I really don’t know where to begin with this. But I am absolutely happy that finally BUMSQWAD has a blog to share the latest info and tracks in Hip Hop. Latin Prince from what I can personally recall is a genius. This DJ collective that spans across the globe pratically made Akon’s career into what it is today. So you tell me if BUMSQWAD is is just huff and no puff.

Check out the latest tracks soon to hit the clubs or the top 40 charts. If you wanna stay ahead you need to always get it first. Yes, LP writes the entries himself. How personalized can it get?

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It came of the top of my head. If consumers tend to jack off songs from the net (illegally downloaded) what makes you think that producers don’t do the same? In Hip Hop that is how it started…. but it is called sampling. But those days are far from how it is now. Worldwide, the business is astonishing. Hip Hop stars can make millions in a year but that is in the US. What about here?

Simple… the market is just too small. 25 odd million people and an even smaller minority of them dig Hip Hop let alone listen to local ones. However I do think local producers are able to match their US counterparts just if they had the resources. In the age where technology rules we are pretty far behind. Cost is always the issue. But what about the artistic aspect?

That is what I feel we don’t lack. But is sampling an overdone habit? If it is done in the proper way then it is not. But then again the best samples costs a fortune to buy the rights to use them. But there is an aspect that plagues not only Hip Hop but other genres as well. That is stealing beats or lyrics / material of others and claim that it is your own.

There are cases… and most go unnoticed or kept down to a low. Honestly why should the listeners and fans be denied the information of where the original came from? In which case this brings forward that plagiarism are practiced by the unscrupulous few for their sole benefit. Is it immature? Yes it is. Is it selfish? Yes it is. But most importantly does it justify the person as a Producer? No. What merely makes them to be are just robbers.

I have info that a certain someone from a certain group who did a song for a female vocal group called “Luscious” which coincidentally that particular song made it on one episode of a pretty popular drama series on local TV jacked a poem done by Pashionate and claimed it as his own. Hmmm… from what I understood he refuses to simply add the original writer of the Poem in the credits for the song.

Yes yes this is a defamatory post as you have guessed it. Two can play that game. Well if the person in question happens to read this do give this blog owner a call. Because I am really contemplating if it is such a worthwhile effort to assist Pashionate in taking legal action against you. Yes, you may be a Gangstarz alumni and have a minute experience of acting in plays (as an extra) but unless you do not know the saying… what goes around comes around. In the music business that is all so true.

Just a thought to feature something that is an element of Hip Hop. Mile09 is a persona of a 21 year old Malaysian. Tagging is what he does best…. just check out his work and the crew he has. Lot of promise and the potential is tremendous.

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