Russ Refutes DaBaby's Claims of Being Blackballed 

That not true. I’m a real fan of many artist but I’m not buying albums or merch. The exception and first artist I’ve bought merch from is Larry June and that because the merch is actually appealing.

@@Bylug706 you are a piece of shit and are part of the problem. value your favorite artists or no one will

@@Bylug706 why wouldn’t you buy your favs album 🫣

@@Bylug706 lol you’re not as big of a fan as you think

@@Bylug706 you're not a core fan then

This is true. I have been on waitlists for merch for Griselda since 2017 since they put the work in and made it worth while me being on the lists. I put down payments on merch since the merch is worth while. You need fan worthy art to have fans.

Damn

I'm your #1 fan. Willpower is the best!

It's very hard to be a hardcore fan of the product he serves to fans, his music ain't timeless

that's funny cause I'm a fan of him way more than I am a listener

@@tekken9476 it's entertainment and he brings a back a lot of the aspects of rap entertainment that we haven't gotten in awhile

not if you a fan of a bunch of artists you not going to check every page everyday. facebook did this shit when they made it so you had to pay to promote a post so it would reach all your fans on your page.

@@jamiemoore1989 you dont need to check it everyday especially if we talking about catching product releases ... as long as the fan checks your page atleast once a week or even 2 weeks heck even once a month can be sufficient ... thats enough to keep up with whats going on and not have things hidden from you because of any algorithm ... imo this only impacts the NON-fans that you maybe able to catch without having advertisements smacking them in the face everyday multiple times a day .... and imo alot of artist and/or labels rely on this sort of promotion because alot of thier artist dont have a real audience and/or fanbase to start with ... alot of artist have been surviving not because of thier fans but because of how far of reach and how many people thier marketing and promo touches ...

@@jamiemoore1989 you got artist like the dababy who i think recently got exposed for this ... i hear his music everywhere but i dont personally play any of his songs outside maybe a coupple of features and i dont hear or know anyone that plays his music like that .... but to see his recent sales ... those numbers make sense to what i hear .... similar to alot of other mainstream artist where you see them all the time on commericial tv and radio ... but in real life they dont exist anywhere you go or turn ...i used to feel the sameway about young thug ... like who really listens to this guy but! his records sales have ALWAYS reflected that ... but he was the first i noticed this with because his numbers were never inflated ... yet this guy was everywhere and was on everyones song etc ...

@@jamiemoore1989 yes you can social media literally show you more from the people you like.

Hold on there son. The quality suffered when the internet came along and the "masses" where about to pick and chose who they listened to. Back when labels where the "Gatekeepers" they only were giving deals to the cream of talent out there.

@@cnsmooth had nothing to do with talent. It was all politics most of the time. Most of them were industry plants getting built up to be better than they actually were

And Youngboy

Especially when you have a following

He’s talented and worked hard but if he was a black artist he wouldn’t have the same success. He’s an anomaly

@@youngprophet5138 that's nonsense? Chance was following the same blueprint and having MORE success than Russ but he stopped working and fell off

❤❤💚💚💜💜

@@youngprophet5138 It just depends on the type of black artist

And just because you have a million fans do not mean everybody a fan. I like looking at dababy content on social media but I don’t listen to his music

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Most people heard mood music for free though to be honest. However someone big like prince took his shit to the web and never looked back

@@cnsmooth that’s another method releasing free material and appealing to the have nots so when you do drop something of value ya fans go cop it off the strength . Now with dsps sites like Datpiff don’t provide that method anymore but a lot of free content will make you skyrocket if it’s quality content

@@cnsmooth that’s another method releasing free material and appealing to the have nots so when you do drop something of value ya fans go cop it off the strength . Now with dsps sites like Datpiff don’t provide that method anymore but a lot of free content will make you skyrocket if it’s quality content

No many popular podcast yt shows do this. Nobody does more than Shannon Sharpe. That mf release 30 two min clips per show

Not at all. He's been doing this for years.

There are too many platforms . That is very possible for 1 but if you gettin that treatment from EVERY platform . You need to check yourself 😂.

