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Artist Development Is Dead | The Rap Ecosystem

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0:00[bleeped] Artist development is dead. You know, what I’m saying? Real love for the art is dead. So many things, so many aspects of the game are just dead right now. That are going to soon be revived, but like right now it’s dead. And it’s probably best that it’s dead because like if everybody had this sauce, like it wouldn’t make sense for people to like work for it cuz everybody would be people would consider talented, but like hard working. You know, like you know what I’m saying? They have moral standards and all that good [bleeped] And it’s okay for not everybody to get that [bleeped] But like for

0:29the people that do get it, they’re getting overlooked because their [bleeped] Instagram or some [bleeped] sucks. Something stupid. So like you know what I’m saying? Got to take it with a grain of salt. You got to That’s why I asked about the rap scene in Colorado because like I I understand the ecosystem. That’s why I use the analogy for like big ass ocean with a bunch of little ass fish and like a few sharks. And some of the sharks are [bleeped] lenny’s. AKA vegetarian. So like, you know what I’m saying? Wait.

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