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In Reply to: A distinction without a difference. posted by markrohr on March 22, 2007 at 14:24:27:
...is too pompous for me to, in good conscience, copy as is. Then again, I can't say I'm a fan of its source, not because it's not capable of truth, but because I see it as a rather one-sided sort of place. Regardless, even a one-sided place comes up with something decent every once in awhile.From today's Huffington Post:
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"Four months ago, I wrote an article about a young rap artist named Lupe Fiasco. Fiasco is a 24-year-old skateboarding Muslim from Chicago who raps about his distaste for the rampant materialism currently dominating hip hop and his desire to bring the troops home from Iraq.
"Though he received Grammy nominations in prestigious categories like Rap Album of the Year and Rap Single of the Year as well as rave reviews in practically every publication that is supposed to count, he has not even gone gold.
"While I was doing the piece, I called up Tom Silverman, the head of Tommy Boy Records, which was responsible for launching the careers of De La Soul and Queen Latifah. He said that while he thought Fiasco was a formidable talent, the current state of the market made it all but impossible for him to succeed.
"It's great that someone's taking a chance on a socially conscious hip-hop artist like Lupe but the economics are not as good as they once were," he told me. According to Silverman (as well as several other people I spoke to) the problem is not so much file sharing (which has been vastly inflated) as it is the consolidation of radio (which has largely gone ignored.)"
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-bernstein/on-the-the-state-of-the-m_b_44038.html (Open in New Window)
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