Man we in a new world it’s only gonna get better one thing I don’t like is these internet thugs it’s easy to be a thugs on the internet because you don’t have to deal with no real issuse I think you should have to be some what smart to talk on these blogs because they are the new wave and the last thing we need is dumbass people on it.

Good job on XXL’s part in translating their brand strength to online to make up for lost ad revenue on the print side. The Internet gives the opportunity for the NOW generation to take advantage of the open terrain and create their own outlet getways instead of waiting for people outside of the culture to create it and then just simply inside its sandbox (e.g Myspace). Money off of CD’s is outta here as the bread for liscensing your content grows by leaps and bounds.

The biggest difference that the internet is having on hip hop is that it cut rappers record sales by 60 to 70 percent. Albums are almost always leaked weeks before it hits the stores. there are a hundred mixtapes a week made accessible to everyone, blogs were we all over analyze everything, what the internet has done to hip hop more than anything else it has made it an extremely oversaturated market. Hip hop was at its best when there were two or three good radio shows a week. ten mixtapes a month. and two or three albums dropped a week. The internet is what made hip hop jumped the shark.

we all caugth in the matrix!! Fuck this where’s my pill!?, shit! fuck it pop the oxycotton and flow wit” it!

I think the internet is a great way to promote yo shyt, like this…go to http://www.cdbaby.com/sayso to hear/buy my new cd ‘BlaXXXploitions of Donny Slaughter’, see how easy that was??? Check me out at myspace.com/gopentertainment and give me a shout!!!! Or check my group out on Youtube.com under mercenary family, or just go to myspace.com/mercenaryrecordz!!! Now that’s promotion…thanks internet!!!!!

You’d think they’d reprint the “Top 10 Rap Blogs” sidebar here.

ahem.

http://WWW.OHWORD.COM

This aint no revolution. this is corny. youtube is 3rd rate quality video at best, and you know it. who makes money off internet rap? they wanna drive us deep underground so you won’t see us in the light plus they want your art for free. gimme a break, parasites. most people in the hood don’t even have a need for this stuff.

Nice article man…
Anyway i don’t like this YouTube celebrity thing. I tohught you yube was mainly for common people.

CRACKAS ALWAYS TRYING TO STAY 2 OR 3 STEPS AHEAD OF THE NIGGAS AND EVERYBODY ELSE. THEY NEVR EXPECT FOR US TO CATCH THEIR AZZES SLIPPIN.

ONE DAY WE’RE GONNA GETCHA MF’S. WATCH THE FUCK OUT!!

LANDIGGY Says:

December 12th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Man we in a new world it’s only gonna get better one thing I don’t like is these internet thugs it’s easy to be a thugs on the internet because you don’t have to deal with no real issuse I think you should have to be some what smart to talk on these blogs because they are the new wave and the last thing we need is dumbass people on it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Haha, guess that rules you out.

JUMP OFF THATS MY NIGGA HE IS ON OF THE BEST RAPPERS TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE AND THATS JUST OFF 1LP, ITS….ITS…ITS THAT ON TOP MUSIC!!!

Wuz up man I thank the aublum going to be crazy

i just hope that artists will be able to make a decent living through selling their music..

internet distribution cant be stopped… sales go down… result: more music made available, but fewer people able to do it as a living. result: the rich dopeboys or the ones whose mommas gave them lots of pocket money get to sell, cause they dont need to make any more money, whether or not they’re any good. its a tradeoff: the most known unknowns will be seen through internet circulatiom, myspace, blogs, youtube, etc., and maybe they’ll get record deals out of it. but eventually the record deals won’t get artists shit money, cause every album’s leaked & sales are stolen.

why joey in the pic if yall aint gon talk bout him

yeah you right the game has changed
check out http://www.myspace.com/soulasystem

you stopped blogging to write about this bullshit.First crack and then the internet what is next an article on beef.

the fact of the matter is, those people who download mp3s dont purchase them and of course they arent going to pay if they dont have to. nowadays everybody and their grandmother has a pc, laptop or something that can log on the internet and download music. All this myspace fame is a double edged sword yea all these geeks get to hear your music for free or what have you, broaden your fanbase free advertisement whatever. They can just as easily go ahead and record that song with numerous free programs through their soundcard. The whole artists adding everyone thing is just getting all the people who like that artist in a list. one of them is bound to have the newest album coming out and instead of buying that album they’re going to give their new friend it for free, why not? right?. but its the indy artists taking more loss then any substantial gain. they arent diddy who can go platinum regardless just people who love their craft trying to earn a living doing it. I make it through the day because of hip hop but what happens when my favorite artists go broke?

all it means is real hustlers need to learn to adapt and step their game up..and maybe the more ignorant folks will get weeded out. i personally think its great that the internet is bleeding the industry dry…better to have the culture in the hands of true passionate fans than in the clutches of these corporate vultures who take advantage and cake off your average hip hop dude. So now cats can get their music heard and find ways to get paid…you cant download the experience of a live show…get your tours up fellas!

