guess it works, i never heard of the mutt...video. "Hey...I can't find nothin' on the radio. Yo, turn to that station..."
"I wanna bite the hand that feeds me, I wanna bite that hand so badly, I wanna wish they had never seen me; so you had better do what you are told, you better listen to the radio."--Elvis Costello
So, nice way to get people exposed to your "music"--suing radio stations nice enough to play you. Maybe this is a viral thing, I don't know, but screw you, Mr. One.
who is KRS one and why should we care
nice spin on why nobody wants to play his junk
Would that all rappers follow his lead!
I would think that a musician would want as many people to hear their music as possible...oh well, time to move on to something more important like what kind of way to use on my truck.
Hey, he stole my idea.
guess it works, i never heard of the mutt...whomag indeed. Who or what is a KRS-One?
I never heard of this idiot (and don’t care) but, in case I’m not clear about this, he’s an idiot!!
I would sue radio stations if they played my songs too.
I’ll sue any radio station that plays his “music” too.
Who?
Never heard of him and already forgot him. Hope he’s happy now.
KRS One is just sore that he could never play the Radio game the way Afrika Bambaataa did.
So he is trying to whip up some buzz without playing the game.
I see 4 songs by him in the company server. Sound Of The Police and Outta Here seem to be his two “hits”. Maybe they can do a theme weekend.
Marketing and promotion is: spendy. Everything on commercial radio is a commercial that someone has directly or indirectly paid the radio station to transmit, and that includes the music played. Only college radio stations play what they like, and even some of that is suspect. Because of smart phones the traditional commercial radio industry is losing significance.
I know I am very much out of the loop, but is this “KRS One” somebody people have heard of before?
This has nothing to do with the “quality” or style of music.
It’s all about control. Your Costello lyric is spot on. The music industry has gone from taking control of the artists they promote, to losing control via, napster, bit torrent etc...
Artists are looking for ways to get exposure and make some money without the using the current royalty structure. While KRS may be simply expressing his frustration regarding the current system, the solution is nowhere to be found.
They can perform live, and find dozens of really bad reproductions on the Internet within a few hours. All with the hope that fans will buy a high quality version from them directly.
Back in the day. The Grateful Dead had a very similar problem. Illegal recordings of their live shows where everywhere. Folks got together and traded “for free” their tapes. Attempts to get higher quality recordings lead some to “tap into” the audio cables that where laid on the concert floor. The cumulative destruction of these cables lead them to “provide” easy access since they realized they couldn’t stop them.
Pearl Jam engaged in an epic battle with the recording industry as they made virtually all their live shows available dirt cheap.
It seems that the “Studio” artist is screwed since once published, their content will be free within hours.
It may be that the only way for an artist to be fairly compensated is through ticket sales and their ability to both but on a show and fill a venue.
“He’s so famous he’s INfamous” - Ned Nederlander, The Three Amigos.
As a songwriter, I find this incomprehensible.
Airplay is the “holy Grail” of the recording Artist! ;-)
I remember listening to BDP’s Criminal Minded as a Freshman in college. His music was all downhill from there. The “Dope Beat” track was the first “bite” of AC/DC’s Back in Black I recall ever hearing.