Wait a minute, those nigggas selling burned CDs in the parking lot were making millions?

[murksiderock]

nikkas not getting bread in NY or something?

lol

street nikkas touching a quarter mill is common

No it isn't ...

For the record, I don't necessarily buy they quarter mil story but I do believe they were hood rich, it's too many validations of them to say they weren't...

 

[UpThruDere]

When I worked at a warehouse during the bootleg mixtape/dvd era I was making an extra 600-700 a week by supplying everyone there with the latest music, movies, it would especially go crazy when something leaked ahead of time cause folks wasn’t that internet savy

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

When I 1st moved to GA my brother was working at truck stop as a over night cashier basic ass job right. We get to the crib and he tells me to come look. This nikka lift up his mattress he got a stack of work checks. Im looking like wtf breh "I thought you was the smart muhfukka you trying to go to prison like me". I thought he was selling work and saving all his checks from the gas station lmaoooo. This muhfukka say nah "Im selling CDs". He pulled out a old school 90s cd book that could hold like 150 Cds in it of all burned CDs. This nikka started paying me to burn all the CDs for him before he would go to work at night. Now he was getting original copies from Flea markets and stuff at the time we wasnt hip to the internet as far as downloading wise. He used to sell out that whole cd case damn near every other night. Fast forward a few years we on the downloading game now and movies is booming way harder than cds. This is around the time i found SOHH. I came across message boards because of looking for cds to download to sell. I would sell cds and movies myself but majority of the time i was making all of his because that was guaranteed money everyday for me but i tell you no LIE i made more money selling cds and dvds than i did when i was fukking with work that shyt was a goldmine. In my eyes it was legal too cause nobdy wasnt busting people for selling CDs or Dvds that was a wild ass time for me i aint gone cap. My brother wasnt giving no deals either especially on DVDs cause we was having shyt before anybody cause we was downloading for ourself instead of waiting for other bootleg nikkas to sell it to us. I used to joke around all the time and say I used to make more money off of gucci mane cds than he was making his self

This don't even make sense.

Why the fukk would he have a bunch of work checks under his mattress?

 

[RoCKetSity256]

This don't even make sense.

Why the fukk would he have a bunch of work checks under his mattress?

It was 2001 or 2002 he was 18 he wasnt cashing his checks because he didnt need the money because he was making so much off of the bootleg cds.

 

[lib123]

Didn’t they also make a lot of money selling leaked albums before they officially released?

 

[RoCKetSity256]

Didn’t they also make a lot of money selling leaked albums before they officially released?

Alot of things were definitely releasing way early. CDs especially but theatre movies also. I remember we got a screener copy of that Frank Lucas movie almost a month i want to say before it came out in theatres. A screener is basically a dvd copy of the movie no one walking through the camera no audience laughing none of that shyt. shyt was wild it was basically free money back then from the internet you just had to have a little knowledge about where to find shyt to download and how to burn a blank cd or dvd.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

nikkas used to make bank for real.

You just had to live in that era to understand.

 

[Peauxboy]

Bought a box Chevy off this album.

I had it nearly a year before it dropped and taxed tf outta crehs for it at two different high schools, then hit the hood and flooded it.

My lil thalia court potna, wherever you are.

 

[re'up]

He probably was fighting hella viruses downloading them songs lol

LOL yeah he was trying to say something like that, he was stumbling and mumbling trying to get more money and I just threw him $5 and walked off

why did I even do my homie like that I don't know, but I was kinda subtly flexing

but like a year after we were best friends for about 22 years until he died

 

[KidJSoul]

Any modern day equivalent hustle?

 

[Wild self]

Any modern day equivalent hustle?

Outside of SCAMMING, nope.

That's why Gen Z and Gen-Alpha have zero drive to makw money. Technology dried up a lot of hustles.

 

[Still Benefited]

Had my first start up business with the help of Bearshare. Making mix cds for 5$ a pop,and a spindle of blank cds didnt cost that much from what i remember

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Any modern day equivalent hustle?

Software and video games, but not like it used to be. I used to get $50-100 for copies of Microsoft Office, PS1 games were $10-20. The real money was in music software like Ableton, Cubase, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cakewalk, etc. They normally sold for upwards of $300-$1,000. I sold 'em for $100-500 and threw in plug-ins for free.

Alcohol 120% + Newsgroups + CD/DVD burner = $$$$$​

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

Used to generate song lists in html with Winamp, print it out, have my mom distribute it to her friends at work, they return it with the 16 songs they want. Young Ackbar charged $20 a CD

Made $5k before that 4x CD-RW from GameStop failed.

 

[KidJSoul]

Outside of SCAMMING, nope.

That's why Gen Z and Gen-Alpha have zero drive to makw money. Technology dried up a lot of hustles.

Damn