internet buddy

3y

Music manager Wendy Day says it costs $150,000 to break a rap artist. Others say the cost is even higher. There’s studio time, music videos, promotion, mixing and mastering, and touring. There’s also the opportunity cost of making music. Every second you spend writing and recording music, promoting music, and shooting music videos is a second you could be spending working.

The most famous example of the cost of pursuing music coincidentally involves Young Thug. After Lil Baby got out of prison, Lil Baby went right back to selling d****. Young Thug was such a believer in Lil Baby that Thug paid Baby to stay out of the streets and spend time in the studio so Baby wouldn’t go back to prison. This was not a small amount of money. Thug would ask Lil Baby how much Lil Baby expected to make in a day on the streets, and Baby would respond $7k or $10k, and Thug would pay Baby that much to go to the studio instead.

For someone from a different background, the person sponsoring your career might be your parents or rich uncle. For rappers, the sponsor is often the streets.

fashion killa

3y

I work in a studio in what ig u could call the hood or the streets and yea easily 90% of the ppl who come in for sessions are using money they got from somewhere illegal. No more specifics but yeah its no surprise the streets and rap are so intertwined when one is so often a prerequisite for the other

internet buddy

3y

Hustle and Flow

How much are these sessions per hour?

internet buddy

3y

It’s a decent post
Crazy that a former TV writer is shilling his stuff here though

internet buddy

3y

Was I begging? Don’t get hurt cause you’re being called out on trolling

Bushmanate

3y

It's not shilling if he doesn't get paid to do it lol

fakerickhoodie

3y

yea whatever

real for siouxsie and the banshees banner

dsonoiki

3y

Hey you all

Wrote a post about the relationship between rap and the streets and why the two are hard to separate

https://funnything.substack.com/p/why-hip-hop-and-the-streets-are-so?s=w

Spent a bit of time around this stuff if you remember from my prior post

Been in here before https://ktt2.com/hey-ive-written-for-blackish-the-simpsons-im-giving-32508658

fashion killa

3y

I work in a studio in what ig u could call the hood or the streets and yea easily 90% of the ppl who come in for sessions are using money they got from somewhere illegal. No more specifics but yeah its no surprise the streets and rap are so intertwined when one is so often a prerequisite for the other

Russlio

3y

wait was the up and coming kenny lou?

Htownwolf

3y

Scoot up gang

Russlio

3y

wait was the up and coming kenny lou?

Troy Ave Stan

3y

The whole surprise point is crazy, like how are KTT all over thug and how amazing he is, and then act all surprise with them Rico charges and saying he deserve it. Like how are driving around loving the music that talks about it and then turn around and be like lock him up, s*** makes no sense

Same as the whole MAGA phase this site was on, on some weird s***. Like hip hop got a whole message and meaning behind it that y’all don’t even stand on, s*** makes no sense

Troy Ave Stan

3y

That’s literally we’re rap is from, that’s all there is too. It ain’t ever going to leave it behind. What needs to be done is improve these communities instead of blaming them for everything

user

3y

The way this is worded you would never imagine it’s in response to a 25+ year old multi millionaire putting hits on people lol

REACTIVE

3y

Thug don’t have a murder charge. Stop believing the law before they prove guilt

user

3y

I believe Thugger when he told me years before the law said anything that he wanted to kill YFN Lucci on his Instagram story lol

Why would Thug be murdering people himself. If you don’t see how he can use his resources and finances to contribute to someone being murdered u don’t have to quote me again lol

Classique

3y

a ton of these street rappers owe money to some "big homie" or someone that put money up to help them pursue their careers. what i don't get is people still being involved in the streets and selling d**** and violent crimes 5 to 10 years after blowing up. idk why thug, baby, gunna, durk, or youngboy are involved in any street activity. jay z and 50 cent for example were far removed from it when they were years into their careers

REACTIVE

3y

That’s just Instagram. Lucci still alive 🤷🏽‍♂️

Anybody that died was 2 gang members shooting at each other. Nothing to do with thug. Y’all want to hold thug accountable but not the people that pulled the triggers, that’s a grown man decision to make, can’t nobody make u kill someone

Russlio

3y

wait u don’t even live in america???

niggas flying out argentina for studio sessions?

fashion killa

3y

tf lmao I live in Philly bro last time I checked thats america

dsonoiki

3y

Wow. I thought it was pretty vague. Houston is really in here. I met Lou not long before he died. I wasn't familiar with his music then

I got really into his music after he passed, and I genuinely used to think he would have been as big as Gunna or Lil Baby had he lived. Now, those two are way bigger than they were in 2018 - 2019, even 2020, so it's harder to say that. But I think Lou coulda been huge

Russlio

3y

man ain’t no way

u not about to rewrite history on me