The reason im asking is because of the disconnect where some rappers obviously lie about owning cars or jets like bow wow did. But on the other hand joyner in his last interview basically said he made it and I think his net worth is over a million despite not really selling that well based off his overall popularity. Is the whole label stealing money thing overblown or a lot of these artist lying.

You dropped this

there are a lot of business-savvy artists that are moderately successful and have millions, and on the other side many of the most poppin artists dont got s***

dude unironically watched a joyner lucas interview

Moderately successful rappers that are moderately successful because they have a smaller fanbase that sticks with them are probably doing okay

Rappers that get one or two hits without ever developing a real fanbase probably won't because of lack of touring/shitty deals, unless they're independent or really smart with money

What your talking about is Generating money vs holding money

lol It was a excerpt from that breakfast club one but that part was interesting enough.

Most of the s*** rappers talk about owning or having is cap

Depends on what you see as moderately successful. I think being able to sell out ~2k capacity venues and consistently selling above 50k first week is moderately successful. If they got a good contract I think they probably make at least a million dollar a year.

if they pull live shows regurarly yes

Off topic but I wish rappers wouldn’t put so much energy into owning the newest chains and cars lol

The wealthiest rappers just dress like average people for the most part lol idk wish more had that mindset

Its called growing up poor

I don’t wanna hear that argument, a lot of it is a toxic mentality in the black community where you gotta have the flashiest s*** to be worth soemthing

But I understand a lot of them did grow up poor but you can’t use that crutch once you start getting money all the time

word to Nipsey 0:48

remember when young dolph told people he got a 20 million deal why do niggas lie about such nonsensical s*** bruh

When rappers talk about how they can own exotic cars and other people are lame for leasing when you know their s***s leased or definitely financed