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Dec. 26, 2025

Platinum in One Year… With One Song?

Platinum in One Year… With One Song?
Platinum in One Year… With One Song?
Music Business Newsletter w/ Matthew Rix
Platinum in One Year… With One Song?

In this episode of the Music Business Newsletter with Matthew Rix, I read one of the most ambitious and honestly wild emails I’ve received in a while.
A rapper based in New York City just finished his first official single, and he’s not asking how to release it or build slowly. His goal is obvious:
Platinum record. One year. No excuses.
He’s confident in the song, confident in himself, and fully prepared to force attention even saying he’s willing to drive to radio stations across NYC, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and demand DJs listen to his record in person.
He’s not interested in:
• slow growth
• artist development
• waiting for permission
• or “organic” timelines
He wants leverage, pressure, and scale immediately.
In this episode, I break down:
• What it actually takes for a song to go platinum today
• Why confidence alone isn’t enough
• How radio, playlists, TikTok, and money really intersect
• Where ambition helps and where it becomes self-sabotage
• The difference between urgency and delusion
• And what artists misunderstand about “forcing” success
This isn’t about tearing him down.
It’s about grounding extreme ambition in reality before it becomes a career-ending mindset.
If you’re an artist with big goals, big confidence, and big expectations, this episode is for you.
Have a question, hot take, or strong disagreement about the music business?
Go to https://MatthewRix.com. Be honest, be specific, and don’t hold back the real conversations help the most people.
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Hey, this is Matthew Ricks and today on the Music

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Business newsletter, we got a live one and I just

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wants to know how their first single can go platinum

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in a year. But before we dive into this email,

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if you have a question on the music industry, just

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go to Matthewicks dot com click submit your question, give

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me as many details as possible, and we'll answer it

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here on the channel. Now for the email, he says, Yo, Matthew,

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I've never had anybody say yo, Matthew. All right, you're

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the first. I'll get straight to it. I'm going to

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be very clear so there's no confusion about why I'm

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hitting you up. I just finished recording my first single

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this weekend. It's not a demo, not a for SoundCloud record,

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a real record, studio session, top top tier mix master

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that rattles the car when you turn it up past

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a reasonable level. We're in the first line, y'all. We're

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in the first line of this email. The kind of

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song where people stop nodding and actually look at you

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when it plays as you're driving by. So you're bumping

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your song in the car. Okay, And do people usually

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nod when you're in the car if they can hear

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the song outside the car, because typically either you got

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the windows rolled down and you're in like a convertible,

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or all you hear is the bass rattling from the trunk.

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But you, I guess you have seen people just at

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a stoplight, just nodding along to your music. But now

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they're actually looking at you when the song plays.

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Huh, that's the first he says.

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I already know after I've studied you, because I study

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all my opponents. Oh am, I am I an opponent?

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Are you?

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Okay? Do I have a rap career? You have a

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YouTube channel in A and R? Okay, I'm an opponent.

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Apparently, he goes, I know what you're gonna say next,

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so let's skip the ceremony.

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What what ceremony? Are you okay?

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He says, Uh, I'm not asking if it can go platinum.

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I'm asking what needs to happen so it does go

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platinum within a year, within three hundred and sixty five days. Well, okay,

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if I'm an opponent and we're gonna skip the ceremony,

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which I don't even know what I don't even know

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what that means. But if I'm an opponent, you want

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my help and how to get your single to go

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platinum in twelve months. Your your first song, the song

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that you're playing in your car and people are looking

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at you and you think that's good.

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M I will say this for a new artist.

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Going platinum in a year is it's not impossible, because

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nothing's impossible.

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It's a Steve Hilda climb.

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Though, he says, I'm based in New York City and

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I'm fully prepared to move if that's what it takes.

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I'm not joking when I say this.

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I'm planning next month to get in my car, drive

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to radio stations in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,

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and Connecticut, walk into the building and demand the DJ

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listen to my song right there in the office because

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he's gonna love it, and then want to play it

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on the air right then and there. Okay, so this

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is gotta be a New York thing.

