Justin Bieber gets money. Rappers get paper. Big difference. Rappers do whatever it takes to get the "paper". Rap is the new heavy metal. Jay Z don't do mixtapes and bust some ass on the charts. Average popular rapper does 10 mixtapes..........barely sell 100k. J.Cole doesn't count.....he pop....like Gaga. Drake don't count. He pop like.
IT'S TIME TO SELL OUT MY BROTHAS AND SISTAS!! We missing all of this money dealling with a saturated mixtape game full of lies, beats, and broke rappers. Spending all that time thinking of the deepest and dopest and smoothest and cleverest shit to say so we can give it out for free in hopes we be the next big thing....trying to buy the hardest and who the next to blow beat makers so our mixtapes will sound like it's on the next level.......yet the #1 song on billboard is a 17 year old white girl singing over the simplest rap beat of since the whisper song. We keep it real.......or do we...........just say we keep it real because we don't have the skills it take to make anything happen with "anything'? Let's be realistic.....who wants to buy a rapper's album? A whole lot less people. Because their is no real hype behind it if there is no pop in it. So what you do is get your harmony skills up with the use of these vocal and instrument editing add ons on your DAW.....find you a teenage white boy or girl...and get busy. Because while you've been thinking on silly shit like dubstep, trapstep, Mike Will, 808's, Nexus, Sylenth, what the new FL Studio can do to better your "beats" and all of that pretty shit............it has actually gone outdated some time ago in the real world. Unless you want that Young Chop money. Should've picked up a GOT DAMN guitar like I told yall ass last year.....didn't listen. They make a game on PS3 that help you learn guitar. Yet all the beat games on video game consoles failed miseribly....because beats ain't shit like they were in 2000 - Reason 1.0 era. You feel a victim to the left over hype from when the word producer was ALL OVER THE PLACE. Didn't do nothing but make FL Studio richer.....Props richer......Avid......Sony...........they catered to your "professionalism" by making things "easier"...........yet people that use the programs without the catering are the ones taking over. Making things do what they weren't ment to do......and then the companies cater to you to make it easy for you to do it. But one thing WILL NEVER CHANGE....and that's the pop chart market. Hip hop and the pop charts are two seperate things now. Welcome to the Nickalodeon era. Because I'm close to being great grandpa......you got kids.........and your kid close to having a baby. And NOBODY WANTS TO GROW THE FUUCK UP...including me. It's just that I GREW UP on hard ass music, lyrical ass music..............see what great grand pa is saying? Our music was grown..and we were listening to it...A LOT OF US. Can't whoop an ass in public today....you are reprogrammed......you are made cautious and sinsitive. SO anything that's unacceptable in an Americanize social gathering of BILLIONS....is more likely to push those billions of potential buyers away and catch ONLY THE OUTLAWS of it all......and your stuck on a 1,000:1 purchase hoping to catch a few billion in that ratio....GOOD LUCK HIP HOP WORLD. The days of the outlaws of your great grand pa's is over. Kanye knows this......and that's why he acts like a lunatic. Baby knows this.....and that's why he wins. Puff Daddy is still stuck in the mind of his 90's take over...that's why he lose as far as music. But he doesn't give a shit......he gets you drunk and hydrated...AT THE SAME...DAMN...TIME!!! Your only hope IS FUTURE for hip hop in 2014. I mean.......what you wanting on that is of great magnitude? NOT A DAMN THING!!! Because 2013 gave you all you will tolerate. YOU ARE OFFICIALLY back in the "worst than expected" zone if those artist release an album next year. Even the one hit wonders of early in a new year is becoming a tradition now. So those type of artist will not be discovered any more....they will be created in a few years. You know your Pys and your Harlem Shakes and whatever.
OH...and about mixtapes.........the game been dead.....like in a way they say hip hop is dead. A mixtape was the way we could make "money" back in the days. Nobody had "computers" or file sharing or none of that. So it provided a lane for music to get created and be SOLD without a distribution deal. Hell.....take some 60's, 70's, or 80's slow jams and mix it with techno or some shit. Back in the days you got a single just to get the instrumental....the two came with eachother majority of the time. All you needed was some blanks and the time to label all of that shit. A "DJ" could make you a bad ass mixtapes in your neighborhood....become a local celebrity........then that DJ Clue era fuucked it all up and changed it forever. Foos had to be the MFer who ain't doing shit but yelling "EXCLUSIVE.......EXCLUsive......exclusive.....excl.....SUCKAS.........YEAH.......HOLIDAY SEASON".......and all that bullshit.
Something to think about. Rap is the new Rock and Roll. If you ain't doing that Flo Rida/ PitBull shit......be thankful for that small change you get for braggin about the money you have been gettin. Oh yeah it's still "paper" in the rap game.....BUT AIN'T NO MONEY!!! big difference.