They don't call him The Ruler for nothing!

And he should know-- Rick wore more jewelry between the years of 1985 and 1987 than most artists today wear for their whole career. And yet, this rapping genius has never gotten a fair shake, regardless of his felony conviction.

In yesterday's L.A. Times they mentioned Prince's "Musicology" CD sales being tied in to concert ticket sales as an "innovation" and they're right: Prince can and will make more money cutting out the middle man than if he were still with Warner Bros.

Rappers, take heed.

My view on file sharing is this.

When the record company stops selling me shit! I will stop downloading Good Music that is hard to find.

This'll make me feel not as bad about stealing his next album, not that that was much of an issue to begin with.

I love the apocalyptic/liberation theology view of p2p filesharing. Napster as Messiah? If only MP3's didn't make such crappy milk and honey. I've said it before and I'll say it again: if the record industry wants to stop filesharing, go back to vinyl.

It can't be stopped nor can it be controlled.. Wonder how much longer will file-sharing continue without chaos finally taking hold...

Hopefully not till after this next download

"Rakim Arrested Before Show With Ghostface, Talib Kweli...Slick Rick announced the arrest onstage...". can anyone give me more info on why Ra was arrested?

i read it on vh1.com.(http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1486636/20040428/rakim.jhtml?headlines=true)

These are such pearls, we should string 'em together and make (yet another) necklace.

The Internet is empowering and good music will sell itself, regardless. People that work at music labels often start off as music lovers -- where do they go wrong?

In my limited experience, the people at labels who start out as the biggest music fans are usually in promotions. They often start out in radio, and go wrong by having to pimp shit they don't actually like to people who don't really want to play it - which they're forced to do because of money.

The people who run/own labels aren't usually music fans, they're businesspeople, who may have a good ear for what the public wants without actually having any taste or passion of their own. That's the blueprint for steering a succesful business: don't let your own interests or taste get in the way of making money.

I feel no sympathy for artists or the record industry.

This is yet another reason why Slick Rick is in my top 10. You reap what you sew. After labels royally screwed artits and gained so much money from them, now they are feeling the sting. This reminds me of Red's mixtape where he said "Def Jam Lost their soul."

Yes, i agree with K.orr in a way.

Its like I said.
Artists now are not good.
Albums arent worth buying.
I honestly feel worse about downloading asian music than american music.
But good music is so hard to find.
The internet is my only resource.

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