{"id":76,"date":"2007-01-21T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:14:21","slug":"d-day-or-we-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"D-Day or We-Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>cross posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freethedjs.com\/\">freethedjs.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Accding to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1550185\/20070118\/lil_wayne.jhtml\">this MTV spot<\/a>, Lil Wayne, among others, appears totally unwilling to challenge the RIAA&#8217;s position on mixtapes (despite them playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/music\/0607,caramanica,72130,22.html\">an essential role<\/a> in launching or revitalizing many a rapper&#8217;s career). <\/p>\n<p>Pull quote via the Diplomats&#8217; DukeDaGod:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If they had a mixtapes seminar, that would be hot. Have the RIAA come in and say what you can and what you can&#8217;t do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Duke, that would not be hot. That would be LAME.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know hip-hop&#8217;s been ambivalent about its complicity with the record industry for a long time. Dovetailed hustles and whatnot. And certain millionaires out there aren&#8217;t really interested in rocking the Titanic. But here&#8217;s the thing: the boat is sinking. Too many middlemen on the take, too much ballast. And hip-hop can float on its own. Time to abandon ship, y&#8217;all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cross posted to freethedjs.com Accding to this MTV spot, Lil Wayne, among others, appears totally unwilling to challenge the RIAA&#8217;s position on mixtapes (despite them playing an essential role in launching or revitalizing many a rapper&#8217;s career). Pull quote via the Diplomats&#8217; DukeDaGod: If they had a mixtapes seminar, that would be hot. Have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,19],"tags":[141,404,118,409],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-hip-hop","category-politricks","tag-copywrong","tag-hip-hop","tag-industry","tag-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}