“Hip hop was at its best when there were two or three good radio shows a week. ten mixtapes a month. and two or three albums dropped a week. ”

MARLON makes a good point. Gnarls Barkley–>no major marketing, just word of mouth and a free download. #1 song of the year (Billboard) and more album sales than 90% of rappers our there.

if the musics good, its good. regardless of the way we get it…as long as we get it.

[...] Preview exo’s piece on how the internet is affecting hip hop here.   [...]

myspace.com/biggestthingsince says:

The internet is fast becoming the road to riches for um …no one. However, its Democratic-populist qualities make it a great breeding ground for trends, both ill and retarded. You can get buzz there but usually you can’t capitalize on it (unless you know how to sell ad-space).

New World Order. Get ahold of your information folks. Control your media.

so since money i the incentive for 90% of artists will there be a decline in the quantity of music that comes out now….i mean if there isn’t any money to be made in the music industry..it’s scary

tray hahahaha yo momma out to the dumb bitch keep living her panties in my house and tell your dad he can have her back I don’t like her new dentures they always get in the way

well said drewbreez and lbz alot of people are to busy playin around so they don’t know what’s going on in life it’s not just about dope and parting the whole world is changing we better wake up man .

time to go and pop da trunk again.

I said in a song that I made in 2003:

“glossy videos killed the Top Ten pop radio star/ and internet MP3s just made it all more strange and bizarre/ call this the millenium renaissance, where your new hip hop music DOESN’T come from a computer/ stop looking at the past, look into the future…”

ha ha, nobody’s a part of that renaissance. but now look, Nas says ‘hip hop is dead’. we DO need a rebirth… and a revolution. and it WON’T be televised… or downloaded, please believe it!

at some point, motherfuckers are going to have to represent hip hop’s essence in the REAL world, fuck this online insanity.

J-Zone said it perfectly, he goes: “fuck these fools who get internet muscles and start talking shit! That ain’t hip hop!”

thank god for the few who still are true to the realness… even if they DO use the technology available today

I ain’t mad that Afrika Bambaataa uses Serato. He still lives and breathes the culture when he logs off his laptop. Do you?

;)
*goes to record a song*

The Internet Is So Neccessary. New Age. New Buisness. Greater Promotion.
You Can Utilize The Internet To You Advantage.

The Internet Is So Necessary. New Age. New Buisness. New Promotion. New Sales. An Almost Endless Amount Of Potential Fans. You Can Utilize The Internet To Your Advantage.

man how u gonna have joey on the cover of the article and then play him out by not mentioning him??

give him the cover of the magazine

[...] THE HSL: There is also nothing to live or die for. No religion too. [...]

Internet give the artist lots of income. Its a great medium for advertising, they earn from payed downloads (mp3/ringtones logoes etc), and merchandice etc.

Would they earn more without? Do the rappers nowdays have less money? I dont know, anyone have some numbers?

[...] Kris Ex, writing on XXL’s website, examines the Internet’s effect on rap music. The timing of this piece is pretty nice. Since Doc Dre recently used YouTube to announced his long-awaited final album’s September release date, the matter’s been weighing pretty heavy in the ether. The approach is simultaneously inside and populist, kinda like rap music itself. [...]

HAY THERE

AS A NO GOOD ARTIST I THINK THE WEB IS INCREDIBLE TO GET YOUR MSG OUT, IT IS NO THE FAULT OF DIDDY THAT HE IS ABLE TO MANIPULATE THE SYSTEM TO HIS ADVATAGE AND DROP A NICE RECORD I MAY ADD, I WOULD AND AM GOING TO DO THE SAME THING, I CASE STUDIED SON, THE INTERNET WORKS FOR HIM AND HIS OBJECTIVE OF BEING IN PEOPLES LIVES AGAIN, FOR A WHILE HE WAS LOOKED AT AS THAT GUY OVER THERE BUT BEING ABLE TO SEE HIM USE THE BATHROOM OR WHATEVER ELSE MADE HIM REAL TO PEOPLE AGAIN, AND THAT IS WHY IT WORKS, THE REASON SAMMY DAVIS JUNIOR AND FRANK SINATRA WERE SO REVERED BY PEOPLE IS BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THEM, THEY WALKED AND TALKED AMONGST THE REGULAR FOLK AND HAS A GREAT TIME DOING IT, NOW WITH THE NEW MEDIUM PEOPLE ARE GETTING A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THAT AGAIN, SITES LIKE http://www.myspace.com, http://www.blocksavvy.com (they need to fix the kinks), http://www.flickr.com, http://www.youtube.com, http://www.jumpcut.com, http://www.whosnextonline.com, http://www.burnlounge.com and many other have made it possible to basically be your own boss, get the music out followed by a video that you could edit I mean web 2.0 has made hip hop go back to the people now is that good or bad we will have to wait, but it is something

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Some very powerful hip hop shit comes only from the internet by the likes of daveyd.com, playahata.com and sohh.com.Stuff which is not being done in print.

