support your artists

with it being so easy to download music these days, many people don't bother buying cds or records or anything. many people download entire albums and mixtapes without a second thought. some of them argue that they download music because they want to preview the music before they decide to invest 15 dollars on an album that might suck, but who actually buys albums anymore? another factor to think about is how much of the money spent on an album actually goes back to the artist(s) that created the music. a lot of that money goes to the record label, the artists' lawyers, blah blah blah; the artist receives little to no money from each individual album sold(girl band TLC comes to mind).

so something that crosses my mind is, how do we support our artists nowadays? if we download our music online, the artist has no clue that we're supporting them. maybe they don't need to know? i dunno.

if we're not purchasing their albums, how would they know that we're supporting them? i'm really curious about the way to truly support artists whose work i admire.

empire state of mind

when you have talent, and you find another talent, and that talent meshes with you, do whatever it takes to collaborate with each other, to prop each other up and make each other better.

choking

props to the choking feeling i get in my neck before i cry. i still haven't cried in a longass time, but i felt it coming close recently.