Marketing industry veteran Hadji Williams, author of Knock The Hustle, shows there’s still plenty worth saying about Jay-Z’s Cristal boycott, but you may not like it:
Rouzaud is shooting his mouth off now, because he knows Cristal doesn’t need hiphop’s praises anymore. The Jig’s up and they’ve moved on. The whole “black kid made good” angle is played and upscale consumers aren’t feeling us anymore. You can only play dress-up for so long before the clock strikes.
Peep the complete essay at Hip Hop Logic:
Everybody in Hiphop hates Chris, but so what?!
Nice work, Hadji!
Available from Amazon:
Hadji Williams – Knock The Hustle.
Update: Looks like more thoughtful people are starting to weigh in on this issue. The clowns will hate this but I can update while I’m on vacation. After all, I’m a blog addict!
But I won’t comment on Jay-Z’s lyrical product deplacement. I’ll let all the hip hop news sites carry that one exclusively! [lol]
From Playahata.com:
Jay Z’s Cristal Boycott leaves “Reasonable Doubt” with true hip hop fans
If you’ve missed the pics of Kimora Lee Simmons [allegedly] getting a Cristal soaked pedicure, check ‘em out at Playahata.com!
From the French Hip Hop Resistance:
I also got some email from Awer who was writing to tell me about the PARIS HIP HOP 2006 festival. He states:
About Jay-Z and Cristal, in a certain way i think he is right to act like that as he definitely help the brand to become famous worldwide… But to be honest, here nobody care about Cristal… Cristal is an "american thing" as the cognac (i guess it’ll be the next boycott), this is a part of the US "bling bling" rap "folklore"…
I think Jay Z must say "stop drinking alcohol" it’ll be more positive… Hip Hop got nothing to deal with Cristal…
Drink water !!!
Awer also wanted to pass on word about events at the Festival including THE WORLD FAMOUS WAKE UP SHOW – LIVE IN PARIS on June 28th and DJ REVOLUTION & FRIENDS on June 29th. For more info, write contact(at)hiphop-resistance(dot)com or check www.paris-hiphop.com.
Just added: English Language Press Release on Pari(s) Hip Hop Events
The Complete Account:
ProHipHop Coverage & Analysis of Jay-Z’s Cristal Boycott