Thank you Kris for the shout.

Its much appreciated.

The Internet is by nature a niche medium so it has not created any stars, and probably won’t.”
================
Stars are stars because of the tens of thousands if not Millions of dollars that record labels invest in artists.

Trust.

Technology hasn’t killed Hip Hop.
Its only acclerated its evolution.

Technology has the power to affect the realtionship between artists and audiences.

Talk about a Nich to be filled.
The website the comes along that is the destination spot for MIX TAPES, HOOD DVD’s and Independnet, Major and Quasi Major videos, that allows for the artist to connect directly w/ the fans, is gonna be on a poppin.

Kinda lika a Itunes Meets Myspace (why am I givin’ me game away?)

Old School Emcees
On Nas’s where are they now, Mad Cats that he mentioned are old school emcees, and prolly would still be rappin’if they could (and we probably would not like it) or at least they would be putting cats own THAT THEY deemed to be worthy.

I think the idea of of Special Ed reppin flat bush, Ed Og Reppin Boston and for that MATTER De La, AZ and AG (Who have all put out dope/decent albums in the past few months) or some other cats on my Wake up show mix tapes have the right and duty to cultivate new talent.

Cultivation of the young cats by the old cats happens on Broadway, in Hollywood, on Wall Street….The idea is to keep that Cream up in the Family.

I rocks with that.

Hip Hop shouldn’t be any different.

you wanna hear something DOPE? listen to some of your old hip hop cassettes.

THE INTERNET IS DESTROYING RAP MUSIC (AND IT WILL DESTROY SOCIETY AS IT IS TURNING THE LOSERS WHO WOULD USED TO HAVE PLAYED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS WITH THEIR LOSER FRIENDS INTO INTERNET ZOMBIES WHO PLAY WARCRAFT WITH LOSER FRIENDS THEY NEVER MET.) ANYWAY CASE IN POINT IS THE CLIPSE ALBUM. LOOK HOW GREAT THE FIRST ALBUM WAS, NOW THESE NEWJACK INTERNET NERDS WHO PROBABLY HATED RAP WHEN THE FIRST ALBUM CAME OUT GOT ON THE CLIPSE NUTS, AND LOOK AT THE BULLSHIT PRODUCT. ONLY TWO OR THREE TRACKS OFF THAT ALBUM COULD’VE EVEN MADE IT ON THE FIRST ALBUM. TAKE HIP HOP OFF THE INTERNET. I ALREADY HEARD AT LEAST TWO RAP SONGS REFERENCING MYSPACE. NEXT THING U KNOW RAPPERS WILL BE MAKING TRACKS BRAGGING ABOUT HOW THEY SPEND 20 HOURS A DAY ONLINE BECAUSE THEIR CORPORATE OVERLORDS WILL WANT THEM TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET NERD COMMUNITY.

internet is killin the music industry everyone just rips songs off they dont want to fork out 15$ for 3 or 4 decent track please you are out of your mind if you buy cd’s.

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ICI C’est la France
FROM FRANCE TO USA
You don’t know the french rap ! is real because every rap is real
because rap is real
so you can understand a big emcee from french
because the language is not a problem
the flow is here too
so : check it ! it’s just an exemple
New school sound! but il y a aussi des old shool too …

LOOk feat with US rapper because is good for the people us but after listen just the french rap … i don’t speak wery well english but the rap is the rap you know what i’m say !!!!

Kool shen - Too shoot VI MY PEOPLE feat Big ali
Ol kainry feat raekwon - de park hill à 91pise
113 feat mobb deep - lécole du crime
Rohff feat the game - Tof of the world

Albums big sold in france, hardcore
Booba - Ouest side
Rohff - Au dela de mes limites
Sinik - Sang Froid

Mafia k’1 fry (it’s a crew hardcore) new album coming soon

The rap is a lot OF good rapperz : so check rap all over the world
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the second/third nation of the rap

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I agree, hip hop is dyin’ cuz of these wack ass rappers who can only muster 2 or 3 good songs and want $15 for that shyt, ‘BlaXXXploitations of Donny Slaughter’ is whut’s up, check it out, http://www.cdbaby.com/sayso or http://www.myspace.com/gopentertainment, DC bout to start a new era in Hip Hop.

hip hop is dead all these gay ass songs on the radio are trash its just the weakest shit the only shit thats tight now is the bay its as real as it gets and thats how hip hop should be if nobody believes me go pick up one mac dre cd and then you will know what im talking about so thizz or die you beezies and watch out for that detox album in sep 07

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you forgot bishop lamont in the article

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