He Never Sold His Soul.. And Still Made $50 Million 

You know we will dw king

I am now dying of dehydration due to the fact that you did not remind me to drink water

Real playas mess up

I am currently dehydrated

They got to him...

The perfect example?? 😆

This is textbook business peripheral vision instead of getting lost in the rapper sauce he had his head on a swivel and was well positioned for the opportunity when it presented itself.

@A Vibe Called Yes Dope name👌..Nah I'm not hating tho, good Monday

@@jfreeman3978 and? Money more important than fame.

Chamillionaire is possibly the smartest one-hit wonder in history. You will never hear Snow or Gerardo being as successful as Chamilllionare in business.

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give me a huge hit like that and all of a sudden ill become a "genius"

@@JREwithin you can make money off a hit but how you gonna make it grow ?

@@elhadji13 Exactly. investing isn't as easy as some people think.

@@JREwithin give you a huge hit? No One gave him his huge hits buddy. He earned it. Fucking moron.

I personally never understood why being a one-hit-wonder was so bad. I mean, that's one hit more than most people will ever get and if you're clever you can make a comfortable living off of one hit. Lou Bega for example had a world wide hit with "Mambo Number 5", and I am pretty sure he still receives paychecks because of that song. He once said in an interview that he can now do whatever he wants and do the music he wants to do, even if it isn't successful in any way, that one hit will pay for it.

If you know the Houston scene also. He parlayed the millionaire stuck in Texas life style for expansion. His mixtapes we classic and he was one of the best lyricist and melodically sound.

Facts. He had a lot of collabs with other artist that did extremely well

Thank you sir I was just about to say this man a legend so a 1 hit wonder doesn’t even come close to this man

Exactly, I never knew about his businesses but he made great songs independently.

Well said

& what is the difference?

@@DoPeMaN60 I want to know that too

Yeah he's smart

@@DoPeMaN60 Spelling.

I know Ashton isn't "rap" cool but anyone smart would kill to have Ashton's business sense in addition to helping stopping sex trafficking. The guy does tons. 💯💯

Lil Durk comes to mind, he’s got a successful trucking company on the side as well.

@@wesstewart2677 I haven’t looked into him. Im rather “old” & hadn’t heard of him but I will now.

@@DapperCracker512 Not only that, he worked to help get a murderer put behind bars. He has the burden of being the last person to see one of his dates alive. She was murdered later on the same night by a sick man, and Ashton was able to recall many details, work with authorities, and have her killer brought to Justice.

@@FigmentForever I’m not necessarily a fan of the guy. But I respect his hustle.

I feel like most rappers should follow this step

@@chuyozuna2398 yes but most rappers dont think. They just wanna look cool and spend money to flex. They care too much about their reputation. They only think about now and not the future. Plus lets be honest, there are some really dumb rappers in the game.

“They tryna catch me riding dirty!” Guess they never caught him. Congrats 💪🏾💯

@@kevinsaviro2708 you must be a rapper yourself with how much you know about how they feel huh?

@@kairyuubird lol why you dickriding rappers?

What about Trump before presidency. Wasn't he a billionaire businessman. But didn't he declare bankruptcy twice, lmao!?

@@anthonyherring6636 Yeah he's still a billionaire and bankruptcy isn't illegal, what's your point?

Trump was a billionaire and a media personality at the same time.

What about me’ you never heard of me Does that make me a millionaire Where they do that at

@@blockablockflam5089 Nah see you're asking for validation so we know you ain't rich

Right, I never knew. Such a smart man. He stuck to what he wanted to do and excelled. It’s amazing and also a shame that so many other men and women feel like they can’t do this because they are not opening there minds to see it

I got the same thing on my comment

@@rockerjakerful an imposter among us

Unlike lil wayne hahaha

Facts

Which is so ironic that his rap name is Chamillionaire

it's all about what you do with that money & fame!

i think this video showed more how much you can do with it if you are smart, with just the song he wouldn't be worth a fraction of what he is now if not for his intelligence and moving on from clout chasing and club fame when he realized how greedy the record labels were and how much easier it was to make money if you invest it vs spending it and hoping on another hit record.

Only if smoke purp followed his footsteps 🤣💩🖕👎

@@PatrickCc what will you do with you money and fame? Will you make the same mistakes as others or follow in chamillionaires shoes?

Yo I think he has more than $50 mill in investments.

Depending on how big his stake was and how his other investments have performed. Tech investing is a hit or miss business.

All your investments won't work out. U might have 2 winners and 8 losers. But those 2 winners will make up for those 8 losers and then some. That's how VC's look at it.

@@Mr_JRH Yeah that's it. The average yearly returns should be around 40% (very roughly because it's extremely volatile) and not the 700% you see on specific companies because you don't want to bet it all on one investment

@PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz maybe you should follow their lead 🤔 you'd be a RU-vid millionaire

@PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz you went way off topic.... start your millionaire journey

He might be paying them so we don’t know is a billionaire

At the same time, it's none of our business.

@@albertvnguyen He make a smart move

He is way richer than that. Dude invested in big tech before they blew up. I wouldn’t be surprised if he probably is close to a billion net.

true all net worths are low balled like akademiks said lilbabyhas made 100million but his networth is 10 million tho the website said the same years ago

Houstonian Jesus Christ you live in a state in America called Texas Jesus idk why people come up with these stupid titles for where there from

@@perrycoffey5410 It's a such a common concept in all major cities. Have you never heard of a new Yorker ? As a citizen of Houston it's thrown around all the time

Hi Garou

Lil wayne should be doing this after all they claim he is the best rapper of all time 😄 🤣 😂 😆

I urge young people to further look at the people you study in your respective fields. Buffet's investing acumen may be well respected but realize the era he came from and his father being a politician helped him create 'smarter' investments where it was ideal to buy low/sell high. Chamillionaire's situation is one where the deck was stacked against him but used his business sense to not get screwed in typical arrangement that artists have with the record label industry. Not just that but also tap into businesses that he was already utilizing (social media, platform business models).

