Does Size Matter?

                  Now this is something most people are familiar with. Hard drive space…what, didn’t see that coming huh? More so does the size of your music collection take away from how much you support musical artists? I’ll admit I have a lot of music. What I call my “crate,” to those hip hop heads, full of promotional music. Yet I do support these artists as well. My question really is does the space on your hard drive used to download those cd’s mixtapes and singles take away from how much work you support these artists? All those zip files add up. All that hard work that it took to put that album out. With one click, it’s now yours. Why is the music industry so vested in this topic? Some may say, “If I download this cd, it won’t matter a million others will buy it. Everything will be okay.” See that flaw in that logic, a) if a thousand people think that way, that’s a lot of money gone for everyone. Some artists will change their music entirely because of this. B) If you’re hard work keeps getting taken why would you keep putting music out.

               The music industry continues to fight back but the Zshares and Utorrents keep winning. My question to you is how do you justify downloading music?

The Osiris of this

Its crazy to know that I have been around for so many hip hop moments. The life span of some artists. Their passing and just moments in the hip hop culture that I would not have thought I would see in person. One of which is the passing of one of the major members of Wu-Tang Clan. The man who had more trouble then you could think of. Big Baby Jesus, Dirt McGirt the guy who wanted his money back. The O.D.B as you can see aka Old Dirty.

Can't believe that eight years ago that he passed. I think this was during the period when I was getting really into my hip hop. All of the styles and just revisiting classic albums and artists. Which would include one of the most diverse groups in my opinion...Wu-Tang. You had a crew of friends who melded hip hop lyricism and Kung Fu. Two things that are always a good mix. (Kung Faux for example) You had all these members and then you get to O.D.B. He seemed to be the crazy persona that every group has. He brought rugged gutter style with the ability to give you some crazy flows. He was a versatile artist, he was on hip hop, rnb, anything where he would talk crazy on. That was his appeal, he was able to be so out there that you knew that once he was on a song he was going to give you some gold. Just think back to when O.D.B and Moriah Cary got together for the remix of Fantasy. You know that there was a lot of doubt about this collaboration. Yet it goes down as one of both of their most memorable songs. Its just that spark of energy that he brings to the track.

He was just that kind of artist he may have been someone of a 'Hip Hop Folk Star," but he was someone that everyone could identify with. He may have had his legal troubles and did his fair share of dirt. In this day who hasn't, he just showed even you can go through trials on your everyday and still make it. He would have been 44 years old on the 13th. Rest in Peace to the Dirt Dog, Dirt McGirt, O.D.B., Ason Unique, Osirus, Dirt McGirt, Rainman, Big Baby Jesus.

Music Labels the new NBA

Music labels are just like NBA teams. They want to comprise a super team to combat their competitors. Some of these new labels are expansion teams like the Toronto Raptors were back in the 90’s. They try to start out fresh with talent to compete with the major labels. Look at the Sony Music Entertainments, Warner Music Group’s or Universal Music Group. They are the big three of music labels. They are figuratively your NBA teams that always make it to the playoffs. The ones you have no doubt will do well. You’re Lakers, Spurs and now your Heat. They try to produce super teams enticing other players (artists) to come along with them to maximize both parties’ profits and make them the most winning label. I treat those big three like your owners. With each owner each team has their set rosters. G.O.O.D. music is like the label to be at the moment. They have comprised a slew (yeah we doing words like that today) of artists who could be your NBA super team. Lets look into the artists on the roster; Kanye West, Big Sean, Common, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, John Legend. This is a record labels dream team, full of players who can contribute on a consistent basis. They fall into the team of Def Jam its just one big chain of command. It all leads to knowing the top three labels are running the music industry. It’s almost as if you have to be apart of a bigger team to try to make something for yourself as a player in this musical game.


Yet the bigger question I pose to you is what that means for the smaller labels (teams). Does that mean that they either have to fold or should they try to make it and let what ever happens happen for their musical career?