@@handz2k_ 😂

OR MAYBE, JUST MAYBE. YOUR PRODUCT YOU PRESENTING TO US IS TRASH/GARBAGE/DODOO. Why we acting like DaBaby was the second coming of Drake

Joe forgot to mention that he was nearing 1M a year ago then he had that public falling out with Mal and Rory and a bunch of people unsubscribed from his shit...which is why he didn't hit that mark. He is trying to blame algorithms for his channel taking a hit when he did it himself

Bro you not making any sense

how lol he said this like 4 days ago?

He's been preaching to the choir for a while now

@@tannert7694 what I meant was he's said something similar before baby shit

Exactly

Exactly!! The real issue is the type of music you make.

they both make 🗑 music

@@LL-dj3uj there is plenty of great mainstream music lol

Exactly. Russ will always have a fanbase dababy makes come and go music

That’s legit how most fanbases are created now though . Mostly Every xxl freshman list recently has artists that are unfamiliar to the masses but got selected because they got 100k followers on RU-vid , SoundCloud , or 1 million plays etc . Labels don’t make artists anymore they only magnify them .

Trust me…if you’re a REAL fan you know when your favs are dropping and probably sitting at the phone at 11:59pm for that midnight drop 😂 he just doesn’t have CORE fans

Almost had a heart attack seeing Parks

True because he’s independent. And yet he has 17 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. He doesn’t get radio, Dababy does and still can’t retain actual fans. Imagine if Russ did get radio😂

@@brytonmunro5270 100

I found Russ by a interview Instant fan Jus due to hes a real dude

6:59 8:45

Yes the industry (specifically media) tried to blackball X HARD. Artists fucked with him but couldn't publicly support, even after he died. NOWADAYS it's a bit different since the internet's hate for him has subsided a great deal in the public's conscience, but yes he very much was (and still is) 'blackballed' - but his crackhead fanbase + undeniable talent/influence made it utterly impossible for the industry to just blot him out. Artists with diehard fans will always eat + be successful without the 'industry'. Acts like X and the Griselda cats are great examples of that. Dababy has done nothing to curry favor + build a fanbase - nigga is just hostile and unapproachable. Why would anyone want to support him and his antics + bad music? Man's career was completely dependent on his sex appeal to white men + women💀

Why was she blackballed?

I’m not a fan but it was definitely on Apple.

That is 1 platform. When they release albums usually they go to everything . Apple , Spotify , RU-vid , etc . Her music not showing up on Spotify don’t mean she was blackballed . Her fans could’ve easily went to the other platforms

She was not blackballed

Because Russ is saying something. He’s telling artists to stop complaining when their streams are down because they don’t have real fans and rely on playlists that they don’t own and are created entirely based on the owners music preference. He simply didn’t make the cut because it’s not good enough, and because he doesn’t have a real fan base, he suffers and needs that. That’s it, that’s all.

That’s extremely small minded of you. It’s interesting how people still separate colour.

Literally 17 million people monthly on Spotify alone. 20,000 stadium in Saudi…. Sold out shows all over the world… what exactly are you trying to do here? I’ll answer that. You’re hating just because you can and because you think it makes you unique; it doesn’t. You’re entitled to an opinion on his music IF YOU’VE HEARD IT, but you’re not entitled to any opinion that you’ve taken absolutely no time to contextualize and educate yourself on.

@@brytonmunro5270 sorry man didn't mean to disrespect your boyfriend

@@brytonmunro5270 I bet you wouldn't even go that hard for your own father

Your reply is called ‘deflection’ and its a technique used when you’re unable to emotional and intellectually have a conversation. It has no effect on me. Facts are facts, and I’ll share them with uneducated people. I can’t choose how they take it.

@@brytonmunro5270 your unhealthy borderline homosexual admiration for another man you don't even know is called infatuation. Usually occurs when losers such as yourself who have no life nor accomplishments of your own lives vicariously through the life of others in an attempt to take your mind off of the nothing of a life and stress you have created for yourself. I won't hold it against you though. See it through my boy