Frida Giezman
Banned
hope he drops another project before years end
A-Boogie scores fourth Gold plaque
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King P
Legends Never Die
Boogieveli 
Keep the hits coming
Keep the hits coming
Yeah I been fukkin with Q and just came around to A Boogie.
My beef isn't with him but with this new plaque system the industry has adopted.
Duke would not have 4 gold singles if 500k people actually had to purchase his singles in order for him to do so.
There's no way a hip hop artist can have 4 gold singles but if you dropped him in any hood in America nobody would know who he is or be familiar with his music.
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FIFTY ROUND DRUM
Rookie
Timeless went Gold 
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
No one said people are listening less. There'd be no streaming services if that were the case. People still buy tons of albums, but just from people they trust to spend the money on. The point is, reach isn't what makes a career sustainable. As I said, you could have your shyt streamed a couple million times over the course of a few quarters and you're still not making what a kid working full-time at Burger King does, a year. But you'll have a "plaque". Doesn't matter where you stand in the argument about generational differences. There's something very wrong with that. It's the industry's new way of jerking artists, and most of them don't even seem to know. Not yet anyway.
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Pass me the rock nikka
What are you talking about? If you dropped him in any hood nobody would know who he is or be familiar with his music?
This is where ya age age shows this is the hottest young rapper in America, the hottest rapper of the XXL Freshman List. He has over 1M Instagram followers, he has like a dozen songs with 20M+ views on YouTube, the four songs that went Gold got a ton of play, Drowning is top 40 right now, he is extremely popular among teenagers and college age demographic, he is HUGE in NYC to the point where his mixtape was the only thing bumping last summer out every whip, women love this nikka. He did all of this in year and some change and it was organic.
So what is unrealistic about four Gold plaques and who are people listening and who is recognizable since A-Boogie ain't known?
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Rapping.
Album sales are down across the board. Top artists dont even sell what they used to. They didnt drop because think the music is trash either.
Most young people wont buy a album regardless of how good it is but some go to shows. Millions of streams = bunch of shows.
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
The majority of people buying music on iTunes, are 19-32 years old. So young people are the driving force in buying music these days. Digitally anyway. Not just albums either, but single tracks. The fact is, millions of streams shouldn't equate to a couple thousand dollars and a bootleg plaque. Especially when 90% of the artists who rely on these streams to get shows booked, are in 360's, and have more debt than they'll be able to recoup, even after 10 years or so. This isn't my opinion. It's what's actually happening. So even if they can get shows, they won't see any money from them because they'll spend most of their careers trying to pay the label back. But the label is making sure they see actual returns from the streams in royalties, and they're cutting the artist just $0.004891 per play.
Giving them plaques is a way to front like they're successful, when in fact, they're getting raped more than any other generation this game has ever seen. It's foul.
What are you talking about? If you dropped him in any hood nobody would know who he is or be familiar with his music?
This is where ya age age shows this is the hottest young rapper in America, the hottest rapper of the XXL Freshman List. He has over 1M Instagram followers, he has like a dozen songs with 20M+ views on YouTube, the four songs that went Gold got a ton of play, Drowning is top 40 right now, he is extremely popular among teenagers and college age demographic, he is HUGE in NYC to the point where his mixtape was the only thing bumping last summer out every whip.
So what is unrealistic about four Gold plaques and who are people listening and who is recognizable since A-Boogie ain't known?
Like I said, if you dropped him in any hood nobody would know who he is.
I already said he's only known in NY so I didn't feel the need to exclude them.
He's not the hottest rapper in America, he's the hottest rapper in NY.
The same NY that tried to make Mims, Desiigner, and Young MA the hottest.
nikkas will cosign anything they think can go in order to "bring New York back."
Nobody else gives a shyt about dude.
IVS
Superstar
You aint missing nothing they're pretty bland and weak.Never heard any of them songs