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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Music Wednsday

sleep at 4 up at 8 here is some music from J.Cole(NC), Curren$y(LA), Fiend(LA), Wiz Khalifa(PA)

Monday, June 14, 2010

Eminem has for a long time been one of my favorite lyricist song writers/rappers. I for one was anticipating relapse and was severely let down. Not so much the beats, but the contents of his lyrics which revolved around a lot of sick shit. As you fast forward a year, he is releasing another album Recovery that I wasn't to excited until I started hearing some of the new songs. He is one of what I consider the better leaked tracks. Eminem ft. Kobe - Talkin' 2 Myself

Killer Mike aka Mike Bigga Grind Time Rap Game Bang Bang releases a new song on T.I.'s not a mixtape.

Now that the DIPSET is back together with all the movements re-merging Skull Gang, U.N., and the BrydGang. Jim Jones makes a lot of wack shit, but he does know how to make summer rider music.

R.I.P.(1983 - June 12, 2007) Stack Bundles he was going to be a bigger legend then he already is.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Music Thursday

In the last couple days outside of writing and meeting new people I have listened to alot of music, nothing new there. As indicated by the title its time for youtube and music. Spending most of my summers on the east coast, I listened to alot of music and was exposed to alot of good groups. It can be argued that I primarily listen to east coast music now though. That argument would be wrong, but it can be. One of those groups that i first started listening to is the Lost Boyz album Love Peace & Nappiness.
Lost Boyz - Me & My Crazy world

Story telling is where music is
Lost Boyz - Lifestyles of the rich and shameless

Lost Boyz - Renee

Here's a tune about this honey named Renee
That I met one day
On my way back from John Jay
I'm peepin' shorty as she's walking to the train
I tap her on her shoulders
Excuse me Miss, but can I get your name
She said my name is Renee
I said I got a whole lot to say
So may I walk you to your subway
She said if you want
So yo, we started talking
I brought two franks and two drinks
And we began walking
I had to see where that head was at
Because the gear was mad phat
So we must chat about this and that
She told me what she was in school for

Some music to ride to
Sean Falyon ft. Freddie Gibbs & Bone Crusher

One of the the other artist featured on the freshman '10 list that XXL published is a rapper from ATL named Pill. If this is the type of music he is going to consistently make, then I cant wait for a full album.
Pill -Glass

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Marketing 101

I'm not sure if this story is just made up by Sean Combs (P. Diddy) or is the vodka mogul Martin Silver is really letting himself get caught up in "Beef" in which he has no chance of gaining market share only loosing some to Mr. Combs. The New York Post which has become more of a gossip magazine as of late reports that Sean Combs has angered other vodka manufactures when at an event he got on the microphone and stated

"If you're not drinking Ciroc vodka, then you're drinking pee pee.""

Outside of the fact that you can tell dude has some young kids when the phrase Pee Pee is in his everyday lexicon. It is reported that Mr Silver owner of Long Island based Star industries (Liquor and Wine Import) flagship Vodka brand is Georgi Argent Vodka. Is one of the angriest competitors and planning a public protest as KJHE reports

"Silver and a group of protesters will show up outside Combs' New York offices demanding an apology, reports AllHipHop.com. A statement from the vodka wars coalition reads, "They will be putting liters of Ciroc into a large toilet bowl and having it delivered to Diddy's offices near Times Square." KJRH

I'm not one to criticize the business acumen of a man who has built his own empire and is attempting to buy the New York Mets from Mike Wilpon who has lost a lot of money in the Madoff Ponzi scheme. C'mon he should see this shit coming from a mile away. Diddy is just going for market share that Georgi Argent (High End) currently has by egging on MJ Silver. Combs has already convinced the minority urban market to embrace Ciroc as their vodka of choice, and would like blatantly more white people to drink it and bars to offer it. Their are only a couple of things that can happen

1. Diddy laughs at their protest and challenges them to a taste test to be settled by everyday people
2. Georgi Argent traditional drinkers get embarrassed by their favorite brand image of "Beefing"
3. The protest makes the news, but Combs is the only identifiable figure of the two. So it becomes free press for Ciroc and the Pee Pee comments continue to get played with news images of his biggest competitors.
4. Peoples perceived awareness of Ciroc Vodka goes up since a premium brand was offended by his statements "Ciroc must be in the same class as Georgi Argent" will be a common thought.

In all of these instances Ciroc gets more market share and in none of these instances would Georgi's market share go up. My advice as a communication professional is take the L Martin Silver. You have already played into Sean Combs brand, remember he knows beef he was part of the most tragic musical public beef between Pac & Biggie. Who both brands became larger than life and people who owned the rights to their music and image won, while two young men lost their lives to violence. By no means am I implying that Silver and Combs will be violent just the brand with the smaller market share always wins if the dominant brand responds. For rap heads think of 50 vs The game (Responsive) and then think of 50 vs Young buck (Unresponsive). Let that be a lesson in Marketing 101 for all of you and why people beef, everyone loves the roll of David and everyone wants the crown. Kings don't supposed to show emotions, it clouds their judgment. O yeah, after I saw these articles I went and asked for a shot of Ciroc. Diddy knows what he is doing.