Recent content by El_Mezcalito

yall should come. jeah.

I'd be down for $10. Ducks are goin out real early tho!

And more often than not, labels deal with artists fairly. Like most businesses, you are short sighted if you think screwing people will get you ahead. There may be instances of labels screwing artists, but for the most part, the industry is structured in a way shaped by natural market forces...

artists aren't exploited. thats a myth. they enter into a contract freely, of their own will. any deal theyre a part of, they freely authorized with full knowledge of the content. Yeah, there really is no such thing as an exploitive contract, and every subclause of every contract is readily...

artists aren't exploited. thats a myth. they enter into a contract freely, of their own will. any deal theyre a part of, they freely authorized with full knowledge of the content. and the label made the investment, and took all the risk. artists are like chicks that try to get you to buy...

its my girl Tien's birthday, for the second time in 8 months. by coming, you help support her in her effort to buy an icey grill. which will in turn help her get rid of that eye patch...

Whats up yall

yoigotbeats i'm really trying to squash this at this point. you can post mine and yours if you want. i don't have those numbers to post, and i wouldn't if i did. i'm much more interested in debating industry trends than continuing this "me vs you" shit. not sure how it got to this..

hip hop is not in a "death state." you've already heard what several of us think about the bootlegging issue but hip hop is alive and well. whether you like its current incarnation is completely up to you this shit started with "hip hop is dead" we were discussing "death state" right, i've...

no doubt man, "other" income is necessary. my goal wasn't, originally, to complain. it was to discuss why hip hop is in the death state its in, using my situation as an example. i'm genuinely interested in hearing what people think about this and what they think the solution is.

i have no idea what this means in regards to the stealing thing, it's a faulty argument because me downloading an album is not the same as the loss of a physical product when something like shoplifting occurs. you are able to directly measure your losses with shoplifting but how do you measure...

i have no idea what this means in regards to the stealing thing, it's a faulty argument because me downloading an album is not the same as the loss of a physical product when something like shoplifting occurs. you are able to directly measure your losses with shoplifting but how do you measure...

i have no idea what this means in regards to the stealing thing, it's a faulty argument because me downloading an album is not the same as the loss of a physical product when something like shoplifting occurs. you are able to directly measure your losses with shoplifting but how do you measure...

I can pull 'em for ya if ya want!!!! oh god this is getting outta control. ok, pull em if you want. i'm not sure what it will prove. if the numbers are high, great, if they're low, than I'll say its b/c of bootlegging, and you'll say its b/c i'm sub-human... pull em if you want. but it...