"DANCEHALL REGGAE ARTISTS are BROKE...VP Records(CHINaman robbing us)-GYPTIAN
- Thread starter KENNY DA COOKER
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excuses excuses
what exactly do you need "backing" for? recording costs?
you don't wanna talk solutions you just want to paint road blocks. there's no road blocks to getting music to market these days it's rather easy as fukk.
all the new platforms the internet has provided and avenues to get music out and brehs STILL want to insist on acting helpless cool.
It's hard it's so hard breh.... then let them take all the money since it's so hard don't complain.
For a reggae/dancehall artist in the 90s VP records was one of the few ways to get your records out and get overseas exposure. There was no internet, YouTube etc etc.. it's easy to criticise in hindsight.
Swahili P'Bitek
Absorbingpovertywithoutlimitations
All labels are scams. People always talk about dancehall and reggae sales now, but to be honest, apart from Shabba, Sean Paul, Nesta and Shaggy, when have Reggae and Dancehall really sold in America. It's easier for a European band to do reggae music and blow in America (Ace of Base, Magic! etc) than a real jamaican to do so. Beenie, Bounty and the rest were selling hundreds of thousands by themselves, good but not gold or platinum like they should have.
Another proof of how non-white artists can't break into the US market is Burna Boy. All the hype around him and only 100,000 album units were moved. That white purchasing power is difficult to hack into.
Another proof of how non-white artists can't break into the US market is Burna Boy. All the hype around him and only 100,000 album units were moved. That white purchasing power is difficult to hack into.