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What was that artist's name?

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So ten years ago we would do these like music

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business conference calls, and oh man, it was a female

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rapper out of New York.

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And so you'd be on his conference call.

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There. Sometimes there's hundreds of artists on this call and

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you get in the queue and then John Clark would

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be like, we got next up, you know, And then

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you'd have.

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Somebody I want to say.

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Her name was like Destiny or something like that, and

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she was like, Yo Matthew. I think she called said

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Yo Matthew as well. She was like, I'm going to

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storm the office at Warner Brothers and show them my music.

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Do you suggest doing that? And I said, you storm

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in office, You're going to spend the night in jail.

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Just so you know, this guy now wants to drive

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to into New York.

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I guess he's from New York City, but he's going

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to drive to New York City in New Jersey and

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Pennsylvania and Connecticut and walk into the building and demand

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the DJ listen to a song right then and there

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in the office. This because then he's gonna play it

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on the air after he hears it. Okay, So there's

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a couple of problems with this, with this idea, and

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One. DJs aren't the ones who pick music, Okay.

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That's an old that happened fifty years ago. Music directors

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pick music to be played on the radio station and

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you can't walk in and just demand you demand anything.

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You're gonna be demanded to leave. You have to hire

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a radio promoter, and for hip hop, they are not cheap,

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like one hundred thousand dollars to work a song.

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Most local radio stations, if you're going to Virginia, or

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you're going to Pennsylvania, you're going to New Jersey, you're

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going in a Connecticut they're if they're part of like iHeartMedia, they.

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probably well you're in New York City, probably maybe in

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New York Or you're gonna have to drive down and

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get physically removed from a radio station's office there. This

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is a terrible idea. This is a horrible idea. This

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might be one of the worst ideas I've heard all year.

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He says, I'm not even gonna email the radio station,

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no submission portal, no waiting six months for a reply

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from an intern. If they tell me no, I'm gonna ask.

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Them who says yes.

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I mean, what makes you think a radio station in

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Pittsburgh you know you got if you can get in

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the building. Okay, Because radio stations usually lock their doors

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because of stuff like this. But let's say you get

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it and you walk in and there's a receptionist there

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and you're like, I demand you listen to my song.

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What's she gonna do? Or give me the DJ? Well,

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you know, honestly, most of these radio stations. The DJ

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who's on the air right now, he's in California. And

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if they tell you no, you're gonna ask for somebody

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who says yes, dude, you.

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Will get arrested.

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You might get arrested in like small towns in Pennsylvania,

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New Jersey. This is a horrible idea. You don't want

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to wait six months. You don't want to pay for

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a radio promoter. You said portal. I don't know, no

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submission portal. I mean that's that's how you play the game.

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Says if they kick me out, I'll come back when

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the next shift starts. So do you think radio stations

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are like McDonald's, where it's like, you know what, that

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guy is not gonna give me. My friend tries without

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the saltown. So I'm gonna wait till he leaves, and

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I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna get the guy

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who will make me fries without salt.

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It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work this way in.

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talk to the DJ at noon and they tell you

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to piss off, because that's what they're gonna tell you

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to do. If there's a DJ there and you can't

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come back at six o'clock one, the office would be

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closed already. And now you got some DJ who's gonna

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call the cops because there's some full holding a CD

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and a boombox banging on the window of the radio

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station or waiting by somebody's car.

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This is a horrible idea.

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This email just keeps getting worse coming back when the

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next shift. I mean, like, do you think a radio

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DJ is gonna risk his career playing your song? Because

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I bet you don't have a radio at it, so

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you're probably like dropping f bombs all up in and

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you want some DJ to play it right then and

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there in Pennsylvania. He says, that's the level I'm on

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and the motivation I have. That's a pretty stupid level.

