El_Mezcalito
El_Mezcalito
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create a biz model that accounts for the fact you're not going to see say 20% of your sales due to illegal downloads??? Consider it the new "free goods." Resturants and Retail stores build in product loss/theft into their equation - maybe record …
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Now, the fan IS an artist, there's hip hop around every fucking corner, every jim joe john mary sue and jan are making it, so there's less focus on the "real" artists who existed before the explosion of consumer-level music production equipment (and…
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music is a very different hustle now than even as little as five years ago and while i sincerely sympathize with you on the bootlegging issue, in this age an artist has to adapt or they simply will not be able to make a living off their music Agr…
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Another thing that effects these sales, aside from bootlegging/downloading/quality of product, is the sheer availability of hip hop music. It used to be a select group of people who made hip hop, and an entire audience of FANS who's only job was to…
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i hope i don't really have to point this out but bootlegging of an album does not necessarily mean the loss of a sale. if a mufuckah didn't know about your shit and wouldn't have found out about your shit without bootlegging, that can hardly count …
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what am I doing to motivate cats to buy? we had a pretty decent marketing campaign, what you'd expect for the ship goal -- i won't bore you with details, but it included press, radio, street/lifestyle, ads. the usual. I feel you dunny - it's a to…
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not to diss, but maybe a lot of stuff is only supposed to sell 2-3 thousand records. and if it's supposed to do more what are you doing to motivate cats to buy??? We went crazy with drops & t-shirts and shows, but I live in a dirty south "have…
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compilations of new material usually isn't the best path to platinum range rovers.... I don't know man, maybe if people didn't bootleg it haha
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so you're dope and everyone's stealing your shit and those before you were wack, but folls bought their shit??? my point is, the quality of records has nothing to do with decline in sales. its the bootlegging that is to blame. my shit is dop…
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I don't think the touring game has changed at all. I think you're jaded. I'm not jaded - I sold records without having to make excuses. What tours have Killer Mike, TI or LIl Wayne sold out??? If Wayne was the kingpin he thinks he is, he woul…
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yeah, but like I said, people used to buy garbage instead of stealing it. now people are stealing shit, previewing it, liking it, and ... keeping it. the CD is at ughh, amazon + fye online .. UGHH: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/store/detail…
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No doubt I can respect that I just got a personal taste though -- I've seen my album, or songs from it, posted on several boards (Okayplayer, Justus League, Philaflavor), and several blogs (one actually called "hiphopbootleggers"), and LOTS of peop…
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yes, intended exaggeration. some of the biggest sellers of the mid 90's, I believe
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please do some historical research before talking out your ass. In the 70's "Home taping is killing music," the 80's the walkman was reducing sales then the advent of the CD created a "new dawn" and resurgence of the industry. People were told t…
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the 70's? Dude, sales have been climbing since the 70's. especially in rap (obviously). "Make dope shit and it will sell" -- NO, unfortunately, it doesn't work that way anymore. It doesn't matter how dope you are, how well marketed you are, ever…
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Sure its a factor -- haven't you ever bought a garbage album? Every time you bootleg, you're stealing, and depriving an artist of a sale. People used to buy instead of bootleg. And people used to buy garbage just like they steal garbage. ** T…
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I don't think its that much wacker than late 90's. Remember there was a time when you though Timbaland and Dirty South was wack(?) The game is the same. Technology changed.
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respect the fake mustache. respect it.
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Yo B- I can't believe you used that shot for a press photo... it was between that shot and this:
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ayatollah is amazing and i am interested in hearing this Tollah is indeed the man. Good friend of mine, incredible human being.
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Alan Smithee? David Lynch is the fuckin man. You can't try to do a movie he did and think you can do it better. plus he had STING in it. ... STING.
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word, of course Mad Max, and Bladerunner. I actually like Dune better than Bladerunner, but Mad Max is the shit
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not that marketable -- thats what I've been hearing. why though? just cuz its different than their usual sound? different than the usual underground hip hop? actually, we had a distributor lined up for Japan. Dude was real excited about it, but…
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thanks. be honest tho man ... I need to know if people can deal with these dudes coming a little different than usual. its a different sound, different tempo. fo real I wanna know what you guys think...
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haters! wtf?
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nice collection! cleaning that shit up looks like a pain tho lol. shit is all over the place!
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oh shit!!
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my parents *say* they like my beats... but sometimes I think they're just saying that. what do your parents think about your beats?
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dunno...but Apocolyptico looks badass. The Mayan civilization fascinates me. yeah me too, but the shit REALLY isn't box office gold. nobody would give a fuck about it unless there was some super-controversy that would make people talk about it at …
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was living an "I don't give a fuck" type lifestyle thats gangsta