Fake competing in Hip Hop

[MewTwo]

You guys think this is a great business idea?

Where someone establishes two record labels which produces moderately successful hip-hop/rap acts who eventually beef with one another. The label beef eventually involves other, more prominent rap acts (from other labels) which evolves into a 'great war' in the hip hop industry (sorta like east coast vs. west).

Something like this could be lucrative as it would receive extensive media coverage (i.e.: magazines, commercials, billboard ads, gossip sites, music blogs, etc.). All rappers involved would see an increase in record sales.

Obviously you're going to have to maintain ownership of both record labels anonymously (just in case TMZ does some digging) probably through an offshore corporation or something.

 

[illadope]

No

 

[Tesseract]

There's enough fakeness in the game right now. Any more and you can really bury this genre.

Also, it's been done before and the current crop ain't got the talent or maturity to pull it off without catching feelings.

 

[MewTwo]

There's enough fakeness in the game right now. Any more and you can really bury this genre.

Let's be honest though. Rap has always been fake. You think 2Pac is actually a thug? Eazy-E? Dre?

It's all entertainment. We took their lyrics seriously because we were kids growing up. Also it's an industry the purpose is to make money even through unethical means. Baby (cash money records) purchases his own (and Lil' Wayne, Drake, Minaj, etc.) albums in bulk to inflate record sales.

Also, it's been done before and the current crop ain't got the talent or maturity to pull it off without catching feelings.

Didn't know this. Unless you mean someone profited from funding both sides of the East-West rivalry.

 

[LogicFirst]

if orchastrated correctly this could surely work

 

[Tesseract]

Let's be honest though. Rap has always been fake. You think 2Pac is actually a thug? Eazy-E? Dre?

Warren McGlone (born September 17, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Steady B, was an American hip hop emcee who, along with Schoolly D, the Fresh Prince, and Three Times Dope, was one of the first wave of Philadelphia-area emcees to gain notoriety in the mid to late 1980s. Steady B was a member (and de facto leader) of Philadelphia's Hilltop Hustlers crew. Steady B's musical career was relatively short-lived, and he is currently serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania state prison for his role in the murder of a Philadelphia Police officer during a botched bank robbery in January 1996.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

i rather the "beef" an "act"...

than folks, not come back from beefing