OK - Didn't hear "A Milli" yet today, but it was playing on both Hot 97 and Power 105 at the same time at one point last night.
Today I turned on Hot 97 for 15 minutes and heard "Got Money," "Mr. Carter" and "My Life." Enough with Lil' Wayne already.
I then decided to check out Hot 97's playlist on line.
Lil' Wayne songs:
2. Got Money
3. A Milli
9. Mr. Carter
20. My Life
The rest of the Top 25 included:
4. Here I Am - Rick Ross (honestly, I don't give a damn that he was a CO, but the hood seems really pissed off about it...radio stations (and the Ozone Awards!) don't care)
13. The Business - Young Berg (any black woman, even light-skinneded ones, who buy this guy's album does not respect themselves...if you don't know what I'm talking about, google "young berg" and "dark butts"...any dude who buy's this guy's album is either 13 or gay)
Only New York artists on the Top 25:
1. Baby - LL Cool J (not crazy about this song, but I gotta respect LL's longevity)
14. Nas - Hero (not his greatest effort, but I'm happy Nas is getting spins...still ain't hear the album...tsk tsk for me)
25. Good Stuff - Jim Jones (don't ask me why or how, but Jim Jones really has figured out a formula for making hits)
But on the real, New York's longest running rap station only has 3 NY artists in its Top 25??!???!? Not even Maino! Yikes!
The only other rap songs in the Top 25 are:
6. Put On - Young Jeezy (Prolyfic got me loving this song...it's pretty good)
10. Homecomming - Kanye (goddamn, how many singles does this guy have...Graduation is starting to look like Thriller)
12. Whatever You Like - T.I. (I love T.I., but seriously, this song sucks...thank Lil' Wayne "Lollipop" for this one)
19. Get Like Me - David Banner (this song is fire)
22. Game's Pain - Game (much like T.I., I love Game. This song, however, is terrible.)
23. Dangerous - Kardinall Official (sort of a rap song...all I have to say is wow)
The remaining 10 songs are all R&B songs. Most of them are pretty good, so I won't complain. I will say this, that Ryan Leslie "Addiction" joint is fire.
Power 105's Top 25 was relatively similar (all 4 Wayne songs were in the Top 20, with "Mr. Carter" at 2 and "A Milli" at 3), but they had:
5. "Bust It Baby Pt. II" - Plies (I actually need to check dude's album. He makes, as I like to call it, extremely solid generic Rap/R&B records...I heard he actually got some joints)
24. "Hi Hater" - Maino (whatever, this is NY's anthem right now...curiously neither the Nas record nor the Jim Jones record is on Power's playlist, so the only 2 NY records in their Top 25 ar the LL joint at this joint...wow)
Who said Hip Hop is dead?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
A milli a milli a milli a milli a milli a milli
I swear to God if I hear this song again I'm going to shoot myself (or somebody).
Monday, August 4, 2008
Step ya production game up
Seriously, when did being a producer become the "thing to do" in Hip Hop?
I swear, the thought process must be as follows: I don't have the "look" or the "swag" to rap, I don't know how to get a label job, I don't have the contacts to be a manager, I don't have the skills to DJ, but I want to be in the music industry...I know what I'll do, I'll produce.
Now, I know people are going to jump down my throat for that comment, just like they did to Prolyfic when he said he doesn't mess with "Fruity Loop" producers.
That's not what I'm saying. I always wanted to be in the music industry. I went through the cycle. I've done it all. Rhymed, DJed, produced, etc. Where I'm at right now has been 23 years in the making. What does that mean? I started rapping at 6. Yeah, I said it. I'm on the business side now, and I'm staying on the business side.
At a certain point, a person has to look at themselves and ask, what do I want to do with my life? When you pick that craft, you have to perfect it. Don't half ass it.
Bottom line, if I make better beats than you, I'm not going to rep you. I don't even have time to rep all the producers that I think are hot. Why the hell would I rep a producer that has less skills than me?
Then again, I would've lost out on millions had Soulja Boy sent me a beat CD, so what the hell do I know?
