it's not so much piracy as it's low barriers to entry. it used to take more effort, more money, and more additional resources to make music and to have your music heard en masse. also, i don't know if it's the fault of the rappers or the fans (probably a combination of both) but we've come to expect artists to drop music constantly. you get prolific rappers like curren$y dropping tons of music all the time. as the result, there's not much attention paid to craftsmanship and really making the best possible song you can. now it's more about just making sure you're dropping as many as possible because people are scared to lose the original buzz they created. I hear a lot of mediocre beats and shitty hooks, just peep pusha's last mixtape.
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First rapper that comes to mind that just has diarrhea of music is Wayne. I remember back in 07, my first year in college, and everyone was listening to him and was constantly raving how he had "100s of songs a month" that he would record and release through mixtapes. I think he was the first one to really place quantity over quality, when there wasn't that much quality to begin with.
But yeah, I agree, when people like Rebecca Black's parents can just pay some dude to make a video for their retarded daughter and even write the lyrics for it, anyone can be a musician. And with outlets like MySpace and whatever it is that is used for music distribution these days, you don't need anyone to promote you; you can do it yourself through social media.
But yeah, I agree, when people like Rebecca Black's parents can just pay some dude to make a video for their retarded daughter and even write the lyrics for it, anyone can be a musician. And with outlets like MySpace and whatever it is that is used for music distribution these days, you don't need anyone to promote you; you can do it yourself through social media.
Yeah I think piracy (and free internet media as a whole - youtube etc.) just made music easily available and you could judge more music and find what you like faster, without paying for lots of shitty music. If anything the fact that I heard something on the internet made me develop a better taste and I could pay for whole albums from artists that I really liked that I wouldn't have reached otherwise.
Of course some people would use it to download single songs instead, and just rush throught the albums that they downloaded to save the few songs they liked, so it kind of contributed but just a little bit because those people would hunt for single hits anyway.
I think the whole response to piracy from the industry might have contributed more to the situation though. When piracy promoted whole albums Itunes and other sites promoted buying single songs instead of the whole CDs. So people just buy what's on the radio without listening to other songs from those albums, narrowing their horizons even further.
Also mp3 players. Back in the days it was easier to listen to the whole CD and you would have to take a chance of the whole CD growing on you. These days you don't have to - you pick only those songs that you like from the first listen and put them on your mp3/phone while trashing everything else.
Of course some people would use it to download single songs instead, and just rush throught the albums that they downloaded to save the few songs they liked, so it kind of contributed but just a little bit because those people would hunt for single hits anyway.
I think the whole response to piracy from the industry might have contributed more to the situation though. When piracy promoted whole albums Itunes and other sites promoted buying single songs instead of the whole CDs. So people just buy what's on the radio without listening to other songs from those albums, narrowing their horizons even further.
Also mp3 players. Back in the days it was easier to listen to the whole CD and you would have to take a chance of the whole CD growing on you. These days you don't have to - you pick only those songs that you like from the first listen and put them on your mp3/phone while trashing everything else.
50 Cent started saturating the market with music. His mixtape hustle was relentless. It worked for him. Now it's a standard, everyone tries to repeat. Much like how 2pac had success with his thug persona, and everyone is now repeating that.
What we really want is originality and creativity.
What we really want is originality and creativity.
Yeah, this mostly. Plus aren't message forums declining due to social networking?
I post on a couple of other forums which are pretty high in activity for Hip Hop and sports mainly
Well, it depends on the subject of the forum. Car forums are always bustling with activity. So are sports forums. 4Chan is still a forum. I think they're just more consolidated by subject into one or two big forums for that kind of stuff.
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I think it's more about having less time to come here. I used to spend countless hours on the board back in the days. I joined the board almost 10 years ago. Life changed, evolved, I think it's the same for others. Not so much about the economy, or that the missing members' favorite music genre changed. I think it's just life getting busy. It also didn't help that when I came from time to time that there was less and less activity and therefore less and less to reply to. I dunno if that makes entirely sense but anyhow that's how it felt/feels.
I also think that what hurt the board is that eventually as the core members posted less and it didn't have new members to replace it. There wasn't a turnover of members. If there were a lot of new members posting, it wouldn't be as apparent.
Yeah I understand how life can make you do things like those far less often but I still like the board enough to visit. I like the members who are still here and while it's true that we don't really get new members I think it's kind of like that weird kind of high school clicque to me. Nobody joins apart from other old members who visit from time to time, there's that "old times sake" thing and we have history.
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Food allergies? Have you been tested for them or is it in your head?
Go vegan or something.
What is the master cleanse?
145 pounds? I am twice your weight. Holy tits, I need to lose weight.
Stop tapping the camera.
You do not appear normal on Facebook. Or happy. You were praising the devil or Satan or something not two months ago. I drew the line there.
Stop tapping, please.
Journal sounds nice. Isn't that what Cobain did? Please don't Cobain yourself, like you said you wanted to.
Nigga what is "inter-connected?"
You should have done this in your room. Basement. Garage. Not in leafless woods.
Food allergies? Have you been tested for them or is it in your head?
Go vegan or something.
What is the master cleanse?
145 pounds? I am twice your weight. Holy tits, I need to lose weight.
Stop tapping the camera.
You do not appear normal on Facebook. Or happy. You were praising the devil or Satan or something not two months ago. I drew the line there.
Stop tapping, please.
Journal sounds nice. Isn't that what Cobain did? Please don't Cobain yourself, like you said you wanted to.
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