Networking in strip clubs

Billboard magazine has picked up the story I brought you, famously, about strip clubs some time last week at XXL. Jigs down in Atlanta are throwing important music industry parties on week nights, in strip clubs, where they decide which awful southern rapper gets to be the next D4L.

Meanwhile, lifestyle marketing assholes - one of the major sources of graft in the music industry - are increasingly making strip clubs the focus of their efforts. One of Nelly's weed carriers, Ali, and Gipp from the Goodie Mobb will be doing a tour of the nation's strip clubs to promote their song "Go Head.

One thing I still don't get is the idea that just because a stripper suggests a certain song, said song deserves to be played on the radio. I know I've heard the argument put forth by Hashim (a/k/a "SOHH Sassy") and Phil from East Coast Critics Blah Blah Blah that some rap songs are good because a woman will dance to them.

Meanwhile, it's been my contention that if I'm the one doing the tipping, these hookers should be dancing to songs I like, not vice versa. If they don't like it, then so be it. I can always find some other skank to play feed the kitty with.

I can't help but think that the current crisis in hip-hop (i.e. the fact that so much of it sucks) is due to the fact that strippers are deciding which songs become hits. As if they have any taste in music.