Fat Joe Speaks On Hit-Making Skills

Anyone that has been in the hiphop world for the last 10 years know fat joe drops hot radio hits. From "Lean Back", to "Make It Rain" to "I wont Tell". Regardless of the fact that he always features people on these songs, you can't deny the fact that he has ears for good music. Beautiful music i would say. He has a new single out with Chris Brown- Another Round. I saw the video over the weekend, and i have to say it is great music. I do think he let Chris do most of the work, but it still is his song. And i know the song is going to blow up with time. Just give a couple of weeks...like 3 weeks.



Read what he haD to say about his hit-making abilities below-

"It's something you gotta know. You gotta know how to make hit records. You gotta have an ear for it...There's some artists that are so big. Nah, I'm not gonna say they names. But let's just say an artist is huge, right? Alright, how many times we heard Beyonce's album like this one and we didn't really, really think it was all that," he said in an interview.. "You know what I'm saying? When we first heard it. But they had so much money behind it they kept pounding that joint in the paint, pounding it. 'This single ain't go we pounding the next one. We pounding the next one'...So it's like they got that. ... It's something you gotta know. You gotta know how to make hit records. You gotta have an ear for it...




I totally agree with what he is saying. And the other point he made is also very true. There are a lot of people who know how to work their album till people get to like it. The thing is that if an artist is all up in your face, and you are seeing something new from her/him every now and then, their music gets embedded on your subconscious mind, and you start to believe they are cool. It is a psychological thing. And a lot of these big artists use it. It is cool though...at least they are working hard, so maybe they do deserve it.


I just get pissed when i see some of my favorite rappers dropping only one single/video from their albums. They drop that one single before the album hits stores, and when the album doesn't do so well, they just forget that particular project. It pains me to my bones when rappers like sheek louch, and even Game don't work on marketing the other songs on their album when the album kicks off with low sales. Even if your label don't give you the money for it, i feel you can use your money to shoot a second video. Money like that is never wasted, cos you are really investing in your self.