You can want to make art drop dope s*** but hate the ills of hollywood and LA

you can easily and quickly see peoples demons through copious d*** use and jealously that leads to rappers dying earlier and earlier

Where are they running up on yall at? Your local 1 story 3 bedroom mostly black neighborhood or Nobu? Beverly Hills? Lmaoo (and nothing wrong wit the 1 story neighborhood but niggas complain about paparazzi like they not only catching you at certain spots lmao)

Lmaoo Lil Bow Wow never gotta work again

TPAB was literally about how long can you stay in the black neighborhood which sometimes deals with jealousy then popped like nipsey

you have to be honest with yourself in these situations about cycles and being ostracized by both sides

You not finna get me to feel sorry for them niggas for getting they pictures snapped when its niggas who gotta work jobs they hate to have a basic mediocre life. Thats the other side of MTV and all of the other parts of the music media landscape existing that make it so niggas can make 8 figures from putting words together lol

Nigga I dont know you I am not trying to get you to feel any type of way

Until I looked at it longer I thought your name was bowser

I dont give a f*** about your opinion . I was responding if you wanted to have a good faith discussion if you want to b**** and say "I don feel bad for them niggas"

get on your knees and suck a white executive billionaire d*** for all I care

then when you done take out a fork and knife and eat it so you can have it in your belly forever

I care about the mental health even of the rich as long as they not abusers

anthony bourdain and many rich people kill themselves

I care about artist if you dont thats f***ing great but I dont care

To make that 8 figures is a lot to take in mentally that many often dont mentally survive MONEY ISNT EVERYTHING JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE POOR

S*** I am poor too it doesnt change fame and money isnt everyhting and for some it cost them everything

"I like empathy"

thats great I do not care.

writing erotic fantasies tryna come up with insults is crazy

Lmaoo most niggas stuck in the jaws of capitalism having to accept the little pleasures of life to avoid letting they mind go into the dark void and nigga butthurt about someone taking pictures of niggas leaving Nobu lmao

papparazzi will post a picture of your dead body and your family figures out via twitter you like "who cares they rich"

“Getting 8 figures for rapping took a toll on my mental health” nigga f*** you lmao

I’m just gonna tell you as someone who knows a lot of actual industry executives, one man’s view of a predatory deal is another man’s view of risk management. In honesty, it’s very rare that a deal is just straight up on paper exploitative these days - the people giving those deals are not major labels, they’re small independent labels that “discover artists” and are often owned by people in the community. Like if I was from Houston or Compton and a local label contacted me, I would guarantee their contract was 100x worse and more exploitative than a major label. It’s not even their fault necessarily - it’s just a function of how they manage risk. You can guarantee artist’s imprint labels are 2x worse by default than any direct major signing. There are a lot of industry critiques for it being a monopoly (which are all true, esp how distribution works) but “predatory deals” really are increasingly a historical pre-modernity thing from the Vinyl and early CD era. Let’s say a deal with a label is $500k upfront and then $500k marketing and all with a 1:1 recoup - album flops completely and artist gets a $1 royalty. Is this exploitative? From an artistic point of view maybe, from a financial point of view no. But I can’t blame artists for putting their art first, of course no one will think the financial situation surrounding their art is valid. If you underperform and make no money, they exploited you. If you over perform and they take their % of your profits, you earned it and not them. Industry executives are sleezebags for a lot of reasons but the contacts aren’t the #1 reason.

they do more than just rap and go home who fits the 8 figures fan fiction you writing...

That rarely happens and wasnt what you were talking about prior to now.

Something like Kobe death pic isn’t something that you’d just stumble upon. Id assume its on like dark web type s*** but tmz or shade room or even something like media takeout not posting niggas dead bodies lmao stop it. Those outlets definitely some bullshit but now you just reaching

This was a good share. Thanks. Would you mind sharing a little bit about why you have experience with the industry?

Anything else they do is because people are interested in their raps lmaoo

lmaoo nigga do all that acting difficult about putting words together to turn old and have to try to get back hot again

I work independently in entertainment industry investing & consulting. I’m not a super high level guy or anything by any means but I know how most entertainment industry (music, games, movies) operations work and have met high level people directly or indirectly before.

Copy. Our conversation actually started because he was giving me some advice on a future in the suicidal industry and the different ways it could like. You got any resources or socials you would mind sharing?

Ya a record deal be feelin like a college degree tbh

like a fine artist being represented by galleries

I think that some of the blame isn’t the label as much as it is the team of the artist’s a lot of the time bc once the ball is rolling they are product and not human

Giving advice is really hard and I never want to sound generic or presumptuous. With that said, the two biggest things (three?) that helped me were targeted low compensation contract work and intensive networking. You have to really know what your end goal is and then remember you can’t replicate how other people got to their positions. Some people look at executives and think they can follow the same path as how they got there. The reality is you gotta think smartly in a business sense of how to gain goodwill and remain independent, almost like a 10 yr plan. Remain diligent and remember connections are everything. It’s not just money, it’s the ability to get things done. Building a portfolio and being able to weasel your way into conversations you think you don’t belong in goes a long way. I wish I could be more specific but it’s really hard. Being smart in business planning and networking is the most important - remember you aren’t just building yourself up you’re building a business/brand you’re just at the masthead of.

Yall take too much pride in telling people you lack empathy when it’s like congrats nigga

Some artist just want to drop dope art without fame Stan’s or social media obsession let them have that

Team and label often go hand and hand they got no talent so they milk the bread winner

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They got no talent so or their artist dropped they got to scramble to next deal so they going to do what gets them the money