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And your motivation sucks, he's And now we drop bars

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in the email, because why not I've never had anybody

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send me an email, and they dropped some bars, they

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drop some lines in their song.

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But hey, this I mean, we're.

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Going to storm radio stations and we're gonna wait for

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shift change like it's a factory. So he says, there's

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a line in the second verse that pretty much sums

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up how I see my entire career with this single.

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He says, they're still arguing streams while I'm counting plaques

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in advance.

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It's a terrible line.

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By the way, there's still arguing streams while I'm counting

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plaques in advance. So you can count, you can count

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all the you can go to bed every night in

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seat of counting sheep.

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You can count plaques.

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Doesn't mean you're gonna get any He goes, that's not

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my bravado, that's my intent. Ooh, he says, here's where

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I'm at structurally, no label, no manager, no agent, no

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rollout plan yet.

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Okay, yeah, because.

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Gosh, I'm exhausted just reading I can't you probably you

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you probably exhaust everybody in your life with this, or

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you have a bunch of people are like, yeah, go

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to the Harrisburg hip hop station and storm it. No label,

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no manager, no agent, no rollout plan. No, you have

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no plan. Your plan is to get arrested. That is

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your plan. So yeah, I'm not shocked for that, he says.

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But also I'm not broke. Parentheses count the zeros.

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He says. I'm not afraid of spending money.

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If it actually creates pressure, well then hire a reputable

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radio promoter who can run a campaign.

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It's gonna cost you one hundred thousand dollars, he says.

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I'm not emotionally attached to doing it the right way,

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but am to my way. Dude, I feel like I

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feel like you just keep dropping bars in here to me.

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That's what I feel like.

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He says.

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I'm not interested in slow growth or slow validation. I've

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watched too many artists hide behind patients when what they

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really lacked was urgency and intensity. More artists need to

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go in storm radio stations or record labels. This is

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this is, this is so so reckless. And here's the problem.

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You're putting way too much pressure on yourself. And what's

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gonna happen is is you're not gonna be able to

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really get a lot of streams and go platinum because

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you're gonna spend a lot of nights in jail.

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Because you refuse to leave a radio station.

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And then I don't I mean, let's say your song

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got to one hundred thousand streams here, your first single,

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you wouldn't be happy with it.

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I don't know what the why? Why?

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Why we have to do it in one year? Why

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can't we do it in eighteen months or two years?

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Like? Why?

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I mean slow and said he does win the race

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because this is what happens when you go ninety to nothing.

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You burn out like this guy. Because if you're in

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competition with this guy, don't worry. He's gonna flame out

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or be arrested and you don't have to worry about him.

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He says, I have no desire to be organic. I'm

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trying to be unavoidable. Oh you're gonna be unavoidable when

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you're standing by somebody's car with a boombox.

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He says, Uh, I see.

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Mediocre records blow up every day because they understood optics, timing, repetition,

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and narrative. No, that's not true at all. Mediocre records

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blow up because there is a machine behind them pushing them.

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Record label management. They hired a radio promoter and timing

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is important. You don't care about timing, he says. Meanwhile,

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better songs die quietly because the artists waited for permission

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instead of forcing attention. No, better songs die because one

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they're probably really difficult to I mean, good songs, bad songs,

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slow songs, fast songs, rap songs, metal songs. Eight Some

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some rise to the top, some die. It's just how

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it goes, he says. I refuse to be the latter,

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asking for waiting for permission instead of forcing attention. You're

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gonna annoy a lot of people, and you're gonna get

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a reputation, and it's not gonna be what you're looking for,

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and it's not gonna be good.

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But you'll, Hey, you'll you'll get that.

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You'll get that street credit you're looking for, you know,

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by police.

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He says.

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Here's what I want from you, straight answers, No industry

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fairy tales or hype talk. What actually pushes a record

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towards platinum Now playlist, TikTok radio, all of it at once.

