LiAngelo Ball supposedly signed a deal w/ Def Jam worth as much as $13M, w/ $8M guaranteed

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He should have stayed indie. He hasn't even performed the song yet :mjlol:
Nah he's got too much visibility and 0 training on how to handle the music media and marketing side of things, dude might not have any idea how to structure a song for real or put together a project, let alone have the breathing control to perform that song was running around a stage



With this amount of attention within a few weeks, he definitely needs some type of guidance, he didn't have a gradual rise in popularity and experience like your typical rapper/industry plant. Def Jam definitely isn't the right place but he needed to get himself around a professional team quickly before things got outta hand


Dude's about to be at Rolling Loud and people already expecting a new song AND a remix to tweaker with other rappers and probably a new verse

He's gonna have to speedrun learning how to be an artist or they gonna turn him into a joke meme by next year :hubie:
 

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That's dope for him, but something tells me this was in the making for a while

Because first you have Lonzo telling him he should hoop overseas instead of rapping

Next he has a hit song, penned by Lonzo Ball no less, that went crazy viral

Maybe Def Jam told him they'd sign him if he came up with a hit song?

Either way it's great he stayed true to what he believed in and is now an official artist
 

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this has been in the works for a minute.

You don’t sign an 8 million guaranteed deal like that in a week :mjlol:


This just confirms that the song was Astro-turfed.

This is an artist push on steroids
 

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He should’ve never recorded a song, shyt is garbage :scust:

Y’all nikkas can’t be in your 30’s and 40’s really listening to this shyt :hhh:

The shyt is catchy idk what to tell you. Is he an artist i will follow? No.

Is it something I'll have fun listening to for entertainment and being in the moment while it's viral? Yeah

:manny:
 

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That's beautiful man, hope the kid continues to win. S/o to that blogger that got him to play the song in the original interview.
 
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yall got my nikka The PawgFather furious at this shyt. :dead:



Lavar Ball really fukkin won. :dead:

I’m actually happy as can be

Ate a good breakfast (pancakes with eggs)

Already ran a few errands

Now I’m just outside getting some fresh air and about to eat some lunch

The sun is out today too and it’s a tad bit warmer

I’m good :blessed:
 

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this has been in the works for a minute.

You don’t sign an 8 million guaranteed deal like that in a week :mjlol:


This just confirms that the song was Astro-turfed.

This is an artist push on steroids
Plenty of records have been "ASTRO turfed" and didn't work....people fukk with the song and good job on the management for doing their jobs
 

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this has been in the works for a minute.

You don’t sign an 8 million guaranteed deal like that in a week :mjlol:


This just confirms that the song was Astro-turfed.

This is an artist push on steroids
Everything isn't a conspiracy.

Song legit blew up after somebody shared it trying to clown him and then it ended up going viral and being meme'd to death. You sound miserable

:heh:

He also got an organic push from the NBA players who were just playing the shyt (jokingly or not) for over a week straight... which then leads to TNT and ESPN playing the shyt during their broadcast and the analysts talking about it.
 
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