MySpace is an awesome resource but once you've accumulated three months of unanswered emails, it's time to shut it down, cause that's just not right.
The process should be complete within 48 hours.
Posted by Clyde on July 25, 2006 in Yes, it's true.
The cool kids are leaving!
Actually, that's obviously a joke since I'm more like the old man on the mountain over there. I'm just glad a few bright souls made the pilgrimage!
I've really enjoyed having the up and it will be up a bit longer so you still have time to check out some of the interesting folks I met through MySpace as well as some folks I'd already met through ProHipHop.
The bottom line is that I don't have time to keep up with things over there and social networking is not good if you don't have time to network.
When I started at MySpace I was out to meet hip hop and related business people and to meet up and coming artists so I could give them a little shine.
I'm now finding that I can't really keep up with the slow but steady stream of artists to my site but, during the brief period that I was able to prioritize MySpace, I found myself much more willing to check out music there than MP3's sent via email or cds sent via snail mail.
However, if you're thinking about starting a MySpace page, let me assure you that it's not as big a time drain as it may sound. I found that approaching it as a meet and greet situation worked just fine.
For the most part, both friends (in the non-MySpace sense) and acquaintances were approaching it in the same way.
ProHipHop may return with a business only MySpace page focused on networking with folks involved in the business end of the game but it wouldn't be right for me to remove artists from my friends list at this point.
I will definitely be setting up a regular person type page under an assumed identity so I can check out how folks are marketing music on MySpace at my leisure.
It will be fun just to wander around without having to appear (vaguely) professional!
Blitz hails from New York and caught my attention with a track entitled Playtime Ova Freestyle that I'm currently featuring at . It was really the quality of her voice that hooked me on this one.
There's a richness about it that I dug.
If you listen to the track all the way through, you'll notice that it ends abruptly. As it turns out, that's because it's from a mixtape so they chopped out this track right before it went into something else.
If you want to check out more tracks from Blitz, you can visit or head on over to .
By the way, Blitz will be my last featured artist because I'm shutting down the ProHipHop MySpace page. I'll tell you more in a follow-up.
But I'm glad we're closing with a woman because it's a tough biz for a female!
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