music industry

Why fly to Paris when Kodak filmed "No Flocking" in his neighborhood?

As I’m watching this Complex sneaker video w. Tamara Dhia & Reyna and thinking about my label experience. The only way women are getting into the industry is if they’re: 1. Mixed / or racially ambiguous 2. fukkable 3. Know somebody / dating 4. All the above

I mean come on. Are some of today's generation of rapper's so lazy they cant put together a 4 minute song. I hate when I'm getting into a song and out of nowhere the song abruptly ends. At least back in the day when someone did a short song we still got two or maybe even three verses...

was just thinking of r&b from the past where either being attractive (Mariah, Toni, Beyonce, Usher, R Kelly - forget all the shyt now, in the 90's women wanted to jump his bones) or at least making yourself up be as attractive as possible (Faith, Mary J B, a lot of the r&b groups - 112, SWV...

Everyone in this video looks corny & lame as fukk:mjlol:fukk the music industry

Last dude said the Jay Z poster was blinking at him:huhldup:......but he wasn't on drugs or nothing

Growing up with music moguls such as Suge Knight, Sean "Diddy" Combs, J Prince, Master P, Russell Simmons, Bryan and Roland Williams, I assumed black people were the ones who controlled black music.It was not until I started visiting Thecoli that realize that it wasnt true.It frustrates me that...

So basically, I recreated this EXACT beat by myself (not that hard, this was a simple R&B beat) and used the exact same melody as the lyrics, instead of Doin Just Fine the song is called Touch You All Night:skip: I didn't sample in the "traditional" sense, so would it be grounds for giving...

Through my mom & grandma, I grew up listening to the classics i.e. Vandross, Boyz II Men, the Leverts, Gap Band, Anita Baker, Otis Redding, Brian McKnight, etc. I'm a fan of the more romantic "hold your hand, buy you roses" type of R&B music that the guys above brought, not the freaky...

I was reading some of the comments in that recent Chris Brown thread, and I saw quite a few people saying R&b is pretty much a dead genre.So I was wondering what killed it? Less then five years ago R&b was pretty popular but now it seems to me like if you want to sell records you have to be...

How Hip-Hop Edged Grittier R&B Singers Out of the Mainstream :patrice: Reading this article it seems like music and radio executive's are just making excuses for not creating a new black R&b superstar.I mean if white artists like Adele can sell millions of records doing R&b type music, I don't...

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It's said that the streaming industry is only at 3% penetration level and artists are already getting paid nicely and getting gold & platinum plaques again like it's 2003:lupe: So, when it gets to 70-80% and it gets monetized even more, can you imagine the influx of new bread coming in the rap...

I ask because for the first time in 33 years, there are no women in the top 10 of the Hot 100 chart The top 10 is full of trap rappers and white people who use watered down trap beats or whites who sing r&b. So, my questions are (I kept them short this time, you're welcome lol): 1...

Awesome break down of how the mind processes information how you discern truth and how those that don't want you to see truth hide it from you, manipulate you and thus control you. how the conscious works linearly how social engineers access the subconscious, then program it and watch for...

First off, I want to say RIP to Vanity and I commend her for finding herself. Because most people don't. I'm 22 and I really don't know my inner soul like that :snoop: Or my true faith. Anyway, the music industry ran through her BADLY. She was a crack addict (her words). Now, I watch...

Spin off from that tinashe thread, while I don't think she's special, i do take exception to that fact that there hasn't been a successful black female r&b/pop star to debut this decade (2010+ for the dummies). When I say successful, I'm not talking beyonce or rihanna level success, altho there...