dude sells out like 30 arenas a year (including in south florida!) -- there are plenty of ppl that are passionate about him
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
30 is prob conservative too
eh 47,000 student university -- it's a bitch to interview everyone.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
i dont know anybody who's passionate about two and half men* but it seems to be doing aight
*except for scott seward
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
ok but are there other undie guys pulling numbers like TN?
― Jay-Z ft. Kanye 'Big Hat Club (Spiritual Big Hat Club Jazz Remix)' (a hoy hoy), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
you can go to a concert and not be passionate about the performer -- I do it all the time!
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
if in doubt blame seward
kids i student-taught last year loved wayne; he was the standard/elder statesman figure for good rapping to them.
― horseshoe, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Tech N9ne is basically in a scene of one. He built his own enormous fan base grass-roots stylee to the point where people like Yelawof and Busta are coming to HIM. He's like the KISS of rap.
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
mine still love Jay-Z and Kanye; can't convince them that Kanye sucks.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
an interesting corollary to this is that wayne really doesn't get enough credit for being the earliest adopters of drake & nicki minaj. you could argue that those three are the biggest stars in rap/r&b right now. it's been such a huge boon to wayne's longevity and career that the other two have been mega successful. and that's aside from getting whatever cut of their earnings.
remember when it was a such a huge deal when jay was made president of def jam? did he have one success on par with either drake or minaj?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 2, 2011 4:39 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark
lol you idiot
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
what
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
how about Rihanna and Kanye West for starters?
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
he didn't give a shit about kanye!
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
he was literally the first person to give a shit about kanye
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
my reading of the situation is that kanye pretty much forced his way into a recording contract w/ the roc & that before then they would continually clown his rapping
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i am pretty sure if anyone is responsible for carter its the fake father of beyonces child
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
carter/kanye
i forgot about rihanna
and there's ross and jeezy, too i guess.
but still
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
but still?
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
& anyway from a business standpoint, i'd consider kanye's superstardom an incredible stroke of luck for jay-z
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
drake & nicki are currently more popular than ross or jeezy have ever been
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
dude, he was on like four jay-z albums before College Dropout.
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
you're fucking backpedaling to cover up your dumb statement
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Kanye, Ross, Rihanna, Jeezy, Ne-Yo vs like Drake, Nicki and the GUDDA GUDDA grocery bag who gives a shit all-stars
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
gudda gudda is still better than lady sovereign
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i know we have to give Lil Chuckee time to grow
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
my point with kanye is that jay obviously was an early adopter of his as a producer, but it's a stroke of luck for him that he turned out to be a mega pop star and not just some guy like bink
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah sorry Jay got in on the ground floor instead of adopting Lil Wayne's genius CEO tactic of waiting for a soap opera star to have a million MySpace followers before finding his phone number. What a stroke of luck.
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
haha
i do think that j0rdan has a point tho abt wayne's continued popularity benefiting from drake/nicki.
― Lamp, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
wayne is 29, carter IV is his ninth album
jay's ninth album was kingdom come, he was 37 when that dropped
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
i think ur giving too much credit to wayne for minaj & drake. he jumped on when they were already ascendant
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
i said that, but funnier
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Also, on the recent Wayne tour it was evident that Nicki and Drake were still def opening for HIM.
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
for drake he sort of did. i'm pretty sure that minaj was pretty much an unknown when she appeared on drought 3
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
for scandinavian goth-metal band HIM
nicki & drake opened for HIM?
fuck!
there was buzz around Drake & Minaj before Wayne was on board
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.seeklogo.com/images/H/Heart-o-Gram-logo-C99B5A177B-seeklogo.com.gif did it on em
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 2, 2011 5:00 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark
anyway i wouldn't dispute this at all. but wayne was able to stave off what could've been a dead period for him by collaborating and even associating w/ the two of them
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
i agree w/ that post, just disagree that this shows any kind of special talent hunter insight on his part
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
i mean its also like, how much of their stardom is reflecting his
anyway i'm not trying to say that wayne saw minaj or drake freestyling on some street corner and then led them to superstardom, but he was a very early adopter of minaj, and while he did get w/ drake after he had been in the "industry" drake did spur offers w/ every other label to sign w/ YM out of loyalty to wayne (or at least that's what he said)
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think drake has ever been on some street corner
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 September 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
maybe on a set
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 September 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/62196/1323766-800px_de_grassi_street_sign_super.jpg
― Lamp, Friday, 2 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link