay tuned.
What up to A-Wax...where ya at dog? they dont know what you got coming.
This ain't directed to nobody so don't trip but it is some food for thought.
All I ever hear is "the Bay is dead", then I hear "we gonna do it big", then I hear a bunch of other shit that is hella contracdictory of other posts. Mostly I ignore it. But it's 2004 and I want to see where everybody is at with all the statements that were made about how big cats were gonna do it or watch when this album drops and all kinds of shit like that.
Now, I know I'm not the most well liked cat on here but I am definitely one of the ones with the most credentials like it or not and I don't even run around hyping up shit on every post etc. Now the latest complaint from a few cats is top making love songs blah, blah , blah. The thing is though I have to ask "why?".
We have two latino artists from the Bay on a major right now and we have Keak on a major and 40 and Short still have deals and Quinn, Balance, Cellski and a few others are being scouted as we speak but otherwise I want to know what authority anyone has to speak on anyone else's hustle or music right now when ain't no one really selling significant units or getting significant airplay?
City Hall and Urbanlife and I guess 101 and R&D is all that is giving so called "deals" out but otherwise there are really nobody out there with the pull or power to help us, we have to do it ourselves. I admit it...Bayside made alot of cats lazy because of the marketing, advances, pressing and all that we gave out. Good or bad, like me or not, Bayside kept the Bay on life support from '99 to '02 when I left.
If the Bay is dead...we killed it. Don't blame KMEL. It wasn't that they stopped playing us but we stopped making hits like the early and mid 90's and 90% of everyone's business game ain't up to par.
How many of you go to music meetings at Wild or KMEL? How many of you service The Pros record pool. How many of you belong to AFIM or NARM or one of the many industry organizations.
How many of you belong to AFTRA and honor union scale payments? How many of actually mail out radio in-store copies to retailers? If you don't do all of this and more...you ain't doing your job then. Period. Ask Chuck at Done Deal how real this shit is. Ask Black C who still handles all of his business. Ask JT The Bigga Figga who no matter what yall think still makes more moves than most of us and still is a certified boss.
My other complaint is get off the "legends" and so called "old school" Bay rappers dicks. I dont give a fuck what Bay you claim. They paved it and they still are the only cats selling records on a good enough scale to live off of. Black C, Taydatay, Jay Tee, JT The Bigga Figga, and Cellski have all made some of their best albums in the last two years so implying they don't have it is plain blaspemy.
I'm not having a holier than thou attitude because we are on Universal I'm actually thankful and blessed to be where we are at and it could be over tommorow so we are making the most of it while we have another chance. And in case anybody didn't know why Jay Tee and 40 Ounce got picked up by Universal here it is...
Kinda the short version: Our project coordinator LMD1510 (Lisa donahue) sends out our mailers every project to radio and retail. Long story short...our CD sat in the program director's car in Sacramento and his lady opened it, played it and told him it's a hit. KSFM started bangin' it...and Universal called them and said who is hot and they said Jay Tee and then they called Jay Tee while we were at the barber shop. A month later we signed with Tommy Mottola. That's some lightning strikes twice type shit right there! I also got to give it up to DJ Mark 7 for making the song aware to his PD/MD and they jumped on it at 98.7. Our first airplay. Thats love. And before all of that, Jay Tee made a hit. Pure and simple. Talent and business = success.
The moral of the story is not that you have to do what Jay Tee does because Keak is doing his own thing and so is Balance, and so is Sean T, and so is Quinn, and so is NBD and so is Cellski, and so is Playa Rae. But you do have to step your business game up. this shit is 10% music. Believe it.
That's just my 12 cents. Like it or not I preach the gospel. There was no other reason for this post except Im frustrated. Peace.
If this dont apply to you, dont trip. Good luck, we all need it.
PS
Watch for Silas and I-Rocc to be the next surprise from our camp on labels I can't disclose yet. Stay tuned.
What up to A-Wax...where ya at dog? they dont know what you got coming.
