WorldstarHipHop.com Takes the Crown
If there is one type of site that possibly rivals Black gossip and celebrity sites, in terms of numbers, it is Hip-Hop sites. Excluding blogs, sites like AllHipHop.com (AHH) and SOHH.com were the de facto kings. Well, according to new numbers, WorldstarHipHop.com (WHH) seems to have taken the crown.
Looking at the 2008 stats from Compete, you can see that WHH surpassed AHH in December. While it is currently being debated over in the Hip-Hop and Advertising circles, the viability of video content platforms gains a strong advocate.
We all know that the acquisition of YouTube by Google in 2006 started an embeddable video revolution, but the questions of monetizing that model are still being exercised. Aside from just being a video site, what else is WHH doing to gain such steam?
The obvious points to the amalgamation of the tride-and-true BET formula: booty and ignorance. Squeezed in between ‘exclusive’ video drops and empty rhetoric of celebrity ‘life updates’, we find an embeddable gold mine of tawdriness. While I may scoff at this medium, the reality remains that it is popular and any wise person will tell you that you entertain the people first.
With popularity, though, comes problems. Some have speculated unethical practices of WHH, including constantly pirated content and shady business practices. Then again, if you’ve got haters, you must be doing something right. After all, WHH was the only place I could find the recent nonsense that is the Drunken Negro Head Cookie.
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You think Worldstarhiphop is racist towards blacks because of comments? I read more ignorant stupid racist shit spewed from blacks on that that site, AND I'M BLACK! The amount of close mindedness on that site, just shows the stupidity, sheltered, repressed, stupidly religious lives that the black community in majority, lead. Isn't the site ran by a white guy anyway? Doesn't the site bolster black people doing dumb crap all the time, and it's somehow related to hip-hop?
Street Fights
Robbing Places
Acting a damn fool
Violence against your own? And the best these dumb ass commenter's can do is “blame whitey, for out plight!” Richest female in the country is black! Maryl Lynch has a BLACK CEO! And I also think Bank of America's CEO is black, and all we can do is sit around, be the same mentally fucked by religion, listening to dumb homophobic, sex selling rappers who encourage violence towards anyone who isn't selling drugs, killing, or getting pussy, and making smart and bright black children deny their educations as lame, or stupid, so in turn they can go out have sex and get pregnant at young ages, and sell/do drugs, because it's what they rapper or singer told them to do.
Leave you ignorance at the do, leave you “blacks can't be racist” because the majority of racist comments I see on WSHH are racist blacks, racist against any other races and a few white racist, and a bunch of black people saying their white and leaving what are supposed to be self depreciating white, Asian, or Hispanic comments, when it's clearly some closed minded black moron behind the comments.
What about World Star's site being a space for racists to spew their garbage about our Black communities?
From reviewing many of the comments posted on dancehall video clips, it appears that World Star is not taking any action and instead is willfully allowing hate-based, racist, anti-Black comments, toward Black folks, specifically Black women to go unchallenged?
It's shameful that our Black communities and Black women continue to be treated as second-class citizens and trash.
At what point does the responsibility and integrity to challenge sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of hate become our collective struggle?
T
What about World Star's site being a space for racists to spew their garbage about our Black communities?
From reviewing many of the comments posted on dancehall video clips, it appears that World Star is not taking any action and instead is willfully allowing hate-based, racist, anti-Black comments, toward Black folks, specifically Black women to go unchallenged?
It's shameful that our Black communities and Black women continue to be treated as second-class citizens and trash.
At what point does the responsibility and integrity to challenge sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of hate become our collective struggle?
T
http://thehoodtv.com/ IS BETTER THAN WORLDSTARHIPHOP
they better watch out for http://www.frontpagehiphop.com they got a good selection of hip hop media as well
World star has become the destination for many rappers to release their video disses and/or address any recent issues that may involve them, Although rappers can easily upload a video to youtube or any other video site, increasingly they give world star the first look because so many frequent the site on a daily basis.
WHH has a lot of video content which is super popular plus they got some good seo stuff going on. with a simple and easy fairly navigate interface you got a winner.
as long as they update their content as much as they have they will remain on top. but most important is a lot of the videos are either controversial or sex related and those will always get hits.
new music for 2009, king j