"Name an artist who won you over with sheer productive consistency"
Like they've never been your favorite artist and there were even points early on when you questioned their talents. However over the course of time with them consistently putting out decent to good music (and occasionally a great track or two) have won you over with that "they must be doing something right".
For me its:
Madonna Fabolous Neyo
use to be the roots pre-Things Fall Apart.
********** "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
>Prince - didn't become a fan until i was like 13. LOL. >prior to that i was very skeptical.
Well, I was soo team MJJ I thought it was being disloyal to be a Prince fan when I was little. I also remember seeing him naked on a table on one of the album sleeves and thinking "ooohhhh he nasty!"
Full fledge by sign of the time (was the first album I liked on my own. Not because my parents or brother put me on).
> >Outkast - i wasn't down for real until Stankonia. prior to >that i'd heard several tracks i liked but i was skeptical. > >Madge - i got on board when i was 17 or 18. i still don't >check for her albums but i dig her singles.
********** "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
I wasn't into Blur at all. I got into Gorillaz in 2001. Dug that album. Then while at Disney World, Summer 2003, I bought Blur's Think Tank because the cover art was dope so that's the first release I got by them. Had no idea this was the dude from Gorillaz though. I continued buying his Gorillaz projects and even bought The Good, the Bad & the Queen. Again, nothing great but solid albums. A few years ago I bought the rest of the Blur catalog. So yeah, Damon is one of my favorite artist now. New album out today by the way.
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15. "Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, Killer Mike." In response to Reply # 0
I loved Killer Mike on Whole World but I was never a big fan of Monster, I'm still not. But I really liked quite a few songs on his mixtapes after he left Purple Ribbon and then Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II broke him wide open for me. He's been in my current top five ever since.
Gucci Mane I used to really dislike but looking back on the Wilt Chamberlain series I think it was mastering/DJ shouts as much as anything. Or just wanting to seem "real" by hating on most trap rap.
Soulja Boy, on the other hand, just magically learned how to make random dope songs one day that didn't feel like gimmicks. He's still mostly terrible but he's a more fun version of Lil' B in my opinion, even if he basically lifted B's style after meeting him.
My sister loved them when Ten dropped. I didn't hate em but wasn't heavy into it either. Didn't really get on board till they did that let's release every stop on our tour on CD thing. I copped two or three and was hooked. I've waned a bit in recent years but don't doubt they probably are maintaining par.
That dude has put in WORK. It hasn't always been great but damn if he isn't hella consistent and productive. His style is strictly regional too so he deserves alot of credit for stayin relevant for this long.
But I know how he sold 1 million first week of Confessions: because of a decade of consistency. I had never *bought* an Usher album before Confessions.
Heard, borrowed, taped. Yea. But not bought.
But when Confessions dropped, and hearing "Yeah!", I said to myself, this cat has been sooooooo consistent. I gotta cop his album just as a reward for giving me consistent jams.
I seriously remember actually thinking thru it in exactly that way. And when I heard he sold a million in a week, I realized I was probably just one of many who thought the exact same way.
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