Rich getting richer! Akademiks reacts to article on rappers getting & misusing millions in PPP loans

[@talkbox360]

lil Wayne spends so much on clothes but he’s always shirtless - wtf? 😂😂😂

[@jayshewrote]

📠🤣

[@rawross2.0]

😭💯

[@aA2GuNZz]

💀

[@YUNGRC]

millionaires get ppp loans to upgrade there lifestyle while everyone else work hard to pay bills

[@Osei_Bean_8ryant]

You could've got the ppp too

[@stayfocusedJV]

Nah the lazest people in the country scammed that PPP system

[@oophorror2251]

If the government is irresponsible to give addicts with past tax and legal issues 9M$ imagine how much the finance class embezzled.

[@pmaii7707]

Work smarter not harder guy

[@davidjean-louis8885]

factz

[@Behzey2fly]

This is journalism.

[@C.TAtlas-b9p]

You fr, or is this sarcasm? Lol

[@jesuslovewifi6211]

I see why Luigi crashed out..

[@gasolina877]

free da goat

[@benbarson2810]

He rich himself

[@misskay46]

Facts

[@ravecomedical9647]

Why? His family is rich rich …

[@lowEyez95]

⁠@@ravecomedical9647that’s true. Don’t mean he shouldn’t care about right n wrong. We gotta stop thinking like that.

[@code_red7744]

IDC my issue is these same people make albums talking about how much money they got but they getting tax dollars? Nah fuk that

[@reezee412]

Corporations was getting hundreds of millions🤷🏽‍♂️

[@A8COOP]

exxactly where the cnn and fox report on that

[@jayshewrote]

📠

[@hardeeps5295]

All over all if takes is a google search. You wouldn’t know though because you don’t care.

[@yrbsolo]

JAYZ SNITCHIN 😂

[@drea4360]

Y’all 🤡 find anyway to bring this man into something pathetic

[@yrbsolo]

@ the history speaks for itself fuck with anything attached to jay you end up having legal issues or blackball issues..

[@seanq9884]

Its crazy because Lil Wayne spends on all this money on clothes, but he cant dress. 😂😂😂

[@trelldadirector1596]

At all

[@mslovely3151]

Drugs

[@jayshewrote]

☠️

[@tluv6921]

Wayne is an addict

[@kayleejaye_clips]

Yea I'm lost because he has his own line so idk

[@BigtunaG]

It’s kind of obvious that bigger businesses are scapegoating celebrities to take away from how much they took. They just need someone to blame

[@StoneyGreeneyes]

They all need to be blamed

[@BigtunaG]

@ true but if you see how these things play out it’s just wild. I know a transportation company that did fraud that both a broker and them profited. People reported the fraud to the broker for years but they ignored it because they would profit. The feds waited till the fraud was big enough to blame for the overall money people scammed. Then the Broker company who made more money vs the transportation company and ignored it the entire time was in the report for helping solve the case. The broker company never had to give the money back. In this case that’s what’s going on as well. Sure they scammed money and are going to have to pay it back. But the people that took significant amount of money are not going to have to. Lil Wayne 8m sounds like a lot but if you see that there are people that took 50m and keep it?

[@nephiking3688]

@@StoneyGreeneyescap

[@gio.orbit5498]

​@@StoneyGreeneyesstarting with the government

[@StoneyGreeneyes]

@@nephiking3688 ?

[@Jokademiks]

You telling me Wayne spends all that money on those pajama clothes he wears? 😂😂

[@blacklightlifestyle9763]

Meanwhile we have troops getting deleted for 50k 🤦‍♂️

[@JamarWright-gn5wx]

I wish there were articles like this also for politicians

[@Anti-lytics]

Lock them all up

[@sungaze342]

LMAO i know that's right😤 you don't judge

[@jenghiskhan69]

Pardon him. He made good Music while you can go to prison life isn’t fair buddy

[@Shyky1981]

Why. Didnt they pay or paying the LOANS back?

[@Anti-lytics]

@@Shyky1981 no, no they didn't.

[@Algotvmedia]

Good Journalism Ak

[@bey_bl4de]

Someone at the accounting firm must have snitched

[@larrylambert9025]

So Wayne tried to use the government money instead of his. Not so fast my friend 😂😂😂😂

[@Shyky1981]

It was a loan. I'm thinking he can do whatever he wants to do with it as long as he pays it back right?

[@larrylambert9025]

@Shyky1981 no. It's a business loan. So of the thing was allowed. Lawyers, paying employees etc. Tricking and buying clothes......NO!!!🙄

[@Shyky1981]

@@larrylambert9025 Got it. So they can get into trouble for using it like they did? Or as long as they pay it back they're ok.

