How? Explain who was rewriting the songs for example.
Are there examples of white people modifying Death Row albums for commercial gain with a white audience?Good book on how the white kids demand for murder, sex and mayhem drove the 90s market.
Been tryna tell the doofus threadstarter that Kid n Play was just making excuses this whole thread. Lol
Are there examples of white people modifying Death Row albums for commercial gain with a white audience?
let me as a 40 something year old who actually worked in radio ...an AM radio station to be exact during that time to put this into perspective....
shoutout to the baddest program director of all time Ronald "Fly"
@hustlemania SPEAKS FACTS ....if you weren't present in that era (early 90s) to able to witness as well as participate in hip hop
you SHOULD BE VERY QUIET.......
none of these video documentaries or wikpedia summaries can actually depict what was going on back then....
hip hop wasn't even seen as a GENRE as evident in the grammys refusing to broadcast the rap catergories on tv which was protested by will smith and moe dee and a host of others...who chose to boycott by not showing up at all
can't buy into these "perspectives"
especially when they are coming from biased sources
the "unsung testimony" of Kid N Play only tells half the story.....
yes I do agree that their was some poloarization occurring once Gangsta Rap started making it's presence felt in the early 90s
because artists such as Heavy D....Salt n Pepa...Will Smith and Kid N Play were labeled as "happy rap" by the media
but their is no excuse as to why KID N PLAY couldn't have succeeded other than the fact that they didn't make timeless records
Heavy d. had radio staples like "we got our own thing" and "i got nothing but love for ya"...salt n pepa is known for "push it and "shoop"
will smith got a plethora of big hits going back to this days in the 80s with parents just don't understand which went big on the pop charts
KID N PLAY just fell shor of the mark ....
I know this cause I worked directly with radio programming at the AM radio station back in the day .....
and unlike other "happy rappers" whom were charting like Hammer.....kid n play didn't register high on the bds spins inspite of the fact they had a visible brand with a hit movie and kid's trademark look......
even at their height they usually only got played on the mix shows late at night like the one I deejayed on
the problem wasn't so much street music suppressing kid n play....
the problem was KID N PLAY's camp didn't know how to capitalize off of them....hurby luv bug initially tried to market them as a male version of SALT N PEPA which was a gimmick in itself...the 90s was transitioning into care er minded artists who could last....
back then the 90s were sooo good cause STREET RAP could coexist with HAPPY RAP...
guys like chuck chillout and myself would play a ABOVE THE LAW RECORD or MOB STYLE RECORD along with a LATIFAH or SKEE LO record or HAMMER.....
THERE WAS BALANCE!!
SAME THING WITH KID N PLAY I remember first hearing kid n play single following a hardcore PUBLIC ENEMY single and followed up with a hardcore ULTRAMAGANETIC MCEES single on kiss fm new york
kid n play was never meant to last.......their was no growth and development
I took your earlier posts to suggest that hip hop music was being changed by white people so that it would be more palatable to white kids. As if The Chronic was initially on a PE vibe but then the execs made Dre go back and rewrite/rerecord the album because the content wasn't appealing enough to white kids.Why would white people have to modify Death Row albums?
If black record execs in 1992 like Andre Harrell and Jheryl Busby were saying that they didn't want to be responsible for distributing NWA/Death Row-like material, but white execs Jimmy Iovine, Jerry Heller and Bryan Turner wanted to appeal to the white kids consumer base who enjoyed black murder, sex, mayhem music and videos, why would the white guys have to
modify anything?
Help me understand your question?
Fugees and Will Smith biggies albums sold more than Pac and Bigs.
Even Jays biggest song of his most "fukk a bytch"-album was Hard Knock Life.
90s hiphop was diverse as fukk, I hate how people love to summarize shyt that can't be summarized. Like "everything today is mumble rap" is just as bad.
The only way you can summarize 90s hiphop is different ways of saying how dope music was coming out.
Bro....my mama loved that wild Wild West song and soundtrack ....I hate when cats refuse to be wrong
Good book on how the white kids demand for murder, sex and mayhem drove the 90s market.
Are there examples of white people modifying Death Row albums for commercial gain with a white audience?
The problem I got is when you say the media labeled it ''happy rap'' ,how would the mainstream white American media label it happy rap when they didn't even take rap as a genre seriously or even have it as a category at the Grammy's?
The streets labeled groups like Kid N Play happy go lucky rap.But they actually had a better edge because they were more party oriented rap then the conscious kind of rap.
The reality is ,yes; some groups like Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest, Leaders of The New School,Das Efx were popular non-gangsta rap acts, but the fact is gangsta rap was far more popular because for many people on the streets they related to it more and tpp many people saw conscious rap as soft.Whether its right or wrong its reality.
I took your earlier posts to suggest that hip hop music was being changed by white people so that it would be more palatable to white kids. As if The Chronic was initially on a PE vibe but then the execs made Dre go back and rewrite/rerecord the album because the content wasn't appealing enough to white kids.
So I asked some questions to flesh out whether that's what you were actually saying. I see now that its not.
I'm with you on the idea that the labels started pushing gangsta rap.
But I get skittish when people start to suggest that classic Death Row albums weren't the albums that Dre/Snoop/Pac wanted to make.
I also take issue if you're suggesting that Death Row was only popular with white kids.