Yo Ed I dun thawt I tol u last nite but I'll repeat my self.
i agree wit you in most respects.
I know the objective is to have the Drudge as a refuge from rampant commercialism, but you need to cover costs and you already hav the hearts of the heds who cum for the hard underground ish, but they do not a profit make, or even a break even and I'm sure ya'll blackmisters are realisin this.
Women clubbers make parties, if there are women ther, more women will come, and if there are lots of women, lots of men will also come.
Girls like to dance, this is good cos they get thirsty, then guys buy them drinks, and the guys will also buy lots of drinks for themselves, in many cases to tolerate the music.
If you want to make the Drudge Dialects parties which make enuff cash to survivie and pay the peeps who work hard to put them 2getha, then you need to find the balance tween underground and approachable, cos while I was feelin the deep content and mad skilled flows on display, most of the women were sittin in the corner lookin bored.
Fine a few were right in the thick of it, but they're those heds who I was tokkin bout, they are not enuff to make a profitable party.
The whole " Oh but we gotta be real" thing is the bullshit the pussy's who didin't work to put the party 2getha spout and they will neva be anythin but dirty backpackers, they DO NOT and NEVA hav grown hip hop, they want it to remain exactly as they feel it shud be, they stagnate and ultimately destroy.
The party's flow was too disjointed and the dwindling audience was testament to that, you cant start hot and then slow down to a stop b4 the end, you hav to pick up pace to a tumultous crescendo, with maybe a brief respite, a tiny breathing space in the middle.
The party is supposed to overpower the peepl, they're there to be carried away, they need to feel that they hav no control. Every successive track MUST hit them harder and pull them in more.
Breathing space gives them time to think too much, they then start caring what other peepl think and want to look cool, so they cant be too in to it.
So, friendlier tracks - YES
betta flow to lineup - YES
DONT START TOO LATE
Think about the non heds who are tryin to get into Hip Hop, they are the growth.
KILL THE f***A WHO WAS DOIN THE SOUND, once you do a soundcheck, stick with those settings, dont play wit the faders.
A nicely rehearsed stage show would be nice, but I suppose that aint "real", Black August was a concious show, but f*** it rocked, I busted moves like I was Boogaloo Shrimp.
Thats what you should be aiming at, and thers no reason why you cant do it, you got the talent and drive.
If anybody, blackmist faction or otherwise got issue wit my statements, I'm easy to find, I speak from bout five years experience workin in clubs and helpin out wit parties, and I bought my 1st car off that shit.
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