A shift in hip-hop?

[complexity]

The recent sales have been horrible, is it possible?

[Kurse]

Thanks to Napster, Bear-Share, Kazaa, Limewire and many other download programs similar too...yea...very possible.

Plus it doesn't help that you may have "sell-outs" in your label or in the studio that help newer tracks leak out to the public long before they're meant too. That sucks too. Yea...it's cool to have another artists exclusive new work that nobody else is bumpin yet. But once it hits the streets it travels like a virus and before you know it...everybody and their babies-mommas has the damn track bumpin in their mini-van!

I don't doubt sales are down. There's too much shit out there that people are lettin slide and shady individuals behind the scenes. Makes me worry about whats ahead for myself if I should ever land myself a deal. I have a feeling I won't make nearly as much as artists did maybe 8 yrs ago! I'm probably gonna have to lean onto the mixxtape market twice as hard...watch who hears and has my muzik and smaples twice as much and probably pray alot! The game is rough now or days...I don't doubt that one bit.

[drunken jesus]

downloading isn't as big a problem as the RIAA makes it out to be, idiots are still buying music, idiots will buy music even if they can get it for free, the problem is the markets oversaturated and lacking in quality so the idiots are confused about what to buy

i hope hip hop falls out of the limelight, its the best thing that can happen to it musically, the hip hop fad has already carried on long enough for it to lose alotta integrity and quality, if it fades out of popularity it'll help get rid of all the "rappers" who started rapping just to be cool and make it their get rich quick scheme