>02. Artists should turn down collaborations more often.
>
>Once upon a time, you didn't have to be a superstar to
>get away with releasing a solo single. Now, not only
>does every other song feature another artist, but it's
>usually one of the same handful of artists every time.
>Not that long ago, the game was ruled by stingy
>collaborators like 50 Cent and Eminem, who worked
>primarily with their inner circle of labelmates and
>only occasionally with outside associates.
>
>But that all changed in the Lil Wayne era, when pretty
>much every major label artist could get a Lil Wayne
>verse on pretty much any single, and nearly all of them
>did (or a T-Pain hook, or more recently, a Chris Brown
>or Nicki Minaj feature). Not only has this
>one-size-fits-all A&R approach made radio more
>homogenous, it's also flattened out the differences
>between artists, reducing most breaking and mid-level
>MCs to whatever qualities would work best on a song
>with Drake.


I totally agree cause when new upcoming artists try to get some shine but getting these top charting rappers to guest appear on their record the problem with that is that most radio listeners will forget it's your record and instead think it's another song by the well-known rapper featuring this nobody/new artist; and most likely wait till they see that song on a mix-cd with a bunch of songs that basically is features of that popular rapper but not there songs.