Wu Block Lost....

[TrifeGod]

i love wu to death but if lilb can put out over 20 videos of quality camera work doing absol nuffin in his videos lol wtf is weong with the elsers? they coulda went to queens did some videos in the slums rooftops got some bytches reinacted their songs but they subliminally went the slaughterhouse route on some old time thug shyt

 

[Vintage Eclectic]

SOHH has a front page

Sohh still exist?

 

[Wild self]

Why nikkas care what Ghost and them sell, when even they don't give a shyt? They pocket the label money, don't shoot any videos, barely do any promotion, and then bomb. They still got the check so what do they care?

Problem is that you can only do that so many times before fans recognize it, and stop paying attention. Wu Block was never gonna sell well, but they could have done 20-30k first week with a bit of effort. IE get your homie from the hood to shoot a dope video, get some nice cameos, buy a Harry Fraud beat, do a collab with a rapper nikkas are checking for (Freddie Gibbs, Action Bronson...).

Seems like only Rae has any business sense. These nikkas sitting around doing nothing while Rae is caking off his own label, making moves with Kanye, making connects with dope producers, having a real presence on Twitter, etc. Everyone else in the Wu except RZA and Rae are looking for a handout.

Hate to say it, but you right. Problem is, the 90s rappers still have the mindset that as long as you make dope music, the product will sell itself and the record company will do all the promotion. They came from a time where they were pampered and thought that a CD is all you need to get recognition. I also blame Fif for making nikkas care for record sales like that. That type of thinking is poison cause good artists can never get over the ridicule of sales that ain't desirable.

 

[A.V.]

Why nikkas care what Ghost and them sell, when even they don't give a shyt? They pocket the label money, don't shoot any videos, barely do any promotion, and then bomb. They still got the check so what do they care?

Problem is that you can only do that so many times before fans recognize it, and stop paying attention. Wu Block was never gonna sell well, but they could have done 20-30k first week with a bit of effort. IE get your homie from the hood to shoot a dope video, get some nice cameos, buy a Harry Fraud beat, do a collab with a rapper nikkas are checking for (Freddie Gibbs, Action Bronson...).

Seems like only Rae has any business sense. These nikkas sitting around doing nothing while Rae is caking off his own label, making moves with Kanye, making connects with dope producers, having a real presence on Twitter, etc. Everyone else in the Wu except RZA and Rae are looking for a handout.

shyt, man.

I'm at a loss for words over this project. I mean nobody seen it coming (I heard about it in October) or even expected it to do good, but everything that's wrong with the game now is why this shyt won't sell. And I think they know that, and they comfortable with that. They know where they fan base is, and I applaud them for keepin it 100 wit us.

But u right...they coulda put they money/heads together to come up wit a better marketing scheme, production, and mixing. The quality of this shyt is so ass, when I turn it up in my system, I automatically turn it down once the bass lines drop in. shyt is saddening.

What's even worse is that these dudes, for all the resources and heads they have combined, being above-average intelligence cats...they can't get a solid promotion/video/sales scheme down. Not for nothin, but the industry ain't gonna pour money into em like that either knowing what the climate like.

But all it takes is one risk-taking head honcho at one of these labels, and the whole climate can change...it ain't gotta go back to 97, cuz we constantly should progress...but fukk yo, even the playing field for nikkas like these. They been doin they thing since the 90's and they new shyt don't sound dated like some cats from back in the day. They're CONSISTENT.

fukk.

fukk this thread I'm out, b.

 

[B86]

nikkas didn't do any videos, have no radio singles, no street singles, no promotion or feature any R&B collabos or feature Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz or Chief Keef. The fukk people expect?

You are right, but my question is why? I definitely appreciate that they are just putting out music for the hell of it, and satisfying their 9,000 "fans", but with a lil effort this album coulda at least did 40k-50k first week. Sheek and Ghost will be the first ones to say they are putting out hard music and most rappers in the game are weak/garbage, but why wouldn't they take the opportunity to put this shyt out there, knowing that we need some gutta music since that's what we are lacking nowdays (and I aint talkin no Chief Keef, Waka type gutta)? All it woulda took is a few youtube videos and maybe try to get a track on the radio

 

[dubsmith_nz]

I copped, I thought the album was dope. There's no excuse for not making a video though, Lloyd Banks got the same problem with his mixtapes.