[@larrylambert9025]

@Shyky1981 I would hope so

[@Neverworry21]

🅱️hris BREEZY CANNOT BE DEFEATED BY THE CLUB 👁️ he a living legend.💯

[@brucewallagainsttheodds1740]

It really is shitty 💯💯💯, this is just another reason why a lot of people are done with celebrities

[@Amiri2x]

Basically demonise rappers for something all musicians, stock brokers, bankers, politicians, hedge fund owners did. The black guy is always the fall guy 🙄

[@carlozcabrera]

Marshmallow is black?

[@flugame7140]

And AK promotes it. Shame.

[@DTYRA76]

if the black people in the band alice in chains was white they would not even got mentioned, always tryin to bring a brutha down

[@saulbloom6865]

@@carlozcabreraHow long did they talk about Marshmello?

[@raramurray9187]

u mustve did pp loan too lol

[@CharlesKennedy-v2b]

The party still dying 😂

[@JITKZJ]

I’m saying most of y’all employers got a ppp where is your cut?

[@eringrady-fernandez9806]

This shit makes me sick, why listen it and get more upset this won't stop, and corporate greed won't stop either all of us on the bottom of the food chain are just fuc*ed

[@millymil4198]

I heard about this on the news this morning

[@wilbertmeaway6405]

Sometimes I wish I took that damn PPP loan !!! 😂😂

[@MeMe-v2q6n]

You don’t have an accounting company to cover your trails . Enjoy your freedom and value it ….

[@wilbertmeaway6405]

@ lol u don’t even know me bud. Take a joke lol

[@MeMe-v2q6n]

@@wilbertmeaway6405 “In every joke, there is some truth”

[@vagibont1986]

Rapper in 2025, hey, I have 10 plus baby moms. And probably a disease or 2 because you think you're so rich, you're immune to diseases

[@mneytimetv1849]

Don’t forget they’re addicts too

[@hoody504]

If you know you know, if you can’t beat em join em

[@iwouldntlikemeeither]

These bums needs to give that money back to tax payers ASAP

[@tidey4]

A lot of business that made billions of dollars did the same.

[@jamesbriggs6364]

​@@tidey4exactly 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Siillky]

lol this is nothing

[@A8COOP]

@@tidey4 they got smoke when we do it

[@davidjean-louis8885]

yeah they do

[@aliveby7140]

Eat The Rich!

[@howarddavis3517]

Hater

[@sudiboa1296]

imagine the guys who own their music

[@louisinese]

@@sudiboa1296 Thing is most that do aren’t on this level, like Russ for example. The ones that do though, got that astronomical bread.

[@Proddaprince]

If this is a big deal then they should let us see how the billions being sent to Ukraine is being spent.

[@theGeezsource]

This crazy proud a the boy for actually showing this and how the industry screws people over will you grinding hard your tax going to your FAV RAPPER and you still support no wonder these rappers rap man

[@saintmte5076]

17:42 I was juuuusttt about to talk about this. Tbh, people complain but if you're not making your money work for you then how can you blame anyone else. They play a part in it I'll give you that, but you can't remove yourself from any accountability/responsibility whatsoever. This is YOUR life and having basic financial understanding as well as learning how to capitalise within a captitalist economy is YOUR job.

[@push_daculture]

Could this be one of the reasons he’s no doing the Super Bowl 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@ImQuap]

no, hope this helps!

[@tvbeastbeatz87]

3:17 EVERYTHING SPECIFICALLY NAMED/LABELED AND THEN AT THE END, IT JUST SAYS “EVERYTHING ELSE - $1.3M”

[@DREDAY0927]

That Hammer of Justice bout to come Down Hard on these Greedy Celebrities

[@BlazNDemRatPAcks]

No its not!

[@MrBenji1059]

Yeah no it’s not LOL. Wealthy people pay the a large share of taxes back to the government. That’s how the world works 🥹😅

[@MeMe-v2q6n]

@@MrBenji1059well you are half right . A millionaire has accountants who know how to get most of that money back at the end of the year . Trump made 43 million in 2018 but paid no income taxes unlike the rest of us because he knew how to take advantage of the tax code . I suggest you read a few books goofy …..

[@timothymcwright3922]

The sue..icide squad

[@KrazyCaN347]

Ak you do realize they could apply for a grant forgiveness.Everyone who is smart have done the PPP will do a forgiveness so they wouldn’t have to pay it back.

[@Slipp0000]

Now they going for Wayne gawdamn

[@deluxedecoy]

Ion blame Wayne. I blame the idiots that granted him the PPP.

[@michaelbright157]

Thank you no one is asking why the grant was approved in the first place

[@mneytimetv1849]

@michaelbright157 Because he lied to the government on the paperwork that lil gremlin cooked

[@jasonanderson1407]

😂😂 notice they didn't talk about any white musicians all white celebrities

[@FaZeeturnity]

Isn’t marshmallow white

[@joshuafreitag4502]

This isnt a race thing smh… this is a greed thing

[@fvzfunnyvibezone]

In all fairness they both pay millions of dollars in taxes also.

