NYOil & Jay Smooth: Hopeful Talk on the Music Industry

Jay Smooth Speaks With NYOil On the Future of Music

Jay Smooth has a two part interview with NYOil about the music industry but more for fans hoping for change than for folks seeking industry insights.

Part 1 looks at the disarray of the music industry as a good thing.  NYOil claims it will get harder but that the lack of easy money will cause great content to return.

I appreciate the hopefulness but great art comes when it comes.  I think there are some hopeful trends emerging but I've been hearing variations on how good it's going to get when things get bad since the early 80s and none of that held true in any area where I heard it.  [Sidenote: especially when it involved "increasing the contradictions".]

Part 2 focuses on NYOil's use of MySpace and YouTube to attain his current status and his thoughts on the breakthrough track Y'all Should All Get Lynched.

Part 2 is nice on the artist end but the "strategy aspect" is cursory at best.  Not a slam on Jay Smooth or NYOil but certainly a reminder that I need to do a ProHipHop interview with the man on what he did on MySpace and YouTube besides drop a startling, hot track.

It's kind of funny that other people complain about writers not writing about the art and I complain about the lack of business insights!  Oddly enough that comes from my own background as an artist and my long held belief that critics were mostly beside the point.

Comments

[NYOIL]

Fam,
whenever your ready to really chop it up about these issues PLEASE hit me up.

fact of the matter is These interviews aren't directed to that sort of discussion.. I think the context that they are being presented take away from what we were actually talking about.
Fact is this was more of a radio interview hello I'm NYOIL sort of thing.. not a full on discussion about marketing strategy or even a real build on market trends..

I'm here fam.. u know u should have long since got at me.. LOL

it's all love.. plus I got a few other tricks up my sleeve that i have to unleash for the full breadth of what i am doing to be understood. It's like watching a barber cut your hair.. it looks sloppy at first till he get near the end and then it all makes sense.. LOL

NYOIL

[Clyde Smith]

Sounds great! I'll be in touch.