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GAF-Hop |OTXI| Five Year Nation

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Courage

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Thanks brehs

finally 21
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Syph Medwes

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What do you guys think about this situation with Bobby Shmurda complaining about not getting paid?

I understand his frustration specifically with shows but for things like performances on BET or whatever, do artists usually get paid for those? I kind of see it as free publicity or getting your name out.
 
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Detox

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Started listening to the new TI. Fuck Pharrell for this abomination G Shit feat Jeezy. You can't make a song like this with the kings of the trap. There better be a toomp banger on this shit.

Happy birthday Courage!
 
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WanderingWind

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Syph Medwes said:
What do you guys think about this situation with Bobby Shmurda complaining about not getting paid?

I understand his frustration specifically with shows but for things like performances on BET or whatever, do artists usually get paid for those? I kind of see it as free publicity or getting your name out.
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I think if you do work, you deserve to get paid. I'm going to go ahead and assume he got paid something, but not whatever he thinks he's worth. If he hasn't been paid by anybody for his performances, well, that's on him for allowing that shit.

Labels and BET are nasty though, so they could've promised one thing and did another.
 
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The Artful Dodger

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MuddyDonut said:
No Xzibit verse :(
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Yeah. I was bummed about that.


Syph Medwes said:
What do you guys think about this situation with Bobby Shmurda complaining about not getting paid?

I understand his frustration specifically with shows but for things like performances on BET or whatever, do artists usually get paid for those? I kind of see it as free publicity or getting your name out.
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It's publicity. Kid needs to realize that's just as valuable as getting paid sometimes.
 
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happy birf, courage!
enjoy your night & try not to dwell on the absurdity of your finite existence, much less the forthcoming consequences of all the actions you take, and the ones you don't - whether in bad faith or not. live it up b!
 
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The Artful Dodger said:
Yeah. I was bummed about that.




It's publicity. Kid needs to realize that's just as valuable as getting paid sometimes.
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I'm not the biggest fan of Bobby Schmurda but this post really really bothered me. Show money is basically how rappers eat. That is their main source of income. When you are flying or traveling state to state to do these shows you aren't getting paid for then what's the point? How do you feed your family etc etc? He is talking about not getting paid from multiple shows. He already was getting robbed from his previous manager taking majority show money now he is complaining about not getting show money at all. It's not publicity at this point, it's people taking advantage of a young up and coming rapper who isn't business orientated and it's annoying as fuck at this point
 
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The Return of said:
I'm not the biggest fan of Bobby Schmurda but this post really really bothered me. Show money is basically how rappers eat. That is their main source of income. When you are flying or traveling state to state to do these shows you aren't getting paid for then what's the point? How do you feed your family etc etc? He is talking about not getting paid from multiple shows. He already was getting robbed from his previous manager taking majority show money now he is complaining about not getting show money at all. It's not publicity at this point, it's people taking advantage of a young up and coming rapper who isn't business orientated and it's annoying as fuck at this point
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I mean, I'm not saying I disagree with what you're saying. But the idea of leveraging publicity into something bigger isn't unheard of. I'm sure they paid him a bit, if he did that for free than he's stupid, but could still probably make a case for a lawsuit unless he signed something.

Getting screwed over by your manager is a different thing, but probably feeds into why he feels this way.

Overall the music industry is dirty, which is why independents love tend to love their status fiercely.

Either way, bitching about it after the fact is terrible.
 
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PlayDat

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The Artful Dodger said:
I mean, I'm not saying I disagree with what you're saying. But the idea of leveraging publicity into something bigger isn't unheard of. I'm sure they paid him a bit, if he did that for free than he's stupid, but could still probably make a case for a lawsuit unless he signed something.

Getting screwed over by your manager is a different thing, but probably feeds into why he feels this way.

Overall the music industry is dirty, which is why independents love tend to love their status fiercely.

Either way, bitching about it after the fact is terrible.
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Breh you never came through with any bands or albums.
 
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studyguy

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Curious, I don't know myself but most of the smaller venues I tend to hit don't have all that much merch when I hit up shows unless it's like rockbands. I mean festivals do that shit up, but then again the rappers hitting up festivals are a different gig all together. How much does a dude make out from doing a show versus say a rock act or a pop act? I thought all of them made off based on merch unless they were huge.
 
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Esch

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The rest is right. As for hipsters etc., it's a 'tastemaker' type album that says "forreal. hey, i like hip hop. I really do. I have great taste. Illmatic is incredible! *lists obvious seminal albums*", so like with Wu-Tang and MF Doom, hipsters tend to flock to it. All you need to do is peep the crowd at a Nas or Wu-Tang show to see what's up; lots of plaid and not a lot of melanin. This doesn't detract from any of these artists or their magnum opuses at all, but it is what it is.

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Esch said:
The rest is right. As for hipsters etc., it's a 'tastemaker' type album that says "forreal. hey, i like hip hop. I really do. I have great taste. Illmatic is incredible! *lists obvious seminal albums*", so like with Wu-Tang and MF Doom, hipsters tend to flock to it. All you need to do is peep the crowd at a Nas or Wu-Tang show to see what's up; lots of plaid and not a lot of melanin. This doesn't detract from any of these artists or their magnum opuses at all, but it is what it is.

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as a highly melanin deficient CAC this leaves me in a bad spot: i love the shit out of Wu, Nas, Tribe, DOOM etc etc and will take free drinks/toke off these newjcaks but do not otherwise wish to break bread with em, yet telling myself that i liked these dudes when their classics dropped in the day is actually the tao of hipsters so you see it's kind've a mobius loop of irony/fuckery
 
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