Ebro Says He Got A Call From Record Labels Saying “It Should Be Noted Many Major Record Labels Have Deprioritized Signing Rappers”

[Yehuda]

He did not get that call, fukk outta here.

 

[Reptile]

So trash will be replaced with more trash.

 

[AStrangeName]

I'd replace Nipsey with Juice Wrld because Nipsey was older, but yeah the supposed stars of the zoomed generation were all lost before their prime. That's a large reason why the genre has stagnated.

Nah, Juice is more Pop Rap, instead replacing Nipsey with Pop Smoke makes more sense in that manner.

 

[Yaboysix]

Nygga....YOU set the standard on what's HOT!? radio stations in cahoots with them labels and prisons to push that poison and death...NOW its not "profitable"

 

[ABlackMan]

Man! They really tryna do away with black America y’all don’t see it. After all that waking up and chasing the bag shyt yeah yeah they tryna get us up outta here. Back to work nikkas!

Barely the best in the association now too huh?

Still haven’t been provided an answer as to why we see no young black male journalists on television?

Guess we should’ve been pushing local rapper XYZ to keep recording.

Guess we done got too busy tryna be doctors and lawyers huh?

Man!


Y’all don’t hear me though

 

[Jasonmask]

New rappers don’t have the passion, you can hear it in the songs like they don’t even like the music they making. Going to take something drastic to see a change, unless there’s an underground movement that’s not on the map it’s looking bleak in the future.

 

[spliz]

Tired of listening to multiple n words, graphic descriptions of how you'll kill another Black man, crass materialism, degrading of Black women, incoherent mumble babble, glorification of hard drug use, and proudful ignorance.

Rap should of died like 15 years ago if we're being honest shyt is played out people wanna vibe and dance and feel good. Latin music(for th most part cause they have their ghetto shyt too) and Afrobeats provide that feeling.Music is suppose to make you feel good not run down on opps.

Go to a rap concert that shyt isn't even music just a mf with 20 other mf'ers on stage with his pants hanging off his ass walking around high and/or drunk af with his vocals playing in the back.

Super trash

Like honestly. Why the fukk are the majority of u nikkas on a hip hop forum? Go the fukk somewhere else.

 

[spliz]

nikkas killing full black American genres of music and y’all celebrating it. On a hip hop forum on hip hops 50th birthday literally CELEBRATING the death of hip hop. Meanwhile. They already did this shyt with OTHER black music that wasn’t violent at all. Was Rnb violent? Where the fukk is that at? Remember how huge it was? I’m starting to think the majority of u muthafukkas is plain stupid.

 

[DonB90]

Like honestly. Why the fukk are the majority of u nikkas on a hip hop forum? Go the fukk somewhere else.

You'd pay money to see this?

 

[Piff Perkins]

Rap is fine. But I definitely believe XXX, Pop Smoke, and Juice World dying in a short time span did huge damage to mainstream rap and if they were alive things would be different rn.

Labels are playing around right now. All these women rapping yet I'm not seeing any of them reach Nicki or Cardi status when it comes to truly making money (sales, tours, merch, etc). So the labels are just playing around with attention. How much attention can they win by sampling [insert popular 80s-00s record]. How much attention can they win with the latest video curated entirely for viral moments.

Look at Drake's tour and the masterful way its being shown on social media, including him releasing album details. Look at Kendrick's album release, videos, and tour last year, culminating in that (amazing) Paris show filmed on Amazon. Look at Travis' album, which I don't fukk with but...the spectacle is what I'm talking about. There's a difference between gaining attention and creating moments. You need actual artists to create moments. Until the labels get back to trying to find actual artists, we're gonna be stuck in this circular firing squad between men mumbling over the same piano melodies and women vomiting the same 5-10 words over something Diddy sampled 25 years ago.

 

[Budda]

Cap

 

[DonB90]

nikkas killing full black American genres of music and y’all celebrating it. On a hip hop forum on hip hops 50th birthday literally CELEBRATING the death of hip hop. Meanwhile. They already did this shyt with OTHER black music that wasn’t violent at all. Was Rnb violent? Where the fukk is that at? Remember how huge it was? I’m starting to think the majority of u muthafukkas is plain stupid.

"They" aren't responsible for passing down musical traditions to coming generations thats on you.

"They" not stopping you from listening to Al Green, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Howlin Wolf, etc. If the Black youth wanted to be more in tune with their musical heritage its never been easier its a finger tap on Apple Music or Spotify away.

Dominicans of all ages dance to batcha. Haitians still listen to kompa. " They" still retain their heritage. Why the fukk can't you? Instead of bytchin and crying about it like a victim...its unbecoming of a man.

"White man stole my music and tells me to listen to only rap, now they taking it away we not gonna have no more music" victim ass nikka

Do better

 

[Da Bull Ace]

It’s the labels fault to begin with. They keep signing and pushing artists with barely any talent and no staying power just cause they viral on the internet. And on top of that there’s no artist development which basically means they throwing artists in the ocean and seeing who sinks or swims. Now they tryna say rap isnt profitable like they werent the ones that oversaturated the market smh

 

[maxamusa]

Rap is fine. But I definitely believe XXX, Pop Smoke, and Juice World dying in a short time span did huge damage to mainstream rap and if they were alive things would be different rn.

Labels are playing around right now. All these women rapping yet I'm not seeing any of them reach Nicki or Cardi status when it comes to truly making money (sales, tours, merch, etc). So the labels are just playing around with attention. How much attention can they win by sampling [insert popular 80s-00s record]. How much attention can they win with the latest video curated entirely for viral moments.

Look at Drake's tour and the masterful way its being shown on social media, including him releasing album details. Look at Kendrick's album release, videos, and tour last year, culminating in that (amazing) Paris show filmed on Amazon. Look at Travis' album, which I don't fukk with but...the spectacle is what I'm talking about. There's a difference between gaining attention and creating moments. You need actual artists to create moments. Until the labels get back to trying to find actual artists, we're gonna be stuck in this circular firing squad between men mumbling over the same piano melodies and women vomiting the same 5-10 words over something Diddy sampled 25 years ago.

those artists were legit stars. they studied the game and had the formula.


these new THOT rappers think being pretty and shaking their ass is Enuff.


Lotto is a prime example. She took FANTASY. 1 of the biggest smashes of all time. She has the look 2. Dawg objectively that beat has been done time and time again in every generation and goes. She paid ZERO respect to that legacy. it was so bad they had Mariah jump on the remix and it still couldn't save it. that shyt is flash in the pan and that's being generous.

There is no "new" mainstream rap RN. That most streamed list that just came out is all legacy acts and deceased rappers.


These new digital guys are learning a hard lesson right now. You got 600million views that isn't translating to anything real. I've always despised the rap's a hustle crowd; but even jay-Z had the upmost respect for the art despite coining the term and put in the work.

If rap goes back underground its the current generations fault. Its not a conspiracy. They don't give AF and it shows.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

It's true.

The labels can't invest in Hip Hop anymore, with the way they've set it up. They turned it into a microwave industry and then suffered when their own formula failed to make them any money. So now they're shifting to whatever they can make some bread off of.

The irony?

NY was backed down by The South because ultimately there were more of them. Now look…same game accept it’s not more states it’s more countries

Wow