You Don't Get Paid as an Artist Until You Get Shows
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0:00A: same realistically everywhere. You got your top dogs, you got your people that actually rap, and then you got the people that were successful in rap and now are doing other shit and getting money off of other shit, positive shit. You know what I’m saying? Like, you know what I’m saying? Rap is a business, and you have to understand what the business comes with and where you’re gonna be able to be able to actually like see real deal like money. We’re not talking about, oh, I had one song blow up and I got $1,000 from a million streams type shit. We’re not talking about that. We’re talking about real deal, real like revenue. That’s rather merch, you know what I’m saying? Shows. You’re not, you’re not really getting paid as an artist if you’re not getting paid to do shows. So -- If you’re not getting paid what? To do shows. That’s the artist standpoint, you know what I’m saying? Like, you’re not making money as an artist unless you’re getting paid to do shows. Which is funny and ironic enough because now, you know what I’m saying, the social media aspect and all that crazy shit, motherfuckers just think that they can blow up and then
