The narrative you wrote is terrible and if I have to be honest for a veteran to fall for that would be their fault. A person who makes their living off a linguistic art form complaining that they got swindled by big words they didn't understand after being in the game for decades is stupid. No due diligence. We been hearing these stories since the 90's. There's artists out here managing themselves. 50 has a lot of wealth and no management just lawyers. It's when you want to be lazy and delegate duties that you won't learn to someone else that they exploit you. Black of white.
These rappers are struggling because they didn't plan for the future. Chino never sold albums or was major. He was doing small albums deals he could have done on his own. He was touring still. What did he need a cac to come in and swindled him for? When someone like 50 ain't using a manager with much more wealth to manage. Chino didn't have past success to monetize. He has notoriety and respect for his skillet that's why he tours. But there was no career to look back on. Rakim.also refused to deliver on the opportunity Dr. Dre gave him. A Black man, that was his last major label situation.
Let's start being honest about the whole picture. If you been in a game 30+ years and a new dude come with the same old tricks and you bite that on YOU. And this isn't a defence of M-80. We have to stop taking this woe is me Black people are too ignorant to see white predatory business coming at them. Ignorance is a choice. How many generations you want to tell that same story. Like white people wr inherently smarter... Nah
