re: Louisiana teenage rapper will have the #1 album in the country this week.

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same happened with Kevin Gates. Went to jail, got out, blew up, 2 phones

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I just want to know who’s finding their music when they’re not touring and how? For modern musicians, breaking into the streaming market is easy, but actually getting people to stream your stuff is not. The algorithms that decide what listeners get to hear are largely based around playlists curated by tastemakers. If those tastemakers don’t find you and add you, no one can find you that isn’t looking for you specifically. Clearly, these guys have a pipeline to playlisters that get their shite out there. I want to know how.

Smoothcat is a way better BR rapper and hasn’t had anywhere near this level of success.

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It would be suffice to say that any kid with no guidance would purposely opt to go to school. Especially if everyone in that childs family were either dead or gone.

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have some good friends from Carencro whose parents split up when they were young, mom had to work a couple of jobs, dad was a postman, they were pretty much unsupervised growing up, five kids, three are airline pilots, one a heart surgeon, and one a rocket scientist for NASA, not so much as a jaywalking ticket among all of them, just sayin'

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I just want to know who’s finding their music when they’re not touring and how? F

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that's what good managers do. Dude made damn sure his time spent in EBR Parish prison was worth it. He did not squander that time. Same with Gates. Hell, I honestly think Master P is behind all of this and them. He still has his own production company. shite, Tupac was releasing hits from prison.

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have some good friends from Carencro whose parents split up when they were young, mom had to work a couple of jobs, dad was a postman, they were pretty much unsupervised growing up, five kids, three are airline pilots, one a heart surgeon, and one a rocket scientist for NASA, not so much as a jaywalking ticket among all of them, just sayin'

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nice anecdotal circumstance. To say that their circumstance was in any way similar to his is laughable.

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He didn't grow up on his own and with zero guidance nor was he raised by wolves. He was a street hustler who dropped out of school stole, robbed and participated in drive by's where people died. Stop glorifying this kid.

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I don't know and neither do you. Stop thinking you do. I don't glorify anything. Just because I like some of his music and am happy he is doing so well doesn't mean shite.

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nice anecdotal circumstance. To say that their circumstance was in any way similar to his is laughable.

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not really, people make choices, some people make good choices

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"old white guys get mad at rap being popular"

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more like "young white guys have some fricked up rationale"

Y'all think he was for St. George?

Or white guys calling a thug a thug?

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some people just aren't able to see outside of their sunny little white lives.
Dudes Mom was dead, Dad doing 50, Grandma died and all he had was the streets to turn to.

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and that is why people like Candace Owens, Larry Elder and David Webb are pushing for change... Trying to draw attention to what the real problems are...