How the New Music Cartel Redefined the Music Industry
In 2008, while print media foundered, seven of the biggest brand names in hip-hop blogging came together to form the New Music Cartel, whose members became the gatekeepers in a new era for hip-hop media: 2DopeBoyz, OnSmash, YouHeardThatNew, Xclusives Zone, Miss Info, DaJaz1, and the father of them all, NahRight. In the process, some bloggers became, for a brief window, rich.
CB has like four posts a year and half of those are links to tumblinherb. Idals shit isn't really a 'gatekeeper' in the sense that he's not deigning what demo/press release is worthy of posting on his blog. He's posting shit that he enjoys, not promoting random scrubs begging for attention
LOL, no objective journalism. Aren't all these sites under the COMPLEX umbrella?
Guess now that all that shit is on the downswing guess no time better than now to give them some props before they are totally forgotten about. Some of those egos got too big as well. Now they going the way of the same print media they took up slack from. It's pretty ironic.
They may still do some numbers but nobody has time with snapchat,instagram,twitter,tumblr etc fighting for peoples limited attention spans.
Man, I forgot 2dopeboyz existed. The only time I check nahright is if I think a new Styles P song may be around. Wholly irrelevant sites at this point.
How the New Music Cartel Redefined the Music Industry
In 2008, while print media foundered, seven of the biggest brand names in hip-hop blogging came together to form the New Music Cartel, whose members became the gatekeepers in a new era for hip-hop media: 2DopeBoyz, OnSmash, YouHeardThatNew, Xclusives Zone, Miss Info, DaJaz1, and the father of them all, NahRight. In the process, some bloggers became, for a brief window, rich.
outlives them all