How do all of the washed up rappers pay their bills?

[ridge]

They tour canada and Europe and sell verses to shytty canadian/euro rappers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5en927Nca9E

Perfect example

 

[semicko82]

What about producers like Rick rock or megahertz

 

[NvrCMyNut]

They tour canada and Europe and sell verses to shytty canadian/euro rappers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5en927Nca9E

Perfect example

Rugga still spittin

 

[Sunalmighty]

Don't know about the other 2, but it's pretty well known that Cappadonna was driving a cab

I remember that. He even had a phone number so people could call and make donations or just say peace. I called once and a chick answered the jack and said "Love is Love"

 

[TEKBEATZ]

 

[CrimsonTider]

Someone like Cassidy can shows and make decent money.

Doubt it

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Is there money to be made investing in studios for recording? I'm assuming if you build a couple of them and charge by the hour you could make a nice little income on the side.

Stick to what you know friend. Home studios today consist of a laptop and mic. Home recording has never been easier/more popular.

That's like investing in newspaper and magazines in 2014

 

[scuba]

Stick to what you know friend. Home studios today consist of a laptop and mic. Home recording has never been easier/more popular.

That's like investing in newspaper and magazines in 2014

You can still make money owning studios but it requires that you aim higher. At this point the expertise of your engineers is really what the money is for.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

You can still make money owning studios but it requires that you aim higher. At this point the expertise of your engineers is really what the money is for.

GOOD Engineers would pretty much be the only reason I agree.

 

[hustlemania]

Most people don't. Medium income numbers are skewed tremendously because of the extremely rich kinda throw off proper calculations.

If you make 1K a show and only do 4 shows a month, you living better than the majority of this country

exactly.. 3-4k/mo.. to perform for possibly 6hrs total.. thats a come-up.. no way around it..

 

[Squirtle]

Rugga still spittin

That niko dusty guy was horrible though.

 

[Bald Head Ba$tard]

shyt, what about the nikkaz out now that'll be dead azz broke by 2020?

that 360 deal puttin mofos in the cobra clutch

at least older vets can still do shows. they may not do huge arenas like before, but they'll still be eating. DMX still doing shows even tho he ain't getting nearly as much as he used to in his prime years now.

 

[TripleAgent]

dont know whether thats good or bad

*i'm hella faded right now so dont mind me*

A lot of people live on less than 1500 per month. Sounds good to me.

 

[Insensitive]

they get booked in Europe, lol. anybody who has any sort of knowledge about the inner workings of rap knows this is how these crusty, dusty, washed up mc's pay their rent, they get show dates in europe. over here a lot of these cats are dead to us, but over in Europe them oblivious white people worship these american rappers

Not just rappers or Hip Hop, American music that's long fell out of popularity here still gets
decent pull in other countries and I think it's got more to do with a genuine respect/love
for our music which is treated more like casual consumption here in America. And that isn't
to disregard the die hard's here in America, they go hard too but they're in fewer number
in comparison to their European counter parts. Of course both groups in general are fewer in number
than those who drive the pop charts.

 

[Uncle Phil 36]

Top dollar but not 300k. More like 100-150k for domestic shows.

Lupe Fiasco came to my school and he got 45k, Wayne is getting way more than 100-150