so MMG are pretty much finished (Complex article)

[Momentum]

The first is that, with a plethora of free music on DatPiff, and fewer and fewer people buying albums, those who do tend to be able to afford such fetish objects are of a different socioeconomic demographic. The popular taste, at least as represented by sales, ends up skewing along class lines.

What kind of CAAAC diatribe is this?

 

[obarth]

 

[homiedontplaydat]

Jokers in here really trying to put TDE over MMG

Ross and them will be fine. I mean if MMG is in trouble what does that mean for the other struggling crews out here??

-GOOD Music never was if we gonna be honest. I mean Pusha is FINALLY getting a release date for an album that will sell less than any MMG release
-No one on TDE besides Kendrick will sell, much less get a release date

-G Unit.......

-Roc Nation got Cole and an aging Jiggaman

-YMCMB still doing they thing of course but they have close ties to MMG when it comes to the radio.


Say what you want about sales, but MMG gets RELEASE DATES. Im just glad SOMEBODY is still making music for the streets. We need balance in the game and MMG provides that polar opposite to the robot hipster music these nerds be listening to today.











Dat real URBAN MUSIC

 

[ROFL_GUY]

mmg inc

 

[Street Knowledge]

Young money still eating

 

[WickedGames]

MMG going out without an arguable classic

 

[sporticus]

Rick Ross makes questionable move after questionable move. For every good idea he has, he has another terrible one. Like focusing on these weak compilations instead of his albums. Spreading himself too thin and giving away hits. Like not pushing the right single hard enough for GFID. They ought to be pushing another Wale single, but instead they focus again on this BS compilation.

 

[Youngdev]

Rick Ross makes questionable move after questionable move. For every good idea he has, he has another terrible one. Like giving focusing on these weak compilations instead of his albums. Spreading himself too thin and giving away hits. Like not pushing the right single hard enough for GFID. They ought to be pushing another Wale single, but instead they focus again on this BS compilation.

I agree with you on him giving away to many tracks and not saving them for himself.

But wale has had 4 singles pushed...bad, bad remix with a megastar in rhianna, love hate thing and now clappers, it's really not to much more he can do for wale.

What I hate is when he releases tracks like oil money gang and I wonder why for no good reason, why not keep them in the stash and save them for your album. He def spreads himself to thin.

Like if you trying to focus on MMG take a year off from releasing a solo album and focus on MMG, and if you focusing on your album take a year off from the compilations. Stop trying to do so much at once. He releases tracks all year round for the hell of it, it seems like.

 

[Soundwave]

Ross fukked up his momentum last year with the GD shyt...

 

[Art Barr]

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

always flavor in his music

what'chu mean,..never tried to go pop.

rick ross = a pop artist, breh!


art barr

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Yeah, Complex? Can you get writers to write legitimate columns like this more often? Thanks.

 

[Wild self]

MMG and the 808s snares are getting less and less popular. At this rate, the game will be filled with K. Dots, Coles, and Wales by the end of 2014

On the other hand, trap music is the last street based movement with any presence in the mainstream, and even that is falling. Its up to Ross, Jeezy, and TI to save that subgenre and if their next efforts flop or underperform, then the trap music dominance will truly be over.

 

[Big Boss]

#theshift

 

[Wild self]

You could look at it two ways. One is MMG has never been big as far as selling lots of albums so as long as Ross and Meek and Wale (at least on his next album) can stay in that 350-500 thousand range in sales then they will be fine. But my second point is maybe Ross oversaturated the market with all the MMG collab albums for three years running and maybe the consumer is just about MMG'd out. He dropped Wale in 2011 and he should have dropped Meek in 2011 too when he had Im a Boss blowing up the streets. Then last year he should have just focused on his album and made sure that Rich Forever wasn't hotter than his official release which ended up being the case. This year is when they should have hit us with another group album followed by another solo Wale album. It may not have made a difference though because eventually the average rap fan will forget about you and move on to the next "hot" thing.

People keep forgetting that this is a transition year in Hip Hop. Like how 2003 with the southern explosion, 2013 is the return of young rappers spitting actual lyrics again.

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

MMG going out without an arguable classic