Dj Trauma

Rushed into production despite the epic post I've been cooking up, is this story:

The RIAA has raided the Atlanta studio of Dj Drama and Dj Cannon. I find it laughable yet saddening that the RIAA, a body that claim they are protecting artists would raid the studio of important hip hop artists. It is a vilainous and ridiculous move by the RIAA that will only embitter those that are using the internet to free music from the industry and place it in the control of artists and fans.

In the following Fox News Atlanta report, we learn that they also confiscated cars and computers, and were hoping to find guns and drugs. We live in wild times, when the Recording Industry cracks down on the massive source of free advertising that are mixtapes, calling it rackateering.

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief"
-Othello, 1. 3

I'll never understand how these people miss the point so severely. It is endlessly frustrating that the industry and the government are working together to slow the ineveitable weakening. Ears and brains won, the internet helped. Raiding artists studios does not help the music business. These cheap, racist punks are fighting a costly and counterproductive battle that they can only prolong, but never win.

Fox News Atlanta Reports on Dj Drama and Dj Cannon RIAA Raid


The scurrilous Matt Kilgo from the RIAA is rocked to his core by the fact that they use the internet to market mixes. My response were we sat down in Atlanta, me drinking a frosty Rolling Rock, he on his fourth straw slurped can of Diet Surge, I would say:

OF COURSE THEY USE THEIR WEBSITE TO MARKET IT! THAT'S HOW KIDS FIND OUT ABOUT STUFF! THAT'S HOW ARTISTS GET EXPOSED! THE INTERNET!

I'll just let a Weezy and Drama jam soothe the anger, after all, it's a cemented mongolith in the pantheon of recent hip hop.

Lil Wayne feat Dj Drama (Willie the Kid, Detroit Red et all) - Cannon

I will play the swan.
And die in music.
Othello, 5. 2

Visit myspace.com/djdrama to shout some support in the earnest and powerful messageboardimonial fashion. Plus, the first track on the page is prescient on the content signifigance tip.

They're just upset that they don't have the savvy to play the game. Too bad for them. It's about music for us. But as Lil Wayne says in Cannon, "It's about money it's bigger than me." Hopefully time proves him wrong, and the industry grows up.

Jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they are jealous.
Othello, 3. 4

Dj Drama, Mr Thanksgiving, don't take any guff from these pitiable fucking swine.

CHOW

BBQ

PS: I hope Lars Ulrich gets a rash. I guarantee he owns an ipod, somebody raid him.
PSS: Shout out William Shakespeare. He pirated lots of his plots, nobody raided him.