when this video dropped was the day we can officially say that niggas from dc/md have tried everything to jumpstart their careers , and none of it has worked . also i f***ing hate this video a lot , i feel bad for fifty because i can only imagine what this guy brandon would have told him in the days leading up to this , and he made a genuine effort to try to grow his audience , and i can't say that it's made any difference a month later :/

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we got niggas signed to 300 , niggas with situations with sony and big players like that in the industry , niggas that signed to ross . dmv rappers get shown real love from other top artists via cosigns , features , all of that . i truly believe that this is one of the top 3 cities in the world when it comes to black people demonstrating their god given talent , and that extends to everything beyond music , but especially when it comes to rap , and yet the biggest artists we have had have been Wale , who is an industry punching bag , fat trel , who if i told you that 0.5% of the people on earth are could identify him in a jail style lineup that would be a gross exaggeration , and then there is shy glizzy , who don't get me wrong i am one of the least homophobic people on earth but mfs use to bid on him because they seen the way he was standing in a picture and tried to say he was gay . and he don't even got 1.5 million followers on instagram regardless . that's it , that's all , that is the complete and total extent of the exposure that the dmv has had in the industry . like bruh !

i really and truly do not get it

prolly cause the DMV don't be supporting they niggas like that the way NY or Atlanta or Cali stands behind they artists during their respective heydays.

Also niggas be getting arrested too damn much. Shoutout to Xanman that Kane song probably the craziest way someone's flowed over one of my favorite songs of all time

why you type like that moe?

DMV rappers don't win because they don't support each other the way other cities do. They also don't want to pay for s*** from their producers and videographers so fucc em frfr

-moved out the DMV and doesn't support his own rappers or even hometeam

#wowwow

and not including VA, where the best music history in your OP is another reason y'all niggas don't win.

every DMV artist that come to LA I link with.

Oh wow

#triplewow

yall gotta put the gogo back in yall beats like Wale did on Beautiful Girls cause I SWORE that song was gonna get him outta here in high school

Nobody this creative, s/o El Cousteau tho he might break the barrier. Cause niggas like IDK figured out the method, but are straight ass

The market is too flooded

another rapper that got some of Kay's best beats (I loved Taco ngl tho)

Prime Wale you just had to be there

aint no pizza, get out hours
I LOVED Attention Deficit and More About Nothing

More about nothing slept on

over/under 5 pages for Wale album release thread?

Until DC invents a new sound that other cities want to imitate, rappers will always be stuck here

I like him and WifiGawd

ironically we already have that sound, its even more prevalent with Afrobeats being so popular

Kinda similar to why their slang doesn't expand to other cities (besides "glizzy")

yeah, it gives you a uniqueness but it puts a ceiling over how much you can expand.

It’s really not lol, everyone loved it

wale personality his biggest downfall tbh

That's because of the material conditions of this area . Everyone hates each other and it's too expensive to live like California or ny with zero of the benefits of living in these places

damn but this sounds bout right, just overall grimey activity not friendly competition