Peace y'all it's your boy Johnny Fastlane here with AllHipHop.com
So Joe Button says that hip-hop is in a dark place. Let's talk hip-hop
Aight Joe this situation is crazy right because Joe Button says hip-hop is in a dark place right
now. He just recently did an interview where they asked him straight up what do you feel about hip
hop in the next five to ten years and he said it's dark it's in a dark place and that really and
truly it's there right now. He says because you know record labels are not being truthful and
forthcoming with the amount of money that they're making from artists. Artists are having a hard time
trying to determine whether or not they're bringing in the money for the record labels
sales, people not getting paid for their streams, AI. He says that artists really don't know how to
respond or deal with artificial intelligence. He's saying that the record labels are selling
IPOs that they're playing stock games at the top. It's crazy right. So he says because of the
business side of things hip-hop is bleak right. A lot of people kind of thought that at first he
meant like hip-hop is bleak because of the music or the artists or anything like that. But he's
saying that there's lack of information right. So then they asked him well how can we fix this
and then he said that we have to have a meeting. We have to have a meeting so that people can
voluntarily share their information with each other but that's going to be hard because people
are just making their own moves and people are looking out for themselves is what Joe Button
said right. The whole situation is crazy and I mean I guess he's right right. So really and truly at
the end of the day education is key and knowledge is power and if you know what you are doing as an
artist or how to approach these record labels or what these record labels are really doing with
you your music and your likeness then you will have more power and it will be easy to maneuver
right. So what he's basically saying is that the record labels are running game on hip-hop artists
and actually just music as a whole not just rap right. So because of that things are in a dark
place and he does not see things stopping or slowing down anytime soon. At the end of the day
this rap shit is a business right. So I guess we'll see what happens but yeah let me know what
y'all think about this in the comments