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The blame game

The blame game is it really the labels fault that an artist doesn’t sell?

I just read an article from shawnna of dtp in which she does the ever so popular blame label promotions as an excuse for no one picking up your albums… lets really look at this seriously how important is promotions in hip hop really? I mean if a wack album is heavily promoted would it do any better? I say no. for one in many cases this argument is just complete bullshit for example shawnna she had a big hit that had plenty of radio and video air play, I've seen her on 106 and park and I could record a commercial for her album playing every hour on the hour correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn’t this count as promotions?? I mean what else do u fucking want the label to do? Really what else is there to do I mean sure she didn’t have a bud wiser commercial but plenty of albums have more  with a lot less so why the fuck is she complaining I bet talib kweli would give his right thumb for that type or promotion.

Another example jo budden dude has been crying about lack of promotion for the last 3 years now granted he had a hit song that was played all damn day on the radio and 2 videos that got great rotation, a spot in a video game and he even had a little special where they were following him around while he was doing a PROMOTIONAL TOUR for the album.. oh and lets not forget the little incident where Keith Murray got pissed at all the extra promotion Jo Budden was getting where he flipped out and shanked a def jam executive oz style. But the funniest example would be N.O.R.E. when he blamed the label for that wack raggaeton album flopping, yeah nore it had to be the promotions it couldn’t have been the fact that nobody (including raggaeton fans) wanted to hear that shit, I know I sure as hell didn’t I would rather a swarm of fire ants devour my nut sack than to listen to a whole album of nore trying his best to be Spanish hell I barely want to hear the dude speak English.

Maybe just maybe the reason your album didn’t sell is because no body wanted to buy it I mean u cant sell an ice cream sandwich to an Eskimo and u cant sell wack uninteresting music to hip hop fans. Me personally I don’t give a fuck if a member of shawnna's street team stapled a flyer to my balls I’m not going to buy that shit, I don’t care if they had a glow in the dark ad placed on my shortie's lower back that flashed whenever I give her back shots (and the infallible one loves back shots) I'm just going to get it. No amount of promotion in the world will ever get me to buy a bow wow album. U think fans really don’t know your albums out. I never walked into a record store like “oh wow I didn’t even know jayz was coming out with an album what a surprise” no I know the release date of every single album I will ever purchase months in advance as do most hip hop fans.

U think blaming your for everything would work in real life like if I'm with my shorty and I ejaculate prematurely u think I could some how blame that on defjam “I’m sorry baby but if jayz paid more attention to my project this wouldn’t have happened. As a matter of fact I think I will blame jayz for every short coming I have in my life from now on.

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