The internet killed Hiphop

[Edgar Cayce]

wat ya think?

[Mariah]

http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/show...4&postcount=12

[Edgar Cayce]

u got jokes. next

[Mariah]

u = you

[Edgar Cayce]

ok :/

see what I mean.

[Mariah]

Yeah, hip-hop was killed because people know how to spell correctly.

[Edgar Cayce]

Nope...

Thanks to the internet I found a lot of underground rappers I would have never heard any other way.

What exactly do you think the internet has done to harm hip hop? Other than downloads i cant think of shit unless you are some weird elitist. But if you are the Ed Casey I think you are you have no room to talk.

your right I dont. Im a complete hipercrit.

[Mariah]

lol. duh.

[Spoken Deity]

the net has really done nothing but good for hip-hop (except for downloading I guess)...but the good far outweighs the bad. People get recognized easier, its easier to find new artist to listen too, you can download LEGALLY on i-tunes and what not...

Its battling forums that fuck it up

[Edgar Cayce]

It has stream lined the industry so much. that there is no need for a industry.

[Edgar Cayce]

explain how battling forums fuck it up...alot of people improve on these forums in ways they wouldn't have surrounded by others who don't know shit about music.

True. Plus the forum is motivation to even a make a rap track.
Critics mold a artist

[Mariah]

It has stream lined the industry so much. that there is no need for a industry.

There hasn't been need for an industry in a while. People are getting out there without an industry. Come on now, you have to be kidding me with this shit.

I know this is not hip-hop related, but Radiohead's last album "In Rainbows" was put online for FREE and they made more money than almost all of their previous albums on donations and/or people actually caring to pay for it. The industries all over in music are failing because you don't need them.

[Spoken Deity]

explain how battling forums fuck it up...alot of people improve on these forums in ways they wouldn't have surrounded by others who don't know shit about music.

it was a sarcastic statement really meant for the e-gangsters in frontlines...
But I'd agree with you...


Mariah: You have a great point. That radio head album made good money. It didnt make as much as their last few album though. Dont know where you read that... But either way, made good money.
No other band could really do that in my opinion though.

[Edgar Cayce]

There hasn't been need for an industry in a while. People are getting out there without an industry. Come on now, you have to be kidding me with this shit.

I know this is not hip-hop related, but Radiohead's last album "In Rainbows" was put online for FREE and they made more money than almost all of their previous albums on donations and/or people actually caring to pay for it. The industries all over in music are failing because you don't need them.

Yea I heard they sold it on there website for donations. Genius

[Mariah]

it was a sarcastic statement really meant for the e-gangsters in frontlines...
But I'd agree with you...


Mariah: You have a great point. That radio head album made good money. It didnt make as much as their last few album though. Dont know where you read that... But either way, made good money.
No other band could really do that in my opinion though.

I read this on some really unreliable source I am sure, but I read they made more than Pablo Honey and OK Computer.

As far as anyone else doing that - if that was the way that music went, instead of an industry, everyone would be able to do it. It's because of the industry that they don't.