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46730, RE: your main mistake is that you think the success of the roots lies in
Posted by BrainChild, Fri Apr-18-08 11:27 AM
>roots songs.
>
>---negro YOU dont even support us all that much anymore
>yo...so of course i go to plan be.

i don't support? just cuz i don't make it out to shows as much as i used to (mainly because money is tighter than ever and i hate asking for guest list)... and even though i got free promos of everything from Phrenology on... I still bought copies of everything (Phren and TTP on vinyl, and I even bought a GT CD even though I had boxes of them at my disposal)


>what you think i be like "damn...lemme blah blah blah so bill
>and prov and tara and most the vets will love us again.
>
>
>key word.
>
>
>again.

man, you know i fight for y'all all the time. even at def jam i was trying to keep your artist page updated as much as i could until people told me to stop posting shit cuz the project was over.


>look i aint tryna be on some pity party shit. but i can send
>this right back atcha with some you coulda asked "why did you
>guys not do a roots song?"
>
>and then i woulda responded pronto.
>
>
>and make the most out of an opportunity.
>
>
>like what magic occurred out of us doing "here i come" on
>letterman and leno the last time?
>
>you think a song performed is making the most out of an
>opportunity?

well muhfuckas don't buy shit (i could end the sentence here, but there's more) blindly anymore. since they aren't getting to hear anything on radio, or see a video on BET or VH1 Soul (even the GT trilogy got played a lot on there!) how are they gonna know what they're buying?

>you my friend (whom i respect in the highest form as one of my
>favorite knowledgeable okps are sadly mistaken)
>
>i guess you think com blew up cause he did "the food" on
>chapelle?

nah, i just get confused by a lot of what goes on in The Roots world.

confused and frustrated.

i want y'all to win so bad but from the outside, sometimes it seems almost like self-sabotage.

i'ma shut up now.