Maybe it’s cuz I was a kid so I just assumed they were dusty begging nikkas one step above a panhandler
Whole time they was making thousands a week?
Whole time they was making thousands a week?
Wait a minute, those nigggas selling burned CDs in the parking lot were making millions?
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Ask Master P he will tel you
Solomon Lurke
My Boys Dey Be Lurkin...
Never made millions but I had a run of making burned CDs and DVDs and it was definitely lucrative. Only really took orders from people was never just out but word spread quick. Didn’t match my firestick hustle but definitely really good side money and I didn’t put in maximum effort.
He was making so much, he made the record deal of the century because he wasnt thirsting for advance money. Didn’t he say he got 85%?
Dark Knyght
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Yeah, it virtually cost them nothing. Just 11.99 for pack of 50 Blank CDs. Then use limewire to download music to put on CDs. Then sell for $10 each. That's $488 straight profit. This was also the mixtape era, where the whole hood was listening to mixtapes and bootleg albums.
Also if you was the ringtone man that added custom ringtones to people's nextels and sidekicks. You was making bank. Both situations tax-free.
Also if you was the ringtone man that added custom ringtones to people's nextels and sidekicks. You was making bank. Both situations tax-free.
How long it took to make a cd?
Nipsey and Sam had respect/clout from the streets already... people were going to support them. Most cats were closer to what you imagined than making 6/7 figures from CDs and DVDs.
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Majestyx
Duck Season
20 min.. Nero used to hold a breh down
run dual burners, 2 cd's at a time
burning cd's/dvds. addicted to porn nikkas would be the main DVD customers. then modding xboxes and burning xbox games.. if you was in a hood, and/or around a college, one could eat pretty decent
BmoreGorilla
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Same here breh. I was selling burned CDs in the early 2000s and that shyt was easy money. And we didn’t even have the artwork. All we did was take a sharpie and write the name of the albums and mixtapes on the CDs
BmoreGorilla
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Start up cost was nothing. I think a stack of blank CDs ran about $10. Made that back selling two CDs
What years was this?
And what was your start up cost
Solomon Lurke
My Boys Dey Be Lurkin...
I’m terrible with remembering things in years but one anchor memory is when Jay Z blueprint dropped. Remember it coming out early and everyone wanting it. Was already in it by then. I was early with having a CD burner installed in my computer. I believe my internal burner costed like 150-200 at that time. Then some of my people had a cd burning tower we used for bigger runs. Mainly I was just dealing with single burns though. I found a niche with older people who wanted classic R&B and soul stuff. Would just take orders directly for all the CDs they wanted or find stuff they’d be looking for.
What years was this?
And what was your start up cost
Dark Knyght
All Star
It depends how it was done and the amount of songs being transferred. Originally there were CDs burners, that you would put a CD in and copy it from CD to CD and had to basically copy the whole CD. That's would take a while, up to 45 minutes to an hour each CD. Then when the formats went to mp3s aka became digital you could pick and choose what songs you wanted to copy, and the process took 10-15mins. Again depending on how big the song files were for each song. Higher quality songs and longer songs contained for data to be transferred. Also, depends on the specs of your computer/ laptop.
Lord_nikon
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20 min.. Nero used to hold a breh down
run dual burners, 2 cd's at a time
burning cd's/dvds. addicted to porn nikkas would be the main DVD customers. then modding xboxes and burning xbox games.. if you was in a hood, and/or around a college, one could eat pretty decent
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