No disrespect to any artist what so ever, but think about it. A good portion of our most popular selling artists from the bay have been around for 8-12 years. Not that some of those cats aren't still hot, but geesh I gotta quote Joe from Creative Music: "the gig is up". A lot of these cats treat the biz like the dope game (that being a lil problem in itself), selling the same dope and it ain't even that good.
We've got fans and industry heads both complaining about the "lull" in our business. Our economy, burning and bootlegging aside...Where's the freshness? I talk to owners and buyers of retail stores everyday and they are scared to spend their dollars on our music. Especially on compilations and even now on some of the bigger name bay artists. Why? They're dropping albums at the same time on different labels, etc... Folks don't know really what is what.
We've played everything out, to the features, to the compilations to the same features on the same compilations. Recycled tracks, best of's, greatest hits and collections, old tired lyrics, OLD dug out of the vault material, shady business dealings and over-all saturation of our market has us in the state we find ourselves in. I also believe that nobody is truly marketing and promoting like they did in the past. You can knock Jason Blaine for many things, but you can NEVER say he didn't nationally market the hell out RBL, IMP, Totally Insane, etc.. Him and The Music People truly helped to bring the bay to the top where we'd so like to be again. Let's get excited about our music again and hype this shit up!!!!
Hey you can't put an ad in Murder Dog, post up on the board and send your homies out with a few flyers and say your project is being marketed and promoted.
Not to sound all negative There's a TON of talent and creativity out here no doubt, we just as a whole need to weed out some of the bullshit, put a little money into projects and do tha damn thang! Let's show the rest of the country AND THE BAY what we've got.
By the way, 2 stores in the bay have closed down. Phat Beatz in Oakland and Star in San Jose...
Urbanlife will be a part of bringing back the bay!
We've got fans and industry heads both complaining about the "lull" in our business. Our economy, burning and bootlegging aside...Where's the freshness? I talk to owners and buyers of retail stores everyday and they are scared to spend their dollars on our music. Especially on compilations and even now on some of the bigger name bay artists. Why? They're dropping albums at the same time on different labels, etc... Folks don't know really what is what.
We've played everything out, to the features, to the compilations to the same features on the same compilations. Recycled tracks, best of's, greatest hits and collections, old tired lyrics, OLD dug out of the vault material, shady business dealings and over-all saturation of our market has us in the state we find ourselves in. I also believe that nobody is truly marketing and promoting like they did in the past. You can knock Jason Blaine for many things, but you can NEVER say he didn't nationally market the hell out RBL, IMP, Totally Insane, etc.. Him and The Music People truly helped to bring the bay to the top where we'd so like to be again. Let's get excited about our music again and hype this shit up!!!!
Hey you can't put an ad in Murder Dog, post up on the board and send your homies out with a few flyers and say your project is being marketed and promoted.
Not to sound all negative There's a TON of talent and creativity out here no doubt, we just as a whole need to weed out some of the bullshit, put a little money into projects and do tha damn thang! Let's show the rest of the country AND THE BAY what we've got.
By the way, 2 stores in the bay have closed down. Phat Beatz in Oakland and Star in San Jose...
Urbanlife will be a part of bringing back the bay!
