But Pitbull?
Well the bottom line is this -- these days the attention of people if fractured into a million different pieces. I think it's fair to say it's much easier to attract a niche audience than it is to build a mass one. Because what is mass really anyway nowadays? Hard to define. Arguably doesn't even exist.
You have to give credit to artists -- and I don't just mean musicians, but all creative people -- who can still talk to huge groups of people through their work. Because those huge groups are harder to reach than ever.
So I think someone like Pitbull, a Latin rapper from Miami who kinda got shafted by the hip-hop community -- remember, he was around for 10 years in hip-hop before he went mainstream -- deserves a little credit. This is a guy who so very obviously wanted to be something in rap, and the industry really wouldn't give him the time of day.
Then he goes and gets a bigger audience doing something else. How can you not appreciate that?
You have to give credit to artists -- and I don't just mean musicians, but all creative people -- who can still talk to huge groups of people through their work. Because those huge groups are harder to reach than ever.
So I think someone like Pitbull, a Latin rapper from Miami who kinda got shafted by the hip-hop community -- remember, he was around for 10 years in hip-hop before he went mainstream -- deserves a little credit. This is a guy who so very obviously wanted to be something in rap, and the industry really wouldn't give him the time of day.
Then he goes and gets a bigger audience doing something else. How can you not appreciate that?