Many unsigned artists do not know the difference between a beat maker and a producer. While some artists who may not have lots of experience working in multi-million dollar studios, the sound that an artist needs to attract major followers and gain a buzz from record labels is essential when recording music.
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The Restructure Of Universal Indie Records
As you can see, once again the Universal Indie website has been redesigned coinciding with a total restructuring of the label as whole. Originally, this label was created as a way of showcasing the music that I (Cartel) felt was missing in the majority of what’s released today. My roots are firmly entrenched in that 90’s sound and most of our previous releases reflected that.
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Rev. Run: Hip-Hop’s Hallelujah Huckster
Reverend Run! Reverend Run! You all know Run of rappers Run DMC. They broke major hip-hop ground with their song “Walk This Way,” fusing rap with rock music and moving the genre further into the mainstream—the rappers who rapped “My Adidas” and never got a royalty check from the shoe company because no one took rap music that serious way back then.
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When “Telling” Becomes “Snitching.”
Hip-hop heads have got the game all fucked up! I was recently listening to gangster rapper 40 Glocc and Zoo Life talk about the “No Snitching” code and T.I.’s commercial for Crime Stoppers. In their narrow-minded worldview, talking to the police (on any level) is snitching. According to 40 Glocc, T.I. putting out a public service announcement for Crime Stoppers violated the phantom “street code” of snitching. T.I. has marketed himself as a “street nigga”—a “trap rapper” (drug dealer turnt rappa), therefore, had no business being part of a Crime Stoppers commercial.
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Blogger Looking to Shoot a Rapper
Rappers are always talking about what they’re gonna do when they catch the blogger who’s dissed the shit out of them. Hip-hop bloggers are shitting in their Penny loafers! I guess, because a blogger has a great command of the English language, he can’t be no street nigga—because a blogger understands verbs, adjectives, and nouns, he’s a computer geek who sits in the comfort of his own home and “Internet-thugs” his way into the hearts and lives of his least favorite rapper.
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