What’s Will.i.am’s solution to the record industry’s woes? “Record companies should be a tour company that sends the bands on the road and still puts the ****in’ shits on the radio.” And why hasn’t today’s music stoked a real revolution? “There’s things for people to rebel and revolt about, but people ain’t revolting and rebelling because there’s no leaders.” Perhaps most controversially (and confusingly), Will declares that soon the lines between genres will totally disappear because “As much as racism still exists today, people don’t care. There’s no racism amongst people. There’s racism amongst corporations and what corporations think people want to buy.” Check out more of Will’s musings on the state of hip-hop and how the industry adapted to the eight-track (but not yet the Internet) by checking out his future of music interview, one of our series of Q&As with folks like Gerard Way and Marilyn Manson from our current Fortieth Anniversary issue, right here.


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