I was having a conversation with an artist on how to really build her situation inside the music industry. Many artist reach a point in their career when the industry (corporations) begins to push you out of, and no longer want to support your artistry. The question is are you to old to rap? When hip hop started in the late seventies no one really took it as a valuable source for income until the corporations got behind it and push it through the main stream media.
In the late 80's hip hop started to sky rocket with groups like Run DMC and Ice T NWA gained world wide acceptance from the public and major record labels. Now its been thirty years later, and many of these same artist are still rapping and selling records. For example, Ice Cube just released I Am The West, and Dr. Dre is set to release Detox some time in the spring. May of these artist are now in their forties and still have a fan base of people who enjoy their music.
The thing that I was trying to explain to this sista was that the corporations are only interested in making money off your talent. You can build and audience for your music and still make a decent living off of ones talent without the corporations involvement. After she listen to what I was preaching she got a different take on the music industry and realized she wasn't really to old to rap.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Obama Got scratched up In B-ball
Image via WikipediaObama got game ! Obama seems to have a little bit of a game on the basketball court. He has played a number of games during his presidency but this time he got scratched like a girl and had to get some stitches.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday with a group of family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Justin Beiber Awards
Justin Bieber was hot last night taking home four awards. He along with Usher, Rhianna, and Talyor Swift manage to woo the crowd with stellar performances. 
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Image via WikipediaThe 16-year-old teen heartthrob went four-for-four on Sunday night, capturing every award he was nominated for, including the top award of the night, favorite artist. He beat a list that featured veterans Eminem and Usher, as well as Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Bieber became the youngest person to ever win the trophy. Bieber also won favorite pop/rock album, favorite pop/rock male, and the show's breakthrough artist award. "I think many artist have prove themselves this years and deserve the awards that receive" said coolwater
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Apple Got More Power Than Record Companies
Image via WikipediaSteve Jobs controls the music industry now with Apple Itunes. In order to get in to the game record companies have agreed to sale music for 99cent. Record Companies executives have let technology dictate what gets sold and bought. Many record companies are making billions of dollars a year, and for some reason don't want to create their won platform to sale the music that they create. Apple I tunes controls 90% of the market share for music being sold right now.
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Amazon Is In The Movie Business
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Monday, November 15, 2010
DMX Is Back
The Dog (DMX) seems to be back on the radar with a new banger. DMX has came together with Swizz Beats and Busta Rhymes to come out with a new song called "Yall Don't Really know". As most of you know DMX has had his fair share of trouble with the law due to parole violations and drugs. DMX has sold around 2o million albums to date. He is one of the harderst east coast rappers in the game that has went head to head with industry executives inside the music industry.
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DMX talks about everything from why he was upset at Def Jam to sucka DJs. Peep it!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Planned Propaganda in Hip hop
Cover of MC Hammer Many of you have probably heard about the beef between Mc Hammer and Jay Z, or the beef between Little Kim and Nicki Minaji. What most people have to understand is that when a person has an album coming out and a artist needs publicity then you will hear about beef or drama to lure you into buying their album. For example, Mc Hammer has not put out work in years, but he has an album coming out. He knows he can't really out rap Jay Z but he needs Jayz brand inorder to get some publicity to help with his album sales. Nicki Minaj has an album coming out and has chose to go in on Lil' Kim. Many people don't understand the propaganda machine. Many artist need drama or some form of bullshit to meet the labels expectation on album sales.
The book called the "Art of War" by a great chines warrior layed out details on how to attack and enemy in time of war. Its all strategy many artist have probably talked to each other on the phone before the beef even begin inorder to plan out how this situation would play out. Do you remember 50cent and Kayne had a beef about who would sale the most albums. In the end these two slaves made alot of money for the record companies that they worked for. So next time you hear about the beef between two artist just know that it is probably planned out.
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