The Misunderstanding of Kendrick Lamar & Microwave Journalism (2DBZ)
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Great article, good to see real journalism still in effect. 
the writer.
the writer.
Piff Perkins
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Social media makes this shyt worse. Everybody racing to be first, or have the hottest retweet, or the best summary of what's going on, etc etc etc. So the standards you'd expect get thrown in the bushes as editors demand content. Content content content content, just like this
smh
Then you got these various blogs n sites more interested in relationships than actually speaking their mind. I guarantee you a lot of these hip young black hip hop critics didn't like TPAB. A lot of them don't really fukk with Future either. But they either stay quiet or dikk ride solely because they want that relationship.
As an example: I worked at a label that had some big artists, but one huge rapper. MTV chick badmouthed his latest album at one point on her blog, and basically said the station's coverage of the album was bullshyt; she deleted the post a week later but everyone knew about it. Few weeks later I'm talking to a coworker about a party in LA that was being catered/hosted by the label, lots of media folks attending. I list off some dimes in the media I want to smash, including this particular chick, and he says "nah you didn't hear, she's not coming. She's on the list." We had a list of journalists and media folks who got blacklisted from events and access. It meant you couldn't come to listening parties, regular parties, interview our artists, get jobs at the label (a lot of media ppl apply for jobs in the record industry), etc.
Couple years later our artist put out a new album. Same MTV chick jumps out the gate with glowing comments and reviews of the album.
These people are fake as fukk.
smhThen you got these various blogs n sites more interested in relationships than actually speaking their mind. I guarantee you a lot of these hip young black hip hop critics didn't like TPAB. A lot of them don't really fukk with Future either. But they either stay quiet or dikk ride solely because they want that relationship.
As an example: I worked at a label that had some big artists, but one huge rapper. MTV chick badmouthed his latest album at one point on her blog, and basically said the station's coverage of the album was bullshyt; she deleted the post a week later but everyone knew about it. Few weeks later I'm talking to a coworker about a party in LA that was being catered/hosted by the label, lots of media folks attending. I list off some dimes in the media I want to smash, including this particular chick, and he says "nah you didn't hear, she's not coming. She's on the list." We had a list of journalists and media folks who got blacklisted from events and access. It meant you couldn't come to listening parties, regular parties, interview our artists, get jobs at the label (a lot of media ppl apply for jobs in the record industry), etc.
Couple years later our artist put out a new album. Same MTV chick jumps out the gate with glowing comments and reviews of the album.
These people are fake as fukk.
Then you got these various blogs n sites more interested in relationships than actually speaking their mind. I guarantee you a lot of these hip young black hip hop critics didn't like TPAB. A lot of them don't really fukk with Future either. But they either stay quiet or dikk ride solely because they want that relationship.
As an example: I worked at a label that had some big artists, but one huge rapper. MTV chick badmouthed his latest album at one point on her blog, and basically said the station's coverage of the album was bullshyt; she deleted the post a week later but everyone knew about it. Few weeks later I'm talking to a coworker about a party in LA that was being catered/hosted by the label, lots of media folks attending. I list off some dimes in the media I want to smash, including this particular chick, and he says "nah you didn't hear, she's not coming. She's on the list." We had a list of journalists and media folks who got blacklisted from events and access. It meant you couldn't come to listening parties, regular parties, interview our artists, get jobs at the label (a lot of media ppl apply for jobs in the record industry), etc.
Couple years later our artist put out a new album. Same MTV chick jumps out the gate with glowing comments and reviews of the album.
These people are fake as fukk.
That's a gotdamn shame
Writer's walking on egg shells cuz they don't want to piss off labels/artists just so they can have access to them and give them bias ass interviews/reviews.
Damn shame man..
I like TBAP and the reason WHY I like it is its total homage to damn near every form of black music in the 20th century, its funky, bluesy, boom-bap, jazz and more.
I hate when these shyt head journalists think everything has to exist in this "now" vacuum where if it isn't the latest sound then it isnt valid.
but Complex is asscheeks anyway. The only people going there are reformed hypebeasts and people who regularly still use the word "steez".
I hate when these shyt head journalists think everything has to exist in this "now" vacuum where if it isn't the latest sound then it isnt valid.
but Complex is asscheeks anyway. The only people going there are reformed hypebeasts and people who regularly still use the word "steez".
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
This.