I swear, the thought process must be as follows: I don't have the "look" or the "swag" to rap, I don't know how to get a label job, I don't have the contacts to be a manager, I don't have the skills to DJ, but I want to be in the music industry...I know what I'll do, I'll produce.
Now, I know people are going to jump down my throat for that comment, just like they did to Prolyfic when he said he doesn't mess with "Fruity Loop" producers.
That's not what I'm saying. I always wanted to be in the music industry. I went through the cycle. I've done it all. Rhymed, DJed, produced, etc. Where I'm at right now has been 23 years in the making. What does that mean? I started rapping at 6. Yeah, I said it. I'm on the business side now, and I'm staying on the business side.
At a certain point, a person has to look at themselves and ask, what do I want to do with my life? When you pick that craft, you have to perfect it. Don't half ass it.
Bottom line, if I make better beats than you, I'm not going to rep you. I don't even have time to rep all the producers that I think are hot. Why the hell would I rep a producer that has less skills than me?
Then again, I would've lost out on millions had Soulja Boy sent me a beat CD, so what the hell do I know?
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Insults
Why not?
1) An exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor: She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,' and Churchill said, 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it.'
2) A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' 'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'
3) 'He had delusions of adequacy.' - Walter Kerr
4) 'He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.' - Winston Churchill
5) 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about.' -Winston Churchill
6) 'I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.'- Clarence Darrow
7) 'He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.' - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
8) 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?' - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
9) 'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.' - Moses Hadas
10) 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.' - Abraham Lincoln
11) 'I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.' - Mark Twain
12) 'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.' -Oscar Wilde
13) 'I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one.' - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
14) 'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.' - Winston Churchill, in response.
15) 'I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.' - Stephen Bishop
16) 'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.' - John Bright
17) 'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.' - Irvin S. Cobb
18) 'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.' -Samuel Johnson
19) 'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.' - Paul Keating
20) 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.' Jack E. Leonard
21) 'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.' - Robert Redford
22) 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.' - Thomas Brackett Reed
23) 'In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.' - Charles, Count Talleyrand
24) 'He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.' - Forrest Tucker
25) 'Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?' - Mark Twain
26) 'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.' -Mae West
27) 'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.' - Oscar Wilde
28) 'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.' - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
29) 'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.' - Billy Wilder
30) 'I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.' -Groucho Marx
1) An exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor: She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,' and Churchill said, 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it.'
2) A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' 'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'
3) 'He had delusions of adequacy.' - Walter Kerr
4) 'He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.' - Winston Churchill
5) 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about.' -Winston Churchill
6) 'I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.'- Clarence Darrow
7) 'He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.' - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
8) 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?' - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
9) 'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.' - Moses Hadas
10) 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.' - Abraham Lincoln
11) 'I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.' - Mark Twain
12) 'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.' -Oscar Wilde
13) 'I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one.' - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
14) 'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.' - Winston Churchill, in response.
15) 'I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.' - Stephen Bishop
16) 'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.' - John Bright
17) 'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.' - Irvin S. Cobb
18) 'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.' -Samuel Johnson
19) 'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.' - Paul Keating
20) 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.' Jack E. Leonard
21) 'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.' - Robert Redford
22) 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.' - Thomas Brackett Reed
23) 'In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.' - Charles, Count Talleyrand
24) 'He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.' - Forrest Tucker
25) 'Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?' - Mark Twain
26) 'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.' -Mae West
27) 'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.' - Oscar Wilde
28) 'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.' - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
29) 'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.' - Billy Wilder
30) 'I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.' -Groucho Marx
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Mid-Year Thoughts
I really haven't had much to say (and neither has Pro or Freq or Jug (ha!) apparently)...Plus, I've been mad busy.
For whatever it's worth, I still haven't heard the Lil' Wayne album. I think the only album I've really listened to that has come out in '08 was Fat Joe...And it was actually kind of hot.
That being said, I really had a feeling that the G-Unit album wasn't going to do well. As much as they are playing the 3 singles in NY (plus those Mr. Cee/50 Cent mixtape joints), they are nowhere to be found on the charts (big shout to Ron Browz by the way). For whatever reason, those songs didn't break nationally. And the marketing campaign didn't really take on a mind of it's own. Maybe too much time was spent on the G-Unit/Young Buck dispute, and not enough time building awareness that the album was coming out.