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Playlists don't. I mean, unless you get on like release

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Radar or something like that by Spotify. TikTok helps radio

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would help, but you're not gonna make it on radio.

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You're just not going to. Not as an independent artist,

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your song would have to be I mean you you're

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gonna go it is for an independent rap artist to

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make it on iHeart, it's got to be something no

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one's ever heard before. And not that's people who don't

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know you.

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It's not your mom or your girl. How do you

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get some platinum.

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It's it's not gonna happen in twelve months, not if

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you're going, not if you're going at it alone.

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It's just it's not going to happen. There's no way.

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He says, how much money does it really take to

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create legitimate early momentum if the record connects, if you're

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gonna try to go to radio in hip hop, it's

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one hundred thousand dollars. And that's going through hiring a

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legit radio promoter, get it in service, the I'm doing

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a campaign.

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It's gonna be one hundred thousand dollars.

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That's why it's and and but here's the thing is

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that radio for hip hop, I think it's like two

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songs a month, two new songs out a month. So

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you have to rise above Drake and Kendrick and you

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know all these other the heavy hitters, Kanye when he

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puts out something before he self implodes again.

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So it's just it's it's not worth it. I would.

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I would devote your time instead of driving to radio stations.

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I would. I would go hustling downtown New York City.

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I go to Times.

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Square and let people listen to your music, record them,

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get their opinions. Now you're gonna have some people tell

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you suck. You can't like throat punch them or anything. Okay,

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you just gotta let it, gotta let it go. I

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would try everything you can to get cause you know,

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New York City a lot of tourists who they'd be

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kind of cool with the whole New York experience with

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some guy putting headphones on him and filming and I'm

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listening to their music, and honestly, like, you could have

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a lot of fun with something like that, because I would.

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I'd find like the elderly couple and try to find

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like the coolest old guy who's just like vibing out

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to your music.

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That'd be kind of a funny video. But you won't

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do anything at Dad.

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You're gonna go and wait for shift change at the

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radio station like it's a factory, which just shows right there.

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You don't even know what you're talking. You don't even

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know the industry lingo. But you want to go platinum,

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going platinum on a single because platinum is one hundred

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platinum is one million sales?

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I think, And what is it? One hundred to one?

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She got to do one hundred million streams in a year,

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So what what are we looking at? Two point eight

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million streams a day you have to do to go

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platinum in a year?

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He says.

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At what point does the industry start chasing instead of watching?

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I feel like I answered this question. There's always a

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different avenue to get to this point. At what point

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does the record label start coming after you when you're

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making noise, when you've had something go viral, when you're

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selling out shows.

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But if word gets around.

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That you're getting rested around, you're getting arrested at radio

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stations throughout the East Coast. You cannot have a lot

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of record labels that are going to be interested, not

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valid ones. He says, why haven't record labels noticed me yet?

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I have over five hundred and seventy thousand subscribers on Instagram,

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So he put this in the email. We went and

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did some deep deep diving. He's got five hundred and

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seventy thousand, five seven zero zero zero zero zero whatever.

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He's got over a half a million followers on Instagram.

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And his last post had seven likes? So where do

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you think he got all those followers up? Just so?

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And his Instagram is just like this email. Just let

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me tell you how great I am. Every one of

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them is him in the studio dropping a bar to

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It's getting seven likes with over a half a million followers,

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So he does have money to blow because he's buying followers.

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He said, do teams come before the heat or do

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they appear once the numbers scare people? A good manager

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is going to find you when you're starting out and

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see your potential.

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But most industry people.

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Are lazy these days, and they will appear once the

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numbers aren't there, just the way it goes. But a

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good manager, it's going to find you when it's nothing

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because they'll get a better deal. When I was in

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an R, I didn't want to get into a bidding

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war with another label because the price goes up and

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that gets into my year end budget, and that goes

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against my bonus. What I wanted was an artist who

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would get a fair deal, but it wouldn't be The

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deal wouldn't be just like, you know, completely exaggerated because

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there was a competing label.

