“For mid-level major-label rappers like Game, keeping your fans satisfied while they wait impatiently for a product you keep desperately promising is right around the corner has become a melancholy fact of life. Unless you currently have at least two Top Ten hits currently floating in the radio-playlist soup, your album is a theoretical construct, no more “around the corner” than universal health care.”
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I strongly recommend this piece by Jayson Greene. It’s specific to the Game, but it’s just a microcosm of the ways major labels have wrecked the careers of many rappers over the past decade.
(via perpetua)