[@MrMan-fx3ow]

Very true. They’re paying the most out of everyone

[@rickylacour5272]

@@MrMan-fx3ow no they aint tf?!

[@MeMe-v2q6n]

@@rickylacour5272I see the public school education system failed you so I’ll help you out . Let’s assume Lil Wayne made 10 million last year . He will be taxed at the 37% rate which is the highest btw . Federal taxes only will be about 3.5 million and state taxes in Cali is at least gonna be 1.3 million . After all that Lil Wayne is lucky if he has 5 million out of that 10 million he earned . Any questions goofy ?

[@izeek17]

The 15k on mysterious women is a discount

[@nickoyhinds224]

Elon musk DOGE. Pending…

[@MeMe-v2q6n]

With no congressional powers goofy

[@JoeSoEpicTV]

YO AK U STREAMING OR WHAT

[@Elcappgguod064]

Naw he probably be back on Monday

[@LilBlizzard98Blizzy]

As a finance major I really hate how ignorant everybody is to financial literacy. Everybody who knows anything about wealth knows that you use the governments money as leverage if you can. Ngl yall gone always be bitter and broke hating on rich people instead of trying to learn from them. That mentality alone makes you poor no matter how much money you have at the moment.

[@saulbloom6865]

What’s your net worth Mr. Comment Dude?

[@mneytimetv1849]

@saulbloom6865 Exactly 🤣 😂

[@laks05]

Yet ya’ll will still be in these comments defending these mf’s pride like it’s y’all own😂😂

[@deanthonycalhoun8648]

It’s pathetic

[@King813B]

Watch the party die is crazy

[@saulbloom6865]

K🤖 spotted

[@ReviewXHunter]

Bruh, the banks took 7 trillion at the beginning of the pandemic..... while we worried about what a few rich black folk got.

[@patricknyc007]

Ak again this is why Wayne pull back from Kendrick , you don’t go against rock nation

[@mneytimetv1849]

He pulled back cause Kdot could use a 1,000 disses against him starting with the birdman kiss 😘

[@KerbsterRules]

Why do they only focus on Black people? There are plenty of wealthy companies in the USA that have done similar things. Why not hold these billion-dollar corporations accountable as well?

[@bryanthe2009]

Right is right and wrong is wrong. Wayne and Chris are my favorite artists,but that's wrong if true

[@dairian-h5p]

It’s definitely true unfortunately

[@87manemane]

That's nothing compared to congress sneaking funds into bills.

[@HiveMind629]

That’s why they didn’t want him for the Super Bowl probably would have asked for insane fees

[@kelamanjaro1]

Chris brown took the piss though 😂😂😂😂

[@freebandz509]

Wayne wallin for respect 😅

[@TopVillain]

Guys you have to own a business even if you’re not used the business just have it.

[@Iamautoboy]

wtf the government doing w the trillions we missin

[@bettiiblu]

Both rich and poor ppl abused ppp loans, and then these same ppl complajn about inflation now.

[@saulbloom6865]

Everything Ak says in this video is 100% correct up until the 21:44 mark. At 21:44 he tells the most bold f@ced fib I’ve heard him tell yet smh

[@Travis89-ob5tt]

Yo Ak Spotify says Drake has no evidence what you think?? It seems true considering the only proof they could come with in the court documents was that goofy kid you had on stream saying he was promised points on NLU. The L's just keep coming for Drizzy.

[@transporterrepair8172]

Yeah idc if these rappers go to jail now

[@bionichustla100]

Pardoned lil Wayne BUT NOT MUMIA ABU JAMAL 🙄. FOH. RIP MUMIA✊🏿

[@tvbeastbeatz87]

1:53 2:33 2:40 2:47 THEYRE ON EVERYTHING😬. DETAILED LIKE A MF😰😰

[@bionichustla100]

PEOPLE THAT DIDHAVE ANYTHING WAS QUALIFIED

[@LooksDownFromHeaven]

Cha cha cha ching kabobbles don't hate the players hate the game 👀👀😅😅💀💀😁😁☠☠

[@kingbain5383]

Man send Luigi man

[@deepthinker3588]

Why Wayne can't do the Superbowl 😅...still be fn up

[@theqs7289]

Do let Wayne do the Superbowl lol

[@lamarwilson2773]

Why didn’t you talk more about the WHITE BOY!!!!

