I was just thinking of ways to make the site better, in order to direct more traffic here... And one of the things I thought of was we need alot more Album reviews... And i know everyones sitting there going "no shit, jackass". But, I realized its hard for a single member to write lonng reviews sometimes and thats why we dont have much. We dont really have anybody who can dedicate the time to write really detailed reviews. I personally did one, planned to do more, but just havent had the time to sit down and do another one.
But what I was thinking was a team of like 5-6 reviewers. That all listen to an album. They each give it a rating out of 10, and write 3-5 lines about its strengths and weaknesses. And done, You have an album review from 5-6 different persepectives and all the reviewrs have to do is listen to it.. and take about 5 minutes to comment on it. This way we can have like 2-3 new reviews every week. We can also do shit like 'throw back reviews' and different types of shit like that.
for this to work, we'd need 5-6 ppl with sorta different perspectives on hip hop.. ie.
The Young Cat: who's hip hop experience dats back to the formation of G-Unit
Hip Hop Traditionalist: Whos been around for a bit, but just prefers that whole mid 90's era
Underground Head: Been around for a bit, and just prefers that underground sound.
The True Head: Been there from the start, and recognizes talent, doesnt care if its underground or south, if he feels it has talent he gives it props.
The Music Lover: Loves all types of good music
etc.
The reason I was thinking we need all types of ppl, so that when the team reviews an album it has somewhat of a view from all types of listeners. Any volunteers? I'm lookin towards Linx!, Albohemia, and Militant in particular. Anybody else is great too, we can even have 2 teams depending of amount of volunteers we get, and therefore even more reviews being done.
..anyways its just an idea, If you guys got more to make things better around here post it up.
Another thing I was thinking was, instead of ppl bitching an moaning about Rumours being mixed up as news, we can just separate it into a News section and into a Rumours section.
~peace
But what I was thinking was a team of like 5-6 reviewers. That all listen to an album. They each give it a rating out of 10, and write 3-5 lines about its strengths and weaknesses. And done, You have an album review from 5-6 different persepectives and all the reviewrs have to do is listen to it.. and take about 5 minutes to comment on it. This way we can have like 2-3 new reviews every week. We can also do shit like 'throw back reviews' and different types of shit like that.
for this to work, we'd need 5-6 ppl with sorta different perspectives on hip hop.. ie.
The Young Cat: who's hip hop experience dats back to the formation of G-Unit
Hip Hop Traditionalist: Whos been around for a bit, but just prefers that whole mid 90's era
Underground Head: Been around for a bit, and just prefers that underground sound.
The True Head: Been there from the start, and recognizes talent, doesnt care if its underground or south, if he feels it has talent he gives it props.
The Music Lover: Loves all types of good music
etc.
The reason I was thinking we need all types of ppl, so that when the team reviews an album it has somewhat of a view from all types of listeners. Any volunteers? I'm lookin towards Linx!, Albohemia, and Militant in particular. Anybody else is great too, we can even have 2 teams depending of amount of volunteers we get, and therefore even more reviews being done.
..anyways its just an idea, If you guys got more to make things better around here post it up.
Another thing I was thinking was, instead of ppl bitching an moaning about Rumours being mixed up as news, we can just separate it into a News section and into a Rumours section.
~peace
