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28-01-2004 at 04:56, Anonymous : Mr C, you think because he sold all those platinum albums that makes him hot. Well I´ve got news for you. The biggest purchasers of rap music are suburban white kids.(this is a fact, not something I made up, but something discovered in surveys among the american youth) The MTV generation. So selling triple quintruple platinum still doesn´t mean you´re hot. It just means you´ve managed to water down your sound to the extent that you´re appealing to thirteen year old pimple faced mtv watching, overweight, wannabe gangsta, horny, never been laid, white boys and girls and Mr C.
People in the hoods and on the street, where hip hop comes from hardly ever buy the shit, we just copy it. We´re just too poor. Please donate some shit to us. Therefore the real heads will never go plat, cos they´re shit is just being bootlegged too much.
"you sold platinum round the world, I sold wood in the hood" - Pharoahe Monche
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When did i ever say he´s hot cos his records sell platinum-plus ? Nowhere in my posts did i ever say that. The only time i mentioned his sales, was to prove to Captain that he didn´t "get-off" by copying from other people.Whether he goes diamond or copper is not the issue here. The issue is does he have skill. And the answer is a simple YES. he does. He is nowhere near average. He´s got wit,simple lyrics that actually go above most people´s heads(maybe that´s why you don´t like him, cos u don´t get his catch phrases) and a good delivery at that.
Then u turn around and tell me that´s why real heads never sell plat ? Let me give u a little history on album sales:
Slick Rick - The adventures of . . . - Platinum
Eric B and Rakim - Padi in Full - Platinum
NWA - Straight Outta Compton - Platinum
Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders - Platinum
Tribe Called Quest - Beats,Rhymes and Life - Platinum
Nas - Illmatic - Went platinum like 2 years ago.
Nas - IWW - 2xplatinum
Outkast - All their albums are multi-platinum
Onyx - Bacdafucup - Platinum
Redman - Malpractice - Platinum
Wu-tang - Multi-plaitnum
Fugees - The Score - Multi-Platinum
Slim Shady LP - Multi-Platinum
Das EFX - Dead Serious - Platinum
Ice Cube - All albums platinum
Scarface - The Diary - Platinum
and lots,lots more.
Are all these albums watered down, as u claim platinum albums to be ?
HELL NO.