Comments on: Face Off: Blogs Vs Magazines

By: Hispanic Students

Hispanic Students — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:56:52 +0000

It’s where you throw the magazine at the screen and keyboard and you read whatever it lands on. You’ll end up with either a record review in Rolling Stone, or an old cougar getting her mudhole rammed on youporn.
You win either way.

By: Marketing Hip-Hop Online

Marketing Hip-Hop Online — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:29:24 +0000

Are Hip-Hop sites starting to overtake magazines?…

Does an increase in attention, viewership, and advertising dollars that hip-hop related sites and blogs are receiving, signal the demise for already-struggling print properties like Vibe, XXL and the recently reincarnated Source?
Popularity: unranked […

By: Tiny Tyrant

Tiny Tyrant — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:29:42 +0000

i go with whatever’s in front of me, which more often than not is the blogs’s. probably cause i’m home more often than not.

if i’m at a mate’s place, i’ll be flickin through a mag, if anything.

if i’m out and about looking for some time to kill, i’ll scope a mag, but i ain’t buyin unless its got something really worthwile.

but, shit, you cunts don’t give a fuck.

By: Adam Rashid

Adam Rashid — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:35:18 +0000

Thanks, great

By: Dart_Adams

Dart_Adams — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:58:20 +0000

I kick a whole cubicle block of writer’s asses weekly on my blog. I’ll have reviewed every album that came out that month before they even printed. Plus, I don’t get edited and no one can put restrictions on what I write about.

One.

By: Drew Huge

Drew Huge — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:41:55 +0000

I’ll take mags.
A) They pay me real money to write for them
B) You don’t have to put up with moronic comments from internet haters.

By: ED209˚

ED209˚ — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:54:32 +0000

Dan – my laptop must have problems cause it gets too hot for my ‘english thigh table’.

Perhaps I’m just sat there too long.

By: HS

HS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:54:12 +0000

“Blogs are much more influential these days…”

Yeah, but being bigged up on a mainstream hiphop blog is kinda a kiss of death for an artist if you look at recent examples!

Can’t believe people are comparing watching a video to reading words though – two different worlds!

By: Headlock

Headlock — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:51:49 +0000

I’m going with Blogs, for many of the same reasons as others have.
- more frequently updated
- videos
- easier to read at work when you are bludging. Magazines are nowhere near as easy to hide.
- community feedback. I wouldn’t be able to write this response to a magazine article.
- Depth. You cant have a hyperlink in a magazine, but online you can elaborate on a subject without even having to write anything – all you have to do is link it. Mag author’s have to count their words.

By: Topski

Topski — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:51:10 +0000

What about Accountability? I mean, the reason magazine started killing themselves in the quality material dept. was because they had to follow the bullshit trends of the mid ninetys and go soft and commercial. Rap mags doing stories on R&B diva bitches and shit. With a blog you can do whatever you want, without some higher up asshole nixing your story because its not commercially viable.

By: Dan Love

Dan Love — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:34:09 +0000

ED209 – I hadn’t ever considered the emergency bog roll situation, good shout. Laptop on bare knees feels so warm, mmmmm…..

By: TC

TC — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:04 +0000

Excellent post Robbie. And I’ma go head and proclaim that I voted “on the fence.” Contrary to popular consensus, there’s still a good chunk of writers who put it down in the magazines of yesteryear and unlike most (let’s say 70%) of the top blogs out there, they still put the art of it first over than a hot topic.

By: Incilin

Incilin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:17:29 +0000

Great post, interesting topic and discussion. I think both blogs and magazines have a place in the game.

But you got to remember, it aint like the people who write magazines can’t write blogs. I mean I dont really buy XXL the mag, but I go to their site like everyday, so what’s the difference? We get it in one way or the other by the same heads. I see people shouting out Nahright on in the comments, but remember Eskay used to work at XXL and now he’s at Complex. Don’t let the net fool you.

Take for example chronwell said; “views from actual listeners and supporters of the culture rather than just ideas from writers who are more like employees of some shit”

I used to feel the same way until I realized that that the writers of mags were listeners and supporters of culture before they became professionals. For all I know, Robbie might have worked in the magazine world in his past (or may freelance currently).

I used to think that blogging was this changing of the guard, where new people would come up and have their say. But most of the time, it’s just more of the same. All it does is make information a lot less profitable.

By: Donny Goines

Donny Goines — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:55 +0000

Blogs are much more influential these days and more popular, but magazines still have they place in todays market.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:22:42 +0000

i’ma go with magazines. i like full thought out features on my favorite artists. the only thing a blog wins in is in news and music. other than that, as an artists i’d rather have the cover of XXL than nahright.com