The writer’s right though, hip hop seems to have straight broken his heart but it sounds like he’s still giving her another chance and the fans I think are willing to forgive and forget the prequel and move on and if this new single with ms. hill is anything to go by, Meth has got it back at least a little bit. But I feel that Mef still hasn’t taken responsibility for punking out to the label with Prequel. Idk, I’m not one of those elitist hip-hop fans who thinks that method owes the game to publicly apologize for the prequel, but if he turns it around on this one and produces some real hip hop from his heyday then he’ll get that respect back.

Criticizing your critics Meth? Wow, good plan! Have you met anyone else in entertainment? That’s gotta be at least the number to no no rule. Yikes.

meth goin off on wendy williams

http://www.thebreakdown.tv/

plus, he wasn’t speaking on his last album, but about critics in general, and implied that listening to the critics sorta was the reason why he lost focus on the last album….

a reviewer should be judgemental, however, should critique in a responsible way. even the SOURCE admitted to that and we all know why dave mays and benzino was ousted, due to their abuse of their journalistic powers.

you have a mag like XXL who is willing to give every g-unit affiliate positive review, including the god-awful mobb deep album, yet albums that NEEDED that extra shine, but are more indie or lesser known, but have a GREAT album, they’ll shit on it….or they’ll shit on the intierview or ect…

i remember lupe fiasco was upset because the hiphop media kept taggin him as a “skateboard nerd” when he knows he’s more than just that….

However, if an album flops, it’s not just magazines or critics who play a role in that. Who A&Red the album? What kind of marketing money went into promoting it? Were DJs on board in playing the key singles? Was there a hot video? And then there’s blind luck.

If you think critics are so powerful, how come movies like “Da Vinci Code” or “The Break-Up” make over ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS even though they get shit on by the most powerful critics in the country? Are music critics, most of whom only last a few years, if even that, more powerful than movie critics? Gimme a fucking break.

Rap albums flop because there’s way too much competition between albums, music fans are very fickle and digital downloading is impact what albums people choose to buy. Press has some role to play in this but believe me, if you took a wack rapper, gave them 5 mics in The Source plus a cover story (see Benzino), that doesn’t mean their album is going to blow up.

Bottomline: are the streets feeling the rapper or not? And seriously, does the streets care what XXL or any other magazine has to say about a rapper? The only thing MCs care about with mags is whether they’re stroking their egos (or dicks) enough. I’ve never heard a rapper, who’s blown up, thank a magazine for helping. They’d never want to acknowledge that anything, besides their pre-destined greatness, had anything to do with it.

By the way, a newsflash for those who missed it: Busta’s album flopped because no one outside of New York gave a fuck about it.

Ditto with Ice Cube. Dude hasn’t dropped an album in years, has been making movies (successfully) and just hasn’t stayed in the loop. Rakim and Big Daddy Kane could team up, collabo on an album, and that shit would probably sell wood. Reputation and history mean nothing if you’re not actively courting your fanbase. People might hate on 50 Cent and G-Unit for being exposed but that dude is laughing all the way back to the bank about it. And he doesn’t get great reviews.

So why is Curtis successful but Meth not? Maybe it’s because Meth hasn’t dropped actual heat in years? Maybe it’s because anyone who still cares about the Wu is down with Ghostface (whose album didn’t that well DESPITE crazy hype by critics)?

And LIttle Brother got solid reviews from a lot of places – they’re the internet darlings – but they have a small fanbase. There it is.

People need to stop making little bullshit excuses. Too many MCs act like sensitive little children who can’t take any criticism at all. And their fans can be just as bad.

^^was it necessary to put that in caps?^^ and more kids are downloading than reading reviews on the net and almost all hip hop listeners young and old could care less what critics say, Meths album was wack, I never read one review I downloaded the album and listened to it, despite the fact that all my friends said dont waste ur time, again most hip hop fans have to hear it for themselves!

it’s a sad reality, but hiphop fans are the most fickled bunch and can be easily be swayed….whut you’re saying and whut’s meth’s saying is pretty much the samething…that opinions are like assholes

his dispute is that the journalists believe that their opinions are not, and the readers or listeners are being swayed by their “opinion”

and if you read listened to whut meth was saying, he admitted he was being caught up by whut the media said about him…i mean, damn he was even on XXL’s “step your rap game up” once, which was VERY unfair since lyrically he never really fell off…

he said it was his true fan base that got him refocused…and alot of these veterans MC’s pretty much say the samething

you look at busta’s album…it was a damn good album, and alot of sweat and hard work been put on that album, but you have these journalist that want to over-scrutinize their point and people feed into that…you had that right here on these blogs

you have ice cube’s album getting merely a “L” and also on the “step your rap game up” issue, yet his album is pretty damn good…

BUT for the readers that don’t know cube, that never listened to his music…will take whut these journalists are saying and assume that cube is wack…without NO relevence of cube’s history and impact to the hiphop game….

on the reals, alot of these journalists NEED to be put in check…and lets NOT start with the payola issue…we need not to speak on how abusive their power can be, go ask dave mays and benzino

I can’t count how many trash albums this site’s magazine counterpart have been given XL ratings over the past 3 or 4 years..

Critics are paid to criticize, and like homegirl said up top, Hip Hop fans are some critical fucks, myself included.

keep in mind even though his new single speaks thuroughly on his opinion about the press, he wasn’t the one that brought it up, it was asked to him about how the listeners stopped listening to rappers and started listening to the hiphop press, most of whom DON’T have any real musical qualifications to make assessments of whut good and whut’s not.

the truth is, is that readers are sheep, they’ll follow you…and if a journalist is going to campaign negativity, they’ll feed on negativity.

and i hate to say it, but if you REALLY want to know how far the press can cross over the line, then look at the deaths of pac and big….the media exploitation had more to do with it than anything else

media manipulation is something that needed to be addressed, i’m quite certain that almost EVERY hiphop artists is siding on meth on this one….and unless you’re a musical artist, you will NEVER truely understand where he’s coming from…

a great example is whut happened to little brother’s last album…

some people need to listen to the joint “renegades” once again

Thing is, there are some morsels of truth in his accusations.

Having never heard an album, and then listening to it straight through, or most of it, one will form a natural opinion of it.

Having never heard an album, but reading other negative reviews, especially from a journalist with similiar taste, you won’t give it the same chance had you not read anything about it first.

i was just reading an article in rolling stone about how the movie industry holds back certain movies, trying to make them “critic proof”… this would be the same idea. I mean I know people who will bad mouth an MC they loved when that same MC puts out weak product… that should be what counts.

Until Meth can honestly say why that album bombed (he DID say on MTV.com that Diddy’s hands in the pot would have been something he would have liked to changed in hindsight), and stop throwing the blame on someone else, I can’t respect that. I put on his first album and I get amped… then his more recent product had been a huge letdown. He seems to be on a solid footing with the new joints, but we’ll see if the Ticallion Stallion is back to form.

that was a journalist asking that question, in which meth summed it up that every review or column should have a disclaimer