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    Saul Williams' album: Failure of online music sales or bad marketing?

    Consumers are no longer buying music, they are buying into a brand. Artists are making money by extending those brands via cross-promotion into other forms of entertainment. I never thought I would live to see the day where a good marketing consultant would have more relevance than the DJ in...
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    Indie music-- profitable? Riddle?

    Hiring good PR is the one of the first steps that lets me know that an unsigned artist is serious about their music. Good (proven track record) PR does cost money and depending on their relationships, they can get you and your music into a lot of different doors. Having someone who will...
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    Airing Out My Feelings On The Big Trade

    NJ got the better end of this deal by far. In today's pro leagues a player with enough clout does not have to play for a team if he doesn't want to and that was the case with Kidd. Kidd is a once in a generation PG but he's on the downside of his career - Harris has an upside and NJ can...
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    Question for the Ill Fam???

    LOTS of good posts in this thread - good topic. I think many beatmakers who aspire to be in-demand producers need to understand the difference between "making money" from beats and "creating value" for their music. It's a big difference. First off, stop thinking of beatmaking as a way to pay...
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    Can someone explain to me what this is? YaHHHH!!

    Nah man, I get your point. Nothing wrong with continue to put out music at any age - the Nas "Where Are They Now" Remix had me wishing that a lot of people on that record were still active because they still got it. There's a market for everything. I think people/artists just need to be...
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    Can someone explain to me what this is? YaHHHH!!

    The point you make about MCs from the past running circles around today's rappers is a 100% accurate assessment. Yesterday's rapper comes from the park jam, which is also why I believe MC's used to rap "louder"/enunciate on earlier records, because they had to be heard over a crowd - probably up...
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    Can someone explain to me what this is? YaHHHH!!

    Sad thing is - dude is/was a straight A student , so the question is: Is he intelligent enough to know he has to simplify his music?? Same thing with Plies. If you listen to a Plies mixtape and then go have a conversation with dude, you would swear they were two different people.
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    Can someone explain to me what this is? YaHHHH!!

    I would say the same thing Relic - but I've had the opportunity to chop it up with the man and basically have a conversation about some of the decisions and choices within his musical resume from a "real hip hop purist" perspective. I couldn't even front on him after that because he clearly...
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    Can someone explain to me what this is? YaHHHH!!

    I applaud Soulja Boy's success and I hope he continues to make simple hits with dances to go with it. Some people take Soulja Boy's success personally - like it really offends people (lol) Looking at the big picture - artists like him and Cassie are the new case study for how you can use the...
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    Pick Up Any Good Gear Lately ???

    Ummm .... New tuner and a capo for my guitar -
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    Then & now..knowledge is power!

    I thought this was a book report or term paper lol. The other elements most def. need to be mentioned because it's impossible to tell the story of hip hop without mentioning b-boys and graf writers. I (and many other people that grew up around the way) learned to break dance waaay before...
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    The Great Debate

    Good topic. Hip Hop is not only music, it's an entire culture comprised of style of dress, slang, music and of course those elements. - Rapping is something you do - hip hop is something you are. There is no such thing as "real hip hop" vs. "rap" music. It's all rap music. The term real...
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    ::: Genius or Crazy? I Bring you C-Dot :::

    He's not crazy - I think he's just actin a lil' wild to make the video interesting - I grew up with some people that I KNOW were bi-polar, manic depression- types but didn't have the dough to get it properly diagnosed so people said they were just being themselves lol. I was born left-handed...
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    Rap Songs That Get "Emotional"?

    DMX is probably the king of this category - Dude says a prayer at the end of a lot of his shows and is sheddin tears and all that - Pastor Troy is the definition of this as well.
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    Rap Songs That Get "Emotional"?

    Ummm Lil Wayne - I Miss My Dawgs - UGK - One Day You're Here - Talks about his homie son dying in a house fire Beans - Jay Z Where Have You Been- where there rapping about their dads on the Dynasty album. Jay Z - Song Cry Regrets Nas - Dance from GodSon album Bun B -...
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    every sound having a purpose

    For what its worth - "White Tee" by Franchise, "Laffy Taffy" by D4L, and Knuck "if you Buck" by Crime Mobb (should) have taught us that even FL presets straight out the box can land you a top 40 hit if you create a feeling or "movement" behind the beat. And for the hip hop purists, there...
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    How would you describe YOUR sound?

    Guitar-driven, ever changing non-conformist soundtracks to the movie that is life.
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    Getting My Sound Better

    Your sound quality is in direct relation to the knowledge you have of audio engineering basics and the quality of sounds you use. To use an analogy - FL Studio is just a blank canvas: If you know how to paint, you can get busy on a mural, t-shirt, or whatever your painting on. One thing...
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    Wow... no Colts, Cowboys.

    They had T.O. SINGLE coverage the entire 2nd half - Romo took a lot of coverage sacks that he could've thrown the ball away w/ no penalty since he's outside the tackles. A quality QB in today's NFL is more valuable than ever before - although Eli Manning is soft, his performance in the Pats...
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    I need a 2500 loan. . .

    It's nothing better than to have credit - where you can basically borrow money against your own good name and pay it back in a payment plan. There are agencies and sites out there but the thing is they are gonna DESTROY you in terms of very high/ unreasonable interest rates because credit...
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