Comments on: Ain’t No Sellin’: Hip-Hop’s SoundScan Struggles

By: flying at 32 weeks pregnant

flying at 32 weeks pregnant — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:40:09 +0000

Marvellous article you have induced here! The web is full of horrid authorship and I was grabbed by your limpidity. Your stopping points are dead-on and I will forthwith subscribe to your rss feed to stay up to date with your up future day postings.

By: listening to hip hop since 78

listening to hip hop since 78 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:03:51 +0000

now that white people are listen to hip hop
more than ever there starting to talk and
act like black people and thats so funny
to see white people acting real stupid and lost!!! To all people that live in
the hood these white HONKEYS are trying
to take hip hop from the hood like they
took rockin roll from black people.
A white fony as rapper acting like a
gangster is not real to this country when
the system benefits the color of there skin.HONKEYS need to step the fuck off
our music.Next time we come up with some type of music that helps us get rich remember no breaking down doors for HONKEYS.Since the begining of hip hop
the hood always co-signed the rapper to
make it in the game and now thats no more
because these HONKEYS are puting there two senses in the game when they know nothing about the streets.SO FOR ALL MY
BLACK PEOPLE PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!!!!!

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:58:30 +0000

Rap sucks. Been 30 years, almost, time for some new music.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:47:56 +0000

What I Think Is Hip Hop Aint Dead Is Just Dat Rappers Dat Waz On Top Back Then Aint On Top No More And Dats Y There Sayin Hip Hop Dead Cause Da Souf Done Came Up Them Rappers Dat Think Hip Hop Is Dead They Just Mad Cause They Aint On Top Like The Waz In Da 80′s And 90′s This 2000 Now A Days Its About Money Not About Bullshit Like Back Then So Fuck U Hip Hop Still Lives Money Over Everything

By: bama

bama — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:27:36 +0000

XICO U ARE ONE OF THEM BOOTLEGGING GHETTO BITCHES

By: bama

bama — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:26:39 +0000

FUCK SOUNDSCAN

By: XICO

XICO — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:11:45 +0000

LOL I’m pretty sure a ghetto, where maybe 95% of its citizens are near or below the poverty line do more bootlegging than country music fans.

You can find a bootlegging corner on almost every street over here in St.Louis lol.

By: RANDOM PERSON

RANDOM PERSON — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:08:26 +0000

What bullshit . . . you guys know how to be very stereotypical . . . I for one am not an old person, I know how to work a computer and do shit . . . I have friends who know that . . . we still listen to the country music stuff . . . All of these artists deserve just as much credit as rap artists . . . I’m not bashing rap or anything, but come on . . . this band, Rascal Flatts, is selling out arena after arena . . . selling 6 mil effin albums in a 3 month timespan and they’re going strong!!!! They take what’s real in life and sell it!!!! That’s why their music is selling!!!! Don’t give me any shit on piracy or anything . . . cause we all know evry1 does it!!!!!!

By: Xico

Xico — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:49:59 +0000

Where can we get SoundScan numbers?

Website?

By: V!RTU (the Hip-Hop Anchor)

V!RTU (the Hip-Hop Anchor) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:28:13 +0000

The Hip-Hop is fucked up because people allow themselves to be “spoon-fed”. They only know what commercial music is out because its on the radio. People pick their favorite rapper from the line-up that the radio or TV presents to them. They don’t take the time to dig deeper and find out about the good music. Good Hip-Hop is alive and well; but if a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? You have to be there when it all goes “down”!
Elliot Wilson seems to be better informed than the average “listener”, but he still allows himself to be spoon-fed, but only digesting bottom line information. You must take into consideration all the sabotage and fradulence in the soundscan reports.
If you only take action based on bottomline SoundScan results, you are perpetuating the downfall of Hip-Hop; and allowing yourself to be told (by corporate america) what good music is. ALSO the artists have some responsiblity for music piracy. The “Rappers” these days portray themselves as RICH, poor people don’t feel so bad about stealing from “RICH” people. If the guy looks like a millionaire and it’s his first video, then he must have had money before he went commercial. I wouldn’t feel bad about stealing from those guys. But the artists I listen to don’t lie about their financials, and it helps the average american relate to the artist on a personal level. This fan would save up the 15 bux I needed to support and artist that was “real” with me to begin with.
The whole industry is fucked up, and it would take longer to fix it than it did to ruin it.

