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Originally Posted by AmericanMusicFan
You also gotta go by sites nowadays and youtube and whatnot. On youtube the biggest videos are from Rihanna (duh) Chris Brown (a little surprising) and Lil Wayne, though the top video of all time is Avril Lavigne of all people...Then again, we're in a day and age where the record gets broken 3 times a year.
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Yep, because MTV is the thing of the past now.
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Originally Posted by AmericanMusicFan
Lil Wayne didn't sell 4 million albums and wasn't the top selling artist of 2008 for nothing. Not for Lollipop. Lollipop was obviously huge, but then you had Mrs. Officer which is gaining in popularity as well as that b.s. featuring on T-Pain's "Can't Believe It" remix. That was auto-tuning at its worst. I hope the trend dies by the end of 2009. with auto-tune, ANYBODY can "sing" but they all sound basically the same.
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Agree.
Lil Wayne sold that much because his a popular act, mainstream and he has a well built in audience amoung the youth. His songs were well promoted which has nothing to do with the quality.
Autotune was the worst thing ever invented and the reason why mainstream sucks now.
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Originally Posted by AmericanMusicFan
That's why I loved the hip-hop from the 90's. Rappers were rappers and R&B guys were R&B guys. Nate Dogg held it down like no other. He was and still is the gold standard for hooks. Shame his life basically fell apart.
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You aint lying!!!
90's was where it was at and what modern r&b and rap IS suppose to sound like. The old school stuff before 90s is far superior but the 90's was more descent than the mess they have out now.
On Lil wayne : Lil wayne is just another product of the commerical machine nothing to be taken seriously but if you want to party at a club to his beats its good for that.