[@Philip_Taylor]

They become indebted to them for their fame, and then again to keep their fame. $$$

[@CharlesCarter420]

This is kinda the definition of "don't hate the player, hate the game." It's definitely a shitty use of tax-payer money but the law was written so hastily it was bound to have loopholes. Side note: Ak, Mo Allie Cox isn't a basketball player lol you need a "sports guy" on your team. There's too much intersection between rap and sports to not have one

[@BigMomma214]

FACTS

[@marvincunningham2]

I say if you pay taxes and some how someway you can work the government to giving you tax money take that green light

[@NicomedesClaudette]

Great analysis, thank you! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

[@devin9522]

What about the white arstist and corporations 🤔

[@DarkAncientScholar]

Multimillionaires, big politicians & billionaires do this all the time. Why not also shine the spotlight on them aswell I wonder? 🤔🙂‍↔️

[@KappaKod]

ak are asap rocky and travis secretly beefin??

[@RhumaadLauron]

Glad my dumb days ova I wanna be an effective scammer now🤓

[@WilliamWright-i8r]

Tell Drake to help lil Wayne out and cut him a check

[@tvbeastbeatz87]

0:33 AND WAYNE GAVE NICKI AND DRAKE PARTS OF DAT BREAD TOO🫡, UNLIKE BIRDMAN SO GOTTA RESPECT IT; $100MIL🐐🐐

[@Nobody-r8c]

I bet lil wayne is actually broke if not close to it at this point. I love lil wayne but hes a fiend and its sad hes still making music at this point. He should have been a jay z or drake figure at this point.

[@saulbloom6865]

Says Nobody…..Literally 🤡

[@justincase9337]

Being a musician is considered a business … If corporations got millions why not the artists 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@mneytimetv1849]

Because the artist is a worker duh lol 😂

[@justincase9337]

@ independent business duh

[@kareemlawson878]

This why people should stop worshiping other humans

[@Urmak85]

Lil Wayne's an addict period lol

[@BlackJesus-e7t]

Sounds like somebody trying to blemish so we can't see the real problem

[@Striptalkj]

should i quit rapping?

[@DomeStik-he2gn]

Lets get real AK. You and Drake have opened the floodgates. Thats why contracts come with NDAs. This should not be public at all as pertaining to artists. Now look... The business is under threat.

[@NUZZOWORLD]

what they think the yt ppl doin honestly.

[@teechef1951]

Big ups to Ak for covering this and calling it like it is. It’s Shitty! A lot of people actually need help. It’s hard out here for normal folks. Like Yall really stuck your hand out at the food bank and you own a restaurant!

[@Mr.October10]

These rappers going broke

[@vagibont1986]

This is rappers im 2024 hey im mega rich time to catch a rico

[@fieldmalik]

Why we worried about Wayne when Sir Lucian owns half the industry

[@paulahall9291]

WHAT THE H&LL❓️❓️❓️ WHY ARE THESE WEALTHY RAPPERS GETTING SO MUCH MONEY IN GRANTS❓️❓️❓️❓️ THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE 🤔 AND NOW DONT WANT TO PAY IT BACK‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@douglasdouga-69]

Imagine stunting on taxpayers using their hard earned money. Calling them broke etc 😂😂😂

[@MuhammadAllahisthegreatest]

😮and if they did do that they are at the bottom of the people who have done that but what makes me upset is they didn't show black or poor people any support even from free and stolen money😮wow

[@stan021a]

These taxes that celebs are spending is their own taxes they been paying to goverment for years though, you make it sound like they taking from ordinary people when its their own they getting back from gov!.

[@LCMyoutube]

Who cares billionaires stay finessing good on wayne n em

[@bosslady1936]

Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sudiboa1296]

these dudes aint even rich imagine the guys who own their music stop hating on them lmao they doing what they matsers tell em

[@saulbloom6865]

Yea true 100ms isn’t rich at all 🤡

[@SouthernsoulD]

Don’t hate the player, Hate the Game!

[@Rickaka1]

The game is rigged by the players so this saying don’t even make sense 😅

[@BlazNDemRatPAcks]

As you sit in a row house on EBT!

[@skinnyminnieog]

@@Rickaka1right it never did, wtf wrong with pol🤦🏾‍♂️😭

[@Ah-ws9nm]

@@Rickaka1​​⁠Wayne comes from one of the poorest communities in southern America during the crack era. Plus a single mom. Cut the nonsense. You either win or you don’t

[@Rickaka1]

@@Ah-ws9nm what nonsense? System got you defending millionaires abusing tax money while there is literal poverty and hunger rampant in the US 😂 system good you good bruh. It’s not about Wayne specifically, the wealth disparity in the US don’t make sense!

[@SabinTee]

Ok…..but what about all the politicians that bill the citizens for their shit? At least these rappers pay a shit ton in taxes compared to the rest of us

[@EyeCU-DMV202]

Idky folk complain about what’s happening with out tax money as if we STILL don’t have police officer and fire fighters out here doing their job off the back of tax payers lol no matter what they do with the money we’re gunna have to pay taxes regardless 😂 it’ll never cease so….stop complaining!