Are there truly an independent rappers(known rappers) left in the game?

[BrothaZay]

I got into an argument the other night, with some know its alls, including one dude who claims he knows kendrick lamar

He was telling me how cats like Kendrick, managed to become the hottest rapper in the game, with no industry backing at all, and im just looking at him like

Then got the nerve to call YG independent, wiz etc...

Maybe its just me, but I think, to be a rapper thats known across the country, basically be a household name(in the community anyways) you have to have had some type of industry backing. Its just no way a nikka is becoming the hottest in the game without any,

my 2 cents

@nikkaz In Paris
@Rominati

 

[Rominati]

Troy Ave is independent and is making moves. A couple of others. But they are few are far between.

 

[BrothaZay]

Troy Ave is independent and is making moves. A couple of others. But they are few are far between.

Yea dudes like these. Im sure, and im sure they eatin decent too.
But im talking about rap allstars/superstars

Do these major nikkas, really get where they are , all alone?

 

[Rominati]

Yea dudes like these. Im sure, and im sure they eatin decent too.
But im talking about rap allstars/superstars

Do these major nikkas, really get where they are , all alone?

Nah, they may not be signed, but they def have help behind the scenes from industry related entities.

 

[Shogun]

Does Immortal Technique still rap?

 

[BrothaZay]

Nah, they may not be signed, but they def have help behind the scenes from industry related entities.

I see.

I was watching some interview and Nick Young from the Lakers was talking about how him and Kendrick Lamar are cousins. I wonder if that helped him in anyway.

 

[Rominati]

I see.

I was watching some interview and Nick Young from the Lakers was talking about how him and Kendrick Lamar are cousins. I wonder if that helped him in anyway.

LOL nah, I had a thread way back in the day with that whole TDE ish. Them nikkas was signed for like a year before they "official" announced it.


Even had their A&R before they went major come out of the shadows and post here

 

[Prae]

Freddie Gibbs, although I guess he doesn't sell a lot, but he's well known to hip hop heads.

http://rapmusic.com/threads/who-are-the-top-selling-independent-rap-artists-of-all-time.1241766/
People in there are saying Tech N9ne and Master P - but not sure that P is very relevant today, and I've never been a fan of Tech either

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2012/07/independence-day-the-top-30-independent-artists-in-the-game/
If this list is correct, it mentions guys like Macklemore and Mac Miller

 

[kevin arnold]

 

[Kisame]

you have Immortal Technique and Tech N9ne they are making maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad money

 

[porque]

Macklemore and Mac Miller


seriously

 

[AgentGrey]

Slept on artist imo.

-Rocko says he's independent but idk how true that is.
-Gucci is independent now

But yea everybody with some amount of fame has either gotten there through a deal or acquired a deal shortly after.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

I was at Interscope the day after Kendrick Lamar signed to them back in 2010...

Drake introduced an entire new marketing where you basically have a major backer that the public is unaware of so your fans feel like your "real" instead of manufactured & you get an "organic" push.

Nearly all new acts are being signed out of sight & pushed this way. It's why cats like School Boy Q slipped up and said he signed to Interscope in 2011 when Kendrick wasn't even signed PUBLICLY yet...

It's a marketing tactic because the generation of people now are against "the machine" so no better way to sell to them to make them think they're cheering for the "underdog"...

People fall for it left & right in the mainstream & underground it's a genius concept...

 

[porque]

I was at Interscope the day after Kendrick Lamar signed to them back in 2010...

 

[kevin arnold]

I was at Interscope the day after Kendrick Lamar signed to them back in 2010...

Drake introduced an entire new marketing where you basically have a major backer that the public is unaware of so your fans feel like your "real" instead of manufactured & you get an "organic" push.

Nearly all new acts are being signed out of sight & pushed this way. It's why cats like School Boy Q slipped up and said he signed to Interscope in 2011 when Kendrick wasn't even signed PUBLICLY yet...

It's a marketing tactic because the generation of people now are against "the machine" so no better way to sell to them to make them think they're cheering for the "underdog"...

People fall for it left & right in the mainstream & underground it's a genius concept...

kendrick didn't sign with them in 2010.