As someone who grew up in the 90's hip hop era, the biggest different between then...

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

and now is back then nobody really took chances musically. There was like one or two lanes and everybody had to pretty much stay in that lane to get put on or have some type of success. The bar for success was also lower.

Because everyone was concentrated in one or two lanes competiton was higher and thus you had a lot quality music. If you drink dark liquor and that's all you know and all the companies are competing for that market share, you will have a lot of variety of dark liquors. A lot of good dark liquor.

Now, think everyone is able to take chances without any problems so you have have a lot of variety. A lot of different flavors and a lot of "choices". I think that's also why brand recognition is so fickle. You can't really take a year or two off in music anymore unless your brand recognition has stood the test of time. In order to stay relavant you have to put out an album, mixtape, or jump on other peoples singles in order to stay relavant.

I remember 50 Cent criticizing Lil Wayne for doing this at the height of his popularity and honestly I think but saturating the market with your voice, it gives a false perception of how dope an artist really is. But it works though. It worked for DMX, it worked for Jay Z and it worked for Wu Tang.

 

[Ronald McDonald]

u right

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Na the difference is back then you actually had to be nice to get put on.

 

[vaudevillevillain]

Na the difference is back then you actually had to be nice to get put on.

 

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[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Na the difference is back then you actually had to be nice to get put on.

Not really. U had to be able to spit but you basically had to conform to a certain sound be it hardcore east coast or g funk west. nikkas in the south basically had to be nice as you say to get a crumb of recognition. Image played a big part and like I said before a lot of artists thought success meant signing a record contract getting a 50k advance a leased Benz and a few singles. Revenue streams were not like they are today and record labels had way more control.


The game is different now. For example a tribe called quest could go 2 years in between records come back and still get that love. Nelly did it and look where he at now. He was selling 3 and 4 million records to now getting no love. Where did those fans go?

When you have so much variety so many different sounds you have more completion. nikkas who are only poppin regionally independently can eat well in today's game.