another sad but true quote from the article:
"Disagree if you want, but the Clan might be one rap group whose audience failed them before they failed their audience. Did we, the masses, move on and leave the rebels from the slums of Shaolin to the devoted disciples?"
haha damn i feel youOriginally Posted by the silencer
same goes for me
i dont know how many cds bronze nazareth has sold in france but i like to think that a couple of them were purchased after reading reviews i wrote...
and i actually BOUGHT those cds i reviewed. im not mad about it though, just showing love to independent artists who work their asses of...
but those paid writers... arrogant ones at that... complex really arent the worst of them though (hiphopdx and rapreviews come to mind)
as for lists, well i have my own... which is kinda different of course...
STREET CORNER, by MANO
List isnt as bad as some make it out to be. Yeah we could have done without the RNB remixes but oh well. I was happy they included stuff like "Impossible", "Sunshower", "Semi-Automatic", "Hollow Bones", etc. My 2 main beefs are the inclusion of "Catalina" and leaving off "For Heavens Sake". Peace
Wow. 'No Said Date' was excellent. "Old Man" would have been the obvious choice.
Truth.
Where is Rae's Rock N Roll???
Kidding....
Why the fuck do i have to click through the whole thing to read it. Fuck that...give me an actual list!
It's the god, god.
Actually, School would have been the obvious choice.
true that
No fucking way am I going through all that, just a list would be nice.
haha
we need to get a list like this goin here among the true Wu disciples....
i know b-rock tried it but not nearly enough people voted on each song for it to be accurate....
not that I'd listen to anything a guy who writes for complex says, but this statement could be true depending on what he means by "their audience". if he's talking about the general hiphop audience then yes, they are fickle and moved on to whatever happened next. but if "their audience" is wu-tang fans, the diehards etc, it's the other way around. they failed their audience. or bobby digital and def jam and the failing loud records did.
I had more than enough data the second time. It was actually pretty accurate. My list kicks the shit out of this one.
I think he meant the general audience...especially after Wu Tang Forever came out. they were hot the entire summer of 1997, and maybe in the fall, but by winter...most of their fans went missing. wtf?
How can I argue with reasoning like that?
naw they ain't fail their audience. wu-tang is forever. i don't know about anyone else but i still buy every single wu general album, not a single other album that ever drops do i put the $10 up for, but if it's wu, i purchase. and i'm never disappointed. i may not like an album as much as i'd hope, but it's still new wu music. and as long as that continues i'm gonna keep supporting. Digi Snacks was fucking fire. It was ridiculous in every way but it was fire. Whatever else albums people wanna throw out there, probably fire in my opinion. May not bump them often but I still show the respect for the continued knowledge dropping.
The mainstream audience however did dip out after Forever because honestly...and I hate using this argument but it's true....they are too stupid to be able to soak up all the knowledge on that double disc. "won't figure it out til the year 2 g"....yup, that album took a lot of listens to understand and even still there are new gems every time, so yeah the mainstream audience dipped, came back for a second here and there but been dipped since then. Whatever, rap changes and I love 90% of the mainstream acts out there right now, so I'm not knocking the "stupid people" who moved on to whatever became popular later, but the Wu still release quality music every single time.
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