Comments on: Chester French | Jacques Jams Vol. 1 (Endurance) Mixtape

By: Gopi

Gopi — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:57:54 +0000

1) Suburban Youth have ALWAYS dominated commercial hip hop sales, and when I say commercial I ain’t talking Jeezy, I’m talking LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, RUN DMC & the likes.

2) It’s always a rebellion, its always a revolution, There’s always a progression in music. Does Schooly D sound ANYTHING like Big Daddy Kane? Absolutely not, are they both greats? Sure. Does Common of “I Poker Her Face” sound anything like Common of “I Used to Love H.E.R.”… hahaha…

3) This is the era of the “Long Tail” & Globalization. There is no such thing as Industry consuming entertainment corporations forcing artists catering to the “White Market”, the “Urban Market” or “Suburban Market” those are all outdated terms… now you own your own career, your market (fan base) has to be a direct and genuine reflection of you & your artistic direction, OR ELSE there’s nothing stopping your fan finding that niche with the next internet equipped musician. And if your a fan of an obscure artist or style there’s nothing in your way to consuming their product other than your ability to do alittle google search, and their ability to drop $100 at CD Baby to get their CD listed onto iTunes.

Talib’s genuine “non-white”, “non-surburban” fans had plenty of opportunity to invest in his career before he started explore other avenues of creative direction… but they didn’t and now he’s doing what he has to do to grab their attention back or find a new fan base.

By: Hamza21

Hamza21 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:28:05 +0000

Talib over with? that’s one probelms that emreged when white suburban youth strated dominating Hip Hop sales.If you don’t cater into rebellion thing and “new and different” than you over with. Thank God many of great Hip Hoppers came before that happened. Imagine not being able to see Big Daddy Kane or even Common in concert because they don’t cater white suburbia. That’s one reason Rakim hasn’t released a record or even have record deal.

By: Gopi

Gopi — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:11:18 +0000

By your definition my mans, nothing is new or progressive. Kweli is trying to connect to a new fan base cause his backpackers have done moved on, theres been a solid consensus over the last 4 years that he’s over with, and he’s barely starting to move his career again despite whatever image he portrays with Blacksmith Records.

By: Hamza21

Hamza21 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:43:01 +0000

In the past Clinton Sparks always equals crap and listening to these songs prove that. If the tracks were in the vain of “Nerd Girl” it would be half way decent.

It’s so sad to see Kweli chase after the hipster fad crowd and why is it when someone makes song with computer generated noise in it they label it “progressive”? What’s so progressive about that? They have been doing that since the late 70’s. Adding computer generated noise to song isn’t any more progressive that making a song with drum machine or using a vocoder. All three have been done since the late 70’s