The internet killed Hiphop

[Illus']

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.

I agree with HO

[Spekz.]

<--- can talk "industry" with you Kris...

[Kris Cain]

Kris I don't know if you were referring to me anywhere in there.... but I was discussing from a consumer's standpoint, not an industry artist's. I never even used the word industry in any of my posts that I recall...

na i didnt read past mariah's posts...
i dont even know what you or spekz standpoints are on this topic...
but if it's anything like hers with the "the industry is not needed"... then we probably need to have a conversation

[Edgar Cayce]

I can save Hip Hop

[Spekz.]

My standpoints are on industry facts n statistics...


Im majoring in music business at full sail. Im a month behind OPEY. (was actually in his class for our RA program) but i took an extra month off inbetween programs, to help with a project my uncle was working on....

I know my biznazz

*moonwalks*

[Brother Blue Collar]

My standpoints are on industry facts n statistics...


Im majoring in music business at full sail. Im a month behind OPEY. (was actually in his class for our RA program) but i took an extra month off inbetween programs, to help with a project my uncle was working on....

I know my biznazz

*moonwalks*

why'd you capitialize his name like that???

like he isn't BIG enuff in real life.

insensitive.

[Kris Cain]

I can save Hip Hop

it doesnt need saving. lol.

[Spekz.]

i capitalized it to just make certain we where all aware we were speaking about the big round one...not any small impersonators.

[Kris Cain]

lol... i have gathered my experience through being in so many different situations with majors, and indys, and publishing companys, and etc... lol.

[Sir Skiddz SoPhrenic]

I mean firs off you have to look in the perspective that artists never made that much money off of cd sales. ESPECIALLY in Hip Hop. Soundscan has gone down where now your considered a success if you go gold when back in 2002 you flopped if you had gone gold(Joe Budden).. But I bet you one thing, Joe Budden aint got no money from that Def Jam album. If anything.. Illegal downloading helps the artists which is why many of the smart ones embraced the internet and began relasing their shit online. Even going the iTunes route is a smart move. As a person who does not buy cds, I can honestly say that I'll go to an artists show if I liked what I hear.. and I'll be less inclined to go if lets say I had bought the album.
For example... Talib Kweli's Beautiful Struggle album.. I felt it was a letdown after I heard it, but I remained a fan of Kweli. My opinion may have been swayed if I had bought the album as my first listen. Couple that with the fact that if you go to a concert, the artists make money off of whatever they sell between cd's, merchandise, clothes, and all that jazz. And people, because they are RIGHT THERE, will be more inclined to buy something at a concert than at an FYE, because once again, the artist/group is not there.

So to put it simply.. the internet has hurt hip hop artists who have not learned to embrace it and use it to channel the money through other forms


and i didnt read the thread so if my point was brought up then whoops my bad, but i guess this is my co-sign.