DJ Xplosive

Xplosive and I used to work in the industry together and have spent numerous hours bull shitting back and forth about what is wrong with the industry and how it can be fixed, if at all. We have been talking about it for years now and it has really led to some interesting perspectives shared between each other and many a random co-worker and friends joining the conversation at different times throughout the conversation’s years of existence now. For a little bit he has been telling me that he was going to write a post talking about his perspective on a viable business model for the music industry that could help lead it back to profitability. He finally hit me with TWO articles outlining his plan in just a few days span. The first part is more broad-based and the second part couldn’t be more right on point. So if you are music nerds like I am and wonder how the hell we are going to turn this industry around please read up and let me know what ideas you agree/disagree with because we need to be more proactive as a hip-hop community if we expect to come up with a realistic solution.

The Hip-Hop Stimulus Plan (Part 1)

Monetizing the Blogosphere (Part 2)

Is this Tyrone Biggums or Tabi Bonney?

Xplosive wrote about this and had me crackiing up. No hating going one here but this was too funny to pass up, we both like him and Xplosive had great things to say about him and his live performances at the CMJ festival here in NYC in his article. Check out his songs “Rich Kids” and “Radio” off his upcoming album DOPE.

I just went over to my boy Xplosive’s site, www.XplosiveWorld.com, and found this article that I just have to post up here. My man threw out all his CD’s! Every last one of them. He explains himself in the article and I definitely understand where he is coming from. A lot of his frustration stems from the record industry in general desperately trying to keep these suckers around when we have entered the digital age. It is a very interesting article and worth the read so check it out. And just for the record I will not be getting rid of my CDs anytime soon, there is just something about having the physical form in your hand and opening and listneing to a new CD you have waited a long time to be released.

Sayonara CDs!