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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.

i think jay electronica mentioned one of these sites one time

Employee wrote:Jaz

They got hateful emails from Tyler but did any of them get shouted out in one of his songs? Nah.

are nahright/2db still big? I feel like I haven't seen anyone link to either in years

ambrosia for heads seems like the only one that matters these days

I was expecting to see Cocaine Blunts and IDAL's blog on that list.
*shrugs*



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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.

Employee wrote:http://www.complex.com/music/2016/03/ho ... c-industry

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.

wheres the lie

if u read this as 'dicksucking'...you clearly didnt read it

outlives them all

david111 wrote:if u read this as 'dicksucking'...you clearly didnt read it

As with all cults, the adherents pretend what is real is not.