Co-sponsored by Words Beats & Life (WBL) and the Future Music Coalition (FMC) and hosted by Busboys & Poets, this event will feature a national panel of hip-hop bloggers who will give information to those trying to be featured on hip-hop blogs about how to get the attention of these bloggers, optimize web presence, learn what bloggers seek when generating content, and how use technology in acceptable formats. Moderator, Jef Tate (aka frank talk) will guide panelists in a roundtable discussion about pay-to-purchase sites (Band Camp, Itunes, Amazon, etc.): use ‘em or lose ‘em? FMC will also educate the bloggers and audience about legislation and policies currently affecting them and we will address the question: How can we leverage the success of these blogs for social change?
Special guests include Dallas Penn, Jason Reynolds (Okayplayer), Chris Rabb (Afro-netizen), producer extraordinaire and Diamond District member Oddisee, Frank William Miller Junior and Meka Udoh.
Live stream down bottom.
You mean to tell me that YN wasn’t invited?!?! [/sarcasm]
Blogging is no country for old men, somebody tell dude to freshen up and hang it up. Son smells like moth balls and old people.
u want to leave maryjane¿
http://evident-truth.blogspot.com/ Like i said before this music blog is dopeee!
anyone recording this?
Very wierd soon as I click this, Meka already talking on the mic.
I saw some of this, but I definitely missed parts. Anyway the vid will be posted later?
circle jerk
funny stuff. i must’ve missed the entire thing. oh well…
dope. well put together. next time, meka drinking game… #gonnagetfuckedup #noshotsfired
missed 95% of it #sleepisthecousinofdeath
Aye off Topic but I found the B.o.B album Track list
1. Don’t Let Me Fall
2. Nothin’ On You feat. Bruno Mars
3. Past My Shades feat. Lupe Fiasco
4. Airplanes feat. Hayley Williams
5. Bet I feat. T.I. and Playboy Tre
6. Satellite
7. Ghost in the Machine
8. The Kids feat. Janelle Monae
9. Magic feat. Rivers Cuemo
10. Fame
11. Lovelier Than You
12. 5th Dimension feat. T.I. & Ricco Barrino
13. Airplanes (Part II) feat. Eminem & Hayley Williams
14. Higher [Bonus Track]
15. Mellow Fellow [Bonus Track]
16. Yesterday [Bonus Track]
Shit looks like even more of a banger
So hilarious how people in the chat were complaining about Meka hoggin’ the mic. lolz.
Damn, we shoulda been in there.. (Backtopluto.com) but we went to see Wale at RFK
what a slow day
@DrewYork: As an older blogger, I gotta ask: what’s up with ageism? What is it about blogging that makes you think it should only be a young man’s game??
lol @ DrewYork no country for old men is a classic movie btw
Perhaps my statement was a generalization where it should have been a specification. Let me explain:
To me, blogs are a more grassroots style of not only promotion but journalism as well. They have, essentially, brought power of press back into the hands of the writers. Papers are politically driven and magazines are a dying medium. Radio is both. Blogs, however, are limitless in terms of what they can and can’t do, mostly because the guys behind them aren’t affiliated with a suit or network. 2DBz is a great example of this.
RapRadar/YN is quite the opposite. They are bringing “big business” ideals into a realm that, for the most part, has functioned excellently without them (the blogosphere). For instance, awhile back 50 Cent said something on a video blog about not liking Elliot Wilson and, in turn, not fucking with RapRadar. RR posts anything related to a big rapper on their website. Shit, half the time they post pointless posts about what Jay-Z is wearing on a Wednesday night. But somehow, the 50 Cent comments never made it to their page. Why? Because Interscope buys ad space on their page and any type of response to those comments would put that money at risk. Obviously they have the right to choose what they post, but when you consider how much they leach from others and reach for stories, it almost seems like a contradiction.
I have no problem with old bloggers, in hindsight. I simply don’t agree with an old guy like YN, who’s made his money through a million different avenues, jumping on a train out of the station just because he wants to turn a dollar off it.
Glad to have met you Meka, but I gotta say, meeting the real deal Meka totally shattered my mental image of you. Thought you were some sorta nerd…
I walked past there today..saw Oddisee and X.O.
they were charging tho, i said fuck that
Glad to have met you Meka, but I gotta say, meeting the real deal Meka totally shattered my mental image of you. Thought you were some sorta nerd…
ghostdog221 said this on April 3rd, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Shots fired
LL Cool J announced the Virtual Producer Studio that will allow artists to collaborate and distribute music online. Go to Boomdizzle.com/revolution to register for pre-release access to the Virtual Producer studio and watch LL Cool J’s interview about Boomdizzle.com.