Jake La Furia: "The rankings are a stealing competition"

Jake La Furia: “The rankings are a stealing competition”

ByJohn

“The charts? A competition of thefts. Recording dynamics don’t always reward merit”: this is what Jake La Furia, an icon of the Italian rap scene, says, first as a member of Club Dogo and then as a soloist. The 46-year-old Milanese rapper and judge of

The rapper thundered:

The rankings do not necessarily follow dynamics of merit, but often record dynamics, which are true industrial dynamics. You don’t find yourself up there thanks to others. Nowadays everything is measured in numbers, 1, 1, 10, 1 billion. The dynamics have changed.

Jake La Furia then pointed the finger at the obsession with digital algorithms and metrics:

Music appreciation is now measured only in numbers. It’s our fault, the majors’ fault, the entire system’s fault. Once upon a time you had to build a path. Now, label scouts already have the next ten generations of artists ready based only on their social media numbers. As a result, artists go where they can be helped to make numbers.

John
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