MC EIHT: MOST RAPPERS LIVE OFF OF LOANS & TOURING

[@milestone_achiever4634]

MC Eiht is a legend!! Will never forget his music from '93/'94

[@neil12011]

Streiht Up Menace!💪

[@henryhudson4965]

Musicians these days are living off tours because for the most part no one is purchasing music online when you can listen to it for 🆓. Back in the Day tours was extra money on top of what you made from record sales 💯 6:23

[@timeTravellin]

Artists need to get away from streaming their whole albums on streaming services. Put 1 or 2 songs on there and have your fans buy the whole project from your webpage

[@5hadœwbånnedbyyou]

@@timeTravellin Facts. It cuts them out for a sideline win but you might stronghold them coming to you for more marketing. But I would rather have it this way. The way Nip and Sam were doing it, from the very ground up.

[@timgonzales2891]

Then I'd just use youtube. It's 2024. Restricting music is over. No matter how people feel about it.

[@moblack5883]

@@timgonzales2891 facts KZbin music is how I listen to all music. I’m not downloading from nobodies website.

[@tobiaspain]

Well you can blame Napster, Limewire, uTorrent and other file sharing programs for your idea never being lucrative. Although it makes sense

[@ghostduster1]

Feel free to pay for albums again, bro. I'm not and neither is anybody else.

[@Thadopeera]

Everyone in Oakland thought my cousin Safiir was rich after that one little scene in Menace to Society 🤣 It was crazy after that movie dropped 💯

[@frankyfourfingers1382]

Saafir had an interesting rap style.

[@SKOTxFREE]

@@Thadopeera holy crap Saffir is your cousin? He’s one of my fave MC’s of all time for real. How is he? Last I heard he got hurt after an emergency landing of a plane and was in a wheelchair. If you see him tell him that there’s a lot of fans of his music and we are praying for him.

[@SKOTxFREE]

@@frankyfourfingers1382 Saffir was dope AF. Dude West Coast Underground love him with that dope af Flow. 🙌

[@Thadopeera]

@@SKOTxFREE He lost his brother this year. My cousin Akil aka Killie who was part of The Hobo Junction. But Safiir is doing ok. It just hit us all hard. Thanks bro 💯🙏🏾

[@Criminal.Lawyer.2024]

Eiht's explanation helps explain why some rappers stay in the streets even though they have hit records. For example, when Fetty Wap got busted everyone said "Fetty has sold millions of records, why was he still selling drugs". Same with Quando Rondo, Young Thug, and a list others.

[@itsrelativ3967]

Most of them don't own the money they make when signed to a major label. It's taxable, garnished, and mismanaged. The labels know they gonna make their money back ten fold. Dr. Dre and Cube left Ruthless because they weren't getting royalties. Performance money is only enough until it's time to re-up. The street money is what they own, but that life is gonna have a lot of risks involved if you not moving correctly. That's why they're always getting locked up.

[@Criminal.Lawyer.2024]

@@itsrelativ3967 Damn, shit sounds real fcuked up.

[@MrDBcooper77]

@@Criminal.Lawyer.2024 So many artist that had huge songs should of never signed with a Label..They should have gotten a distribution deal and kept their music and most of the profits including touring.

[@buravan1512]

FETTY was deeply STUPID... his attorney had warned him many times. Dude used to make 100k a day, he realized that he fell off, the day he made 70k. now he got nothing left in his name.

[@WyndonJohnson]

@@Criminal.Lawyer.2024 exactly! I think Rod Wave said it first on his twitter that he was going back to the block once he got started too

[@Mitch-o5j]

I like that they put 21 savage in thumbnail because he the number #1 capper when it comes to being honest about fam and the music business.....leading the black community down the wrong road....13:26

[@henryhudson4965]

Record companies are making money off Life insurance policies from these microwave artists deaths 💯 9:43

[@Cocainejr1]

@@henryhudson4965 I can understand that!

