Crack is Dead. Long Live Crack Music!

Juelz Santana feat. Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne- "Make it Work for You" Video

This is the now of hip-hop. What defines these three artists?

• Crack metaphors
• Youthful swagger
• Outsized, colorful personalities
• Adlibs. Lots and lots of adlibs

With everyone talking about how Snap Music will blow, I’ll turn left and put the smart money on Crack Music. So, Juelz, Jeezy, and Weezy- when can we expect a full length collab?

Comments

[ian]

Crack Music aka Trap Hop already did blow - that was 2005.

[J F]

crack as music

[Model Minority]

Nigg@. Hip hop is Crack music.

Where would HH be w/o crack.

Writers allways be tryina add on and event some jawns that all READY exist. Columbus ass hacks.

[Hashim]

Ian, none of these guys went platinum last year. I'm saying this year will be even bigger

[G Off]

Jeezy went Platinum.

[Zillz aka Tie Granny Up]

DAMN! Jeezy got a featured artist credit for some damn adlibs????

pfft...

but Thug Motivation was the shit.

[ian]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Jeezy is platinum although I think he's actually scanned about 700K (remember certfications come from ship figures, not scans) but c'mon, think about it. No-one's gonna go platinum-plus making straight up albums full of drug dealer records.

50 sold off In Da Club and a whole heap of other radio and club records aimed at women. Ditto for any street genres or artists that have ever blown big from Biggie & Pac to G-Funk and Crunk. Don't cite NWA cos they're the exception that proves the rule and those days of going platinum with little or no airplay are long gone.

It's all about radio (and video) now and in this sh-tty sales market with yall dirty-ass bloggers gving away the music on your sites, selling between 500K and 1 mil. is a great achievement for even major labels.

There's about a handful of hip hop artists doing better than that and just about all of them are signed to either Interscope, Def Jam, TVT or Asylum/Warner Bros.

Watch though: Jeezy's next album will have a grimey-but-catchy club/rider record and a thug love track for the ladies and the mother of all major label pushes to blow those songs up and to capitalize on the street buzz he's built off this first album which will lead to him moving at least half of what his current album has sold to date in its first week.

[G Off]

Jeezy has pushed 1,380,780 according to Soundscan. Not shipped, scanned.

[ian]

Re: Jeezy sscan #'s posted by G Off: true, U right on that. My bad but my points still stand I think. Pure trap hop won't win unless there's a little radio candy to help it go down easy at the record stores. Esp. as compared to the feel-good party music of the snap sound. If some real (or better) lyricists than DFB and D4L start f-cking around with that sound, it's a wrap.

[airjordanx4]

Dipset!

[posta child]

Success black rapper is one that acts "black". Un-intelligent, prone to crime, and doing his part to add to the aids problem, and add children the welfare system without ever try being a real father. Paris released a single that had incredible production and flow. Kanye is the closest thing to a positive in rap now. Yet he gets mad hate for his "attitude". Yet the modern day sambo image is sent out and ate up by the "suburban" kids and admired by far too many "urban" kids.

[posta child]

Successful black rapper is one that acts "black". Un-intelligent, prone to crime, and doing his part to add to the aids problem, and add children the welfare system without ever try being a real father. Paris released a single that had incredible production and flow. Kanye is the closest thing to a positive in rap now. Yet he gets mad hate for his "attitude". Yet the modern day sambo image is sent out and ate up by the "suburban" kids and admired by far too many "urban" kids.

[Ekxplicit]

Ea$y Money $quad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"No matter how you make it it's all Ea$y Money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EM$ Ya'll Ya Herd me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crack is Black and Whack]

Nah, homes. I seen a crackah or two in my day down in the ghetto. Ya know what I mean, foo? My mama always said, "Damn it, Earl, eat your grits!" And that's all I'm sayin' about HH. You just gotta do what you gotta do, know what I'm sayin'? So, what I is thinkin' is to increase the supply of HH maybe in the Northwest, 'cause those peeps don't got nuthin' like we got here in the rough parts of Delaware. And that's what's wrong with the music business today. Boo-yah!

[laser eye surgery]

How lamentable, crack is death ...