What ever happened to the solo MC?

Question

Nowadays when u check the track listing on an album, there are a million and one guest appearances. It seems as though only the greats (Jay, Nas, Em) have more solo joints than featuers. Is the solo MC dead?

Answer 1

Pressure from the record company force artist to colab w/ record mates & popular artist a lot of times.  Its all about record sales and that all might $.

Answer 2

DoubleDeuce is right. The record company likes to persuade the artists to colab. I think colabing is bad on an artist's first album. The artist should try to let people get to know that artist, not the famous rappers featured.

Answer 3

nah the recession only got 3 guest spots [emcees] n 5 all together out of 18 tracks...thats a pretty solid album.

Answer 4

Umm I think people like to hear more then one person doing a song. Also it sounds better to have the voices of more stars in the song.