50 Cent: File-Sharing Doesn’t Hurt Artists, Industry Should Adapt
Written by enigmax on December 08, 2007Before getting up on stage at a club in Oslo, 50 Cent gave an interview. In it he denied taking coke on live TV in Zagreb and then dropped a file-sharing bombshell: “What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn`t hurt the artists!” Wow. No-one cares about the coke now.
Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent has been a drug dealer, he’s been shot, he’s a hugely successful artist - selling over 20 million albums - and he even has his own label, G-Unit Records.
Thirty minutes before getting up on stage at a club in Oslo, 50 Cent gave an interview with PÃ¥l Nordseth. Most of the interview was spent with him denying using cocaine on live TV in Zagreb.
PÃ¥l asked 50 Cent: “How are G-Unit Records doing in these times of file-sharing?
“Not so good.” he responded. “The advances in technology impacts everyone, and we all must adapt. Most of all hip-hop, a style of music dependent upon a youthful audience. This market consists of individuals embracing innovations faster than the fans of classical and jazz music.”
“What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn’t hurt the artists.”
Thats quite a statement. Organizations like the RIAA are always talking about how the artists get hurt by file-sharing but 50 Cent clearly doesn’t agree. In fact, he appears to appreciate the value of a good fan, whether he buys or file-shares his music, as he explains:
“A young fan may be just as devout and dedicated no matter if he bought it or stole it.”
Indeed. It’s been said time and time again - get the music out there by any which way, fill the gigs and capitalize on the merchandising and ends will meet. 50 Cent agrees:
“The concerts are crowded and the industry must understand that they have to manage all the 360 degrees around an artist. They, (the industry), have to maximize their income from concerts and merchandise. It is the only way they can get their marketing money back.”
He finishes up: “The main problem is that the artists are not getting as much help developing as before file-sharing. They are now learning to peddle ringtones, not records” he said.
“They don’t understand the value of a perfect piece of art.”
A huge thanks to RayJoha for his great work on this piece
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5o cent sucks
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I don’t think 50 cent has that good vocabulary.
Okay to all you idiots out there (take no offense I think all people are idiots myself included). what is music. If an artist didn’t need a record label, what other means of distribution would he have to undertake? well in the current age of man we like to share information rapidly. a digitized version of a song is no more the artist’s property than it is the record label who recorded it. if you think about intellectual property, it’s a totally bogus Idea, because it means that for the next 25-50 years noone but you will be able to profit from your idea, but if you inform people of an idea, it is no longer yours, it is “ours” as you have basically uploaded a program for me to download, and run on my own brain. if the riaa wanted to remove all digital/virtual illegal copies of music, do you realize what they would have to do? they would literally have to crack open the brains of every man woman and child on the surface of the planet, and have a neurosurgeon armed with an mri, a scalpel, and a metallica record, searching for the neurons that the sounds stimulate, so that he could remove them. personally that would shred most of my conciousness, from about highschool. and if they tried to remove all impulses related to Disturbed from my brain I’m pretty sure it would be like giving me a full frontal labotomy. as you all well know memories are associative, as are other forms of engrams in the brain. so anytime you start singing or humming to yourself some song that you can’t quite remember the tune to, think about what it is in this moment that triggered that memory pathway, because it is likely a fundamental part of who you are. and for the federal government to intervene, and cut at the very fabric of our existance by taxing ideas, and creativity, is a gross crime against humanity itself, sure paying for something may seem like a trivial act, but if the masses realized that the honor system works rather well in the music industry, more people would listen to more music, and more struggling artists would be able to start paying their bills, and start eliminating them, by buying the things they rent from the record companies, who are just shady middlemen whose image we question not, but who hold down the creativity of the world.
50 cent should get shot and die this time.
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Kanye West is way better.
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yo fiddy this time.. i hope the shooter can aim.
FUCK YOU ALL
[quote comment="237086"]FUCK YOU ALL[/quote]
LOL
he’s somewhat correct. although if you’re not moving units like him those downloads don’t help your bottom line.
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yo this is kanye west and am living the GoodLife!!!!!!!!! but i cant buy that yacht i want cuz u fuckin dumass are messin wit ma money fuck u 50 i had respect not anymoe i want ma money hoes
[quote comment="235390"]Easy to say when you sold 20 000 000 albums!
Not the same for small/medium artists. And now record labels will want a cut on the concerts too. Great.[/quote]
1. He wasn’t the only one who sold a lot of albums.
2. With that number of sales, how does the file sharing hurt the giant industry? I don’t think people bought these albums at gun point. He started as a small artist and he worked harder than anyone else.
3. No one can stop the growing of information technology. Instead of whinning about it, you really need to work hard on making better music and marketing stradegy. Every industry is facing much more competition than before, not just music or movie making. The times they are a changin’
your a fucking snitch you bitch ass motherfucker
50’s comments do not hold water for the entire music industry. Concerts and MERCH… are great for those who tour…
but it doesn’t serve as a true accounting for all of the songwriters, artists, composers, arrangers, producers, studios, studio musicians, and talents WHO DO NOT TOUR but produce CD product from which THEY GET PAID. File sharing DOES NOT PAY THESE PEOPLE!!!
CD SALES DOES.
Since WHEN is 50cent an artist? If he is… WHERE can I see his art? When will the art schools of the world TEACH what he does? What place in the concert halls of the world will PERFORM HIS NOISE? What artists will be PERFORMING HIS noise in 50 years from now? He is not an artist. He is a poser… an imposter and a fool.
“102 Dec 11, 2007 at 23:43 by Paul badwinQuote Paul badwin
Okay a digitized version of a song is no more the artist’s property than it is the record label who recorded it. If you think about intellectual property, it’s a totally bogus Idea, ”
TELL THAT TO BILL GATES… copy VISTA and see what happens.
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