Buffet is ....fucking....... Boring...... so yeah... Schools need to get up to speed on true innovators and big thinkers.

chamillionaire and akon 101

I forget the song but he said "Ima do like master P. Just make all my cash then leave." Genuinly disappointed when he stopped rapping. Was my favourite rapper for a bit there.

@@Traxtal He is the only rapper I still like. He has a GREAT verse in the song with Tobe NWigwe. He hasn't lost a single step. Came out a couple months ago.

@@TheBajamin yea I seen it. That verse was sick! I was so happy to see that 1. Even though he left rap for a bit he can still hold his own. And 2 its possible he could come back.

@@Traxtal That track is called "I'm on it".. Do it just like Master P, just get all your cash and leave, ya'll know where Imma be the next time you as for mee.. Hustle all night, hustle all day, Imma always be on time when my money call me. 🔥🔥🔥

This is my world from major pain 1.5 is one of my favorite songs of all time, he really had some great songs on his mixtapes

Already Chamilitarymayne

It's hard to even hear knowing the real underground history.

In love with my moneyyyyy

straight up. one of the best to do it bars wise

SO DISRESPECTFUL...

He does a very good job of humanizing the subjects of his videos helping you to relate to these people you otherwise might not

Yep. It's about being wise and sagacious with the money you earn.

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N u don't have nothing to say about him being called a one hit wonder? You not no houstonian that shit egregious

@@BBOFWOLFGANG 👍

Yea one hit wonder on a global scale but man I loved Chamillionaire when I was growing up in Texas. All I jammed in high school. Get ya mind correct, mixtape messiah 1-7, controversy sells, even the swish’s house tapes he was on like blue light special and Homer Pimpson

@@Credit87 Exactly, he was not a one hit wonder. Just because someone is not popular don’t not mean they are new to the game.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaah 🍾🥂

Ikr

@@CreepUrban I remember that song turn it up with Flip that song was fire

Man I can name at least 30 tracks off the top of my head. Even if I wasn't from Houston, I would have been hooked on his music had I heard Get Ya Mind Correct

Legendary body of work

Facts. Mixtape Messiah series and SOR and Ultimate Victory are too fire

Took the OATH like everyone ELSE. You DON’T make 50 million of the devils money without his consent. Wake up people! The prince hall freemasons and the college frats are the KKK!

u just saying anything bru 💀

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what an inspring and relatable quote

This is a crazy comment

They was in an group together wow

Paul and Cham Get Yo Mind Correct is an amazing album

Aww they didn't tell you last time yous caught up??haha bummer

him and paul wall even had a joint album together when they were part of swisha house

Wow I remember before riding dirty I remember his website I can quote all his mixtape messiah 1 all 3 disc still even tho it's been many since it's crazy because he was once my favorite rapper he stood on bizness salutes to da homie

The moment I heard he had a JV with Universal where he didn't get screwed like many artists who signed with a music label, I knew he was gonna eat better than most. Problem with some of the rappers coming in young in that relationship is they don't realize how screwed they are. They don't even own their masters and the bigger the hits they make, the more the label just rakes in and the artists get the crumbs with what motivation they have to pump out yet another hit.

@PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz Why do you keep copying and pasting this. You obviously aren't black so there's alot of things you don't know about black culture. Music or otherwise 🤔

Listen to all his old xixtapes, you'll see how smart and ahead of the game he's always been. on his album he has a verse that goes "You run when they tell you to, but I move when I'm ready to, If you stop to take a breather, you'll see that I'm light years ahead of you".. He wasn't lying 🔥🔥

Took the OATH like everyone ELSE. You DON’T make 50 million of the devils money without his consent. Wake up people! The prince hall freemasons and the college frats are the KKK!

But those Rappers are One Million times Smarter than YOU !

@@bobgrayson6220 huh

A lot of times that's the original goal, but they become distracted once the fame gets to their dome piece lol It's hard to focus when you're given the world in a short period of time. I've always gotten mad at rappers that "sellout" and I still do lol But I can sometimes understand how hard it is to choose integrity over quick money.

@@professorXcross too bad lil wayne couldn't do this with all that money they claim they are making

definitely a billionaire by now

I agree he most likely knows how to put his money elsewhere where the tax man cant see

Of course he knew. 🤦‍♂️

Faxxx

Nigerians dey hustle no be lie

Took it out of my mouth, no be small thing, my guy

Facts 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Naija no da carry last when it comes to hustling

I have to agree with you bro, his last two EPs were fire and he sold them directly from his website. I used to hang out with his other fans on the site, it was better than Fb and Twitter combined!

He wasn't a one hit wonder. He only had 1 mainstream hit but his 2 albums did well, plus all the mixtape content he put out during his peak. Probably figured out show money is where his money was.

Facts bro!

@@kwanelletarywalker6187 facts

@PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz What the fuck were you trying to say here? Did you have a stroke?

You should already recognize "See me rollin', they hatin'", thats his biggest song and is still relevant as a meme.

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There are only a handful of celebrities and famous people who I religiously follow, Cham is one of them. His music has always put me in the mood to want to make some money.

Facts I drink so much more water thanks to him

Meow 😸

Turn it up with Lil flip was great. But all his songs and mixtapes are great

Mixtape messiah's wrecked!!

All 7....@@PureWater3950

@PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz stop copy pasting bruh

@PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz So you're saying free R Kelly?

your welcome

@@PatrickCc you're* bro

@@gotsnoname 💀💀