Who is doing the regulating out there. Shit I was at our studio last night and they were playing a song that a "well-known" artist did over there. People was on it like it was hella cool. I pulled the engineer/producer to the side and said, "this shit is garbage." Its no egos involved. Dude's name might have made it sell, but amongst NIGGAS that shit would have got the fast forward. He told me, "Man, I know, but he wanted to rap to that beat. I just let him get the verses down, Ihaven't started fuckin with it yet."
Every label has to have people that will give these songs/artists the gas face when it is called for. Shit, I don't even go around there too much because I want to stay objective. I don't have as much attacthment to cats. The reason I got this stupid fuckin name (Game Warden) in the first place was because I am VERY honest with my critique. I make sure I regulate our time and energy by not wasting it on bullshit. I admit, though, that things I thought were weak have been made into something real cool by our engineer. But I make sure that shit does not go unsaid.
secondly, I refuse to get into that shit where these artists call each other by their stage names. FUCK that. I refused. So because of these two things, they started callin me game warden.
Am I wrong? I'm callin these niggas Joe, James and Jack until they prove some shit to me. Sell a buncha records first, be a muthafuckin HOG in the studio and then I'll consider acknowledgin your stage name.
My main point is, I wonder how each indie regulates itself. DO you have assigned people who come in and drop the axe on songs/artists? I blame the flooding of wack music on the labels. They ahve got to be the ones to control what they put out. Maybe majors can't do it becuase they have a commitment for X number of albums. But indies? We can say, we are not putting that shit out there, you can do better.
Only thing I can think of is that:
1. The labels are run by artists. They regulate everybody but theirself and put out their own weak shit.
2. Labels get too friendly withthe aritist to the point where its more of a potna thing than business. I mean be supportive, but dont just be his potna and tell him its raw.
Maybe I'm missing it, though, those are just thoughts of the top of my head. But something is wrong. Its always been wack mc's but they never had such action on getting in stores. Labels gotta be held accountable.
Who is doing the regulating out there?
Every label has to have people that will give these songs/artists the gas face when it is called for. Shit, I don't even go around there too much because I want to stay objective. I don't have as much attacthment to cats. The reason I got this stupid fuckin name (Game Warden) in the first place was because I am VERY honest with my critique. I make sure I regulate our time and energy by not wasting it on bullshit. I admit, though, that things I thought were weak have been made into something real cool by our engineer. But I make sure that shit does not go unsaid.
secondly, I refuse to get into that shit where these artists call each other by their stage names. FUCK that. I refused. So because of these two things, they started callin me game warden.
Am I wrong? I'm callin these niggas Joe, James and Jack until they prove some shit to me. Sell a buncha records first, be a muthafuckin HOG in the studio and then I'll consider acknowledgin your stage name.
My main point is, I wonder how each indie regulates itself. DO you have assigned people who come in and drop the axe on songs/artists? I blame the flooding of wack music on the labels. They ahve got to be the ones to control what they put out. Maybe majors can't do it becuase they have a commitment for X number of albums. But indies? We can say, we are not putting that shit out there, you can do better.
Only thing I can think of is that:
1. The labels are run by artists. They regulate everybody but theirself and put out their own weak shit.
2. Labels get too friendly withthe aritist to the point where its more of a potna thing than business. I mean be supportive, but dont just be his potna and tell him its raw.
Maybe I'm missing it, though, those are just thoughts of the top of my head. But something is wrong. Its always been wack mc's but they never had such action on getting in stores. Labels gotta be held accountable.
Who is doing the regulating out there?
