DJ Akademiks (Livingston Allen) before they were famous

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the chicago videos are the ones I don't like actually. he spends too much time sensationalizing shyt out here.

Seeing as you're from Chicago I completely understand why you feel that way. At the time though shyt was all entertainment to me. Especially since I live in the east. we all would sit in the classroom cracking up at him shytting on Chicago.but being older now that shyt is honestly disgusting imo. Is dude even from Chicago?
 

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No hate on dude but the word "famous" has really become trivialized :martin:
if dude walked down the street in a random hood nobody knows who he is :beli: probably even if he stood on a box and screamed his name out.
Let him cook but dude is FAR from FAMOUS :usure:
 

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Seeing as you're from Chicago I completely understand why you feel that way. At the time though shyt was all entertainment to me. Especially since I live in the east. we all would sit in the classroom cracking up at him shytting on Chicago.but being older now that shyt is honestly disgusting imo. Is dude even from Chicago?

nope, dude is from NYC I believe. and most of the shyt he says about chicago is regurgitated media bullshyt, hype and talking points. he has no idea cuz he's never been here. I pretty much won't watch any video he puts out related to anything chicago.
 

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If dude was extra smart he'd try and pick up some sponsorships, live stream video games while talking rap & gossip and set up a donation button & subscription thing. I saw some of my pro friends and him trading Wordsworth sharing his stuff so he could def cross cultural market himself easily & widen his viewership beyond what it already is and get 17 year old kids to donate him money & subscribe to his twitch

Be the Nadeshot of Hip hop blogging & gossip & make 6 figures

He has almost 600k subscribers on YouTube, his videos get more views consistently than some of the biggest video game pros & vloggers who are living well off

That YouTube money can be real good if you're charismatic & know how to brand yourself

i might be wrong but i think he's streaming on twitch now tryna get that money.

hope he keeps making that money.
 

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It's funny that he's on because he makes videos of our everyday conversations on here, I applaud his willingness to take a shot and it just so happened to be paying off now :salute:

Only thing is now he's possibly a target for going too hard at some people :mjpls:
Hope the breh dont get Vlad'd out :lupe:
 

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I must have missed the part where he took content and jokes from The Coli to blow up.

He basically took the style of a regular Coli poster and put it on YouTube. Props for the hustle, Unprops for being a Drake.
 

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I must have missed the part where he took content and jokes from The Coli to blow up.

He basically took the style of a regular Coli poster and put it on YouTube. Props for the hustle, Unprops for being a Drake.

not really.

if its that easy then why his shyt is on top? His vocab and witticism along with his nerdy high pitch voice got him where he is at. He only sprinkles some flabby and sick and Fredo Santana look here and there.
 

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nope. not beyond keeping rap nikkas up to date on niche-rap gossip, hes not


have a a few videos that did over 3 milli, had a Breakfast Club, 500k+ subscribers, be mentioned by famous rappers and not be famous

that youtube channel doesn't just pick a name out of a hat. :martin::martin:
 

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some of dude's commentary is blatantly :mjpls: BUT, when you consider all the non-blacks who exploit and profit off of the culture way worse, you can't be mad at him more than anyone else.

also i wonder if that jamaica thing is true... i know a few yardies who came over here for HS and they still got that accent heavy :mjpls:
 
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