This nikka probably leaked Lupes shyt 
This is the most incredible article in online music history IMO.
This is the most incredible article in online music history IMO.
The Man Who Broke the Music Business(Great read on Pirating/bootleg music)
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Yea a doc would be dope. It seems like dude was ahead of his time with the netflix idea and just didn't see what he had.
This nikka probably leaked Lupes shyt
This is the most incredible article in online music history IMO.
Is there a reddit thread on this, Im surprised it ain't hit the front page. This and that Spotify > The music industry article, needs to be talking about a lot more.
Yeah, this article is truly amazing. I would love to have a blog/site that'll reveal a lot of the underground internet happenings around that time. It truly was the wild wild west. This article, the article on those eBay scammers: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-ebay-password-idUSBREA4K0B420140521...The credit card shyt back in the day, Silk Road, etc. We need that
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I was reading this yesterday in amazement
I remember the RNS days but I had no clue they had connections like this
I like that they talked about how they stopped putting out releases so early
I remember from around 99 to 2001 you could get releases online about a month or 2 in advance
where as by the time 50 cent's first cd came out it was only 2 weeks.
I remember the RNS days but I had no clue they had connections like this
I like that they talked about how they stopped putting out releases so early
I remember from around 99 to 2001 you could get releases online about a month or 2 in advance
where as by the time 50 cent's first cd came out it was only 2 weeks.
Fam.
These dudes had INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS WAY UP IN RECORD LABELS
IN-fukkING-SANE!!!!
If you ever went on a site like RapGodFather or torrented ANYTHING and saw RNS, you had to know wtf this was about.
This article is like rap-wikileaks
Getting an album 2 weeks to a month before retail release#rns #ego #ragemp3 #whoa #bonethugs #2pacmp3 #0daymp3
to all the real OGs out there on efnet
Advance releases that were different from retails
When they pre'd just in time for the weekend
RNS RAN THE GAAAAAAME. Then they got knocked. 
This shyt is amazing.
These nikkas came up with the concept of Spotify and Netflix before it even existed. If only they knew what the fukk they were doing, they could have really eaten
Nah corporations would have just jacked the idea.
This nikka probably leaked Lupes shyt
This is the most incredible article in online music history IMO.
FTD did Lupe's first album if I remember correctly. Lupe has to push that shyt back almost a whole year lol.
Yeah, great article…..if you are about 28-30 now this is like a run down of your teenage rap years, I remember all those releases, RNS and all that I was never as savvy as many with the bootlegging, but I had a dude on AIM who had his Get File filled with all the releases. I saw the tags everywhere, but as a myopic adolescent never really understood the larger picture…The distribution network those guys created is unreal, my close friend now and back then, dude used to have that massive leather binder of cd's, and few other kids from high school. And, I remember bootlegging 'Get Rich Or Die Trying', I gave my boy the AIM get file connect, and we split the money, and he made most of the cc's... that was in junior year. The most memorable run was that 2002-2003 year, after that it became less and less important to me….I remember how big it was when TES leaked that summer….it was just an unbelivably exciting moment in time...getting those new albums and being the first to hear, it's so nostalgic and beautiful how much rap and music shaped my teenage years. I remember hitting the store with my boy who was an Eminem FANATIC to get that early copy, because the release date was moved up, because this federal snitch wierdo bootlegger was running an empire. Of course 'Kali' was some ultimate nerd living with his mom at 30 years old…and keeping the true hacker code…wow. You knew it was official if it had that RNS tag too….
In the earlier years, this really hurt a lot of major artists, whose shyt got leaked MONTHS In advance, look at the Nas 'I Am' debacle, that we STILL bring up….G-Dep's whole album leaked like 16 months before it was due, fukked his career up somewhat… Cam'ron with 'SDE" and AZ with 'SOSA", but like the article describes these were local leaks, and in later years nationalized..and globalized….Napster still had tracks I have never been able to find again.
This fills in a lot of question, like how did the songs get on Napster? That shyt was baffling to me for years. Glover was a p*ssy, he did three months with cooperation, what would he have got without? 18 months or something.
In the earlier years, this really hurt a lot of major artists, whose shyt got leaked MONTHS In advance, look at the Nas 'I Am' debacle, that we STILL bring up….G-Dep's whole album leaked like 16 months before it was due, fukked his career up somewhat… Cam'ron with 'SDE" and AZ with 'SOSA", but like the article describes these were local leaks, and in later years nationalized..and globalized….Napster still had tracks I have never been able to find again.
This fills in a lot of question, like how did the songs get on Napster? That shyt was baffling to me for years. Glover was a p*ssy, he did three months with cooperation, what would he have got without? 18 months or something.
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MIrc#rns #ego #ragemp3 #whoa #bonethugs #2pacmp3 #0daymp3
Them 0daymp3 releases though......damn I'm old
Just read whole article, great read, brings back memories.
All the standard tools, Fish IRC encryption, FlashFXP, EAC w/ Lame, Morgoth Releaser, raping site credits, preing a release, getting your shyt nuked, all the IRC beef that led to rippers jumping groups.
All the standard tools, Fish IRC encryption, FlashFXP, EAC w/ Lame, Morgoth Releaser, raping site credits, preing a release, getting your shyt nuked, all the IRC beef that led to rippers jumping groups.
awesome article
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Them 2pac bootleggers were making killing in the bootleg scene though. I remember in 1999 there was this dude who used to post in an old ass forum called musicfantalk.com. His name was Dante and he had all them unleaked tupac songs. This was back in 1999 when songs like fortune and fame were just rumored tracks. This dude had all of them and used to sell them with consents to not leak them for like $200 a song. People were dumb enough to fukking buy them too. He even had that Makaveli and Dillinger album before Daz ripped everybody off trying to sell it. Wanna know why Daz never did? Cuz Dante threaten him to not sell it or else he would leak the songs. It was some real drama back then. I knew the dude and he hooked me up with a few remixes that were rare. I wonder what happened to him this day cuz ever since that site went down he went to hitemup.com until that site got closed too. Both sites were shut down cuz Dante would leak songs like once every few months