Posted in: Hip Hop by Maltees77 on October 26th, 2006 | 1 Comment
This goes into the difficulties upcoming artist have due to the mark that black market business left on radio.
What about Pit Bull?
WHAT ABOUT Pit bull? Lil’ John did the Hip Hop Remix to “Gasolina” and they are giving Daddy Yankee all they can for his money (Hint!).
What about EL GENERAL or LEDESMA?
Who….?
Back in the Latino Mix day’s the station (La Kalle in NYC) played a wider array of music: Salsa, Rock, Merengue, Bachata and a little bit of what was Latin Rap and a smidge of Reggeton. No one was mad every latino-genre got their equal share of music. Now that it’s Reggeton 24-7 only music from Puerto Rico is played. How many times have you heard Don Miguelo’s “La Motora” on the station? And that song was HOT and Reggeton!!! That song ruled DR spring & summer of ‘05. Oh right he’s not Puerto Rican. It’s either that or he can’t come up with the payola that it take to spin the hell out of their songs.
Payola began in the 1950s and it is still rampant today. New York’s hyperactive attorney-general, Eliot Spitzer, said that bribes are pervasive in the industry, and that he is continuing his investigation into the other big record labels-Universal, EMI and Warner Music-as well as the radio business.
The radio industry, after all, is just as much to blame for payola. Employees at Clear Channel, America’s biggest radio company, crop up frequently in the incriminating e-mails that Mr. Spitzer published. The bribes they received came in the form of electronic goods, free airline tickets and hotels, sneakers and musical instruments and equipment. Some of the methods its labels used were quite basic, such as hiring girls to call in posing as listeners with requests for songs.
Why not call it: “La Kalle De Puerto Rico” and make Casanova the crossing guard? That way no one expects nothing and gets nothing. More than 50% of Reggeton’s original audience was based in the Dominican Republic and still is to this day and in the US it’s and even higher percentage. Can this be, in 2006, racism amongst us spics? No. In the “Llame Pa Verte” video by Wisin y Yandel they only rep two flags, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic and Tego, Yankee & Omar stay reppin DR. I mean the “tigueraje” is thick in “El Patio” so of course you won’t dis the originators of it.
So why is it so different in the NY?
It’s because everyone waters down and the roots and the big money begin to run under different trees. This goes to show how much talent there is out there from Mexico, Panama (the Mother of This Spanish Rap Game), Dominican Republic, Cuba, Spain and none of it airs. So we’re forced to listen to the same monotonous crap. How much longer will listeners have to listen to music that is picked for them by the highest bidder and then like sheep go out and buy it because we’re being brain washed in to thinking that we actually like the music. We are creatures of habit so it’s easy to fall in to a routine with anything that has a repeated effect on any one of our five censes. Sorry peeps free radio is dead time to hit the net!!!
TruDUDE January 21st, 2007 at 7:07 am
I hate la Kalle…