What actually makes an artist an industry plant?

[Colin X]

It seems as if everytime an artist gets popular that's what a lot of folks want to throw out.


But why?




To get famous in music don't you need folks backing you who have some kinda power?




If you don't have any backing from SOMEBODY you'll be nothing more than a soundcloud artist getting ~1k plays a song and performing at local high schools.




Y'all honestly believe the biggest artists out, in the past and now, ain't have somebody in the back pulling the strings to get them some shine?

 

[Piff Perkins]

Everybody has some industry ties before they blow. A lot of independent rappers get development deals under the table. It's reality deal with it. I don't think there's anything wrong with that nor does it really make you a plant.

IMO a plant is someone who didn't put the work in and is being pushed on the masses by a label/radio/etc. Kendrick and Cole either had deals or were speaking with labels long before it was revealed...but both put in that work first. They were grinding hard, doing shows and promo.

Iggy is the opposite of that. Same with Justus. And some of these southern one hit wonders.

 

[BulletProof]

Being a Canadian, half white child actor.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Being a Canadian, half white child actor.

This.

But let's be honest...his success as a rapper was not gained through hard work.

He was a child actor before he was a rapper.

He was ALWAYS in the industry. So him going from tv to music was going to work well for him regardless.

 

[Ness]

This.

But let's be honest...his success as a rapper was not gained through hard work.

He was a child actor before he was a rapper.

He was ALWAYS in the industry. So him going from tv to music was going to work well for him regardless.

Lol ur mad stupid breh

 

[Doomsday]

The illusion that money, networking, work ethic, ect. don't matter. Also your ability to suspend the audiences belief that you made it through the door for reasons other than talent.

 

[stealthbomber]

Everybody has some industry ties before they blow. A lot of independent rappers get development deals under the table. It's reality deal with it. I don't think there's anything wrong with that nor does it really make you a plant.

IMO a plant is someone who didn't put the work in and is being pushed on the masses by a label/radio/etc. Kendrick and Cole either had deals or were speaking with labels long before it was revealed...but both put in that work first. They were grinding hard, doing shows and promo.

Iggy is the opposite of that. Same with Justus. And some of these southern one hit wonders.

this is the right answer but let some of these dudes tell it and anyone with industry ties is a plant

you gotta know people to get in, coming completely from the outside is nearly impossible

people do it every year but they don't become a kendrick lamar, j cole, drake, or even iggy

it takes a perfect storm to ascend that high in music

99% of artists never see that type of success

 

[raoulduke187]

Being a Canadian, half white child actor.

/thread

 

[Mac Casper]

Falsified independence and contrived grassroots presence

 

[STFARN]

Lol ur mad stupid breh

These nikkas think just cuz he from tv thats the reason he runa the rap game, like there aint other child actors tryna rap n failing

 

[Olu Dara]

It's simple really

If your music is forced upon the people instead of the people making you hot, you are a plant.

In other words, marketing dollars spent on unknown wack artists, seen and played everywhere brainwashing the people to like the artist. Instead of the artist blowing up organically.

Back in the day the people run the industry. By that I mean the people decided who was hot. Nowadays rappers are handpicked and forced down your throats. That's why we have all this feminine shyt popping in the rap game

 

[CrimsonTider]

Iggy is not a plant

 

[Entrapta310]

Iggy is not a plant

so you don't think she was signed and pimped for money? t..i took her and planted her into "hip hop" to make himself white money. the money he couldnt get years before.
they plant plants either to bring fruit ($$) or to overtake a music genre (fame)
so i think iggy IS a plant... just not the way most would see it.
and when she started to fukk with her eyes, ass, hips and lips, she proved wtf she was.

sometimes i think drake is a plant. and sometimes i think niki is a plant.
birdman has that GREENthumb

 

[Codeine Crazy]

so you don't think she was signed and pimped for money? t..i took her and planted her into "hip hop" to make himself white money. the money he couldnt get years before.
they plant plants either to bring fruit ($$) or to overtake a music genre (fame)
so i think iggy IS a plant... just not the way most would see it.
and when she started to fukk with her eyes, ass, hips and lips, she proved wtf she was.

sometimes i think drake is a plant. and sometimes i think niki is a plant.
birdman has that GREENthumb

 

[CrimsonTider]

It's simple really

If your music is forced upon the people instead of the people making you hot, you are a plant.

In other words, marketing dollars spent on unknown wack artists, seen and played everywhere brainwashing the people to like the artist. Instead of the artist blowing up organically.

Back in the day the people run the industry. By that I mean the people decided who was hot. Nowadays rappers are handpicked and forced down your throats. That's why we have all this feminine shyt popping in the rap game

you're wrong

And radio has always dictated who was played