Say good bye to your money. I respect P.E. to the fullest but records ain’t selling these days and nobody is checking for a public enemy album. Flav is better off doing flavor of love 15.

damn, hitting up your fans for donations just to make a album is a horrible look. isn’t that pretty much the same thing as panhandling? how the mighty have fallen.

Seems a little desperate, but why not? Hell, then they don’t have any costs incurred while recording and distributing the project and keep all the profits…

The whole point is that it’s much easier for a name group like PE to get fans to fund 50-250K, than it is to get a major who is still clueless about music to fork over the money upfront.

PE doesn’t want to play that game and go through the payold.

But for professionals it is no big deal going in the booth and knocking out 14 songs if it’s all paid for. All the profit goes to them, because all the cost of recording is paid for.

i would do it ill check into it but damn if im gonna do this then the fans should get a vote on what features artists no bull all hiphop real cats and they better put hard work into it lol cause it would kinda be like pe working for us! the fans!

at a min the “fan investors” should get half of profits, just like a real TI (actual real TIs cop about 99.4080% of the profits)

but there’s no way this album could make a profit even on 50K already raised. Even if they make after production/shipping cost $7/CD like Fat Hoe or whomever was claiming Koch paid, they’d need to sell over 7K discs to break even.

Nowadays most indie hip hop all does wood numbers under 10K discs sold. Didn’t MOP just sell like 2K units the 1st week? *smh*

CDs are advertisements for the live show, merch, other opps. Have a dope show & a small comitted StanBase like The Legendary Roots show, & you can have a hip hop career.

OTOH random OK mofos like Xzibit will need to find another career, like pimpin rides or some such.

Wow exec. producer credits and right to visit them in studio that’s good for people who are really fans of an artist

It Doesn’t Sound That Farfetched. Oh And I Read This About A Month Ago On A Rock Site.

Another Fail For XXL.

Ok….so they are asking fans for donations to fund the album and then when the album gets released they are expecting them to also buy the album?

What kind of crazy shit is this?

Co-sign Sleepy.

PE isn’t the only group doing it. There’s some company overseas who started it. PE’s the only hip-hop act to do it though, so far & the “investors” do get a perk, like concert tickets or something like that, nothing monetary or executive.

Plus, you’ve got to be pretty die hard to give them the cash to begin with. Just knowing that they’re part of the process, to those types of fans is probably all worth it.

Sorry Chuck & Flav, it’s a recession. Don’t take it personal, but No Dice.

Had to read it twice. Now I got it.

Since most music is “basically” free, sell the merchandise & interactive experience. After all They are legends.

Cool experiment.

innovative to say the least. 20 years too late