Dangeroo(TDE Boss) bytching about Groovy Tony's poor sales.

[HoldThisL]

This bum ass nikka, I already am paying for a Tidal Subscription. The fukk do I need to pay fora single when that same single is on Tidal, a service I'm paying for.

I fukk with the song but

 

[Mr. Negative]

Age of the Record Label is dead.

We all know at this point that artists get money off shows and endorsements unless they're independent and get all proceeds from sales minus album pressing and paying for artwork.

Ain't nobody trying to sell albums now. It's all views and streams.

Rappers get popular on the internet, folks come to their shows, merch gets sold, artists get paid.

It's why 360 deals exist.

Hell, imagine if Q got booked for 15 shows over 3 months to perform his "hot" single, at even 5,000 per show.

That's a quarter mil.

Label may see none of that.



Why would an artist complain about record sales?

Only a label would complain about "record sales".

 

[Mr. Negative]

Hell, props to Wayne and Curren$y for flat out saying "steal my album if you gotta. I'll see you at the show"

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

So now Views isn't hip hop?

Nope.

 

[BabyFaceKillahh]

song wasnt even that good

 

[New Username]

You can't guilt fans into buying singles

CEOs shouldn't let out their fustrations on Twitter for the world to see

 

[Hood Critic]

Although TDE has plenty on deck, the label also plans on giving each release its own space. “We like to give the artist their breathing room,” Sounwave explains. “Like, if Q's coming out, we like to put 100 percent focus on Q. Everybody on the label is gonna focus on Q and it's not like Q comes out and then the next week we're gonna put out another artist. No, we want that record to get as much recognition as possible so everybody's going to just push for that.”

 

[Triangularbirds]

He only raps on 4/5 songs and only 3 songs were RnB...


I know those report cards were bleeding with Fs.

views not hip hop yet you come here to mention it in a hip hop related thread

why you stanning so hard ?


Anyways, Q's crowd isn't that big, and I don't think groovy tony's the kind of single people would buy, it's a bit too out there.

 

[dh86]

Kendrick way outgrew TDE

 

[Ms. Elaine]

views not hip hop yet you come here to mention it in a hip hop related thread

why you stanning so hard ?


Anyways, Q's crowd isn't that big, and I don't think groovy tony's the kind of single people would buy, it's a bit too out there.

I mentioned it in the context of it not being HH.

nikkas complaining that Views wasn't the album they wanted it to be (i.e. lots of rapping) when they don't purchase shyt so their "views" are irrelevant.

 

[Patrick Kane]

Hell, props to Wayne and Curren$y for flat out saying "steal my album if you gotta. I'll see you at the show"

and I see Spitta every time he in my city. Copped a few hard copies of his retail albums just because he grinds so hard independently and he always releasing free music.

 

[bordeaux]

he aint lying though. the majority of those followers probably downloaded the single and will go on to download the album. im often guilty of this myself. these artist wanna be compensated for their work. simple. there really isnt an argument against this.

 

[Master Teacher]

None of those artist make good music. School Boy G was always thrash to me, AB Soul had a spark when started but now he's just garbage.

If you're not constantly creating new sounds or making thought provoking shyt you will be forgotten quickly.

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

last single i bought was Chris Webber "Gangsta Gangsta" featuring Kurupt

Lol, what a random single to have last bought

Kurupt killed it though

 

[Rembrandt]

why worry about sales of a single? nobody buys those. be worried about if it's getting streamed enough on the multiple apps/sites to maintain enough attention for the album release. keep your artist in the minds of the consumers before they drop their album because that's where it matters. but idk if the trackers incorporate streams into single sales; if so, then yeah, it might be a little worrisome if the hyped up single isn't even getting plays on streaming sites.