I want to agree with Radio, but there's a flip side. Sometimes I think the fans don't even know what the fuck they want. Do you make art to express yourself? Or just treat your art as a commodity? If it was only about commodity, we'd be getting more commercial bullshit. So perhaps listening to most fans could backfire because artists could think fans want what is most commercially viable and profitable. I've never wanted what most fans wanted.
There was a long time span on Wu Corp when it seemed many Wu fans bitched just to bitch. Nothing Wu put out would have been good enough because expectations were so high or else so diverse. Too many times people here shit on new Wu albums or refuse to give an album props until some huge consensus of the hip hop community has approved it. That's opposed to the old days when every new track Wu dropped was heat and people didn't complain because the insecure stans weren't listening anyways. THey were listening to puff daddy.
An artist grows and evolves and many Wu Fans want a Wu-Tang song like it is 1993 all over again like the Wu Is still hungry and struggling in the projects. That's not their lives anymore.
On the flip side, much of what Radio said is true. Sometimes you gotta give the people what they want and return to the chamber that made them supportive fans to begin with. I guess that means distinguishing your true fans who were with you from the start versus the bandwagon fans that came along later after it was safe for them to be a fan.
