How The New Music Cartel Redefined The Music Industry

[Newark88]

Dope article on how Eskay (of Nah Right), Meka (of 2dopeboyz), Miss Info, Hof (of OnSmash), Lowkey formed an alliance in dropping exclusives during the rap/blog era.

How The New Music Cartel Redefined The Music Industry

 

[Aufheben]

crazy how they said A&R staff would drop tracks on message boards early to get an idea of if it was hot or not

people been eatin off us for so long man
the collective taste on the coli ain't up there yet to be on the pulse of the industry tho

they linked one of our threads tho

 

[50CentStan]

2dopeboyz from what I recall were fakkits that posted corny white washed backpack sh*t, Blogs are always ran by some corny crater face kid. TheColi now and back in the days were the truth.