As a broke artist trying to get some shine it's mad frustrating being bombarded with scam after scam. Bots on your posts, bots in your DMs, Instagram is rampant with this shit. Ignore these "A&Rs" and washed out artists, stay out these traps keep your head strong put your money in your own hands before you start dishing for these "promos". I'll see you at the top 👊
It’s OTT, all these platforms are saturated with dodgy, questionable accounts. All about keeping it real though.. In the end, people will respect you for it.
Well done for calling this shit out, for keeping production values on your videos high and for keeping the motivation J. Authentic videos from someone passionate about the scene and passionate about music. Also props for naming and linking sources!
Was dope to see my situation with the game being used to hopefully warn up and coming artists about this kind of dodgy shit. Killed it Johno, Love from Aus 🦘
At first I was thinking damn $500 for a game feature, sign me up. But hearing they ain't on the track makes it dirty. This needs blowing up and exposing big time.
Lol for real I got these messages from Papoose & The game. It’s mad, obviously initially you see The Game pop up in your DM’s & you get gassed, especially as I’m a massive fan of The Game. But after seconds i knew it was bullshit lol. It’s nuts.
You know what’s funnier to me is how some of these “uPcOmInG rApPeRS” are so unaware of how anything works & even their own talent because I know a lot of these guys probably had 500 followers 😂 I remember seeing guys screenshot these type of messages
Tbf there is a lot of talented artists on those tapes. And not everyone 'fell for it' as such. Theres an accepted level of BS that people put up with as part of the game, especially if it benefits them, and some people will have got some extra listeners as a result, just not 500 bucks worth. If upcommers are still doing it now I have to question how involved they are in the business side, cos its fairly well known in artist circles now, but ALL artists get taken in on this or a different scam at some point because theres so many of them. Its a learning curve. I warned a couple people but they still went for it cos they thought the pros outweighed the cons, which is fair enough.
@@C75Live I just feel as if a lot of artists are not self aware & a lot of artists egos are larger than there actual talent. So that’s why it’s easy to scam some of these artists because they really think they’re that good. But I also see both sides sometimes you’ve got to take a risk to get yourself out there even if it sounds crazy but still… 🤷🏾♂️
Yeah I think it’s just down to not seeing the bigger picture, just fully naive to how the industry works. But like I say, I don’t blame them too much, easy to get caught up in the excitement when it’s a fully verified rapper’s account messaging you. Idk, I don’t want to be too harsh on the victims 😅😂
@@RIDEMusicYT tbf I am constantly surprised by how naive some artists are. Dudes that been in the game for years but don't seem to know or learn much. I mean I get that everyone starts somewhere but jheeze, learn lol. But like I say, some do know really, they're just after a shortcut by getting a cosign. Or frontin like they've got one anyway. Like those dudes who get Cameo videos pretending they're all friends in real life 😂
i've had this happen to me only they were offering me a "Radio deal" so you pay for that then they claim they know somebody working for a record label and they need an additional 500 so you pay that the record never gets released then they claim to have another deal for you from another radio station. It'll cost you about 220. ya Pay that, but all of a sudden the price magically goes up can you get another deal with Iheart Radio only it is it really with them and you pay that you pay and you pay and you pay and you pay until you're bankrupt if you ask me the whole fucking industry is one big scam
Its a good video but no mention of DaBlock365? The company running that shit? The rappers are involved to various degrees. Some just lend their name to it while others like The Game go balls deep cos he's got no problem scamming people. The initial contact comes primarily from a post on the artists social media advertising the (as in 1) upcoming mixtape. And because everyone's a rapper now they are inundated with people clout chasing basically to get that cosign by appearing on it. And like you say, if it was done right it would benefit everyone a lot more. It used to be a legit way of getting your name out. People pay for mixtape slots all the time. Only thing that put me off was I saw two friends post screenshots with the same messages almost word for word off the big name artist. Benny The Butcher dropped 7 of these the same day so yeah there's decent money involved. Meanwhile I was trying to put together a real mixtape, mixed and everything, but couldn't even get 30 bucks off artists. Ironically I was planning to put the money towards real promo and build a brand that would've benefited everyone way more. But I'm not a big enough name and everyone wants a shortcut 🤷♂️
Didn’t come across that company but that’s crazy if they’re running it all. It would make sense tbf. Yeah that’s exactly it, if it was done correctly then it’s fine. It’s just this is fully shady, especially from artists of their size.
Rowdy Rebel Posted a story yesterday saying he’d trying to “sign talent, artists DM your work”. I sent him some songs, he replied and basically said “you have talent, let’s work. You need to build a following and i can help with that, promos, features, intros, etc…just let me know your budget.” at first i was shocked cause I’m from Brooklyn and rowdy rebel and Bobby shmurda are legends to kids like me who grew up listening to them. Me and all of my friends were excited, i reply to him and tell him my budget and he basically said “are you zelle or cash app ready?”. Immediate red flag. You can’t dispute your money through zelle or cashapp, so i was very hesitant. I decided to just leave him on seen because it doesn’t seem genuine cause I’ve seen videos just like this one where rappers scam fans and aspiring artists just like you covered in this video. If he genuinely wanted to sign me and show love, he wouldn’t be discussing money right away. It’s sad how these rappers who we looked up to trying to scam us when they were once in our shoes.
Cassidy got me for $200, the crazy thing is i had met cassidy prior to that. Complete scam. I feel its a company going on to these artists IGs and running the play. Lesson learned.
I did one for Dave East in 2020. I was like the 3rd or 4th song out of like 100. Months after that one Gillie Da Kid had one and took my $300. That tape was never released. 2020 was a scamming season. 😂😂😂
2k for a drop from the game, a video of him listening to my music and 5 ig stories on his ig account leading up to drillmatic is a good look he should have done it... #ijs if I was a music artist I'll would have been resharing that video screen shot the story and running that intro for months and maybe even years...
@@RIDEMusicYT reckon it’s better than a video about John cena 😂 Octavian has had a crazy life from being homeless , his time in singing school, his time being a LV model, having billionaire boys club do it tour merch no one doing that ! and his MASSIVE tracks with skep , asap ferg, almost loosing it all because of some mad bird and dropping his album and climbing his way back up the ladder !!
I’m genuinely working on a self produced compilation album of rappers I consider underrated. I don’t know if there are any rapper reading this, but if you’d like to be a part, I’d love to have you on. No I’m not forcing you to pay anything.
Can I email you? I'm sitting on unreleased material (and a queue of unrecorded songs I'm patiently working my way through). If you don't like my stuff I'll understand, but I have some stuff in the works you might enjoy. 👀
