you guys put waaaay to much on "bringin the bay back"

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Bob Pimp MOBBEN!!!
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i see all this talk about we need to support bay artist...why?? is ya boy or jacka going platinum gonna pay my rent or put food on my table or help me and my wife support a family?? i bought E-40's cd because i like E-40 not because he's a bay area artist...i could care less if i was the only one who bought it...my money is too valuable to waste on a trash hustlah cd just because he's from the bay area...i know im gonna catch heat for this but i dont give a fuck...go out and buy a cd cuz you like the artist or the cd catches your eye not because some blade from BART said to because he's from the bay and we need to bring the bay back...cuz wheter E-40 sells 200 or 2,000,000...my life will go on and i gotta pay rent on the 1st...
 
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Big-k

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I feel u homie! Chuch! But hella bay albums are good so I'ma continute to support it. I think wut alot of people mean when they say support the bay is, don't burn it if u like it go, go 2 da store and cop it.
 
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Cut-Throat said:
i see all this talk about we need to support bay artist...why?? is ya boy or jacka going platinum gonna pay my rent or put food on my table or help me and my wife support a family?? i bought E-40's cd because i like E-40 not because he's a bay area artist...i could care less if i was the only one who bought it...my money is too valuable to waste on a trash hustlah cd just because he's from the bay area...i know im gonna catch heat for this but i dont give a fuck...go out and buy a cd cuz you like the artist or the cd catches your eye not because some blade from BART said to because he's from the bay and we need to bring the bay back...cuz wheter E-40 sells 200 or 2,000,000...my life will go on and i gotta pay rent on the 1st...
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JungleMusic

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I CAN FEEL YOU BUT UM.....SOUNDS LIKE YOU MIGHT NEED A BETTER PAYING JOB HOMIE..LOL THE BAY IS BACK! NAH FOLKS...SOMETIMES I FEEL THE SAME WAY....BUT YOU MAY NOT BE AN ARTIST YOURSELF SO YOU MAY NOT LOOK AT IT FROM THAT ANGLE....OR YOU ARE AN ARTISTS AND ARE FUSTRATED LIKE MYSELF AT TIMES.....I USE TO HATE THE TERM TBIB ALSO BUT REALLY FROM A BAY ARTISTS POINT OF VIEW BUSINESS WISE UNLESS BAY ARTISTS PRODUCE SALES THEN THERE WILL BE NO BAY RAP NATIONWIDE...
 
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CaliCaliente

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When I speak of "supportin the bay artist..." Im speaking on more than purchasing an album...

1. why do we pay niggas from other states big loot to come and perform, but we want our big acts to do it for nuthin..?

2. negativity and positivity is a form of support. If you dont personally like an artist thats fine, but respect the fact that he is out there doin his thing.

...I could list more ways but that could take forever....I feel what ur saying, but there is more than one way to "support" something...not just with money...
 
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B-12

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Interesting perspective and I do agree.

As for "bringin the bay back" we were never HERE in the first place.

We have a handful of GOLD and PLATINUM artists (40, N2DEEP, The Click, Hammer, Bash, Short, 2Pac, Spice 1, etc.) and some less successful but definitely consistent sellers like Quinn, Mess, Keak, The Fig, Mac Mall etc. so to ever consider that we were on enough to fall off and then to actually bring the Bay back is not really an accurate statement of people's part.

Would I like the Bay to reveive greater attention so that other's can have opportunities? Yes. At the expense of my own well being and career? No.

This isn't total but last year I can remember buying The Team, Balance Mixtape, Mistah FAB, Baby Bash (Super Saucy and Smokin Nephew) and some others and that was because I liked their music.

This year so far I ahve bought Quinn, Balance, 40, and The Mossie and I plan on getting some others.

But the TRUTH IS no matter how much people want to argue, most artists and their camps are for THEMSELVES not a whole movement.

At the end of the day, SUPPORT GOOD MUSIC and if it so happens that it's from the Bay and escalates the "bay rap movement" as a whole then so be it.

People have to remember that to "bring the Bay back" it means more than just artist's selling units but artist's have to do more than just buy houses, gold, and scrapers. WE (the industry) have to re-invest in the community and help others come up when we are in a position to do so and we also have to create an musical infrastructure beyond just studios and home record labels.

In the early days you could actually visit the offices of your local distributors, record labels, graphic designers, onestops, pressing plants, magazines, record pools etc.

Now, almost the whole "industry" is gone. There isnt enough money and people who are legitimate to support it. It's really sad because we have no structure to justify the expense of doing "real business" and to support all of the talent we have in the Bay.

And when certain people do bring RAP SUMMITS and the such, people complain about the price. Amazing.

Anyway, Im glad as fuck that QUINN and 40 are doing so well. Not just because they are from the Bay but because they deserve it and are legitimately good representatives for us.
 
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Bob Pimp MOBBEN!!!
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JungleMusic said:
SOUNDS LIKE YOU MIGHT NEED A BETTER PAYING JOB HOMIE..BUT YOU MAY NOT BE AN ARTIST YOURSELF SO YOU MAY NOT LOOK AT IT FROM THAT ANGLE..
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for one i make $30 an hour as an operating engineer...im not an artist i chose to get a 9-5 (6-2:30) as my profession..i didnt tell mistah fab to start rappin he could go out and get a steady income if he wants...he CHOSE his occupation...as the saying goes..."you make your bed..you lay in it"
 
leftcoast415

leftcoast415

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The way things are, its sort of like supporting your local sports team. Some people will go to the games (buy albums) when the team is good (when its a good album)...other people will support no matter what cuz its the local team. Personally, i wanna see the local team (local artists) do well, but financially I'm only willing to support when they do good (put out good music).

Yadadimean?
 
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Sac

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when u root for your favorite sports team and they win that dont help your rent out neither. You just root cause its your fav
 
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leftcoast415 said:
The way things are, its sort of like supporting your local sports team. Some people will go to the games (buy albums) when the team is good (when its a good album)...other people will support no matter what cuz its the local team. Personally, i wanna see the local team (local artists) do well, but financially I'm only willing to support when they do good (put out good music).

Yadadimean?
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yeah u right on there....
 
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jotti

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all i know is... there needs to be another bay area 'slap' out n about right now... and u n dat does not sound bayish at all.... the bay ain't bak yet.
 
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pharoah

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well as a label owner, it helps me. now when i go out of town to post up and get some cd's off. it is easier. in 2003 seattle which was always a good market for us was not supporting anymore. on the streets, in the stores. it was y'all from the bay? whatever. now it's 'yall on fire'
it's the difference between slanging a few disc's and getting hundreds off. a couple hundred cd's or a 1,000. whether we ever go major or not, e40 and them shining gives us the opportunity to get money. it don't make it automatically, but it gives us a chance to get paper too.
 
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Ill always support Sick Wid It records for all the quality music they have put out over the years... Plus i own every CD so why stop now... But as far as many other artist i wont buy just cause there from the bay...Ill support good music from the bay tho... I got my San Quinn CD's , My Ya Boy CD's , Mistah FAB's CD's but further then that there is not to many catchin my att. enough to buy there CD...
 
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