But honestly, I really consider 50 Cent part of the new school or new wave of rappers. Even though he was on that Onyx album back in 90 whatever and "How to Rob" came out in '99 (I had it, plus "Money By Any Means" feat. NORE, on my first mixtape - ID4 - which came out 9 years ago on July 4 (part of me is like, "Only 9 years ago?" - the other part is like, "Holy shit! 9 years ago! I'm old")), I feel like he has a younger fanbase. Not Soulja Boy/Lil' Mama young, but young nonetheless. He didn't really make it big until '03.
Same with Wayne. He's been around for over a decade. But I feel like he was big in the South (I mean, shit, he did go platinum in like '99) until the last couple of years, when he became more of a national (international?) star.
Yet Wayne goes platinum in a week, but the G Unit album will probably not go gold. I guess Wayne was all over the place (guest spots, mixtapes, etc.) and promoting this album for years. 50 might be complacement. After all, he does have that Vitamin Water money. But he did promote this album -- he has thisis50.com, the free mixtapes, the Young Buck controversy (we all know that that taped phone call was released to coincide with the album). For whatever reason, "Lollipop," and then/now "A Milli" hit big nationally. I have no idea why "Rider Pt. 2" didn't hit. That joint was hot. Plus 50 used the vocorder. And then "I Like the Way She Do It" (the girl song) didn't hit either. "Straight Outta Southside" is definitely a New York song...I don't know if they're going to even do a new single.
But Coldplay did 700. Shit, Plies did 250. But I give it to Plies, he has released some solid (albeit generic) "girl" singles and they have hit. I think 50 needs another "In Da Club" or "21 Questions." Something that the girls will like. Maybe he needs T-Pain or Ne-Yo (weird how 50 hasn't collabed with them) for the single for the next album. Interestingly enough, the joint he did with Akon, which I liked, wasn't a girl song. Had it been, it might have taken "Curtis" over the top. I think I'm on to something. Sha - holla at me.
Bottom line. I have no idea how to market rap albums anymore (did I ever?). I don't think anyone in the industry knows either. The worst thing that possibly could have happened was Wayne going plat in a week. You know the execs are now scrambling, because just when they thought album sales were done, Wayne does Brittney Spears ca. 1999 numbers. I think it was a fluke. The stars aligned and made it happen. Snoop might not even go gold. And he goes platinum every time out. Plus, "Sensual Seduction" was a huge hit.
It'll be interesting to see what Yung Berg does. I think he comes out next month. He desperately needs a single though cuz I think "Sexy Can I" was on the Ray J album. Yung Berg definitely has potential to do Plies numbers. Then again, at least album-sales-wise, Sean Kingston didn't do great.
It'll also be interesting to see what Nas does. I have a strong feeling he'll sell less than G Unit. As much as the album's getting marketed through the 'net (album title controversy, mixtape, releasing songs to the websites and on Digiwaxx), he doesn't have a single! Plus the album already leaked. We'll see how strong his fanbase is. I'll certainly buy it. But it'll be the first album I buy since Snoop came out in March (yikes!). Yes I bought Snoop. Ted should've sent me (or Frequency) free copies.
On a related note, did anyone notice that Rza dropped an album 2 weeks ago? I think it sold 5,000. Scary. Remember when every Wu release went at least gold? You know the Wu ain't the same anymore when I stop buying their releases. I used to collect Wu-related projects like baseball cards.
Thank God for Proctor & Gamble and LiveNation. I need to get me some of that money. It's the future. And probably the only way that album sales won't matter anymore. Forget the subscription service. On the other hand, it's leading to the demise of Hip-Hop. Nas' prediction was premature. But once you got rappers hawking deodorant for a deal, Hip-Hop will officially be beyond commercial. It will be dead.
If Soulja Boy didn't already kill it. HA!
For whatever it's worth, I still haven't heard the Lil' Wayne album. I think the only album I've really listened to that has come out in '08 was Fat Joe...And it was actually kind of hot.
