Well then you won't be getting their money. Their isn't anything you or anyone else can do about it. People are always going to dub tapes, copy cds or just borrow from their friends instead of buying albums. These people have existed for a long time and they aren't going anywhere. Artists/labels need to quit worrying about these people and start worrying about the people who do buy the albums and about getting NEW fans to buy them. I am in no way condoning burning INSTEAD of buying but I am condoning burning to decide if it's WORTH buying.
WHERE THA FUCK DID THA BAY AREA FANZ GO?!?
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LEON......I FEEL U,AT THA SAME TIME IT`S LIFE DOG.WE RAP ABOUT THA SAME OL SHIT BECAUSE WE AINT CHANGIN!AZ PEOPLE,I DONT KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I REP MY HOOD IN LIFE.....I SMOKE STUPID DANK IN LIFE.......I CARRY PISTOLZ N HANDLE MINE IN LIFE.......SO SHOULD I START RAPPIN ABOUT ALIENZ N FLYIN SAUCERZ TO BE DIFFERENT?WHAT ARE SOME SUBJECT YOU THINK A RAPPER SHOULD SPEAK ON THAT AINT BEEN SPOKE ON?HELP ME OUT HERE.
Come on dogg first of all Cormega and Nature dont sell much. The units they do sell comes from the fact that they are from NYC, the major media capital of the world, and so they get much more exposure than ANY rapper from the Bay Area. And they have gotten their shit played in NYC, which is 10 million people listening to their shit. They have also been connected with famous rappers like Nas, the Firm, etc. so they got shine off that, something Bay Area rappers never get as long as the corporate media is based in New York and L.A.
Mobb Deep and Scarface are a different story, both have had their shit played repeatedly all over the radio, MTV, BET, etc. for 10 years. Thats why they sell, its pretty simple actually.
So I was saying that the reason Southern independent artists sell more than Bay independent artists is cuz of the radio and the demographic differences. But if you're talking about L.A. or NYC artists, they sell more because they are in the major media capitals of the entire world and get a lot of exposure that way. Major labels look for artists in those 2 cities more than any others.
Mobb Deep and Scarface are a different story, both have had their shit played repeatedly all over the radio, MTV, BET, etc. for 10 years. Thats why they sell, its pretty simple actually.
So I was saying that the reason Southern independent artists sell more than Bay independent artists is cuz of the radio and the demographic differences. But if you're talking about L.A. or NYC artists, they sell more because they are in the major media capitals of the entire world and get a lot of exposure that way. Major labels look for artists in those 2 cities more than any others.
yeah what do you know about the drug laws or the criminal justice system? that has obviously affected you a lot. what about capitalism and the economic system that creates rich and poor? what about racism?
All the stuff you're talking about relates to the shit I just mentioned. Rappers like Talib Kweli, Blackalicious, The Coup, Dead Prez, Common, Mos Def, shit even Styles, Cougnut, E-40 etc. they relate all the hood shit back to WHERE IT COMES FROM--the bigger picture
All the stuff you're talking about relates to the shit I just mentioned. Rappers like Talib Kweli, Blackalicious, The Coup, Dead Prez, Common, Mos Def, shit even Styles, Cougnut, E-40 etc. they relate all the hood shit back to WHERE IT COMES FROM--the bigger picture
MEZZANO.....I CANT RECALL 1 TIME HEARIN SCARFASE ON THA RADIO POST MIND PLAYIN TRICKZ ON ME,NOR CORMEGA,NOR NATURE.ALSO......OUT OF 10 MILLION N.Y.ERZ HOW MANY COPPED MEGA&NATURE?7,000?WOW!THEY SALEZ COME FRUM EVERYWHERE BUT THEM BIG MARKETS.WHAT I`M SAYIN IS WHAT`S THA DIFFERANSE BETWEEN MOBB DEEP SPITTIN A WHOLE ALBUM OF GANGSTA SHIT AND HOLLOW TIP SPITTIN A WHOLE ALBUM FULLA GANGSTA SHIT?WHERE ARE THA MILLION PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT MOBB DEEP SHIT WHEN HOLLOW DROPS(HOLLOWS JUST AN EXAMPLE)?IF THEY FEEL GANGSTA SHIT WHY NOT SUPPORT THA FOUNDERZ OF THIS G-SHIT(THA WEST KOAST)?
