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Re: Madbury Club "All Hail Wayne"
Response from a smart dude o nanother forum...
How I wish HQ had more posters like this and less "im a corny dweeb, tbh tbh tbh tbh" type of posters.
Response from a smart dude o nanother forum...
Great article...parts are a lil convoluted (psychoanalysis isn't really needed here), but that C4 outsold WTT by a pretty large margin should be of no surprise to anybody with any actual grasp of the current hip hop landscape...I mean I know why and how people arrive at the opposite conclusion, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous...
On one hand, WTT was the darling of the hip hop internet messegeboard/blogger class, and during the orgasmic praise being thrown around on various corners of the net somehow people got gassed into thinking it was supposed to be the biggest event in rap in ages or some sh!t...
And on the other, Wayne has ascended to something approaching the hip hop version of John Cena or Lebron James status...a somewhat polarizing figure that is clearly the biggest star in his field (with the exception of Em), but also with a lot of haters that spend crazy amounts of time and energy trying to convince themselves he isn't as big as he is and deriding everything he does...to the point of near literal delusion at times...
So we get people claiming sh!t like "Oh wayne didn't have much buzz"...all while just last week before the album dropped he had the #3 song in the country, two in the top 10, and like 8 in the top 50 or some sh!t...he closes the highest rated VMA ever... which was responsible for all the other performers of the show to have like 90% increases from their previous weeks numbers (or did Baby buy a bunch of Gaga, Beyonce and Adele albums too last week?)...you don't have to look any further than the actual regular ole metrics used to measure impact and success in the music industry to put this puzzle together...but rather than just snapping out of their own personal delusions, they'd rather attribute what would be otherwise be the obvious to random conspiracy theories based on nothing but their unhappiness with the reality of the situation...it's equal parts pathetic, hilarious and expected" - Khrys-x
On one hand, WTT was the darling of the hip hop internet messegeboard/blogger class, and during the orgasmic praise being thrown around on various corners of the net somehow people got gassed into thinking it was supposed to be the biggest event in rap in ages or some sh!t...
And on the other, Wayne has ascended to something approaching the hip hop version of John Cena or Lebron James status...a somewhat polarizing figure that is clearly the biggest star in his field (with the exception of Em), but also with a lot of haters that spend crazy amounts of time and energy trying to convince themselves he isn't as big as he is and deriding everything he does...to the point of near literal delusion at times...
So we get people claiming sh!t like "Oh wayne didn't have much buzz"...all while just last week before the album dropped he had the #3 song in the country, two in the top 10, and like 8 in the top 50 or some sh!t...he closes the highest rated VMA ever... which was responsible for all the other performers of the show to have like 90% increases from their previous weeks numbers (or did Baby buy a bunch of Gaga, Beyonce and Adele albums too last week?)...you don't have to look any further than the actual regular ole metrics used to measure impact and success in the music industry to put this puzzle together...but rather than just snapping out of their own personal delusions, they'd rather attribute what would be otherwise be the obvious to random conspiracy theories based on nothing but their unhappiness with the reality of the situation...it's equal parts pathetic, hilarious and expected" - Khrys-x
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