If he changed his name to _Bilal Oliver_ which is his real last name, then more people would notice him and it would be far easier to follow his work and news about him. He stuck with a generic name that gets lost in the shuffle.
Corey Taylor the world is forever changing .. if artist keep on putting stuff out , fans still going to purchase merch and show up for the concerts even if the record is leaked .. that actually makes it better for the fans who can’t wait to purchase / stream the official version when it comes out
Jame5 on the backhand it subtracts real artistry and a genuine experience like albums use to do. It's all superficial gain truthfully from who actually makes good music to who looks the most outrageous
he literally lived thru the transition of analog cd to digital.. damn.. that must have been fucked.. i lived thru it too.. i make music, i always wanted to make my own cd.. but i did it late.. so now i give it away to friends in soundcloud and mediafire.. in alot of ways? its cool for independent artists.. to be able to share our music without paying to burn cds.. and have a whole band.. we can produce our own music now independently.. with ableton live.. so i love this era.. but it must have been fucked back in the late 90s early 2000s when it barely went down.. all that kazaa and napster era was probably fucked for alot of people who were expecting to sell albums..
I grew up with Bilal, his aunt Carol and he used to come to hang with us on weekends. then when he went to Del State and sung under Mr. Byrd but he was hanging with Chris and Wesley... I love Bilal, his is so talented and he writes
damn, even unfinished 'love for sale' sounded amazing, can't imagine how it would have sounded if Dilla and Dre would be involved more into finishing it.
The Amazing Bilal! I have everything he’s ever put out (except the bootleg) and I’ve seen him in concert numerous times...it’s an experience! “Who Are You?”
That album Love 4 Sale was truly dope. I remember hearing it on myspace back in 2003. The project was so dope that I decided that I'm going to wait until it actually releases in stores. I waited 4yrs and it never came out so I was like eff it, I'm going to download it. LOL!
Cultural Awareness moment: The "Another Dr Dre Production" stamp was paying homage to Soul Train and the gentleman who did the announcing for the show..the late great Mr Sid Mccoy. At the end of the show he would say "This is a Don Cornelius Production". Dre actually had Sid Mccoy himself do the Dr Dre vocal stamp at the end of a couple of other tracks. He did it about two or three times.
So many dope artist got lost in the shuffle once the entire Neo-Soul movement phase died out its fk'ed up. A lot of very dope artist and music came from that period.
anthony plowden facts tho... That label was put on artists too fast imo. Their names were attached to the genre and once the genre faded, those artists were pushed to the back burner. Soul is soul...neo soul was just our generations spin on it.
Po' thang. I have a theory regarding bootlegging. I feel like the record labels secretly do that in order to sabotage artists. This will make the artist get fed up and leave. A similar thing curiously happened to Mya. Hell, you get tired. You done put in hella work for the shit to curiously end up leaking. Instead of being honest and just letting the artist go, they'd rather go around the mulberry bush. It's just bad for business. It's a shame too because this brotha can sing. Out of all those 2000's brothas, he was one of the best. Bilal, Anthony Hamilton, Glenn Lewis, Miss Jaheim were primo, vocally. Po' Bilal.
“Love For Sale” is still one of my favorite albums. “Something to Hold on to”, “when white turns to grey” & “Hollywood” are all killer records that deserve the light of day.
Bilal is a legend def doesn’t get his respect, shout out to vlad too but he giving ppl interviews that y’all might have forgot about or never heard of if u young
See this is what’s dope about it because every one got a different highlight. LOTS of ppl think “White Turns to Grey” was the “it” song on there. To me it was “All For Love”, and Make Me Over and Hands of Time (if it was mixed differently), others it was Get outta my hair….I’m just saying this album was GOOD period.
Omg I'm here at 39 views....lemme come back when the comments get good...vlad if you see this good job on this interview..... (& I specifically meant this one)
I love Bilal music, I was 19 when his first album came out, I hate that I never brought his CD but I do love his singles, I'm going to purchase it off of Amazon.
It makes no sense to scrap a project just because it got leaked .. your true fans still going to buy the record and show up to concerts and purchase merch .. these artist be trippin
Jame5 with him its not about the money but the creative control issue that is reccurent within the entertainment industry. The people that really care about their craft care more about having control
Jame5 it's deeper than that... A bootleg for a gold artist like Bilal at a time like that was homicidal. People aren't gonna pay for what they are getting for free, and that hurt artists who needed to show that their numbers matched the buzz. Careers were broken when the digital age came under full strength
Back in the early 2000s when album were sold as physical items, the bootleg leak was a major setback. The label pulled the plug, and they own it… thus Bilal doesn’t have the rights to release it on his own.
The title doesn't match the content of the interview. He stated that be was bummed about the album getting dropped by interscope, but that it getting bootlegged and taking off regardless inspired him to keep making music in a fresh new way.
This dude is so monotone and sleepy sounding. Not chill, just almost sounds like he doesn't wanna be talking. Not hatin, never heard of him before I just enjoy watching vlad interviews
Sam Music people that "know" about Bilal, KNOW, both amongst fans and within the industry (check out the countless features with Bilal, from Jay-Z to Beyonce to Common to Dilla to Erykah Badu to his close friend Robert Glasper (whom he's collabed with on majority of each other's albums from the beginning) etc etc. Well respected! He's a very introverted cat, but his musical prowess is fierce. RU-vid any of his live performances as well
D Wise This wasn't a concept when that happened to him... The digital bootleg was still a new threat, Amber nobody saw the advantage that could be taken of it. To be honest, the drill and mumble rappers are the first to truly profit from it. They put out music for free and get paid strictly for the shows... And what they would've been getting paid if they were a chart topper. In the beginning, artists and labels were in too much of a frenzy tryna figure how to stop it, instead of tryna figure out how it could be manipulated in their favor.
Ilu Ha-Binah El I feel you But even Biggie said it himself on the rap documentary the show that the real money comes from doing shows I would've just looked at the bootleg man as pub And even Bilal started working with it even though he didn't understand it All he said was it grew a life of it's own Probably meaning he realized pub is pub the only one who loses out on bootlegs is really the record company not the artist
