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MANDE KANG
If you're a fan of an artist, you want them to succeed.
Why do you guys care about record sales so much?
- Thread starter MilesTeg
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You stay on my dikkIt's just some fun shyt to talk about
No one actually takes sales/relevance into account when they judge music
Unless you're @Capitol
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Fakkot
always got gay shyt on your mind
I can easily explain why thats there. Can you explain to me why I always seem to be prancing across your mind?
TrapHouse Rock
All Star
cause when my favorite rapper succeeds, i succeed
BlackDiBiase
Superstar
Whats Kreayshawns numbers, anyone got the info ?
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Because a lot of these dudes are hypebeasts without the capability of thinking for themselves...They need popular opinion or critical acclaim (both things that are controlled by people outside of hip hop and Black culture) to determine what is quality or what has value...
Also a lot of these guys become so emotionally invested as fanatics of certain artists they take their wins and losses as a reflection of themselves personally...If something that they might enjoy listening to can't go gold or platinum, then what does that say about them?
Everyone wants to roll with a winner right? The same reason certain sports teams have more fans than others...
When I see the conversation going into that direction I immediately tune their opinions out...
Also a lot of these guys become so emotionally invested as fanatics of certain artists they take their wins and losses as a reflection of themselves personally...If something that they might enjoy listening to can't go gold or platinum, then what does that say about them?
Everyone wants to roll with a winner right? The same reason certain sports teams have more fans than others...
When I see the conversation going into that direction I immediately tune their opinions out...
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Killin fake hip hop
All Eyez On Me says hello...
the album sales argument used to hold weight before we had easy access to free music... before Napster. Also being "popular" does hold some merit. If everyone says that Pepsi tastes better than Coke, then no matter what you say about the ingredients or whatever, Pepsi tastes better than Coke simply because the people like it more.
With that said, fine art has a smaller target audience than its counterpart. More people eat hotdogs than a filet mignon...
the album sales argument used to hold weight before we had easy access to free music... before Napster. Also being "popular" does hold some merit. If everyone says that Pepsi tastes better than Coke, then no matter what you say about the ingredients or whatever, Pepsi tastes better than Coke simply because the people like it more.
With that said, fine art has a smaller target audience than its counterpart. More people eat hotdogs than a filet mignon...
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what's your explanation, that you're a fakkot? 
Well what do want to judge it by then? Your subjective music tastes?
O ur response will be "lyricism". Newsflash lyricism itself is such a broad term that there is soo much factors in which you can biases towards.(metaphors, vocab, rhyme scheme, storytelling, etc etc.).
Soo to even say the statement "Highest selling projects are bad or good art", makes no sense. Because art is a subjective concept. One song can be beautiful for one and ugly to another. The best way to determine a piece of art's work is how the people recieve it because that is the only objective barometer in which we can judge good or bad art.
O ur response will be "lyricism". Newsflash lyricism itself is such a broad term that there is soo much factors in which you can biases towards.(metaphors, vocab, rhyme scheme, storytelling, etc etc.).
Soo to even say the statement "Highest selling projects are bad or good art", makes no sense. Because art is a subjective concept. One song can be beautiful for one and ugly to another. The best way to determine a piece of art's work is how the people recieve it because that is the only objective barometer in which we can judge good or bad art.