 

[nieman]

Hate to say it, but you right. Problem is, the 90s rappers still have the mindset that as long as you make dope music, the product will sell itself and the record company will do all the promotion. They came from a time where they were pampered and thought that a CD is all you need to get recognition. I also blame Fif for making nikkas care for record sales like that. That type of thinking is poison cause good artists can never get over the ridicule of sales that ain't desirable.

But for the most part, the music is supposed to sell itself. He said eff DJ, after Ghostdini. Said that he gave them an album with 15 singles and they sat on it.

You can't blame 90s artists, because if you aren't the NEXT BIG THING, you aren't gonna sell period. Hip-hop is still young and their fans (us) are aging with them. Wu fans are 30-40, most of who are too busy to be online like that to see the online promotion, which is really all they are going to get. We wanted good music then and would go to the stores and buy whatever sounded good to us. We got diversity on the radio/TV/online so we got whatever. Today these kids buy what they are exposed to, and it's gonna be like that.

 

[Wild self]

But for the most part, the music is supposed to sell itself. He said eff DJ, after Ghostdini. Said that he gave them an album with 15 singles and they sat on it.

You can't blame 90s artists, because if you aren't the NEXT BIG THING, you aren't gonna sell period. Hip-hop is still young and their fans (us) are aging with them. Wu fans are 30-40, most of who are too busy to be online like that to see the online promotion, which is really all they are going to get. We wanted good music then and would go to the stores and buy whatever sounded good to us. We got diversity on the radio/TV/online so we got whatever. Today these kids buy what they are exposed to, and it's gonna be like that.

Problem is, I think subject matter plays a part of it, too. It ain't a situation like a Nas or a Roots where their audience grew with them and their subject matter matured with them. Ghost and Sheek are (effectively) rapping about street shyt that ain't popular like that anymore, at least in the old school east coast style. So they kinda put themselves in that box.

 

[Finelli]

buy a Harry Fraud beat, do a collab with a rapper nikkas are checking for (Freddie Gibbs, Action Bronson...)

 

[VladTheImpaler]

Why nikkas care what Ghost and them sell, when even they don't give a shyt? They pocket the label money, don't shoot any videos, barely do any promotion, and then bomb. They still got the check so what do they care?

Problem is that you can only do that so many times before fans recognize it, and stop paying attention. Wu Block was never gonna sell well, but they could have done 20-30k first week with a bit of effort. IE get your homie from the hood to shoot a dope video, get some nice cameos, buy a Harry Fraud beat, do a collab with a rapper nikkas are checking for (Freddie Gibbs, Action Bronson...).

Seems like only Rae has any business sense. These nikkas sitting around doing nothing while Rae is caking off his own label, making moves with Kanye, making connects with dope producers, having a real presence on Twitter, etc. Everyone else in the Wu except RZA and Rae are looking for a handout.

You do know that they have to pay that label money ba..... ahh nevermind.

 

[Wallychamp]

i bought it

wasnt expecting it to do huge numbers. 8800 is pretty bad tho

 

[deeznutz]

I did my part and copped


Album was a banger

 

[GollyImGully]

Ghostface Killah speaks to his MySpace fans - YouTube

i never seen this video and im fukking right now

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

" bet my gat spray.."

 

[Yecht]

Glad this turned into a spirited discussion. I copped the album myself, a nukka had a $20 gift card to best buy and randomly stumbled across that shyt. Honestly I still haven't even unwrapped it

But if The Weeknd can do the numbers he did SELLING 3 old FREE mix tapes thrown together, and that nukka ain't even American on top, ain't no reason a combination of Wu Tang and D Block can't sell at least 40-50k bruhs

The 90s Dead fam