From Tha Artivist:
This is truly sad and unfortunate...People we need to really start supporting our talented brothers and sisters...It seems like this type of thing happens more often than it should...By the outpouring of condolences and what not it seems that Tony Thompson had enough fans to buy his last album...The problem is that if you don't have a decent marketing or distribution deal then no one really knows that you exist...It's odd over the past several weeks I had been reminiscing about Hi Five as well as some other groups from the Late 1980s and Early 19990s...
It is ironic that a person as talented as Tony Thompson was could be considered washed up by the powers that be at the age of 31 yet Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones are selling out coliseums worldwide while approaching 70!!!
The problem in the Black community is that we abandon our stars when they turn a certain age...I think turning 40 is career suicide for many of our music artists with the exception of a few (Prince comes to mind)...Unless our artists get crossover/mainstream appeal they may find themselves not surviving the hurdle of age discrimination from their own...The music industry is less about quality music and more about marketing to naive youths who actually buy the music...
More on the above things later, but my condolences to Mr. Thompson's family, friends and fans...You were truly an American Original and I thank you for helping to provide the soundtrack for my early teen years...You are appreciated....
With Artastic and Blacklicious regards I AM,
R2C2H2 Tha Artivist a.k.a. A Tony Thompson/Hi Five Fan
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Thursday, June 14th 2007 at 10:59AM
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