DJ Drama & Don Cannon Locked Up
Record sales slump all over the US, so the RIAA arrests two people responsible for promoting hundreds of albums via mixtapes.
DJ Drama, the man behind the Gangsta Grills mixtape series and Don Cannon have been arrested for ’selling counterfeit CD’s on the internet’. Why Drama was singled out I’m not sure, when he is just one of hundreds of mixtape DJ’s out there on the grind.
If the RIAA choose to persue further mixtape DJ’s, this will have disastrous effects on hip hop’s underground mixtape circuit, and cut off a massive promotional opportunity for both new and established artists. As Eskay at Nahright said, “They didn’t seem to mind a year ago when Drama was promoting T.I. and pushing his album to Gold status in a week.”
Album sales are down all over, and the RIAA are going to stop promotional mixtapes being released? What are they fuckin retarded?
For more info, check:
Video of the news telecast at myfoxatlanta.com
Hip Hop’s real enemies - the RIAA at xxlmag.com
How does a non-government organisation get the authority to raid a private residence? These aren’t cops! It’s like ARIA coming to my crib and smashing my computer for having illegal MP3s. Suss.
RIAA can suck my dick
the RIAA monitor infringements and work in conjunction with law officials.
it’s not like Mitch Bainwol came in the joint and knocked dudes out,.
[...] New York writer, Ethan Brown, has written a post about heading down to his record store and finding the mixtape selection lacking. After those Drama raids in January, it appears picking up mixtape CDs on the streets is a little harder now a days. [...]
[...] You’ll remember at the beginning of the year DJ Drama’s crib was raided and a whole lot of mixtapes, which he and Don Cannon produce and release, confiscated with the pair jailed. Since then things have been quite quiet on the mixtape front. [...]