No legends don't sell Millions first off.
You guys......I can't tell if it's the internet that created this generation of born haters, or what it is. Everybody got an opinion they want toshare. Silly @##%. "Why is Just Blaze working with Saigon"? Who the !+%# are you to worry about that? Let Just worry about what Just do.
It's like cats make a thread everytime they have a thought or an opinion. Go talk to your peoples about that. Y'all do have "peoples", right?
But you guys just look at the surface and act like you know something. It's always deeper than just the numbers. I try to convey that when Rick Rossoutsells Snoop.
Or when Day 26 debut at #1 and outsell Flo-Rida. Don't get me wrong, I'm no Flo-Rida fan, but dude did have the BIGGEST record of the year and a verystrong follow up.
Fat Joe is on an independent. Distributed by what may be the WORST label on the map (Virgin), who can barely sell records on their own.
That's for starters. If we want to be real, that "I Won't Tell Single" was not a home run. Which didn't help. It did not stick at radio.NO ONE ever knows what will stick at Radio. Which is why projects by even radio artists (Nicole S, Will I AM) on MASSIVE labels (Interscope) sometimes brick.
Joe is a street rapper. He ain't really singing on records like 50. He don't pay for records with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. J Holiday isn'treally a Pop artist (though Bed did it's thing at Top 40)
He makes one radio record, and then an album of street music. If that one radio record don't work, he's not gonna move units.
I'm sure his profit margin is still proper. That's another thing y'all don't understand. An album can sell 5 million and be a LOSS.
In converse, an album can sell 70k indpendently and cats can cake.
It's crazy some of things I see in here. Before I actually got into the business, I was just a FAN. I wasn't tripping off Soundscan and @##%. Caringabout who sold what. All I cared about was good music.
If you don't think Joe makes good music, cool. You're entitled to your opinion. I don't really check for him like that myself. But I don't caremuch for modern Hip Hop in general. Other than for work. Because, yes, now it's work.
Everybody want to be an executive now. Talking numbers n whatnot without knowing what's popping behind the numbers.
It's a shame so many young cats are trying to be "hustlers". It's the music business. Equal parts music and business.
Don't rush to know the business before you take the time to enjoy the music.
Sorry for the rant. But people trying to talk music business with all this
is type silly to me......