That being said, I really had a feeling that the G-Unit album wasn't going to do well. As much as they are playing the 3 singles in NY (plus those Mr. Cee/50 Cent mixtape joints), they are nowhere to be found on the charts (big shout to Ron Browz by the way). For whatever reason, those songs didn't break nationally. And the marketing campaign didn't really take on a mind of it's own. Maybe too much time was spent on the G-Unit/Young Buck dispute, and not enough time building awareness that the album was coming out.
But honestly, I really consider 50 Cent part of the new school or new wave of rappers. Even though he was on that Onyx album back in 90 whatever and "How to Rob" came out in '99 (I had it, plus "Money By Any Means" feat. NORE, on my first mixtape - ID4 - which came out 9 years ago on July 4 (part of me is like, "Only 9 years ago?" - the other part is like, "Holy shit! 9 years ago! I'm old")), I feel like he has a younger fanbase. Not Soulja Boy/Lil' Mama young, but young nonetheless. He didn't really make it big until '03.
Same with Wayne. He's been around for over a decade. But I feel like he was big in the South (I mean, shit, he did go platinum in like '99) until the last couple of years, when he became more of a national (international?) star.
Yet Wayne goes platinum in a week, but the G Unit album will probably not go gold. I guess Wayne was all over the place (guest spots, mixtapes, etc.) and promoting this album for years. 50 might be complacement. After all, he does have that Vitamin Water money. But he did promote this album -- he has thisis50.com, the free mixtapes, the Young Buck controversy (we all know that that taped phone call was released to coincide with the album). For whatever reason, "Lollipop," and then/now "A Milli" hit big nationally. I have no idea why "Rider Pt. 2" didn't hit. That joint was hot. Plus 50 used the vocorder. And then "I Like the Way She Do It" (the girl song) didn't hit either. "Straight Outta Southside" is definitely a New York song...I don't know if they're going to even do a new single.
But Coldplay did 700. Shit, Plies did 250. But I give it to Plies, he has released some solid (albeit generic) "girl" singles and they have hit. I think 50 needs another "In Da Club" or "21 Questions." Something that the girls will like. Maybe he needs T-Pain or Ne-Yo (weird how 50 hasn't collabed with them) for the single for the next album. Interestingly enough, the joint he did with Akon, which I liked, wasn't a girl song. Had it been, it might have taken "Curtis" over the top. I think I'm on to something. Sha - holla at me.
Bottom line. I have no idea how to market rap albums anymore (did I ever?). I don't think anyone in the industry knows either. The worst thing that possibly could have happened was Wayne going plat in a week. You know the execs are now scrambling, because just when they thought album sales were done, Wayne does Brittney Spears ca. 1999 numbers. I think it was a fluke. The stars aligned and made it happen. Snoop might not even go gold. And he goes platinum every time out. Plus, "Sensual Seduction" was a huge hit.
It'll be interesting to see what Yung Berg does. I think he comes out next month. He desperately needs a single though cuz I think "Sexy Can I" was on the Ray J album. Yung Berg definitely has potential to do Plies numbers. Then again, at least album-sales-wise, Sean Kingston didn't do great.
It'll also be interesting to see what Nas does. I have a strong feeling he'll sell less than G Unit. As much as the album's getting marketed through the 'net (album title controversy, mixtape, releasing songs to the websites and on Digiwaxx), he doesn't have a single! Plus the album already leaked. We'll see how strong his fanbase is. I'll certainly buy it. But it'll be the first album I buy since Snoop came out in March (yikes!). Yes I bought Snoop. Ted should've sent me (or Frequency) free copies.
On a related note, did anyone notice that Rza dropped an album 2 weeks ago? I think it sold 5,000. Scary. Remember when every Wu release went at least gold? You know the Wu ain't the same anymore when I stop buying their releases. I used to collect Wu-related projects like baseball cards.
Thank God for Proctor & Gamble and LiveNation. I need to get me some of that money. It's the future. And probably the only way that album sales won't matter anymore. Forget the subscription service. On the other hand, it's leading to the demise of Hip-Hop. Nas' prediction was premature. But once you got rappers hawking deodorant for a deal, Hip-Hop will officially be beyond commercial. It will be dead.
If Soulja Boy didn't already kill it. HA!
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