Vince Staples deserved better too

He should be as popular as Pitbull

They using ian to nostalgia bait a sound they perfected to finesse the game an ATL sound given to a white boy from Dallas nasty

cause this site doesn’t wanna support anyone without a massive co-sign lol, @willcherry s*** didn’t even start jumping like that until he got that Complex article on here

way this site does its creatives is funny as f***ing s*** ngl

that’s why when i finally scrape up something to drop im not even gonna bother on here gotta get something going irl

s*** doesn’t move on this site at all

All of this is why i tagged them.

And they not getting shoved down my throat on the fyp the way an ian is.

And to answer your last question: young dolph said (if you independent) you gotta put a quarter million to a million dollars behind a SINGLE if you tryna really go up with it.

youtube.com/shorts/Dekgs5OD1Ho?si=HNZeKBCVcINMQJvd

Ask me how many real indie artists got 250k to just put into one song. Not even an album bro.

Knew what time it was when this site clowned my guy cisco swank meanwhile bro making WAVES in real life.

@Slapfiendd this site aint really as tapped in as it claims to be.

case and point 😏

It’s funny cause 808 Mafia already tried to do what they’re doing with ian during SoundCloud era with Larry League. They were alongside Yachty

It kinda makes sense
This is kinda wrong considering the time i spent on here, but i dont really want to listen to a rapper that posts on KTT2
Call me a lame but i like my rappers to be cooler than me lmao

Money controls the algorithms.

If you have a background where 200k+ is chump money, yeah you can buy your way into relevancy.

200k aint even what some people’s yearly salary is lol. @edumist a huge portion of the lack of understanding this aspect of music is that it’s still a small percentage of this forum that are even artists or creatives.

Merely just consumers.

I truly feel if every consumer in the USA knew exactly how the music industry was from a financial standpoint I feel like some of em would lose they mind dawg lol.

This plays right into @op point tho.

Nvrmind, this thread is goat

“He’s cooler than me” aspect is why we got all these niggas too scared to humanize themselves on a record so they can seem cool lol

Does it? I think very few people think ian is genuinely cool
Also i think that's always have been part of the music industry, especially amongst young people. You want to listen to somebody you can idealize to a certain degree.

That chorus and that one Synth that plays (I think) is top tier
I hate the effects on the first verse though

It was wild to see that RCA couldn’t do a goddamn thing for them

Get in the booth and go stop him bro

Do it for the culture

@Elric post the Scratch Perry quote about British audiences

i’ve been seeing these sorts of posts since i first started posting on KTT in like 2017-2018

nothing has changed man lmao, there ain’t nothing here, they at least started stickying KTT releases instead of immediately banishing them to CS but that’s about it

S*** actually irks me how so many young up and coming rappers who were going to make a big difference in the sound are the ones whose lives are taken from them, meanwhile the culture vultures like ian who make a mockery of the genre and profit off it are left untouched

Nah they did it themselves

How so?