PRESENT DAY muisc and mafia connection

[JeremyTheJew]

So.....
In case u guys havent noticed that i havent been around.... Its bc for the last month i was highly involved in the whole music scene in DETROIT.

After spending a full month being around some of the top artists in the game here... I thoroughly believe the mafia is STILL ENTRENCHED TODAY IN IT.

Does anyone know anything about PRESENT DAY mafia and music?
I guess in a way guys like BMF were the mafia music moguls....

[Wiseguy]

I don't see much evidence for the modern day LCN being involved with the music business.

[DPG]

BMF made close to $0 in the actual music industry. Blue DaVinci was never a market success. That being said most small town drug dealers are also rappers, where I'm from at least. I could see where they may have had control of small town club scenes. I've read a little into BMF but still haven't really gotten into their Pine Bluff operations.

[NYNighthawk]

Tommy James of the Shondells fame wrote a great book about the Genovese family and Roulette Records.

[SonnyBlackstein]

I hear Hesh is out of the Doo-Wop business and full time on his ponies now.

He and Ralphie run an insurance scam cooking them.

[Wiseguy]

Tommy James of the Shondells fame wrote a great book about the Genovese family and Roulette Records.

Yeah, if you go back a ways there is certainly plenty of evidence of Mob involvement in the music industry. Especially the Genovese family. Jimmy Napoli, Morris Levy and Strawberry chain, payola scams, etc. But today? Not really.

[UTC]

Joe Isgro of course back then. How about Fratto with West Coast rap?

[The Greek]

There is ZERO involvement of the mob in todays music business.

[Rocco]

There is ZERO involvement of the mob in todays music business.

Yep and there is ZERO money in recording today. All of the money is made in performing now. No one buys music. Artists get a couple cents per down load if people pay ITunes for it. Rock star days are long gone.

[The Greek]

There is ZERO involvement of the mob in todays music business.

Yep and there is ZERO money in recording today. All of the money is made in performing now. No one buys music. Artists get a couple cents per down load if people pay ITunes for it. Rock star days are long gone.

Actually if you own the masters streaming pays incredibly well. Terrible for the writers and artists

[B.]

Recording and releasing music is also dirt cheap now... with a computer, basic knowledge, and a little bit of equipment you can get a "passable" sound and home record, then put it online. This is good because it's given the studios less control, but this has led to a completely oversaturated market of artists, most of whom are making sterile garbage.

To me nothing compares to those small studios from the 1950s / 60s who put out raw country, doo-wop, etc. Look at something like J.Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers "last Kiss"... it was a major hit because the song is so catchy, but it sounds like a bunch of teenagers recording in a shed with one beat-up microphone (probably wasn't far off from that). Today that would never pass, instead they record everything digitally, throw on auto-tune, and max the levels out so there are no dynamics.

[The Greek]

Recording and releasing music is also dirt cheap now... with a computer, basic knowledge, and a little bit of equipment you can get a "passable" sound and home record, then put it online. This is good because it's given the studios less control, but this has led to a completely oversaturated market of artists, most of whom are making sterile garbage.

It's given the labels less control. Studios never had any control but they're going the way of the dinosaur. You are right about most music being made on laptops.

To me nothing compares to those small studios from the 1950s / 60s who put out raw country, doo-wop, etc. Look at something like J.Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers "last Kiss"... it was a major hit because the song is so catchy, but it sounds like a bunch of teenagers recording in a shed with one beat-up microphone (probably wasn't far off from that). Today that would never pass, instead they record everything digitally, throw on auto-tune, and max the levels out so there are no dynamics.

Now those bunch of teenagers are recording in closets of apartments on cheap laptops making the most interesting music we have today

[BillyBrizzi]

Capeci wrote about the friendship between P. Diddy and Gambino capo Andy Campos..

Here's the article: http://www.nysun.com/new-york/p-diddy-a ... ter/15539/

[phatmatress777]

There's been more than a couple idiot rappers have taken on the name gotti and murder inc stuff like that ... Also lines from biggie recognize a real don when ya see awn ... 50 cent "just like Paulie in good fellas ya you can say I'm the boss" jay z " i never prayed to God I prayed to gotti " I think some rappers look back to the old days and glorify them


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[Pogo The Clown]

If they only knew what Gotti really thought about them.


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