Will all the artists trying to get radio/tv exposure please do me a favor!

[MaddDogg]

COME OUT WITH A CREATIVE single. I was just peepin a thread on BayRidaz about E-40's "One Night Stand" video. Not to knock 40, but is it me or is this not 40 at all? "One Night Stand" is an R. Kelly concept, not an E-40 Belafonte concept. How can bay area artists expect to compete on a larger scale if they arent using the originality that is seasoned into their cds on a larger scale?

Listen to Gasoline...thats an original song. "I Gotta play some tennis before I goto court..." "I Cant fuck with it if its not economically um ur uh ra feasible..." "Couldnt say they ABCs backwards, shit, I cant say my ABC's backwards when Im sober." This is an E-40 song. He uses his slang, he uses his charisma and his style, and the song sounds truely unique...not duplicatable. I think this song could have made a lot bigger splash if they used it for the video instead of the snippet at the end.

Again, same thing with Quinn. When the Mighty Quinn came out Quinn used "Give It Up," for the single...but is it me or is that not Quinn? Wouldnt a song like "Bound To Ball" or "Cuddlin Aint Huslin" do a lot better...or...a little bit more risky...Q2020? These are the type of songs that MAKE albums, they show who the artists really are.

Messy Marv- Nubian Queen...wasnt that the single? Why the hell you gonna put out a single like that when you are commin with Thugged Out heat?

Now Im not knockin Quinn, E-40, or mess...but wouldnt you like it a lot better if the E-40 videos that came out were E-40ish instead of E-40 trying to be someone else?

 

[STS]

they are trying to appeal to the larger audience.

 

[sav-man]

they are trying to appeal to the larger audience.

Sure. The broader audience with most of the cash (suburban, white, jock/cheerleader-type teenagers) doesn't want to hear anything too hardcore--I may not like it, and we on the SICCNESS may not like it, but for every, say, sixty of us here who want hardcore shit, there's at least six hundred kids in the 'burbs and boonies who just want to party and have love songs sung to them. Sad, but true.

I look at it like this: if a CD has, say, fourteen songs, as long as at least ten or eleven of them are hard, lyrically-sound, and meaningful (as Messy Marv's CDs certainly are), then two or three radio tracks out of the fourteen (or more) songs don't really bother me.

PEACE!

 

[Psilo707]

Hell yeah, One Night Stand sucks in comparison to what the single SHOULD have been. Im already tired of that song. Im tired of Gasoline too... even though its pretty knockin. And Quarterbackin'... shit I dunno... Clipse sounds pretty amateur to me these days, I dont know why, especially when going up with a word master like 40.
E 40 has always been one of my favorite artists but I dont think im alone (well maybe i am) when I say Im not really expecting much in "Breakin' News". It better be better than G&G at least.

 

[MaddDogg]

they are trying to appeal to the larger audience.

elaborate please. The position I am understanding hear is the bay (with all its flavor and sound) is gonna change their music to sound like every other radio song to get play? So what makes San Quinn- Give it Up better than Joe Budden- Pump it up or any other radio hit?

Its just my opinion, but the way to get on the map seems to be ORIGINALITY! People are TIRED of hearing the same kinda shit all night long on the radio.