I mean, 90s rappers weren’t rich mainly, just rapping about being rich.
At no point in American history have artists gotten rich from making music, except for the most elite singers.
Are we finally ready to accept that rappers today are way richer than those in the 90s
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At no point in American history have artists gotten rich from making music, except for the most elite singers.
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Perception...because you get to see more of their life.
Most 90's rappers owed the labels while most of today's rappers owe their "financier".
It all remains to be seen, especially when you have 90's rappers who have amassed generational wealth outside of rap.
Most 90's rappers owed the labels while most of today's rappers owe their "financier".
It all remains to be seen, especially when you have 90's rappers who have amassed generational wealth outside of rap.
yeah its kinda wild
they're legit dropping BAGS
they're legit dropping BAGS
I know. But I feel no matter what it took he should have gotten clean.
To see a millionaire artist squander his money rather than a common poor drug addict made me feel weird.
He built himself up and then self destructed. I'm not trying to disrespect him.
I just hate to see what the hard drug path did to him.
What new rappers
Drake was the last artist was making big money
like who yall comparing these dudes to
None of these guys richer than 50, Eminem, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, where yall getting this from
Just look at their music videos lmao, the broke rappers nobody know got the same video quality as them and even use some of the same directors, so it can't cost that much
mostly dudes in a video, where old rap videos were less doors and tons of females, they stunting on the gram with fake money, renting luxury whips
Pop Smoke got killed over a fukking Roll Royce he didn't want pay the note or some shyt
these rap nikkaz ain't got no real bread
Drake was the last artist was making big money
like who yall comparing these dudes to
None of these guys richer than 50, Eminem, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, where yall getting this from
Just look at their music videos lmao, the broke rappers nobody know got the same video quality as them and even use some of the same directors, so it can't cost that much
mostly dudes in a video, where old rap videos were less doors and tons of females, they stunting on the gram with fake money, renting luxury whips
Pop Smoke got killed over a fukking Roll Royce he didn't want pay the note or some shyt
these rap nikkaz ain't got no real bread
A lot of these artist don't make a majority of their money from streams. Show moneyIn a way yes, and in a way no. There’s definitely more avenues to making money today, but I have a hard time believing that an artist with 4 million streams that gets a $76 check has more money than previous era artists. This “album equivalent sales” stuff iswhen the artist is getting .00476 per listen or whatever at certain points. Even the major artists like Drake and Beyoncé are getting screwed over.
A lot of new rappers got money right now but people like Wu, De La, etc. can literally tour anywhere in the world, 30 or more years after their debut.
So do new rappers at this point in their career have more money than a 90's rapper....at the same respective point? Probably yes.
Will they make the same amount of money, long term? Probably no.
Fred.
So do new rappers at this point in their career have more money than a 90's rapper....at the same respective point? Probably yes.
Will they make the same amount of money, long term? Probably no.
Fred.
X had been addicted to drugs since he was a teen and was a functioning addict when he blew up. It was low key unreasonable to expect for him to beat it after a certain point, even though it would have been nice if he did.
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yes...just as rappers in the 90s were richer than the ones in the 80s....every generation is building off of the previous one....now who wouldve thought that history worked this way 
There’s nothing that remains to be seen. We see it now
I don’t know if it has been mentioned but there are more fans of rap now. You don’t have to go platinum to make real money like you did in 90s. Artist like Griselda and young dolph can monetize their bases in ways that wasn’t possible in the 90s
Well it stands to reason the same way fans are nostalgic about the artist you named there will be nostalgia about the rappers now.
Entertainment has always been feast or famine but the rappers you named never feasted like rappers are now
it’s a reason every rapper is referencing back ends. These dude can make at least 30k a weekend just doing walkthroughs
You didn't have to go platinum in the 90's to make real money. Rappers were selling over 100K without a label or even a major distributors especially Bay Area rappers and rappers from The South.
Yeah of course but I thought this thread was about nikkas that have label deals. Even then you had the cost of printing CDs and the time of actually passing them person to person.
There’s just more money in rap. Jay even spoke to this on the shop about how there wasn’t rap tours like that before him and X