Was this how Reasonable Doubt managed to sell 500k without a major label in a few months? Cause Jay-z's crack brainwashed people?
Radio plays Pitbull and Flo-Rida all the time, it's not like kids are calling them goats.
It's not like anyone has been calling Wayne's shyt for the past 4 years classic? But he's been selling mad records..
C4 did a million first week and all of hiphop called it average. #1 singles, still called it average.
Some old heads make it hard to respect them, obviously you'll always respect who they were and what they've done but it's often hard to respect who they are and what they are doing.
RUN-DMC was the first hiphop group to take advantage of major labels making you hot, so I don't know why he's compaining. They were the first working with rock producers, collaborating with brands, MTV, "white magazine" features and all that commercial shyt. And their main people Lyor Cohen and Russell Simmons are the ones that created this whole commercial hiphop system.