so MMG are pretty much finished (Complex article)

[A.V.]

I think MMG like G.O.O.D. is all downhill from here on out...

I do think G.O.O.D. has a better chance to re-up their roster/team eventually but I think MMG is

All jokes aside, I think Pusha can actually save G.O.O.D. w/his album & the right single & Kanye's co-sign if he's in videos, interviews, etc...

 

[SpacelySprockets]

nikkas acting like MMG doesnt rely on sales.. maybe not with their singles but they definitely rely on album sales, Ross has went gold with every album with the exception of DTR and everyone was expecting GFID to go platinum but it didnt, now with flopped single after flop single(box chevy, no games) Mastermind is struggling to get a date(it was supposed to drop in the summer)

Ambition went Gold, and even though Wale had a hit with "bad" Gifted has already tapped out sales wise and most likely wont be having the same success

And lets not even get started on Meek, DC2 dropped and he had all the buzz in the world, I live in the tri-state area and this nikka had so much buzz I wouldve predicted he was going to sell way more than Kendrick.. Hurricane Sandy did effect his sales though..

 

[cleanface coney]

another thing i give ross credit for is he never tried to go Pop

always flavor in his music

 

[MINT]

was about time

 

[151_Pr00f]

They need to hop on the bay area/dj mustard sound but without a legit summer banger I think that ship has already sailed.

 

[WickedGames]

G unit.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

 

[SubLyminalz]

G unit.

 

[Kritic]

bout that life is gonna be a banger.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Said a whole lot, to not really say anything at all....starts with a fallacious premise

For the first year in recent memory, MMG singles weren’t a mainstay on the pop charts, or even the hip-hop charts, in 2013.

MMG has never been a powerhouse on the pop charts, and have been all over the hip hop charts this year...during the entire existence of MMG up until this point, the only songs to reach top 40 on the pop chart were Wale's Lotus Flower Bomb (peaked at #38) and Bad (peaked #21)...the latter of which was Wale's lead single for his latest album released this summer, dominated urban radio and was the biggest hit of his career... and somehow the writer tried to completely explain away and accredit completely to the unknown singer broad on the hook ... it's a VASTLY bigger song than any of the tracks he listed as examples of hits MMG had in better days (BMF, Tupac Back, and Stay Schemin')...then talks about the intra-cultural impact of Levels before completely dismissing it because it wasn't a pop hit ...he mentions that Ross is on some of the biggest rap hits of the year (U.E.O.N.O. and No New Friends) and again tries to explain it away


Then ends it with the apparent acknowledgement that everything he just wrote doesn't really mean much in context

The label's slippage has been more about perception and context than it has an inconsistency in product.... But perception of the label’s demise is easy to overstate. It’s not as if Ross's voice has disappeared from the airwaves. MMG’s dominance is, to some degree, taken for granted.

Write articles about the mainstream decline of labels that weren't ever really mainstream powers in the first place.... a couple of weeks after writing a piece making a 1,001 excuses for Big Sean flopping, brehs

http://www.complex.com/music/2013/09/did-big-seans-record-flop

They are what they've always been...a camp led by a mid-tier rap act that isn't even fully a mainstream star himself...peaked? Perhaps, but in more of a holding pattern than some kind of sudden plummet from superstar heights

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Ross has been making some terrible decisions that are usually fueled by ego...Signing Omarion is straight out of the Death Row "we're so hot we can make MC Hammer a star again" playbook...

Plus he completely wastes time and effort on songs with people like Baby and Diddy who NOBODY young or old want to hear rap at this point...

Looks like they dropped the ball around the same time that G.O.O.D. Music did...

But maybach o had a hit and made rosay money, so I think it was a good signing, but u remember they threw a press conference to announce that nikka lmao

 

[hiphopfanatic]

Every crew/label has a run, hits a peak and then falls off. I think the only crew/label from the 90s that still makes noise is Cash Money, and even they had a drought from like 2000 until 2004 when Wayne started to become a superstar.

 

[re'up]

Push can't save Good Music, any more the he can 'save' his own mainstream career, the singles are out as far as I know, the tracklist is too, and the album will drop in less then a month, and do like 35k, and I think Good Music will more or less stop functioning as any kind of legitimate label shortly thereafter, the breakdown dude on here did of the downfall of Ye's label shows where they are at, and the subsequent releases and flops will determine it's bleak future.

 

[Kritic]

if you're an mmg fan or a fan of any group i wouldn't pay attention to these articles. it's the machine getting rid of them. can't really do anything about it but it's good to be aware of how they're built and destroyed from within.

 

[MINT]

GREAT NEWS, good day for real hip hop