I'm writing this post so people can understand what makes a hit now these days. So here it goes...
Q: Why do the tracks that doesn't have much skill to them get played on the radio?
A: 80% of the listeners are women and they like to listen to the hottest joints thats out there. Skill is now a thing of the past, because women could careless on it. If the beat can move their body and the track is catchy then it's sold.
Q: Why 80% of women? Where did most the male crowd go?
A: Men now these days pick what they want to hear and could careless on what's out on the radio. Just like how men know what they want before they actually go to the store. If your a male you usually just pop in a CD when you get into that car of yours while women most the time play the radio. Just so you can see where i'm coming from listen to the radio and you will notice that most callers are females.
Q: Ok so.... What makes a CD sell?
A: If the ladies are enjoying the music it will most likely sell. Like I said before to one of the questions above, women like the newest hottest joints that they can find. They are the people that actually go out and by the CD/MP3 most of the time. The men on the other hand mostly bootleg the CD by either downloading it or buying a $5 version of it.
Q: What about mixtapes?
A: Mixtapes usually cater to the men side of the market, but usually it's not the artist or producer that makes the money off of it, but the DJ. (unless your an artist making your own mixtape.) Still though with most men bootleging anything they can find these DJs still don't get paid as much as what the radio artists on the radio make.
Q: What happened to keepin' it real or keepin' true?
A: Alot of people get this screwed up these days and it's mostly the hard asses that try to change you to what they think is keepin it real. Those hard asses usually say that keepin it real means everything on your tracks have to be 100% the truth which is not the case. The REAL definition about keepin' it real is to be yourself and to be yourself your doing what YOU like to do and could careless what others think. Same with keepin it true which is short for keeping true to yourself. If talking about a true life story on your track is pleasure to you, THATS KEEPING IT REAL. If makeing up a false story on a track, but you still get pleasure from it.. THAT STILL KEEPING IT REAL. If someone tells you that you can't do it this way or that way and when your doing it you don't enjoy it, THATS NOT KEEPING IT REAL. Just do yourself.
Q: What happened to hip hop these days? It's not the same anymore...
A: Hip Hop music it's self hasn't actually really changed. The only diffrence you hear is the sound of it has changed. To tell you the truth hip hop is actually going back to it's roots where it started and back in the day all hip hop was just simple party joints. (look up "2 Live Crew" "African Bambaataa" and so forth.) Now what has changed in hip hop is the culture it's self. Back in the day people would spit on the mic to diss the other person instead of resorting to violence, but now (most of the time) when someone disses another mc on the mic they are doomed to life with that person or might get shot at. THIS my friend IS what's killing hip hop. Violance can be said on the mic, BUT... not physically.
(This is the main reason why I made the fuck you track my single because it's simple and catchy. I made sure that I had a lot of women to judge what I have so far on my CD and thats the joint they chose to be first.)
If you have any more questions feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer them.<br><br>Post edited by: DJ Emergency, at: 2007/08/14 06:58
