RECORD EXECS, RADIO...BIG VON? WAKE UP!!!

[D.E.O.]

So with that said make qulity music that appeal to the masses so 2000 people call in a day and people in "high positions" will takes us serious.

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[D.E.O.]

obviously if the radio doesnt feel you then a new avenue needs to be pursued. mixing your own music on pro tools doesnt cut it. i think alot of artists need to go to sound 101 and figure out how to have a quality track put together from begining to end. yeah, radio is about money. if you cant push units, they arent pushing you. if rap is your future, dont have kids.

In reality.. artist shouldn't be mixing they own shit..

 

[YouKnowTheTruth]

The folks at 106 should be more concerned with keeping their own jobs. Word is the urban stations are beginning to cut staff considerably across the nation.

Besides, they do play bay music. I would not complain, but figure out more innovative ways to get your music out there. Corporate radio is not the place it once was to break new music for new underground artists. Deregulation of radio monopoly control made sure of that. Thank your congress.

I totally agree...good post. If anything instead of fussing about KMEL we need to be focused on how our government fucked up the game with the allowance of monopoly practices in radio and a lack of getting on top of the downloading epidemic. You combine the two and you have a shit faced industry bound to fuck the artist over everytime.

 

[servnu151]

BLAH fuckin BLAH,

some shit has been said OVER AND OVER! nothing going to change unless people make a change....keep repeatin yourself on a internet website and you will see the same results

 

[Caliber408]

I really hope the new younger generation take notice and see whats really going on these days in bay rap and stay focused on school and sports. My generation came up and seen all the artist from the 90's having real money, being on a real label with a budget, selling real records, getting good money from there guest apperances on other albums, and having more then 250 people at there shows that they did nt know. Seeing that made my generation want to be rappers and in the music business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BQnQcJeeYI

thats real talk. check out what scarface got to say about the rap game presently.

 

[YakuzaMistress]

Keepit100 is yet again keepin it 100. I think the key that alot of bay artists are missing is the game has changed dramatically but we are stilll focused on the old formula of getting spins and selling records. You can look at whats happen with the digital/internet as a gift or a curse. But honeslt artists have to learn to be less dependent on major radio stations, record labels, music channels or in other words the old power houses. Not only has the internet made them less relevent but throw in that the recession and they are more confused and more injured then alot of artists. artists gotta get creative use alternitive forms of media to get there music out there and really reconsider how they plan to make money because record labels arnt even going after bootleggers anymore because its a battle they cant win.

 

[YakuzaMistress]

i posted it in another forum but since it is such a great book please read Kself destruct: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

 

[CLS550]

this was a good thread, a lot of people made some good points. but I hear that lil nigga D-LO on the radio EVERYDAY in the afternoon ... I hear Kafani's record ... so what he sounds just like Clyde Carson ... and of course, Keyshia Cole. So I can't really say that KMEL isn't playing local music.

 

[KEEPIT100]

this was a good thread, a lot of people made some good points. but I hear that lil nigga D-LO on the radio EVERYDAY in the afternoon ... I hear Kafani's record ... so what he sounds just like Clyde Carson ... and of course, Keyshia Cole. So I can't really say that KMEL isn't playing local music.

Laroo put me on gets play as well. Jacka still in rotation as well.

 

[localstar907]

On friday and saturday thats when they play the moast bay music. From like six to 12. I always hear bay tracks getting non stop play. It's better then nothing it really is.