Was telling my homies the other day, that there's a reason why the vast majority of your favorite rappers are real life trappers, that have hit B&E licks, gangbangers, etc.

because it takes an outstanding amount of money to actually be an artist and breakthrough in a material way.

this is why I have an issue with ppl bashing labels so much. like yeah in certain instances there's bullshit involved & bad contracts, but how the f*** else is this nondescript rapper from the hood gonna get the money to pop off?

being an industry slave is almost the only way people will care

I mean it's like, unless you have a high 6 figure job or someone sponsoring you, the only real way to make it is by robbing and thuggin s*** out or get enough of a local buzz to get a record label behind you to cover the cost.

But even that's expensive because you have to pay them back.

The idea that s*** is organic is such a farce. EVERYTHING cost. EVERYTHING you see from a rap act cost.

Said it would cost more than that to break an R&B or pop act

Yeah but labels do use these people and they can just keep them for one or two years and drop or just block them from releasing music. Many stories like this.

I agree they won't break out otherwise but the complaints against labels are justified. It's how the music industry is being ran.

They're not trappers. They're signed to the guys who do.

Listen up hoe, da swag comes from us, it’s a setup, the media is controlled by certain races/groups of people

inorder to go viral u have to go thru the white man, you not allowed to just post whatever u want on the internet either da Internet not free as portrayed

Cap but yeah a rap career ain’t cheap to finance

And this is why your favorite rapper almost always starts with a bad deal

There’s simply no real way to support yourself financially in this s*** without criminal activity and that gets tiring for awhile

Either way it’s criminal activity which alludes to the point

You need to engage in criminal activity or have someone who does in your camp to support you

that's why brockhampton got 20 members

I came into the game with a hundred grand strong...

9 to be exact

Wonder why this is the case 🙄

What's 150 grand to a muthaphucka like me can you please remind me

I got some money, maybe I should become a rapper

Nah bro

Artists do get extorted which is why they need to be with the s***s or with the goons if they dont wanna pay up

But these calculations are way off

Lil Pump blew up off a soundcloud song and video that cost him 200 dollars total. His career cost him next to nothing til that point

Tons of rappers blew without any criminal background

This some low level thinking

"Nothing" in life is free

hmm

This is such an awful take I had to make an account just to tell you dawg lmao

you have no idea the amount of money, connections, time, and resources available to someone like lil pump, or the things necessary to get him blown up. he was working in the underground for years, I'm sure he put far more than 200 dollars in

yeah a lot of these rappers have big homie they owe money to on the low