where is the promotion for the roots next album? after this one i wont buy another album from DEF jam period

that's what i want to f*cking know


i'll buy the roots record regardless

i brought this same subject up just a few weeks ago and was basically told i was an idiot for thinking the album would actually be promoted.

sorry to hear you were called an idiot by my fellow okps

these days itunes and word or mouth is the only way artists albums are promoted unless of course you are kanye, jay-z etc etc

Quest was waaaaaaaaaaaay ahead when he and Angie (Stress) came up with the idea for Okayplayer

Okayplayer promotes, promotes, promotes

sorry if i am babbling but i am doing 6 things and taking the time to reply to you

ciao

was the first hiphop site started by a group...then came okayplayer a year or 2 later...

duckdown.com came on in like 1995 or 1996

vesus okp, one of the top hip hop sites on the net period.

how do you plan on supporting your favorite artists if you won't buy their album?


i don't see any press for raekwon. if you look around, it's not just the roots. and from what i've heard, the album is coming out in november, so you don't want to promote an album (esp. nowadays) too early , esp. when they have built in promotion with fallon 5 nights a week! now, if we don't see or hear anything by early october.....

? where have you been? this is there last album on def jam and if was not going to buy another roots album you think i would even be here? F CK def jam

that means you are saying you won't buy any album def jam puts out, roots related or not.


and as far as where i've been, i've been here since 1998. where have you been?

no i have every roots album and the roots only have two albums with def jam and how i got over will be there last on the label i will buy but after that they wont get a dime from me and i m pretty sure the band will sign else where now do you understand?

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that has 10 records and is on TV every night during the biggest industry slump ever? I think the Roots have long ago stop worrying about a label's promotion of their album will make or break them.
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the same as they do for every half ass mc they do promote go to there website they have nothing about the new project and where i spend my money counts.

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and i don't give fuck about you or Def jam so how you like them apples

>and i don't give fuck about you or Def jam so how you like
>them apples

that's fine.

but you're too emo dude.

let it go.

nah i stand by my word the industry is out to destroy real hip hop or just good music time to shut them down

>nah i stand by my word the industry is out to destroy real
>hip hop or just good music time to shut them down

the music industry can't do shit to good music. its out there and its going strong. your problem is your looking in the wrong places for it and def jam isn't beholden to anyone. try expanding your tastes and you wont be so wrapped up in some lame ass 'fuck def jam' diatribe.

How old are you ? i come from a era where if you had no talent you couldn't get played period you mean to tell me you don't see or hear this bullshit they play over and over and over Def Jam only supports artist who feed the children with nonsense no supstance so if you have been under a rock for the last 10 years wake up.

>How old are you ? i come from a era where if you had no
>talent you couldn't get played period you mean to tell me you
>don't see or hear this bullshit they play over and over and
>over Def Jam only supports artist who feed the children with
>nonsense no supstance so if you have been under a rock for the
>last 10 years wake up.

ok

and your from new york you got to be kidding me

>and your from new york you got to be kidding me

ok

you need to chill out just a little bit

There is no promotion for "HOW I GOT OVER" but u know whats even worse? Im a tell u.... When a album like Ghostface Killah's "Wizzard of Poetry" DROPS THIS TUESDAY AND THERE IS O% promotion! Only one promoting it is Dennis Coles and his real fans!

BINGO!!! fuck em

emotional? you people have no balls

Red Poet...I see your point...all of this bullshit being pushed...labels not promoting quality hip hop...just do your part and support your artist...that's all we can do...Ghost got no promotion for his new album...NONE...Roots albums dont get much promotion anyway so I'm used to that...as long as they keep making music I will live...Looking forward to that new Roots album BTW....

what does having balls have to do with the album being pushed back??? that was questlove's decision. so, if we all had balls, what would we do? force him to put it out now???


post better than that

first of all you retard this is not about the album being pushed back READ put you r balls out ? be gay on your own time ass .

too many fake ass fans.


you're a fucking whiny bitch

fakes fans what the fuck are you talking about homo stop sucking your moms dick and get a grip me not supporting def jam has nothing to do with you fag !!

>too many fake ass fans.
>
>
>you're a fucking whiny bitch

that red poet alias... its not worth your time.

just let it be.

trust.

fuck u

>fuck u

yeah, i know.

carry on tough guy.

what are you doing here i thought i tould you to fuck off

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In todays time I just tend to think most people get there information online. While there are ways to promote an artist online I would just think that if a person was interested in an artist they would do a search for said artist online and get that sort of info (new albums, tours, ect.) I think were a bit past needing street teams and whatnot.

Just my $0.02

They didnt promote Game Theory, which is one of the greatest albums I've ever heard. Rising Down got the same treatment. Def Jam only wastes money on their "dummy acts". As is shallow artists that will sell to the kids being taught to be "dummies" by mainstream influence. Unfortunately, that mainstream influence promotes ignorance-heavy+low-quality product.