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Which happened now.

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I when I was an A and R for one

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of the majors, I got into a bidding war with

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an artist I didn't even want. But I knew that

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this other label did badly. I just drove the price

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up so it screwed their budget for the year. I

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don't like that guy anyways, Like, don't do that, but

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I did it. It's a risky move because they could

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back out and then you're like, crap, I got this

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artist I don't want, and we're gonna pay them a

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lot of money.

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He says.

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What separates records that explode in six months from ones

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that's stall at This could have been big? I mean

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that's for hip hop. That could be a lot of things.

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Hip Hop is a word of mouth. Hip Hop is

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getting in rotation on Spotify. What do I mean by

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that is when somebody's playing a song and then it

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goes to Spotify radio or the playlist is over and

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then they start adding songs. It's about getting shout outs

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from people. It's about word of mouth. That is how

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hip hop. That is hip hop one on one because

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you don't do a lot of shows in hip hop,

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so it really is online with people flexing and talking

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about you. You don't want to become like a Takashi six',

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nine where he got most of his attention for beefing with.

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People he got a lot of, attention he got a

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lot of, views but it was just people just dogging, him.

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And you don't want to be like.

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That you can't Be kanye and just be, like, Oh

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i'm gonna be the crazy, guy because that's already reserved for.

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You it really is about just getting people talking about

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you because hip hop loves the.

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Flex you, KNOW i mean you know this like you're

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you're a hip hop.

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Artist Hip hop loves the flex about how great they,

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are but they also love when people talk about how

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great they. Are so get other people to talk about your.

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Song that's not gonna get you platinum in one, year.

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Though BUT i.

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Would i'd go To Times, Square i'd have a phone,

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Rolling i'd be showing people your, music getting their. Thoughts

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you can you, know of, course you'll tell me you're

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the next big. Thing you're gonna get people who take

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picture with, you have them tag you do an invite

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collab On. Instagram, uh it does make your profile seem.

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Bigger ones that's stall out is when they're lying on

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a record label and the record label doesn't give any,

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money or the record label pulls their, money or the

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whole plan was let's go to radio and we got

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no other. Plan or we're gonna put you on tour

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and you're gonna. Sell you're gonna sell some music and

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stream some music from those tours tour, dates and then

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that doesn't happen and they have no ground. Game, you

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being In New York, city have a massive ground game

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where people from all over the world can listen to

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your music and then take it back and show their

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friends or talk about it or, LOOK i met this

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crazy dude On Times.

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Square as an, artist got check this guy.

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OUT qr, codes get business cards WITH qr. Codes it's,

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got you, know and let it go to link tree

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or whatever and have it Have spotify and YouTube And

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Apple music on. There and when people listen to your

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music and they're, like, OH i like, it give them

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A qr code and then they get a picture with

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them and then, hey you, know you don't seem like your, Shy, like,

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hey post me on Your instagram and tag. Me there's

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my tag right. There i'll share it on my, page

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and then make sure you share it on your, page

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Right and, now don't just share the, hotties all, right

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you gotta share, Everybody he.

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Says i'm not.

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DELUSIONAL i think you. Are he, SAYS i know platinum

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doesn't come from confidence. Alone it comes from, systems pressure

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and repetition lining up this at the same. Time Uh,

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no it's. True, WELL i don't know about the. Pressure

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it comes from the. System you gotta have something in.

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Place you can't just throw a single out.

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THERE i.

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DON'T i can't tell you how many artists probably just, Like,

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Okay i'm gonna put my single to release On. Friday

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and Then friday comes and they're watching the spot to

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fight artists and they, say, like there's two plays and

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then it dies out and they go to zero and

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they get just completely disheartened because they're, like, WELL i

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thought it'd be. Bigger well what was your? Plan you

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posted On instagram and that was? It he, says What

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i'm trying to understand. Now Remember i'm his. Opponent he

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said that earlier on is which levers actually move the,

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needle not which ones artists pretend?

