Oddbean new post about login | logout Yeah I can understand. Since early hiphop we’ve known how bad the labels are. Rappers don’t stay quiet, they will speak truth without filter. With the internet, things changed… until the labels took over that too.
I spent a fair bit of time with Keith LeBlanc who was the drummer at Sugar Hill and cut a lot of the Fubky 4 Plus 1, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Flash etc. Sylvia Robinson was very happy when drum machines became popular… a lot of drummers lost their jobs. Keith took a different path and became the most in demand programmer in New York. There’s always been culture shifts and talented people adapt, trouble is talented people don’t run Universal. Those folks make Suge Knight look like a pussy.
This made me think of https://youtu.be/kO9JuXTIMfM Not same but related