VIDEO: Pharrell Asks, “Where’s The Talent?!”

I said this before on another commentabout drake singning his $2mil deal. If hip hop aint dead it sure is weak. I saw that beacause its becoming full on no talent peoples. I hate on no one believe that for making money or being in the game. Its when rappers talk about the same as others ad have no creativity behind it. This phase of lets make a dance song fast and call our self rappers phase is ridiculous. It seems like anybody can get a record deal just for standin behind a mic. What happened to individuallity. Or learning from the last great peron but putting your on spin on it.

Then we talk about all these great artist but the album comes out we dont go buy it the wonder why they havent been seen after that or why they came with a second album and it was completly differnt than excpected. If like an artist we need to not bootleg the album and pass it to all are friends because no one benifits from that.

DSBG2006 im disappointed in y u dont like drake. Im not tryin to say you have to like him but your reason for not is weak. Im mean cause hes from canada, hes used to play on a corny show, and his style favors wayne and buddens. Come on man lets be real. I admit they probrably are working on a new image for him but artist dosent the industry work with. If you think about Jay-Z had to change his style of rap before really getting noticed. Nas didnt come out the gate hot. Flo rida hd a huge image change. Pharrell was already differnt from everbody. Ace Hood went through an image change. Thats how the industry goes. He was on degrassi so what. LL cool j, eve, wiil smth, common, mos def, p diddy, dmx, bow wow, and who ever else i forgot all make music that sells and the had a show or act so lets not hate cause he did. Drake dont rap about any real hood stuff so him being from canada has nothing to do with any thing.
Last if u look at the 2 best selling rappers after big and pac u got jay-z and wayne and if u follow them from the begining u would see they altered the way the rap before really selling records so y not follow in their footsteps.

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I’m sorry but hip hop is not dead, it’s just that alot of people don’t pay attention to alot of real hip hop arist like the cool kids or kid cudi that are out there but may not be known as much as somebody like Wayne. You just have to pay attention…

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@illkid

I have to respectfully disagree with you there. We have real talent that COULD make it today out there today if people could HEAR them. We have allowed out radio waves to be hijacked by big conglomerate corporations who could not care less about talent or substance. Its all about the bottom line and the future bottom line. A lot of the music and imagery we consume now is strategic. Its designed to make you a good consumer in the future by shaping the way we see the world and molding our self image. That’s why there is no “feel good” music or “music of substance”. They don’t want you thinking critically. They want you buying into foolishness that you will hate yourself for tomorrow.Then they’ll sell you a product that will make you feel better about that too. But listen to Jasmine Sullivan, Jennifer Hudson, Reuben Studdard. Real music is being made…it just can’t get airplay. The people are hungry, they just don’t have access to the dinner table.

We are out here all over the world. But with all the individual women singers that we have jumping around in leotards,or sliding around humping the ground i wouldn’t last five seconds in the shady music industry, after all sex sells.

wheres the talent in v.a. yo we got alot going on we here and dominant euro plural yup

for the past 10 years i found myself bored with the entertainment industry for all those reasons. i never cared how good a person looks when i buy their music, just how good they sound. it is good to hear somebody step back into reality and say something about music we suppose to enjoy and listen to. lol maybe thats the reason i still listen to music from the 70’s 80’s and 90’s. and all my friends tell me i act like im old. but s**t music today has no content. so… kudos to Pharrell for everything he said. no need for me to say anymore

well I am fresh air to the hip-hop game thats right. The talent is here Ill Will as soon as I handle my legal problems the game is mine. Don’t hate on Gucci ill kid he put in his work and finally got out of Jezzy shadow its his time to shine….

hooray for you! about time ive been b***hin about that for a while. please please bring on the talent (producers). most of these young artist groups sound the same. cheerleader music. I want some more soul, feeling good type of music. not shake your booty like a dog music all the time.

Yes! Finally, s**t is making sense around here!