Yea I realize that daily realities are not always the same for everybody, but that doesn't mean everyone has to rap about the same shit the same way.
Let me try to help: When you were down, and you were in your cell writin letters to home, what was goin on in your mind? When you were on the yard and you seen young brothas 18, 19, 20 years old comin in and they got 10 years, 30 years, comin in with "L"s, that didn't make think "got damn is this all there is?". When you see a man die, after the initial anger and you sit and think about it, don't you realize that he was somebody's brother, father, son? Ain't nothin wrong with writin about the dirty realities of the 'hood, but I prefer to hear it from cats that put it out there in ways others don't.
When I was doin a bid, one of the older cats on the yard said to me "Look around. You see all these niggas hittin the weights, playin bones & cards all fuckin day, talkin about what they gonna do when they touch down ?(get drunk, get high, fuck hoes) Them the niggas that's gonna always come back. When you're in here, don't just think about what you're gonna do when you get out. THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO WHEN YOU GET OUT SO YOU DON'T COME BACK"
Put those thoughts & emotions down.
Wassupp? Shit I support the bay music. Awax,Mob Figaz,Messy Marv, etc... do deserve to be on the radio getting play. Alof of these off brand rappers is getting play off bullshit, like that one hoe doing that"kneck my back" bullshit. Thats not music, nig's like Wax who put there heart in there music deserves that shit. I dont know about ya'll. but you can feel what he speaking,its REAL TALK. All i suggest is too support the bay Folkz!!
-------YOU SPEAKIN JAPANESE TO ME WITH THAT SHIT!PLEASE,RACISM?CAPITALISM?THA JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CURRUPT.....WE ALL KNOW,CANT DO SHIT ABOUT IT.LOST CAUSE.BESIDEZ,MAJORITY OF MY PODNAZ DONT KNOW THA DEFINITION OF CAPITALISM OR ECONOMIC SYSTEM.....THEY DO KNOW GUNZ,WEED,$$$$.I REP THA GUTTER,NOT THA REVOLUTION THAT WILL NEVER OCCUR!
REAL TALK DOG......SAME TIME I WAS 16 ON THA MAINLINE WHEN A O.G. ASKED ME HOW OLD I WAS,I SAID 16.HE SAID THINK BACK IN YOURE LIFE,ALL THA MEMORIES,GOOD N BAD,THA LAST 16 YEARZ.HE LET ME THINK 4 5 MINUTES THEN HE SAID THA WHOLE TIME YOU WAS OUT THERE LIVIN I BEEN IN HERE DOIN TIME FOR A KRIME I HAD NOTHIN 2 DO WITH!2 YEARZ LATER HE GOT A NEW TRIAL N WAS RELEASED,AFTER 23 YEARZ!IM LIKE THIS......ITS ALL FATE.IF GODZ PLAN FOR YOU IS PRISON YOU WILL GO 2 PRISON,IF HE WANTS YOU FREE YOU`LL BE FREE.I KNOW STONE COLD HITTAZ N LIFE-LONG DRUG DEALAZ WHO NEVA SEEN A JAIL CELL,RECKLASS MUTHAFUCKAZ.GOD DONT WANT EM IN JAIL THEY AINT GOIN.THATS JUST MY VIEW.
I STOLE A BURNED COPY OF MEGA 1ST SHIT FRUM MY FOLKZ,I BOUGHT RAPPA/HUSTLA BECAUSE HE BIT MY DICK WITH THAT TITLE N I WANTED TO SEE IF HE WAS DISSIN.....N HERE GO TIM ACTIN LIKE A BITCH AGAIN.YOU THINK JAY-Z STEAL OUR SLANG?!?FUCK NAW,HE`S GERPIN.NAS N MOBB DEEP.....THUG LIFE IZ MINE/YALL NEED 2 GIVE IT UP/WE DONT GIVE A FUCK/--TACAL?THAT WHOLE ALBUM METH WAS GERPIN.DID WE FORGET ABOUT PAC?NIEVE FAGZ LIKE TIM BE IN DENIAL,LIKE THA EAST KOAST DONT HATE US!HOW YOU GONE LIKE SOMEBODY WHO DONT LIKE YOU?