Remember when NYC's Don Q Dropped the hardest freestyle on Funk Flex.... and then......
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Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
The business of music ain't no joke today.
Most of these dudes can't even rap. That's the first thing. Secondly, dudes like Q who can actually rap, have to be cool with not really seeing mad bread for a minute while they build fanbases basically on their own for years, and stay mad focus on JUST music. That's not easy when you have a name out there, but not the spoils to show for it. So dudes lose interest and motivation.
It's not like back in the day, where you could hop to a label with no buzz and get an advance with just your talent. Today, the labels won't even see you unless your following is crazy, and then even after that, they want all your publishing and rights. This is literally the hardest era ever in the history of the business to make real money and keep ownership of all of your paperwork.
Most of these dudes can't even rap. That's the first thing. Secondly, dudes like Q who can actually rap, have to be cool with not really seeing mad bread for a minute while they build fanbases basically on their own for years, and stay mad focus on JUST music. That's not easy when you have a name out there, but not the spoils to show for it. So dudes lose interest and motivation.
It's not like back in the day, where you could hop to a label with no buzz and get an advance with just your talent. Today, the labels won't even see you unless your following is crazy, and then even after that, they want all your publishing and rights. This is literally the hardest era ever in the history of the business to make real money and keep ownership of all of your paperwork.
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He shoulda have been on just from being A-boogie's sidekick. You'd think that woulda been enuff......this video old AF 2.....
I remember playing one or 2 of of don's mixtape on the datpiff APP
they weren't good unfortunately
but if Don was really produced he coulda been the 1.....swear.
H a 4’10 superthug who took a L to a even smaller superthug from Canada
No coming back from that
No coming back from that
You basically summed up all these new rappers
lowkey on the taking L's from Canadians 2
Playaz Eyez
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Don Q could 100% benefit from a singular outside producer. He can really rap but a lot of his production doesn’t make him stand out at all, it makes him sound like a castoff late 2000s mixtape rapper.
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
thats how I felt....I was like damn the curse of NYC strikes again.....
but man if 1 of the OGs came in and scooped him up......
what a shame.
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
Yep. I know he dropped way before 38 Spesh and Trust were really on the radar, but a crew like that could really help him out right now.thats how I felt....I was like damn the curse of NYC strikes again.....
but man if 1 of the OGs came in and scooped him up......
what a shame.
you don't think somebody spitting like that could be molded
No it's difficult to generate interest in NYC street rap outside of NYC.
We aren't talking about talent right? Don Q is talented. But he's talking that gangster shyt. At this moment in time way more wild youngins would readily identify with A Boogie more. The drill scene uptown has all sorts of weird relationship drama these dudes grew up on A Boogie. The little dudes shooting wildly across the street at each other look more like A Boogie. So it's hard to sell that style.
I'm an oldhead I am fine with just listening to a random Lox mixtape. I don't have a specific reason to keep up with Don Q as an artist. I also have an issue with him being outrapped by Tory Lanez.
He could get with Jim Jones that is someone he could really learn from. It still wouldn't put him in the mainstream but everything he does will be more memorable.
I like Don Q music. 