Young Thug " I paid 50k for fake streams for Gunna to pass The Weekend"

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There's gotta be some money in all this smoke and mirrors.

Labels, Streaming Companies, Venues, Ticket Companies/touring venues, merchandise....

Right? Someone somewhere is getting paid...right?
 

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Labels do the same thing regular people do when it comes to buying views, comments, etc… They just have much bigger budgets and will just pay someone to do it for them. I got a partner who get like 30k for his contracts with labels and he literally getting them views and shyt. The actual cost of that shyt is much cheaper. nikkas buying everything from plays and followers, to YouTube comments and views, Facebook, IG, til tok, etc…

The labels know the game. All the numbers fake. But if you got the right numbers and they feel like they can make some money off you they will fukk with you. And if they sign you off a buzzing song, they will get you the right numbers.

If you doing it right, you just organically build the artist and gradually increase their numbers, and have everything matchup. Like X amount of Spotify gonna mean around X amount of average YouTube views. shyt like that. Make all the numbers match up and make the rise gradual. That way you gonna actually finesse people into thinking you got more motion then you got.

Also, independent artist out here getting waxed. They really believe they can do this shyt organically but you will never get that amount of fans organically. Would take way too many years. Then if they do know somebody with the sauce, they gonna tax. It’s gonna be more than they can afford. And it ain’t no big secret if you know, but nobody gonna give out the sauce lol
 

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One thing this shows though, thug was never that guy. We used to joke about how his shyt kept flopping and he'd call them mixtapes instead of albums. Then his shyt just started doing well out of nowhere. All that shyt was fugazi.
 
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I KNEW it!

Go to certain rappers YouTube comment sections.... Be a bunch of fire emojis and white girls in bikinis talking about how such and such is

"bringing the real, raw and authentic in his music"...copy and pasted Comments a thousand times over...



:stopitslime: :francis:
 

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One thing this shows though, thug was never that guy. We used to joke about how his shyt kept flopping and he'd call them mixtapes instead of albums. Then his shyt just started doing well out of nowhere. All that shyt was fugazi.

5 years ago:

Around the same time Thugga did like 35k. :mjlol:

Dude got one album that did 131k first week a year ago and his fans are talking like he's 2004 50 Cent.

Fred.
Cats are bugging the fukk out man.

I have zero problems with a Thugga fan saying he can rap better than Push. it's lunacy to me, but it's their opinion.

But the relevance thing is a no-go. Thugga been rapping for like 10 years and got one platinum album. Dude's projects usually do U-God numbers.

Fred.

:manny:

Fred.
 
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