Jean Grae complaining no one is buying her albums and threatening to quit rap....

[wizworld]

Jeannie ‏@JeanGreasy 45m45 minutes ago
Hi. I'd really appreciate it if you bought an album or 2. Or 5, or even 10. I just made 2 new ones last month. Thnx. http://jeangrae.bandcamp.com

Jeannie ‏@JeanGreasy 44m44 minutes ago
Thousands of streams, but only a few hundred purchases. Can't keep making these albums if you don't actually get them. Sorry loves.


Maybe if she put together some fukking music with substance instead of making like 2 albums per month of nonsense shyt and parody trash.....good riddance

The writing has been on the wall, I could tell many years ago that she didn't like the rap game. This game doesn't appreciate it's artists, either your hot or your not, no in between. I'm sure if she had it to do all over again she would never have written a rap.

If you don't appreciate other types of art, then you probably won't get what I'm saying.

 

[wizworld]

and besides, and anyone who knows me will tell you I love Jeannie on some borderline stalkerish shyt, but she makes music 1/4 for money and 3/4 cause she wants to.

You can't make an album like "That's Not How You Do That" and expect anyone but your fans and twitter followers to buy it.

Yup. She's totally an "ARTIST". And rap is one of the most devalued types of art. How many types of art exist where Non-fans, fans and artists themselves openly devalue it?
I know she comes from an art background, so I can only image her disillusionment.
I bet if she died, a million secret fans & admirers would pop out of the woodwork.

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

Aint heard Jean Grae's name in years.

 

[Mr. Negative]

It's from the Wicked + The Divine comic

nobody else would get that, though

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

I have a secret cruch on Jean.. and she can spit.. I didnt know she had new music..

She's been ready to quit since she left Talib Kweli ... but Sean P's love can prove that 10000 fans/sells is all you need if you do it right...

I got the EP, cookies and Comas and the joint with 9th Wonder..
edit: why the hell this 6 song ep $10 ????

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

silly woman.....

Streaming has made purchasing Albums OBSELETE....

She needs to learn how to take full advantage of monetizing her content on sites like bandcamp, streaming services and Youtube

and STOP BLAMING THE FUKKING FANS!!!!!....it's not our fault you in a fukked up industry

 

[Wepa Man]

fukk is she doing

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I think she's throwing shots at her "core fans", not people who don't know who she is.

She has fans, they just not coppin and if your core fans don't cop I probably wouldn't make music neither.

 

[Yaboysix]

Welp!...was about to come in here and rant about how ain't nobody tryna listen to no female rappers! (Lola Monroe, angel haze) but I see here that she is an OG...ima let her cook ..

 

[EndDomination]

She needs to do more than just drop music and expect people to buy it.
She's on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, she has a (solid?) fanbase, and has to have a lot of industry connects considering she's been ready to low for almost 11 years.
She needs to do more with what she's got, and I love her as an artist.

 

[EndDomination]

Rappers gotta figure out new ways to promote. You can't just throw a Bandcamp link up and expect nikkas to cop. You gotta make people interested.

Like this girl right here



I never heard of her before yesterday but this video was so dope and well-produced that I'm most likely gonna be checkin for anything new that she releases from now on.

She's been a really popular grime rapper for the last 4 or 5 years.
The UK has a lot of solid Grime artists who are women:

 

[Doctor Wily]

She's better off changing her name back to What What! Than continuing to think that people are checking for her in 2016.

 

[GoonbergScandal]

Welp!...was about to come in here and rant about how ain't nobody tryna listen to no female rappers! (Lola Monroe, angel haze) but I see here that she is an OG...ima let her cook ..

Angel Haze flopped big time, and magazines were hyping her shyt up all the time saying she got next. Her hip hop magazine buzz was bigger than her internet buzz. Only problem is people don't read hip hop magazines anymore because of the internet.

 

[Asicz]

Jean Grae has had a few problems.

1. Her source of income should not just have been in rap.
Acting, business ventures in and out of entertainment like Queen Latifah.

2. she could've done more to use her sex appeal. Nicki Minaj, Foxy even Remy Ma have done so and so has Lauren Hill to a certain extent.
Even male rappers have to use it or use the image of wealth. I think she had a nice body that she hides to this day. But she could stand to get her body to where it needs to be and sex sells period. Also I think she could appeal to men and women of different cultures also because of her look.

4.Also like it or not, femcees have to be aligned with a male and/or male group. Lil Kim (BIG), Foxy (Nas the Firm, Jay Z), Lauren Hill ( Wycleff and Fugees) Queen Latifah (Treach Naughty By Nature cosign) Da Brat (JD,),Missy(Timbaland)

4. She needs to be have singing be a strong part of her game when it is needed like (Hill, Minaj, Queen )

 

[GoonbergScandal]

^^^^^ Jean Grae was running with Talib's crew when he was still on a major, but Talib wasn't getting the same media buzz he was getting in the late 90s/early 2000s when Jean was signed to Blacksmith.