Memo to the music industry...

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Fred Wright

Fred Wright

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Dear Sirs,

I am writing to make a simple yet important request on behalf of the disc jockey industry. This issue is important to us as a whole and I'd appreciate it if you folks would give us conference.

The issue is rap. Releases that contain rap are clearing our dance floors. We can have a good dance floor going, yet as soon as the rap comes through the sound system, our audiences will leave.

This has been an ongoing issue with new releases for several years and it needs to be addressed. These are the people who are signing our paychecks. We need to keep them happy. Not every audience is younger than seventeen years of age. The majority of our paying clientele is over the age of twenty. The majority of our audiences is over thirty. They do not care for rap. If a song contains rap we cannot play it. It's a business decision and as simple as that.

Disc jockey companies are in the business of promoting new releases. Yet we cannot promote releases that our clientele and audiences don't appreciate.

I understand that rap sells and am not asking that you delete it entirely. All I am asking is that the music industry offer to disc jockeys new releases that do not contain rap. As it currently stands, we are not offered a choice. We are dire need of one.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. It is sincerely appreciated.

Warmest regards,



Fred Stewart, proprietor.
Night Wolf Entertainment.
Dover, Delaware.
 
Sung to the tune of Rapper's Delight :D


Well hel-lo, my name's Ricky C,
I'm the baddest white rapper, you ever did see.
I can lick my mic, and grab my crotch,
But for the life of me, I can't read my watch.

I'm known all arond this great big world,
For all the silly little crap, my mouth can hurl.
The women all love me, cause I'm good in bed,
But they scram real fast, when they see my Bro Fred...

:sqlaugh:
 
SoftJock Rick said:
Sung to the tune of Rapper's Delight :D


Well hel-lo, my name's Ricky C,
I'm the baddest white rapper, you ever did see.
I can lick my mic, and grab my crotch,
But for the life of me, I can't read my watch.

I'm known all arond this great big world,
For all the silly little crap, my mouth can hurl.
The women all love me, cause I'm good in bed,
But they scram real fast, when they see my Bro Fred...

:sqlaugh:
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I believe you've got a little blood in your circulatory system :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
One little addition, Brother Fred:

Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter. It is sincerely appreciated.
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I don't know about that one. Hit music runs in cycles, this hip hop cycle is actually not as hard rap anymore as it is hybrid R&b rap

While I agree your letter has merit what sparked it?

Here is a sampling of the latest Top 40 Airplay from R&R

1. Chris Brown -Forever R&B
2. Jesse McCartney- Leavin Pop
3. Kardinal -Dangerous - Hip Hop
4. Ne-Yo-Closer R&B
5. Rhiana- Disturbia Pop
6. Kid Rock-All Summer Long Rock
7. Jordin Sparks- One Step at a time -Pop
8. Metro Station- Shake it- Pop/alternative
9. Secondhand Serenade-Fall For you- Alternapop
10. Katy Perry- Kissed - Pop
11. Pussy Cat Dolls- When I grow up- Pop
12 Leona Lewis - Better in Time- Pop
13. Estelle ft Kanye- American Boy- R&B
14. Coldplay- Viva La Vida- Rock
15. Rhinna- Take a Bow - Pop
16. Flo Rida- Ayer- Hip Hop
17. Jonas brothers- Burnin- Pop
18. Paramore- Thats What you get- Alternapop
19. Pink- So What- Pop
20. 3 Doors Down -Its not my time- Rock


so wherein lies the problem?
 
It's a good thing that (c)rap has started to have R&B injections. I noticed that 2 or 3 years ago, but the gangsta (c)rap still gets foisted on us! Give me some good R&B and soul any day.
 
1cdj said:
... While I agree your letter has merit what sparked it?
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I'm not talking about hip hop, Kyle. I love hip hop. I'm talking about the pointless insertion of ghetto chanting about shawtys, swearing and sex into what would otherwise be a good dance turn.

Every Promo disc I get in, I have to mark the labels with a pen because several tracks have rap in them. Sep 08 Mainstream contains no fewer than eight tracks where rap is overlaid. That's unnecessary and it needs to stop. I can't play the stuff because it sweeps the floors and venues faster than a fire alarm. We don't do many teen events anymore. Most of our dancers are over 30. They don't like the stuff, plain and simple.

If they liked it, they'd be requesting it. They aren't. If they liked it, they'd be dancing to it. They aren't. I dunno what it's any good for.

You've got great uptempo dance tracks and great buckle polishers being released. Sure enough, along comes that "Ooga booga booga wooga booga" rap chanting and all that's left on the floor is a handful of pups goofing around. :mad:

The rap is simply an overlay. All I'm asking of the music biz is that they offer us a choice of new releases without the rap overlays. If they want us to promote their product, they've got to provide us with a product that we can promote.

I don't think that's too much to ask.
 
Interesting perspective Fred.
I can't tell you the last wedding I've done for a bride in their 20's or early 30's (white mind you) and usually from a good part of town where Lollipop by Lil Wayne, Churches by T-Pain, and of course AYer and Low by Flo-Rida that havent packed or kept the dance floor packed.

And you're more north than me.

wow

Kyle

nowadays to be a number 1 hit you need to have a lil wayne remix
 
What bothers me more, is tossed aside music (or genres) considered to be "dated".



It is not one's choice as to when they are born. Why are the new generations fed the idea
that anything older than 10 years isn't worth listening to. Granted, this ideal is greatly dependent on demographics, but in the urban setting I'm from, it's hard to get young people to expand their tastes. If the music industry gave the artists more range, we could have more music choices.

Look at how talented many of the "Idol" stars were. They got to sing all styles of music and then had to go and record crap.

"Teach Your Children Well"
 
Kyle,

The popular tunes you mention go over well with younger people. I've got no issues with songs that people will dance to. My issues lie with the fact that too many requests these days sweep the floors of dancers that could be prospective clients. It's because of the rap overlays.

They'll dance until the rap starts. That's all of that. If a song I'm playing sweeps the floor, it's gotta go.
 
This must be both a generational thing and a geographic thing.
Most of our brides are in their 20's and 30's. I personally like doing 20something weddings where daddy is still footing the bill.

Yes, these girls like some of the newer hip hop and some of the old stuff. My 30 somethings love a great "Regulators, Gin N Juice, G-Thing, set" every now and then.

I even have the occasional 40 year old who has Yung Joc "Going down"on their request list

Kyle
 
While my perspective is closer to Kyle's than Fred or Bryan's, this topic reminds me of why my preference is always to get requests in person, versus any other form (email, planner, whatever) for one simple reason: I want the person who is making the request to be able to look me in the eye and tell me that they themselves are going to dance to their request.
 
The mistake you guys are making is that you are using rap and music in the same sentence.
 
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