"I'm DONE With The Hip-Hop Game. Bruh, I'm A Grown Ass Man." - Waka Flocka

[Dreamzeedream]

there's no money in rapping anymore unless you stay on the road 200 days out of the year

I dont think that's true

 

[Booker T Garvey]

I dont think that's true

How else do you think they make money? Nobody’s buying albums anymore, then take an artist like lil boosie - who’s using his music in commercials and movie trailers?

 

[Dreamzeedream]

How else do you think they make money? Nobody’s buying albums anymore, then take an artist like lil boosie - who’s using his music in commercials and movie trailers?

Shows,features,merchandise,youtube/iTunes. Endorsements
. Shut If you get paid between. 4 to 6 dollars per album sale and you move 10,000 units that's 40 to 60 bands right there if u independent

 

[Gator48]

He bout to put his geometry degree to use...

 

[---]

Step daddy of the year ass nikka shoulda never been apart of the game any fukkin way.
Him and his boy Gucci contributed nothing but fukking the game up for generations to come.

No classic albums no gems just all fukkery, fake gang bangin,stupidity and low level clown shyt.
Oh let's do it ass nikka.

Chill on that Gucci stuff breh! Going a bit far there.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Shows,features,merchandise,youtube/iTunes. Endorsements
. Shut If you get paid between. 4 to 6 dollars per album sale and you move 10,000 units that's 40 to 60 bands right there if u independent

Bruh....you opened your own statement with SHOWS

Everything you said are just different ways for them to make money, this doesn’t mean they’re lucrative and definitely not consistent

Nah bruh, Quincy Jones said this is now the concert industry and he was right - this is also why these rappers are having all these health issues, they’re on the road too much

 

[SadimirPutin]

He made his money and is off the scene and or irrelevant now

Sounds like a win....invest, travel, indulge a hobby

 

[Harry B]

Because they aggressively tour

Calvin Harris makes $1 million per show for his Vegas residency

He only performs once a week

Jay z and beyonce did like 4 tours in 2 years to earn what they did, where as calvin Harris will earn almost as much as they did in 2 years, just by doing 1 show a week and a couple festivals

If he toured as aggressively as they do then he would make more than them

On top of that, Calvin harris is signed to Jay z iirc which means part of Jays earnings come from calvin Harris

And there are plenty more factors at play besides the raw face value numbers

Their tour made 5.3 million per date, quarter billion in 4 months. What happened to facts

 

[xCivicx]

Their tour made 5.3 million per date, quarter billion in 4 months. What happened to facts

And they dont see the majority of that

Which is why you shouldn't let face value numbers confuse you

250 million in 4 months yet jay made 70 million for the year, a fact that YOU posted

As I said, we can get into more specifics if you want to though

 

[xCivicx]

Shows,features,merchandise,youtube/iTunes. Endorsements
. Shut If you get paid between. 4 to 6 dollars per album sale and you move 10,000 units that's 40 to 60 bands right there if u independent

And you gotta pay an for sample clearances, your entourage, security, and apparently its rapper culture to throw money away at strip clubs

 

[Harry B]

And they dont see the majority of that

Which is why you shouldn't let face value numbers confuse you

250 million in 4 months yet jay made 70 million for the year, a fact that YOU posted

As I said, we can get into more specifics if you want to though

The 70 was before the tour. Most of the money was from his own 444 tour, which made 50 million in less than two months, according to Forbes.

Point is still that the top African American rappers made 140 million bucks more than the top dj’s from every continent, most of them not American. You can spin Calvin Harris how much you want, just add some facts before you try to give advise to the public.

 

[xCivicx]

The 70 was before the tour.

Point is still that the top African American rappers made 140 million bucks more than the top dj’s. You can spin Calvin Harris how much you want, just add some facts before you try to give advise to the public.

The first OTR tour made a similar amount...

The facts are the venues/overhead take the majority of what rappers pull in on tour, which is why they tour so much

They HAVE to make that much to be profitable

Again, calvin/tiesto/the chainsmokers each do 1 show a week and make what it takes them weeks to pull in. These are the facts, whether you wanna accept them or not

Gross and net profit are 2 completely different things. You should probably learn what they each mean

 

[Harry B]

The facts are the venues taken the majority of what rappers pull in on tour, which is why they tour so much

They HAVE to make that much to be profitable

Again, calvin/tiesto/the chainsmokers each do 1 show a week and make what it takes them weeks to pull in. These are the facts, whether you wanna accept them or not

Gross and net profit are 2 completely different things. You should probably learn what they each mean

Jay and B could do a show per week too, but they don’t want to be resident artists in Vegas. They want to live normal lives with their family for 8-10 months or more.

Again spin what you want, top African American rappers from the hood made 150 million bucks more than the top dj’s from every continent.

 

[xCivicx]

Jay and B could do a show per week too, but they don’t want to be resident artists in Vegas. They want to live normal lives with their family for 8-10 months or more.

Again spin what you want, top African American rappers from the hood made 150 million bucks more than the top dj’s from every continent.

No they couldn't lol

Feel free to name a rapper with a Vegas residency. I'll wait

And again, rappers paid venues hundreds of millions of dollars to perform and get a check whereas djs work less and get more for it. Facts

 

[xCivicx]

Also, how does doing 1 show a week in Vegas prevent a person from being with their family in a way which is worse than doing multiple tours in one year?

@Harry B