Bobby Shmurda explains why right now is “the best time to be independent.”
“I think when I was in jail and I got the book, I was reading it and they was telling me like, streaming is taking over now. So this is the best time to be independent because this was going on. No one buys records no more. Nobody buys records to go platinum, you gotta put up a lot of money to platinum. Like you gotta put up f*cking half a million probably to go platinum, you know what I’m saying? Sh*t they don’t tell the artist though. But I’m gonna tell the artist because I’m a gangster, full-blown. What you gon’ do?” He explained.
He’s spread this knowledge with his friends from his neighborhood in hopes that they could make a better situation for themselves.
“Streaming is where you make that money at. So keep putting out constant content, and I tell all the n***as in the hood that. Why? Because I want them to stay f*ck out of trouble,” he said. “I’d rather the mothaf*ckas be on the corner selling content than selling crack or something, tryna get their streams up, ‘cause we run this sh*t now. But a lot of mothaf*ckas don’t know that.”
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