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Matter. TikTok i, mean here's the.

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THING i think you bought your followers On instagram because

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you do have over a half a million and you

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have your first single, coming, which by the, way would

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an artist explain to me why they? Go AND i

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mean we're, Talking we're. Talking probably ten twenty thousand dollars

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were spent on a half a million followers On. Instagram

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do you think that people are not gonna think that

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that's weird that you got half a million followers and

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nobody's ever heard of. You but then also that you're

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getting seven likes on a post and.

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You don't have any music out and nobody's talking about.

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You you can't fake viral like you can't and you.

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Are but which levers actually move the? Needle i'm telling.

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You go To Times, square get a camera in people's,

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face show them the, music get the, pictures have them post,

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it have them invite. Collab you give them a card

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so they can follow up with.

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You get on.

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TikTok don't be beefing with, people get on TikTok all

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of this. Stuff if you're dead set on, radio find

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some college radio, guys send your song. There BUT i

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don't think you need. RADIO i would direct Everybody's, Spotify Apple.

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Music you're not gonna go platinum in a. Year but

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if you do this because you're not gonna play shows

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because you, rap but if you do those few, things

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you should see.

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The needle moving a little.

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Bit he, Goes i'm not here to learn the business. Slowly,

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well you're gonna you're gonna have, to he, Goes i'm

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here to set a standard. Immediately my, guy you want

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to go to radio stations and wait for the shift.

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Change and you bought your followers On.

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Instagram, okay your standard is reckless and not. Smart that

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is the standard that you have shown the entire.

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World he.

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Said if you had one, record one, Year New York

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city as your, base a willingness to knock on the

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doors that don't want to, open and zero interest in

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playing it, small what would you do?

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That most artists are too polite to even consider WHAT

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i would do IF i was.

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You if you had one record and you're making this one,

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YEAR i don't know why you're so focused on one.

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YEAR i said this. EARLIER i don't know, Why, like

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are we were getting married in a year and you

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got to make money or she's not going to marry.

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You but if you are In New York, CITY i

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would spend every, Weekend friday And saturday, nights not at the,

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club not at the, bar not at. Home i'd spend

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it In Times. Square that's WHAT i would. Do i'd

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be posting the interaction if somebody tells you your music

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sucks when you're standing in, person kind of make it,

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funny make it kind of a. Moment post it on.

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TikTok because you will have people who like your. Music

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you will have people who will think that that person

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who said your music sucks isn't being, fair and they'll

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come to your defense On instagram or.

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TikTok that's WHAT i would.

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Do you're not gonna get to platinum in one, year

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but you are gonna see the movement. Happening you are

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given the gift because you're In New York, city so

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you know you know where everybody's at every. Weekend the,

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tourists the people who will go back To arizona To

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korea To canada To, nashville and they'll talk about you

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if you do it right. Now WHAT i am afraid

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of is that your confidence is so manufactured that if

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somebody tells YOU i think your song, Sucks you're gonna

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punch them in the throat or.

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Something and don't do.

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That it Goes tell the artist you work, With i'll

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see him on the charts still be shaking in their.

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Boots ANYWAYS i would do IF i was, you or

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if any other artists who lives In New York CITY

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i think can set. UP i, mean, yeah you want

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to play shows more rap artists need to play more.

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Shows BUT i would Mean i'd be living In Times

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square just being another. Person you're not trying to sell them.

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Anything i'd be another person just trying to get me

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out there getting content IF i was. You but thanks

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for the email and the, laugh AND i, mean good

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luck and let us know next year if you reached your.

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Goals if you have a question on the music industry

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that you'd like for me to, answer just go To

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matthewricks dot. Com give me as many details as. Possible

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if you're, delusional include that as. Well you can be

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like my guy here and we'll answer it here on the.

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CHANNEL i Am Matthew ricks and until next, TIME i

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will talk to you later