@chelseagreenheart I feel where you’re coming from. However, the only reason why there is a struggle to muster up 100 votes is because the city paper is only scouting in select places. There’s a massive scene in North Charleston that if they tapped into it and those people were aware of the nominations you would get more people in tune with it.. The reason why those numbers are so low is because they’re searching the same place for different numbers every single year. And this isn’t just coming from the stand of hiphop. This is coming from every category, seeming to be regurgitated, and I personally feel when you have something with the influence of the Charleston city paper, if you’re not gonna be able to do it right then why do it at all? Scrambling to find names before release, It shows a lack of care and a lack of actual knowledge of what’s going on outside of all of the technicalities of how hard it is for a platform to be “inclusive”.
l the million dollar question is how Charleston is Charleston city paper really? How well does the group of people that choose nominees and the votes for nominations, know what’s actually going on in the city outside of live nation events?
If this paper is supposed to be representing Charleston, I don’t feel like this list of creatives, which are all beautiful and great to their respective rights, reflects where Charleston music, entertainment, and arts stands currently.
