HUSTLE & FLOW (the way of the record industry)

The title of the film Hustle and Flow brought the record industry to my mind. In the large scheme of things it is the record industry that is the 'pimp' and the artists that end up being the so-called 'hoes'. Too many times as the industry pimped out the artist to the mass media and the consumers just to make an easy buck, and too many times the artist has fallen victim to what the industry does. You see many cases where the hit artists are here one day and then gone the next. My main example is that of MC Hammer. He was a hit with "you can't touch this" and "too legit too quit", but where is he now? Probably trying to revamp his career. In fact here is a remix of "you can't touch this" at the 2005 MTV video music awards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhH8Sxe9XkU . You see some people vibin' to his remix, but it looks like others are laughing at his new style. This is mainly because after Hammer phased out he went completely bankrupt. Yet the record industry stilled banked on hammers work.

I think that groups that have the "one hit wonders" are taken advantage the most. They put out a great song and are never heard of again. The industry can take that single from the no good album and rape the benfits. The record industry just seems to hustle everyone including the consumer. Because the record industries have such a stranglehold on who makes and who doesn't we as the consumer need to voice what we want and make sure that the artists and ourselves don't get taken advantage of.

This is a little off topic but it is crazy that today's artists are lacking a lot of creativity. Many either sample songs such as Kanye West's "Through the wire" is sampled from a song called "Through the Fire", McHammers song Can't touch this was sampled from Rick James' Superfreak. Some go as far as Covering a song, i'm pretty sure that method man and a couple of guys covered the Sugar Hill Gang. I beleive that the music cycles through every couple of decades and that many things that were popular twenty years ago can be remade into a hit today.