The Biggest Scam in the Music Industry

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I laughed when J Cole came out of no where and said "question"😂

As a artist who cant even get more then a couple hundred plays on songs i release i can say them 100 plays mean way more to me then 1,000s of fake plays could ever mean. I do this to express my self and no other motive and unfortunately in music and most forms of art this dosnt exist anymore

We already found out record labels were willing to buy radio plays and most times the artists had no clue, so I don't see how they could deny this one when theyve already shown us theyre willing and capable

Michael K. Williams was not a Vice “Documentary Maker”. He was a legendary actor, and multifaceted person who hosted a docu-series on Vice before his passing.

4:20 Michael K. Williams was better known as a highly celebrated and critically aclaimed actor. May he keep resting in peace

Lil baby had hit over hit over a little while back and tried to go on tour and had to cancel multiple shows due to low ticket sales, makes sense.

Even YouTube does it. I had an account to where random music videos of artists I would NEVER listen to would end up in my video history. It was so bad that I could continuously refresh my history and new vids would keep popping up

As music, I can confirm our industry is very much corrupt

Draft kings is a scam

I worked with a record label during the MySpace days and we would use software to run up our bands plays so that they would stay on MySpace's Top 100 list. I personally did this for several bands including an artist that was on MTV's Making the Band.

Shi like this is why i like youtubers who make videos about “watching a music video with 0 views” or “listening to a song with 0 plays” cause they arent following the rest of the world and doin exploring songs for themselves not for what they see everyone else play

The reason for fake streams and followers in music isn’t just for attention from strangers. It’s negotiating power. Artists and DJs get more opportunity based on their numbers. It dictates if you’re opening, headlining or even getting booked at all. When new artists approach booking agents and labels the first thing they ask about is your streaming/social media numbers. Artist development is dead. They look for established acts which is why people fake their numbers for opportunity. The illusion of popularity online matters more to industry people than the actual music.

I know that many people complained about your voice being monotone. Over a short period of time, I’ve seen you improve that. I just want you to know that there’s nothing wrong with how your voice sounds. However, because your genre is commentary/doc I do love how you inflect and project your voice. It’s very comforting

French Montana also used bot streams to make Unforgettable diamond certified

It made me happy to see Michael K Williams in a clip, RIP

I keep having Doja Cat “paint the town red” on Spotify, I never searched for the song, don’t want to listen to Doja cat but Spotify keep pushing her songs you can’t escape them even if you don’t want to listen to them, i heard her song hundreds of times all against my will.

Appreciate you covering my Twitter situation. Love bro!

Payola is common practice in radio and TV, so it is absolutely normal that labels pay for streams

If you know about how record labels were manipulating jukeboxes back in the day and radio stations more recently to get songs on the number one chart onto certain places for certain amounts time It's always been a thing and now that it's streaming of course they're in it