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01-15-2013, 08:36 AM
Rap gave birth to autotune pop stars?
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01-15-2013, 09:06 AM
Rap didn't spawn the whole auto tune lip syncing trend, that's been going on for years. The author is claiming that this is the next genre, lip syncing dance music. Because for music executives it's their gold mine, and people are jumping on the bandwagon. And because blacks are self-hating with their music then they will be left behind, in terms of where the money is at or going to be at (lip syncing dance music).
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01-15-2013, 09:10 AM
there is a thin line between generosity and stupidity. also some guy telling him to buy stocks is rarely the end of rich people. thats the exception. its kind of like listening to people who say dont invest in the stock market, look what happened to madoffs clients.
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01-15-2013, 09:32 AM
Psy is a one hit phenomenon here so I would not extrapolate anything about trends in black performers based on him.
Also don't get the self hate thing. Black rap artists are widely emulated the world over. Many of these foreign acts look funny to me b/c they try but fail to capture the blackness.
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01-15-2013, 10:28 AM
I don't think it was any ONE thing that killed MC Hammer. It was a combination of things. Did he have advisors stealing from him? Probably. Was he incredibly generous to his homies? Yep. Did he get poor advise with regards to business ventures and investments that went bust? (like getting involved with thoroughbred horses, etc., shit he didn't know anything about) Check. Did he engage in extravagance far beyond what he was earning? (he built a mansion with marble/stone imported from Italy, had gold fixtures on the sinks, etc.) Abso-fuckin'-lutely. He isn't the first artist to live beyond his means, and he won't be the last. Recording artists don't make a lot of money from records - they make pennies per unit sold. They make it on publishing, and touring/merchandising. He was basically a pop fad, and couldn't sustain what he was doing. I remember his attempt at re-inventing (he hardened-up, putting on all black with a ski cap and put out "The Funky Headhunter," which was comical at best). I took no joy in seeing what happened to him, but he's definitely a cautionary tale.
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01-15-2013, 12:03 PM
That article was keyboard diarrhea
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01-15-2013, 09:38 PM
Trash ass article. How the hell is Mc Hammer still making moves in the music industry lol? I guess you can always sneak your way back in there once you're so big.
LMAO I never knew he tried to make gangsta music when it was getting popular. Like Vanilla ice.