Rap verses being omitted from pop songs on certain stations...

[Rev]

I never heard anybody play that alicia keys version of empire state over the original. The original was x100 bigger

Not hip hop and RnB stations. This typically happened on more contemporary stations.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Funny thing is hip-hop stations play those records cause it has a little rap verse.

 

[DPG4Life]

i always hated when Queen pens verse from No Diggity wasnt included on radio edits

 

[PhonZhi]

Basically another example of blacks opening its doors for everybody else but the favor is rarely retturned

Funny thing is hip-hop stations play those records cause it has a little rap verse.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Basically another example of blacks opening its doors for everybody else but the favor is rarely retturned

I don't think it's black people making those decisions.

 

[PhonZhi]

Your rite. Blacks have little say-so in whats played on black stations.

I don't think it's black people making those decisions.

 

[Deltron]

When Crazy in Love was popping, some of the stations around my area played a version with just B

 

[Rev]

Its NOT radio stations fault

Its the LABELS

When record labels service radio stations with collabo type records...many times the have the option of playing the ALTERNATIVE VERSION minus the guest featured rap

Adult R&B stations been doing this for years before the Pop stations even started this practice

Ive worked at a URBAN STATION where they would play MARY J BLIGE "I CAN LOVE YOU" ft LIL KIM during the day...but when it was the GROWN AND SEXY EVENING SHOW featuring slow jam and ballads they would play the version MINUS lil kim

Its BUSINESS nothing PERSONAL

At the end of the day its demographics

So you're saying labels purposely choose to make the additional version in effort to make sure it's played on those stations without issues? If so, then the question is - why does an alternative version need to be made in the first place? For that, don't have the guest rapper on the damn song at all.

It's all one in the same IMO.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Zero]

Its NOT radio stations fault

Its the LABELS

When record labels service radio stations with collabo type records...many times the have the option of playing the ALTERNATIVE VERSION minus the guest featured rap

Adult R&B stations been doing this for years before the Pop stations even started this practice

Ive worked at a URBAN STATION where they would play MARY J BLIGE "I CAN LOVE YOU" ft LIL KIM during the day...but when it was the GROWN AND SEXY EVENING SHOW featuring slow jam and ballads they would play the version MINUS lil kim

Its BUSINESS nothing PERSONAL

At the end of the day its demographics

Exactly.

 

[Zero]

So you're saying labels purposely choose to make the additional version in effort to make sure it's played on those stations without issues? If so, then the question is - why does an alternative version need to be made in the first place? For that, don't have the guest rapper on the damn song at all.

It's all one in the same IMO.

Simple answer = $

Actual answer = .........still $ breh

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Radio stations format themselves however they want, y'all take ofesne to too much stuff. The (old school version) of the adult r&b/soul station out here used to omit frickin left eye's rap on waterfalls. If a station doesn't feel like rap is what they want in their mix, it is what it is, stop listening to top 40 seeking a hip hop fix

 

[Danie84]

Folks still listen to the radio in 2015, especially a PoP one

...and omitting rappers verses is just another sign from CaCs

 

[satam55]

Where this from & how did they hook up?

 

[the cac mamba]

Where this from & how did they hook up?

god only knows

ironic, i just made a fukkin thread with this in the OP shyt is such a low point in music