The Diamond District is here!!
By pmd on Mar 17, 2009 in Hip Hop |
DC Hip Hop artists Oddisee, XO & YU are “The Diamond District”. The Groups new single “Who I Be” is the first track off of the mid-90’s Boom Bap themed album. The trio’s album “In The Ruff” will be available for free download on their site April 14, 2009. Check out the first single “Who I Be” along with a mini Documentary about the new group on their site http://www.diamonddistrictdmv.com
“Who I Be”
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joint is fire.!
FIRST
UPSET THE SETUP | Mar 17, 2009 | Reply
good shit homie.
Pause | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
juan epstien with oddisee? why not?
amazing song i may add
word? | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
You know, it sounds odd to say, but I don’t like this modern trend of artists releasing entire albums, and album-length mixtapes, for free online.
I think that when an album is released for free, it becomes innately disposable. It just becomes fodder for the 24-hour flavor of the minute news cycle that is the blogosphere.
While the internet is, without a doubt, an amazing avenue for art, and an amazingly efficient, economical means of providing it to an audience that’s oftentimes intrinsically niche, that ease of transference, along with the lack of a tangible, physical product at the end of a transaction, has a bad habit of devaluing it. Imagine if ‘Illmatic’ had simply been an EP that you downloaded for free off of Nah Right, or if ‘Enter the Wu-Tang’ was released on a Myspace page? The music would still be as good, but would you care, amidst a flood of content that dulls the palette to the point where quality becomes almost indistinguishable?
Iunno, but I think part of why today’s music feels so forgettable is that it’s treated as such by both artist and consumer.
Kerda | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
I agree with Kerda. What if our classics were just free online.You pay all this money for equipment, programs, studio time for you product to be free especially if it is dope. Some people need to sell there music free online cause they will never sell units anyway, but it has to be some artist who are hate going through that shit and putting there hard work out for nothing. This Diamond District is fire! Don’t give it away sell that shit.Kinda puts me in the mind of the U.N.
Oddisee(DOA)
PG County Jay!! | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
Really made my day to see people saying this is worth buying. I totally agree and it will be. In the past few years I’ve realized something… The people who buy, buy and the people who download, download.
Selling your album first these days limits the amount of exposure your album can receive if you have little to no budget to promote it. Due to album sales dropping, most labels don’t the budget to promote an album well.
albums for sale are in turn not available for download on the bigger blogs and sites leaving your album to become bootlegged by dozens of smaller sites that dissect your album, reduce it to singles that are miss credited and spread among play list.
in today’s music industry, online statistics are everything. Free downloads allow me to increase those stats and monitor them as well.
The Diamond District album is 12 tracks and clean versions only. The for sale version will be 14, unedited and new cover art. If you want to see this album for sale, download it a million times so i can show those stats to a label and they can believe! lol Again, thank ya’ll for deeming this album worthy to sale, peace.
Oddisee | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
Thats Flames Right there …Crazy How Many People still want the Bom Bap Sound But these LABELS ARE NOT LISTENING ….
KillahhbeeDublin | Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
Hey Oddisee,
You’re doing the exact same thing that I’m doing with my solo album, ANSOM: THE STANCE OF THE BEBOY. I’m giving out clean versions of my album (14 tracks), but the retail version of the album is 16 tracks and it’s only given to people who… hold up, I can’t give away my idea!!!!
Anyway, I understand where Kerda and PG County Jay are coming from, but the reality is that if Oddisee sold this first instead of giving it out, it would actually turn off those who are not familiar with Oddisee simply cause they don’t know who he is.
That’s why Soulja Boy is successful. Even though he do suck, he started out giving all his music for free, whether a free download or a free listen (YouTube). Then once he started getting exposure, he started doing all the dumb shit outside of music that we know him as…
But anyway, I’m about to hear this project right now. Rep the DMV hard Oddisee, even though I now live in Charlotte, DC is my hometown.
P.S. LABELS ARE NOT LISTENING… unless you got money and fans. LOL.
Ansom The Beboy | Mar 19, 2009 | Reply
i’m the label that been listening.
mello music group.
mello | Jun 11, 2009 | Reply