What's good guys, I run the Kids Take Over Youtube channel & for a few months i’ve been seeing a bunch of threads from upcoming artists complaining that they got scammed by big rappers like The Game, Fetty Wap, Benny The Butcher, Dave East, Calboy, Fat Joe, etc…

I decided to do some digging and get to the bottom of this scam, since literally NOBODY in mainstream media has made a video on it. I found out that it’s not really the fault of the big rappers here -- there’s actually this big company named “DaBlock365” who are using these somewhat washed up rappers, to ask young upcoming rappers to pay $500 to be on their next mixtape. Here’s the catch though, these mixtapes aren’t affiliated with the big artists themselves at all. They aren’t on any of the tracks. The mixtapes are just all the songs of people who paid their $500, and there’s like 40+ songs on each mixtape, which all get less than 50 plays… If you go on DaBlock’s SoundCloud page, they have over 6,000 tracks in just the span of 3 months. If you do the math, they made over 3 million dollars from this already..

The thing is, it’s really not illegal what they’re doing, but It really doesn’t benefit the small artists at all, and of course you would be excited if someone like Dave East hit you up saying he wants to work with you for $500. I actually called up one of the kids who got scammed, and got them in this video to share their experience too, and it turns out that after you get scammed once, it just turns into a never ending cycle of them trying to lure more money out of you. Been working on this for a month now but hopefully a lot of young artists see it and don’t get fooled out their money anymore. Hope y'all f*** with the vid! Took hella long to put together.

$3 million. Damn

cold world out there bud

What’s crazy is if they would just take $100 from the 40 submissions, they’d have $4000 they could use to promote the playlists or channel which would, if spent wisely, get a good amount of plays for the artists. I would never pay $500 to be on a mixtape or playlist or whatever lol, but they could actually build a pretty substantial network if they gave af at all

Or like

Do a 20 track playlist of the month, $500 a submission

Spend $2k promoting every playlist, keep the other $8000

That’s $100k a year for basically doing nothing lmao

Which just made me realize that getting together a group of artists to build a playlist, everybody has to pay a more acceptable fee (like $50) then using all of that money promoting the playlist. Like a KTT2 playlist with 20 submissions a month, spend $1000 building up that playlist network. You could end up with a pretty impressive network tbh.

Spending money to promote doesn't do any good unless all of the artists being promoted are at a certain standard of quality. I'm guessing anyone who thinks they can be on The Game's mixtape for $500 as a no-name rapper is not necessarily the dopest around

Alternatively, the fact that these artists are willing to invest $500 on their career suggest that they are willing to spend on equipment, studio time, visuals, etc. So their music may be of higher quality than you’d think.

But yeah either way, I’m saying if dablock would ensure that the music is actually good and consistent, and then spend a few thousand promoting the playlist, they could actually become taste makers due to the audience they could reach with social media marketing.

Just cus you have money for studio equipment or visuals doesn't mean anything. Money doesn't buy talent. I've heard plenty of dope rappers that are broke and can't afford that s*** and plenty of rich kids that have all of it but make s***ty music

Yeah, I think that goes without saying.