mikevick said:
wbitch i download every album that comes out of the bay and listen to em front to back..
maybe if you put some ACTUAL MONEY in the ARTISTS pocket, then they wouldnt have to make "hyphy song just to get on the radio".
First, i wanna speak on this. YOU DONT HAVE TO MAKE A HYPHY SONG TO GET ON THE RADIO. You just have to make a GOOD song. The thing is, right now, most of our listeners are into the hyphy stuff, so we have to give them what they want. Just like a LOT of our listeners like Mary J and Keyshia Cole, and even, unfortunately, Laffy Taffy and garbage like that. You have to give the people what they want. We spend a lot of time, energy, and money researching what people want. A lot of you may not like what we do, cuz we dont play all BAY, and I respect you opinions. But at the same time, the BAY has 6 MILLION people in it, and we have between 300,000-600,000 listening at any given time. More in the evenings. Not all those people are up on bay shit. A good amount are, but not all. Like in high school, there was always that group of kids who were different, listened to different stuff. Same concept. We try to supply a good balance. Fortunately, for my mixshow, I can play pretty much whatever I want, so I get to put a whole lot more Bay shit in. For the last few months, my whole show has been pretty much bay shit, with a few outsiders thrown in (juvenile, TI) but not that much. The record labels have noticed this, becuase none of their records are gettin played much in the mix. We shut a lot of that shit down. So now labels are startin to see a big number of spins on Fab, Quinn, Keak, Hoodstarz, Team, frontline, Nump, balance, etc.. More eyes in the music business are lookin at the bay than ever since 1992.
This is the music BUSINESS. In business, you supply the product the customers want. If you supply the best product, the customers will always come back. That is how you MAKE MONEY.
enough of the soapbox. go cop the 40 album. if u already got it, do cop the quinn album. if u got that already too, get the hoodstarz. just please, buy albums. i am given promo copies of everything, and i still went out and BOUGHT 40s CD yesterday.
Support the BAY.
