Why don't more rappers make music the average guy can relate to?

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

They are entertaining? A lot of them are extremely talented at one particular thing that is entertaining? Some of them are just very interesting to a lot of people for unknown reasons like Kim Kardashian. But most times it's the first reasons.

I don't want to dance with you breh. You know exactly what I'm getting at. If it was just for the reasons you suggested, programs like MTV's Cribs wouldn't exist

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

Wait a minute, Blackthoughts is the T/S?

You ask a question and then get mad at someone cos you don't like the answer? you couldn't make it up if you tried folks

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Define "the average rapper"
If you're talking about an unknown rapper putting vids up on Youtube and free albums through .org websites, then yeah

But if you're talking about relatively known rappers, even someone who floats around in the underground but grinds with touring, I doubt dentists make TRIPLE what they earn.
It all depends on how good you are, the experience, and competence anyways. There's more dentists then there are professional rappers, so I wouldn't compare a secure job like that to a musical act working off scraps

If you look at LHHA and seen how Lil Scrappy was living I would use that as an example of how the average rapper is living. The average rapper is not the CEO of his own label and ain't platinum. Even if they luck up and go gold less than a handful can duplicate that success. It's probably 10 "Rich" rappers on the planet. The rest live next door to Dentists and Engineers and those types of ppl. Even Chris Rock made a joke in his last special about how he put in years of work in Hollywood and his next door neighbor is a white dentist.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Wait a minute, Blackthoughts is the T/S?

You ask a question and then get mad at someone cos you don't like the answer? you couldn't make it up if you tried folks

Where did I get mad in this thread? You Britts need to brush ya teeth and leave dem drugs alone.

 

[45123]

If you look at LHHA and seen how Lil Scrappy was living I would use that as an example of how the average rapper is living. The average rapper is not the CEO of his own label and ain't platinum. Even if they luck up and go gold less than a handful can duplicate that success. It's probably 10 "Rich" rappers on the planet. The rest live next door to Dentists and Engineers and those types of ppl. Even Chris Rock made a joke in his last special about how he put in years of work in Hollywood and his next door neighbor is a white dentist.

I wouldn't take a satirical joke in a Chris Rock HBO special as an example though lolz

Being a rapper is the same as running a business
You can't compare a businessman's salary to a dentist's, a dentist has a constant flow of income (depending on their practice), while a businessman has to maintain, support, and build, which is a rapper's same routine. Lil Scrappy and them were probably shytty businessmen or had shytty agents Mac Miller sold 145k independent, that's almost half a millie. Curren$y is stacked from building off mixtapes.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

I wouldn't take a satirical joke in a Chris Rock HBO special as an example though lolz

Being a rapper is the same as running a business
You can't compare a businessman's salary to a dentist's, a dentist has a constant flow of income (depending on their practice), while a businessman has to maintain, support, and build, which is a rapper's same routine. Lil Scrappy and them were probably shytty businessmen or had shytty agents Mac Miller sold 145k independent, that's almost half a millie.

You would name the only successful independent artist in hiphop. In the course of 5 years im willing to bet a dentist lives better than 95% of the rappers with a major deal.

 

[Harry B]

I don't want to dance with you breh. You know exactly what I'm getting at. If it was just for the reasons you suggested, programs like MTV's Cribs wouldn't exist

Everyone wants to be rich, but everyone is not aspiring to be rich.
Just like everyone probably wouldn't say no to be as good at basketball as Lebron if they got it for free but they are not aspiring or maybe even interested in basket. Everyone would probably wanna go to the moon, but no one is aspiring to go to the moon.

I seriously don't get what you mean, I understand if you say that everyone wants to be rich but not that everyone is aspiring to be rich.

 

[45123]

You would name the only successful independent artist in hiphop. In the course of 5 years im willing to be a dentist lives better than 95% of the rappers with a major deal.

Yes, because like I said, a dentist has a constant flow of income, a rapper has to groom and maintain. Everybody falls off sometime, you think 50 & Jay would be topping Forbes lists if they weren't savvy businessmen

Plus, Mac Miller is the only example I know of, I'm really not sure of how much other independent artists are making

 

[DameDawgy]

We all fu(k with Phonte in this thread right?

Co-sign, one of the most relatable rappers out there.

[ame=http://youtu.be/HH9vR_iJOqU]PHONTE - The Good Fight (Official Music Video directed by Kenneth Price) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Have you ever heard of the blues? What do you think rap music was primarily about prior to the No limit-Cashmoney era? The foundation of rap music was laid down by this song. Listen to it and tell me hiphop was supposed to be about rapping as if everybody can live like Mitt Romney.

Grandmaster Flash - The Message - YouTube

Pretty much everything in this post is factually wrong...you ain't gonna make up fictional alternate histories of the origins of hip hop to attempt to prove a point

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Yes, because like I said, a dentist has a constant flow of income, a rapper has to groom and maintain. Everybody falls off sometime, you think 50 & Jay would be topping Forbes lists if they weren't savvy businessmen

Plus, Mac Miller is the only example I know of, I'm really not sure of how much other independent artists are making

They top the forbes list because they tour alot based on the records they sold. It's not like they top it like Dr.Dre and Puffy do by not touring and make the list based on their side hustles. I know they both done big things in business im just saying record sales is what got them where they are not their business acumen. Neither guy owns anything of significance as far as business goes.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Pretty much everything in this post is factually wrong...you ain't gonna make up fictional alternate histories of the origins of hip hop to attempt to prove a point

So what did I say that was wrong?

 

[Harry B]

Yes, because like I said, a dentist has a constant flow of income, a rapper has to groom and maintain. Everybody falls off sometime, you think 50 & Jay would be topping Forbes lists if they weren't savvy businessmen

Plus, Mac Miller is the only example I know of, I'm really not sure of how much other independent artists are making

A rapper could transform his experience, contacts and fame into a constant flow of income or just live of dividends from the capital he could invest at his peak of his financial peak if he had been raised like that. Unfortunately a lot of these dudes are not raised like that. Someone like Wiz Khalifa who made 20 dentist yearly salaries in the past 2 years will probably not have a lot of that left in a few years. Dudes probably pay real taxes and shyt and not those Mitt Romney taxes and all that .

If they were living and saving boring, not taking care of their peoples (minus immediate family) like dentists etc, they could probably spread their wealth over their lifetime. If a doctor took huge loans to buy a fly house and cars and take care of their people their "constant flow of income" would be a constant flow of debt reduction.


I can't knock a young dude straight outta the hood for being reckless with money though, it's not really all his fault.

 

[Insensitive]

You would name the only successful independent artist in hiphop. In the course of 5 years im willing to bet a dentist lives better than 95% of the rappers with a major deal.

yes because tech n9ne and atmosphere don't exist and
aren't millionaires or at the very least wealthy on the low.

 

[The Unknown Hype]

did some research and the song got number 13 on the billboard hot 100 so i guess alot of people did relate to it