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Is MNE taking on too much?
June 8, 2017
11:09 pm
kottonkiing
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I was thinking recently that do you guys think that MNE is taking on more then they can handle? What I mean is, MNE has 12 artists, counting AMB, Triple Threat, and Zodiac, with albums or albums coming out, and with the recent downfall with the production quality and the use of CD-Rs, along with the lack luster Psychomania and Triple Threat EPs, do you think they are taking on too much and is their label and music is going to suffer from the work load? 

June 8, 2017
11:32 pm
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Who’s gonna be first to leave

June 9, 2017
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It is too early to tell, but depending on contract terms, I would like to know how they are paying all of those acts because it is a lot of people, and that is not including the costs of running a label.

These days almost all money is made from touring and merch sales. I have not read much about MNE since it began, but what do their tours look like? Are the places sold out every night like an ICP show? For a tour to be profitable tickets need to be sold steadily. If that is not happening, the bills and artists cannot get paid and will start to leave. Depending on how popular the acts are, if they can get a better deal likely from a larger label then they will leave. And considering Twiztid is easily the most popular act on MNE, they need to be touring nonstop.

Beyond that, the decline in quality raises more questions. We can assume Twiztid had made some money over the years on Psy, it is very strange they would not invest in the quality of their releases, at least for the first few years.

TLDR- if acts start bailing yes they did.

June 9, 2017
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first to leave or first kicked to curb? they can’t carry all that I.C.P. hater weight forever! ♥2017♥

replacing my heart with a liver, so I can drink more and care less!

June 9, 2017
12:27 am
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its only too much, retroactively, if they fail.  

and further, only if they fail specifically because they took on so much.  

otherwise, all other scenarios, the question is completely hypothetical.  and the answer is still no.  

  

okay, if you wanna clarify ‘suffer’ into some kinda extra specific occurrence, like ‘did they take on too much to be able to get me my t-shirt order in three days?’…  then, the answer might be yes.  but still only after it happens.  

  awfully paranoid, arent you?   

June 9, 2017
12:42 am
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eli-whitney said
but what do their tours look like? Are the places sold out every night like an ICP show? For a tour to be profitable tickets need to be sold steadily. 

Beyond that, the decline in quality raises more questions. We can assume Twiztid had made some money over the years on Psy, it is very strange they would not invest in the quality of their releases, at least for the first few years.

 

The Twiztid shows I have been to have been pretty packed, compared to ICP though? last show i could get to was the American Psycho tour sooooo

For the quality, it is weird to see, maybe they are trying to pump out releases to show they really can hold it on their own? or it could just be convenient timing and skimping on “less important projects”. But saying that begs the question, why was the first print for Gorilla Voltage on a CD-R, they are clearly talented, why skimp on them?   

June 9, 2017
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BZA said
Who’s gonna be first to leave  

My guess would be GV, considering how little promotion they got compared to everyone else, and how they got skimped on the first print of their CD. MNE dosent put them out as much as they should considering they are quite talented

June 9, 2017
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I think they’re doing fine almost every album they’ve put out this year has ranked pretty high in charts 

June 12, 2017
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hippiekush said
I think they’re doing fine almost every album they’ve put out this year has ranked pretty high in charts   

Their doing plenty fine in fact better! Miserable people will look for any excuse to see MNE crash and burn.

June 13, 2017
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Nah.  Some of their stuff has been shittily produced, but that’s because of who they are allowing to produce it; not because of trying to fit too much stuff into a tight time frame.  LSP does the same thing.

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