Everywhere SchoolBoyQ turned, his fans were standing outside venues festooned with corporate branding, unable to enter because they didn’t have a formal invite.
HNHH reported, ScHoolBoy Q tweeted his discontent with not getting into 50 Cent's show at SXSW, but apparently his issues with the festival go a little deeper than that. The Oxymoron rapper explained in an
interview with the Washington Post that the festival has changed, in that the fans are no longer a priority.
“It's stupid. They changed it all up. It's corporate,” said Q before one of his scheduled performances. “I don't ever want to come back unless they change it to where the fans are in. I'm tired of performing and seeing my fans outside the gate. ... That's not fair. It's not about the fans no more, it's all about money, who can give you the best look."
Danny Brown recently
had similar complaints about the festival, speaking of the invasion of major labels on SXSW. “The best thing for me was, I remember coming out here years, years, years ago, before it was like all the major label guys and all the guys were coming out here, it was pretty much an up-and-coming artists."
James Minor, general manager of the music portion of the festival, says he still thinks the focus is aimed at discovery, and that organizers are sensitive to groups most music fans have yet to hear about.
“I feel incredibly responsible for all these acts that we invite because it costs a lot of money to get here,” Minor said. “If somebody’s going to travel to Austin, you want to make sure that they’re playing in front of people, that they’re going to get something out of South By Southwest. We invite acts we feel have already gained some kind of momentum that could kind of use the festival as a platform to help them up to the next level.” (
source)
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