how do you expect your favorite rappers to make money when
 

you don't go to concerts, and you don't pay for downloads?

the brightest of them will continue to release music and of course try to increase their audience which will increase their demand.
once demand is in place other options in more lucrative fields of entertainment open up.
so...
Is the entire time spent as a rapper, whether signed or not the "new" paying dues?

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.48789...h=177&c=7&rs=1

fuck em naq

if rappersstop giving me 2 good songs on a 15 track album id be more inclined to purchase something

I agree.

Only album I didn't regret purchasing was distant relatives and the black album

You are posting too much. Take a break.

lol Naq this is EXACTLY what me n my boy were talking about...and how going 'gold' or 'platinum' equates to not sales but views...man...u already know

I honestly only need to hear their first 2cds an im good...on to the next one. After they lose that hunger theyre done. Im actually supporting the raw by starving the establishment.

I like old stuff 90s to 2000s. This new stuff makes me want liquify kittens and inject them into dias microwaveable pizza pockets.

the truest shit ever spoken tbh

its happened to every single artist ive ever seen

tons of artists maintain their raw
mos def being just one.
de la kept it 100
... but I still agree with your statement in a way Bags, maybe just cause you phrased it with a ill flavor

niggaz maintaining their raw is a dying trait.

...

Just copped Born Sinner

i actually agree w @Bags here...keepin that hunger has become a rarity
@super pimp trillionaire .. naq righ tho doods who love the art (not in it only for the doe) keep it consistant.Mos n Talib r both great examples.