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Rap Exploitation: How to Destroy a Black Male in 10 Steps
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Piff Perkins
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That point about managers tho...that shyt is the truth. They're always the inside man (or woman). It doesn't take much to get a manager on the label's side. Soon he's doing your work for you: he's the one who recommends that lawyer the label wants the artist to hire; he's the one who suggests the artist work with that in-house producer to keep costs down, etc.
When I worked in the label industry (it's not really a "music" industry) I saw this all the time. I remember one time an Asian intern came up to me and said "I don't mean to offend, but isn't the manager basically the house n-word in this system?" I couldn't even hate on him, dude was exactly right. For a small piece of the pie, the manager sells you up river. And if he's really smart he just might become a music exec in 10 years.
When I worked in the label industry (it's not really a "music" industry) I saw this all the time. I remember one time an Asian intern came up to me and said "I don't mean to offend, but isn't the manager basically the house n-word in this system?" I couldn't even hate on him, dude was exactly right. For a small piece of the pie, the manager sells you up river. And if he's really smart he just might become a music exec in 10 years.
In short: Black people are easily manipulated children incapable of thinking for themselves.
Another stupid conspiracy thread by Threadstarter.
PhonZhi
Veteran
Seems like this topic is always avoided or shytted on. Most ppl are blind to what this poison aka rap is doing to our community and that its PURPOSELY being pushed onto the black youth. Here's a few other threads in case u missed them: http://www.thecoli.com/threads/as-l...e-black-community-will-never-progress.271245/
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/did-...ack-radio-after-the-million-man-march.251707/
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/as-b...ef-keefs-career-is-dead.276864/#post-11391161
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/did-...ack-radio-after-the-million-man-march.251707/
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/as-b...ef-keefs-career-is-dead.276864/#post-11391161
Great Article.
I had to find this thread. Looks like the coli wants to stay away from this thread
NobodyReally
Superstar
No hyperbole breh. This is common place!
perhaps. but I don't think it's accurate to spin it like this. Execs do this for all genres of music. There are plenty of other realms where black men and women are being destroyed specifically. The music industry is not exclusively targeting black men. it targets suckers, whether they be artists or consumers. the problem is not the industry taking advantage of folks. the problem is one's personal ignorance of how contracts work and chasing money/fame. the article in the OP is sensational and this is not the era for that, imo.
Kilgore Trout
Banned
If you not a ho get up out my trap houseeee!
I do photography in the music biz and I'll say the majors pay more and are way faster with that cheque.
I do photography in the music biz and I'll say the majors pay more and are way faster with that cheque.
HookersandIceCream
#TeamOrange
What about all the white artists that get pumped and dumped. Record comapnies don't give a fukk about anyone
what does it say about our scoiety that that music sells?
BasedPrime
Xbox Woe
Now you wanna roll one
fukkyalifestyle
Superstar
Bullshyt. Every recording company follows those same basic steps. And they do teach their artists about financial planning, most artists just don't care to listen.
And its 2014. In order for an artist to even get signed now a days he has to already have built an organic world wide audience through mixtape releases and live performances. Label didn't build these artists content or offer them flashy jewelry and clothing. They built their own fanbases through the internet, label saw a way to make a buck and offered them funding. They accepted.
Hip hop has evolved past just drug and gangster music. Are communities have evolved so kids selling drugs isn't that common anyway. In 2014 hiphop is harmless for the most part.
You know when hip hop was doing the most damage? When your boy tupac was running around talmbout "if i die tonight! hit the block and fill your pockets making crack sales" and your boy biggie was talmbout "Gimme the loot Gimme the loot". Both black men. Signed to black labels. Running around promoting violence and drugs in an era when violence and drugs were booming. White man didn't tell them to do that. White man didn't help them to do that. They made that conscious decision to exploit their own communities. And now kids across the nation treat them like gods.
Problem isn't rap music. Rap music no long holds the same weight in deez skreets.
And its 2014. In order for an artist to even get signed now a days he has to already have built an organic world wide audience through mixtape releases and live performances. Label didn't build these artists content or offer them flashy jewelry and clothing. They built their own fanbases through the internet, label saw a way to make a buck and offered them funding. They accepted.
Hip hop has evolved past just drug and gangster music. Are communities have evolved so kids selling drugs isn't that common anyway. In 2014 hiphop is harmless for the most part.
You know when hip hop was doing the most damage? When your boy tupac was running around talmbout "if i die tonight! hit the block and fill your pockets making crack sales" and your boy biggie was talmbout "Gimme the loot Gimme the loot". Both black men. Signed to black labels. Running around promoting violence and drugs in an era when violence and drugs were booming. White man didn't tell them to do that. White man didn't help them to do that. They made that conscious decision to exploit their own communities. And now kids across the nation treat them like gods.
Problem isn't rap music. Rap music no long holds the same weight in deez skreets.
