So yea, its been an eventful week in hip hop so far. In just the past seven days we watched FatBeats close their doors, leaving many hip hop heads saddened, some even feel slightly guilty for not supporting as much during their final days, myself included at times.
However it isn't all bad. We, as a group saw this coming and many of us are not ony sad by the changes but skeptical as far as how much longer this sound will continue to survive, especially with such little support.
Personally, I beleive it will not only prevail but eventually come back around in the way groups like Atmosphere and Jurrasic 5 and Dilated quickly became noticed..the same will likely happen thanks to the same "evil" that crushed the record stores (the Internet, combined with the forces of major pop labels, which have great interest in keeping this genre submerged..for a number of reasons(some you would not even believe!). Even though the profit margin on getting CDs and Vinyl pressed seems to still be "on hold" so to speak..the Internet will actually assist in keeping people who may enjoy this music interested but will also assist in exposing individuals to this sound. At least..it better! ..Now that the record stores are gone and there will no longer be any in-stores or hardly new vinyl releases, it simply HAS to work itself out, right? It can't just die like that!
Now the heads that WERE checkin for real artists will turn to sites such as this one to get what they need, right?
This is all speculation and wishful thinking..still, I remain hopeful through the end of this year, after "Ether Mat"vol. 1 compilation gets up on here, and the year has run it's course.. only then will I make a decision on where to take this project next..or if it should even continue at all :-/
Feel free to send over any thoughts on this and hopefully you got a chance to check out the stream from Sundays show:)
More around the way..
Peace --Tim
Skyzoo rocks one of the final in-stores at FatBeats L.A.
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