his real downfall was not accepting that the music industry doesn't care about his harvard degree and that he was lucky enuogh to be in the music industry in the first place
Should have stuck to SINGING...not being a "swag-rapper."
The swag rapper/singing thing was dumb because you KNEW he wasn't getting it like that. Ryan had a lil $$ but you see all of these vids with him with rented SLRs, lambos and trips to euro like he's a fukkin boss or something when he shoulda continued being a dude making tracks in a brownstone in Harlem.
And in these vids it's like he's trying to come off like what Puff did doesn't bother him at all. It's like dude, you can't fukkin beat Puff at a lifestyle/image that Puff pretty much perfected from Russell. Stay in your damn lane.
Ryan wasted so many tracks on himself that coulda been legit Top 15-20 hits. Think about someone like Usher swagging over "Addiction" or "IRINA". It's like everybody wants to be the fukking star. Ugh