Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Ghostwriting... Is it OK with YOU?

This is an article from Gelf Magazine... Props to Nah right for the article... Its amazing how many ghostwriters there are... check this out...

Hip-Hop's Ghostwriters

Is it fair for big-shot rappers to pay up-and-comers for their lyrics, but then give them no songwriting credit?
Adam Conner-Simons
Music consumers readily accept that the singer of a catchy pop song may not have written it. But they may not know that this practice extends to other seemingly more authentic musical genres like hip-hop, which Chuck D of Public Enemy famously referred to as CNN for black people. "We hold rappers to a different standard than pop singers," says Chuck Creekmur, co-founder of AllHipHop.com. "With hip-hop we want to have that personal connection. We want them to tell us how they feel." More here

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