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0:00clips. All good, all good. They could be like reels. Yes, sir. So how do you, how do you approve social media as a musician? As a business, you’re not going to make money unless you don’t spend money. You have to spend money in the right places to be able to make money. And social media is a tool just to show people that I’m actually working because a lot of these motherfuckers just go, yeah, I’m a rapper on IG and they just post on the flyers or they just, you know what I’m saying, post themselves in the studio or whatever, which is cool. But like, are you really an artist? Are you just

0:30Somebody, you know what I’m saying, says the shit, and I don’t got a lot, I just cleared my Instagram on a lot of posts, um, because like, I want my post to mean something, I want to delete something, uh, at least gain people’s attention, like, I’m not gonna like, don’t get me wrong, I’m a funny dude, but like, I’m not on IG talking about my life problems and shit, you know what I’m saying, I’m not, I’m not, you know what I’m saying, I’m not fucking pranking niggas, I’m not trolling niggas, I’m like, real dudes, you know what I’m saying.