Hi, blogger here.
I've been blogging since 2011 and have written over 7K articles in my short career. I retired due to losing my passion for writing. Here's how we look at things:
First of all starting a blog is easy but getting a following is hard. I had to write 20 articles a day, EVERYDAY, for 6 months straight just to get up to the level of my first ad deal. So thats 6 months of working for free to get your brand visible to where you're actually building a reader base.
Then I had to write for 6 more months to get a good ad deal with Glam Media, which is one of the biggest and best ad companies out there. But at my visitor levels and the CPM we were getting the blog was making about 1500 a month. decent start.
From there we have expenses such as writers who have to get paid, hosting, premium tools needed to market the blog effectively, money for going to events and networking, etc etc. This adds up to way over $1500.
So heres the truth to why you get charged......YOU'RE NOBODY. If im getting 5K to 10K views PER DAY why should i promote your sub par music for free when you didnt help me get to this point. If you were hot and popping then we would've have written about your song and video as soon as it dropped. Stalley pre MMG and Stalley post MMG has his music treated way differently BECAUSE HE NOW HAS A MARKETABLE BRAND.
Stay with me here.....If your music is hot or you have lots of fans we post it up for free because we need the SEO juice to attract more visitors to the blog. If you're nobody we could potentially get you new fans and exposure so what's wrong with $10 bucks here or there. EVERY BLOG CHARGES MONEY, BUT THEY DONT CHARGE EVERYBODY.
The problem with rap music is no one wants to spend money to promote their craft or music, there's this sense of arrogance that people should automatically fukk with their music just because it's hot to them.....nah playboi if you're shyt aint hot cough up that dough.