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So people tell me what you think about his new album?


well mo isI'm not buying it for the fact that 50 making :bs: compared to his real stuff he did in the undergound. That in the club & stuff is too mainstream,now MTV is all on his nuts, but they talk sh*t on him back in 98', 99'. Now they loving him MTV is fake too but thats mho

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I know the man has skills or he would not be on eniemem's label. His main goal right now is to make money. It is a shame that a lot of today's real artists fall into the trap. That is one reason inspiring artist such as myself stay underground, because it is not about talent anymore it is about a gimic to make the record label not the artist. Do you know the artist on;ly makes .5 per album sold. the artist are modern day slaves to the industry :3way:

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That's what you own a record label like Master P or Eminem. Mucho bucks.

BTW, I listened to some of the songs, one of them is completely horrible, I think it's "gotta get to heaven"... The whole song is literally "I gotta get to heaven for being put through hell" or some stupid shit like that. HORRIBLE. I haven't listened to the rest of the songs too much yet, but they seemed ok.

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Yeah Art we hit this topic several time like last night, you know I know about all of that especially with you and sthep you know that joker know everything about the industry. The main problem is everybody burnning or buying bootleg music which kills the artist pocket,bc s we know artist don't make as much money as they front in the videos. To reach that kind of imcome you have to be in it for a while & nahhh I'll leave it like that.

ps give me a call cuz I have the prices on those things for you?;)

Okay, I see what you're saying but

If you're underground, you get no money or enough recognition

If you blow up, underground calls you fake for blowing up when really you're doing the same thing that you were doing when you were 'underground'.

So what's an artist supposed to do?



You start out underground. If you're good, you make it. If you 'stay underground', well then you're not good enough. It's a different story if you go pop or R&B to make it big.



One good example is Jurassic 5. THey've been doing their thing for almost ten years now, and they haven't changed one bit, but yet after their last album got a lot of recognition everywhere, some are saying that they 'Sold Out'.... How? Just cause they had some succes?

One good example is Jurassic 5. THey've been doing their thing for almost ten years now, and they haven't changed one bit, but yet after their last album got a lot of recognition everywhere, some are saying that they 'Sold Out'.... How? Just cause they had some succes? [/B][/QUOTE]


yeah they're wrong for saying J5 sold out cuz thier tyle is still the same where as some just do a 180 u feel me

I would NEVER buy the 50-Cent album..

This is off topic, but Makaveli, did you get your name from the man who would do absolutely anything to stay in political power? Or is it just a coincedence? Thanks!

End justifies the means??? Hehehe.......

Well I was a big fan of Makaveli, the rap artist (2Pac)...... and I was obsessed with one of the albums, hence the name.....

I don't agree with the 'end justifies the means' thinking or with some of his other theories from the Prince.....


Go shorty, it's your b-day

Sounds cool, thanks for the reply.

what's gcs118???

gcs is my initials, and then 118 is a number my cousin made up to go with my name. I still have no idea to this day where he got it from.

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the thing for an artist to do is to stay true to himself and not fall into the hype. Take nas for example he went pop for a while with hot boyz, oh and that murder inc talk. On his last album he took it back to the realness that made him a star to begin with. The reason some artists have no staying power is because they have no idenity.

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Yeah, that's true..... by the way I LOVE the last Nas album.

I also like that song that was on one of his mixtapes or something, it's called 'Drunk by myself'......

Have yall heard that new song from Boot Camp Clik called "GOIN BACK" & Gangstar is also back with a single called "SKILLZ" which is what were talking about in this thread. Guru & premo in an interview said that rap "hip hop" is in a coma with all this junk & that it needs to wake up & get back on track. Tell them gangstar

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believe it or not I listened to it because on the song he did with em there were some signs of skill. I actually have the album. Calm down Fuzion my girl bought I would have prefered dmx but you cannot beat a free cd.