Platinum is dead just STFU & accept it.....it's dead.

[Colin$mackabi$h]

you aint lying there

 

[b@squ1@t redux]

shout out to 50 for goin new platinum on BISD and for going diamond with "down on me'

 

[CJ]

is it that platinum is unattainable for hip hop acts or are hip hop acts not worthy of platinum plaques?

alil of both

 

[lamontbdc]

is it that platinum is unattainable for hip hop acts or are hip hop acts not worthy of platinum plaques?

Mixture of both for me. A lot of shit isn't worth purchasing, but the shit i think is worth purchasing i never purchase b/c i got it for free.

 

[talik23]

is it that platinum is unattainable for hip hop acts or are hip hop acts not worthy of platinum plaques?

i say this is true.

 

[DatNiggaB1]

Kanye and jay gonna go plat agiain by the end of the year.

Plat is dead for 95% of artists outchea

 

[Turfaholic]

C/S this thread, I been saying this shit for awhile now. Nobody hears me when I say it, but since the great H-Rap says it, it will actually get through some of you niggas heads!!!

 

[soul rattler]

Hip hop just saw three albums go diamond in one year. Platinum is not dead.

 

[H-Rap 180]

is it that platinum is unattainable for hip hop acts or are hip hop acts not worthy of platinum plaques?

Total HipHop sales for 2010 was 27 million.

It's not just illegal downloading and bootlegging, I know people that go to ITunes and just download specific songs on an album instead of buying the entire C.D.

Platinum is obtainable for HipHop acts but look at the acts that go platinum, if you say Nicki Minaj is worthy of one I guess she is.

 

[CJ]

em, drake, and nicki albums was definitely not worthy

 

the question is why are these rap artists still falling for the 360 deal trap when they should be going the independent route .....

a record label taking a chunk off of all your earnings around the board while you only moving 265k units is what u call slavery ....

 

[Turfaholic]

em, drake, and nicki albums was definitely not worthy

u jus named pop artist

 

[DatNiggaB1]

*****Spinoff*****

 

[MAKAVELI25]

u jus named pop artist

Eminem is a pop artist?

 

[lamontbdc]

the question is why are these rap artists still falling for the 360 deal trap when they should be going the independent route .....

a record label taking a chunk off of all your earnings around the board while you only moving 265k units is what u call slavery ....

Them niggas want the fame. some of these dues have dreams that they are the next Jay. so it's not till after some failures that they realize they need to fall back and do what's best for them instead of doing what they think will make them a star and rich. Most guys that are indy are folks who been in the game for a minute and understand the traps of being on a major. while a youngster sees getting on 106 park, touring with rihanna, and the BET awards as what they want.

 

[StoneColdMikey]

well this year kanye and jay, and lil Wayne, going plat

 

[CJ]

well this year kanye and jay, and lil Wayne, going plat

when drake dropping?

 

[StoneColdMikey]

when drake dropping?

drake supposedly dropping this october but i dont think so anymore i think hey might get pushed back

 

Them niggas want the fame. some of these dues have dreams that they are the next Jay. so it's not till after some failures that they realize they need to fall back and do what's best for them instead of doing what they think will make them a star and rich. Most guys that are indy are folks who been in the game for a minute and understand the traps of being on a major. while a youngster sees getting on 106 park, touring with rihanna, and the BET awards as what they want.

yea u right most young people look at jay wayne tip or eminem and want to follow in their steps instead of paying attention to other folks who tried following that path and didnt make it .....

 

[H-Rap 180]

em, drake, and nicki albums was definitely not worthy

That's pretty much been the consensus...but let's take a trip back into time to 2002:

JayZ, Busta Rhymes, Camron, Nas, Diddy, LL Cool J, & Ja-Rule all went platinum and that's just New York......

Outside New York that same year LiL Jon, Snoop Dogg and Emenim went double Platinum.

That's 10 HipHop artists I can name off top and I'm positive I missed a lot, but you can clearly see the difference in plaques in less than a decade.