The Wiggles are Koch Records number #1 selling rap group.
Someone at Idolator reviewed DP Dot Com and said we were a “Hip-Hop website” so I guess that means we should do some drops about cRap music once in a while. Heaven forbid we should get outside of our little box to the people that we will ultimately be working for.
Shouts to my folks at Koch Records who keep me laced with all their latest rap music releases. Lately (read: 2nd quarter), that has been just about anything in Hip-Hop worth listening to. You already know that JOELL ORTIZ is my nucka. Prodigy from Mobb Deep had a release on Koch this year that was better than I thought it would be. Actually, I’m feeling his shit (nullus) and I’m no big fan of the Bars & Hooks Gang. KRS-1 and cardiac kid Marley Marl collabo’d on another Koch album titled ‘Hip-Hop Lives’. Surprisingly enough, this album was decent too because KRS refrained from his usual didactic tone and he rhymed well.
Only a few years ago Koch Records was considered a homeless shelter for rappers who had lost their ability to secure a major label release, but people in the industry are starting to warm up to the idea of an indie label becoming big on the scene for Hip-Hop. It’s not like there isn’t a precedent for this shit in the recent past. Do you remember when Def Jam was the equal if not the protege of Columbia Records? I remember Enjoy Records, Sleeping Bag Records, hell, even Tommy Boy Records was an official indie label. What Koch Records has that will enable it to outlast the life of those former imprints is that same thing that Def Jam had. Koch Records has an open door to a wide range of acts. In this way they can’t be pidgeon-holed as a backpacker label or some other derogatory term for rap music that can’t shake it’s underground roots.
The most mainstream artist on Koch right now isn’t even a rapper, but a deejay. DJ KHALED has been releasing remixes for recent hit songs almost as much as OSAMA BIN LADEN releases videos from his hidden bunker. I attribute that to the Palestinian work ethic. African American deejays had better get on their grizzly before the record industry starts outsourcing these terrorists to make their mixtapes.
You already know them Muslim niggas be having the bomb.
YO! good to see that you didnt make a broad generalization about Arabs and Muslims without first doing research, cuz I too have bombs and Ak’s Ar-15’s in the house, as my father says Just in Case
Koch is the real deal. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, any artist (rap, pop, bluegrass, techno, whatever) dumb enough to still sign to a major instead of figuring out how to work the system for themselves deserves to be shelved and recouped into chapter 11.
word! DP you are on fire today!
Yo, you wild for that Khaled part! For real though, indies are coming back and Tom Silverstein already had called that some years ago. He already knew that majors were gonna be inable to get the job done properly anymore and there was going to be a resurgence of indies to make things pop again.
Yo, did you know that (S)Hot 97 has this kid Paul Rosenberg playing indie and throwback hiphop on Sundays @ 1-3AM?? I heard last week’s show. It was brolic.
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wow!..Koch creeped in slowly huh! whose next to take over?
Didactic is the word o the day for me…had to look that one up. Nice!