I would like to leave you with this……Play the ‘ol school jams! The kids growing up today think that 50 cent or Nelly are Hip-Hop pioneers (They are NOT!!). Teach the children what a classic is, if we don’t start getting this straighted out at the youth level, we’re DONE!!!!

V!RTU “Hip-Hop Anchor” (Holdin’ It Down!)
Fabulous Saturdays

By: V!RTU (the Hip-Hop Anchor)

V!RTU (the Hip-Hop Anchor) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:27:47 +0000

By: Common Cents

Common Cents — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:18:08 +0000

The reason a country band like Rascal Flats outsells hip hop is simple. Like you said, it’s older white people from the midwest BUYING the country music, people of that age aren’t very good with computers, and most of them couldn’t burn a cd without a book of matches. The majority of hip hop fans are below 35, and have grown up with computers, so we know how to get the cd’s we want without purchasing them.

By: anti rap/ REAL HIPHOP

anti rap/ REAL HIPHOP — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:06:08 +0000

Someone mentioned what the numbers would be without cd burning. They would still be shit because rappers today are HOT GARBAGE. Real Hiphoppas are not affected by #’s because Rap is what we do Hip Hop is what we live.

Love, Peace and Unity

By: Shaun Cruz

Shaun Cruz — Wed, 31 May 2006 21:21:18 +0000

Thanks for the update it was a good indication of who is doing what and also which techniques for promotion are not working. I am certain the return to dominance in hip-hop will not come from an older hip-hop act. There has to be some newer blood pumped into the system to get the ball rolling again i.e, Lupe, Kanye, Shaun Cruz, and Kaleber plus others

By: King Jae War

King Jae War — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:06:53 +0000

Like it was said above. When it comes to hip hop the record labels are reactive. Plus piracy probly hurts hip hop more than other genres. That being said, support the new label @ http://www.INYABOYz.com
Peace!

By: B-D

B-D — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:27:50 +0000

I think piracy is ruining the hip-hop game. I have a cousin that’s been bootlegging for over 3 years and he told me that he makes a minimum of 500.00 A WEEK and that’s considered a very bad week. I’ve seen him count 1500.00 just from working Friday & Saturday. You can tell me that’s not fucking up an artists’ soundscan, when he has the album a week before it come out.

By: » The Death of Hip-Hop - XXL

» The Death of Hip-Hop - XXL — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:23:12 +0000

[...] And lest you think this is some sort of temporary anomaly caused by the god-awful Gnarls Barkley and Mobb Deep albums, this has been going on all year, as pointed out recently by Stone from The Couch Sessions, and XXL’s own Elliott “Money Pants” Wilson. [...]

By: da prince

da prince — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:15:21 +0000

My boy ti king a da south is platnium now and on his way two double platnium da next single gonna be why you wanna and dats gonna be a banger 4 da summer

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:57:02 +0000

Yeah, but still this all goes back to what I’ve always been saying. If you’re a str8 street rapper then you’ll door poor sales compared to others, because you’re not reaching white people. Gold is cool, but still if you can do better then do it, with the way the industry is set up you need to find some way to eat. If you want to be str8 hood then you either better have a good deal with a major, sell your own stuff, or get with an independant like koch. The stupid ones that believe that what you see in these rappers videos is there then check soundscan. If they got a bad deal, sales are in the toilet, then they probably renting that stuff. That Million dollar advance you have to pay that back, and you do that with your sales. Most of these rappers are window shoppers because the money that they have either isn’t their own or they need that money to stay in the game. Big ups to Elliot Wilson for teaching these young people a little about the game. Keep doing your thing and ignore the haters you get.

By: DJ Mad Wax

DJ Mad Wax — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:20:45 +0000

what Dave House on YN’s blog????