[@RayNLA]

Everything the label gives you is considered “recoupable”

[@SippinCoughee]

I remember seeing Willie D from the Geto Boys working at Toys R Us a few years back, blew my mind. But respect that he working. dude seemed nice

[@matttreece9036]

Peace to y’all always fresh. Appreciate all your hard work and grind. Alonzo Williams dropped a gem the other day. He said he would rather have peace of mind than have a peice of ass at his age. One love to the triple OG. Peace

[@deltahomicide9300]

My homeboy put out records with Pharcyde, Anderson Paak, played solo shows at house of blues, and even flew out to Australia to play at Sydney opera house. All those years he kept working as a cook and now has his own restaurant. The entertainment game seems to choose you not the other way around.

[@patrickstromann3836]

It's why I stopped with this music shit. Even on a local/regional level shit was tedious AF.

[@Chicagolingo.]

This dude signed a 360 deal And only thing the label gave him was 90k I'm staying self made

[@CMD317]

Steele ask 8 what's the story behind the Growing up in the Hood remix. That song was strong in Naptown. Indianapolis. We hustled to that Batch erruday

[@KingG-d4h]

@@CMD317 In Nap now. Shout out to Mike Epps. Pendleton Pike was jumping on a Sunday

[@cbrownterry]

Naptown stand up

[@WilfredGreen-ov8bh]

@@CMD317 gary indy also,,trap music,and muzic to driveby

[@CMD317]

Salute to the Ole G's G Chronicles 💯

[@dmoore319]

The music industry always has been and always will be corrupt. That's why so many artists go independent. Even today most artists have no idea about the industry and how contracts work etc and they just happy to get a deal and the labels know this. That is why most artists have short careers because it is more profitable for label to keep cycling in new inexperienced talent and dump them when they gain knowledge and demand more money better contracts etc. The really talented ones have longevity but a very small percentage.

[@pharoah1200]

They charging you for licking a stamp 😂😂😂

[@thegreat9481]

@@pharoah1200 lmaoo

[@flyermorecreativeminds]

😂😂😂

[@justjb6238]

Even with a 9/5 people still get in your business.

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

You dont have no business thats why you working a 9-5 Your life is boring af nobody cares abt your average joe life nobody tryna ruin your relationship with your favorite gurls no body tryna hurt you just for existing nobody tryna hatass your family for information as small as what you ate today

[@jasonfriedl6896]

Eihy you are bringing back memories when you mentioned thise magazines you are really taking me back to the 80s i remember being a kid in grade school 8 or 9 years old reading those magazines in the front of vons, ralphs and Luckys in 88 or 89 that was all we had to read about information on our favorite rappers and r&b singers growing up

[@buravan1512]

*back in 1998, i was watching "CHANNEL O" it was African equivalent of BET, if not better.* i remember seeing EIGHT and DAZ, performing HIT THE FLOOR, we started talking about money, the Guy i was seating with, told me how, these GUYS (Rappers) are extremely Rich (i believed him, cause he was older than me, and he have travelled abroad a lot)... now seeing Mc Eight saying otherwise, i'm scratching my head, anyway i was 14, i didn't know any better.

[@atchingpplinorfail3721]

Hustling the hustler through loaning.

[@javierc3972]

It was dope seeing MC EIHT on ROADIUM RADIO with TONY A. 🔥✌🏼

[@neckchopman]

Rappers need a union.

[@megacityamexemfilms1397]

@@neckchopman Canibus spoke about a union in Hip Hop years ago in an interview.

[@MichaelSimmons-z5c]

They need to stop putting value in the wrong shit.

[@ChocolateDrop-j4p]

Those white devils would never create a union for rappers

[@JUNEYSKI90002]

What up Bigg Steele, I see you, my brother. Great show! From your boy Juneski aka Killa On The Beat!

[@uniquelines]

I love Old School Wisdom. Preach Brothers! Preach!!!

[@Juggerrnautt]

Rappers biggest mistakes are is understanding equity. Those Contracts are financial instruments that are traded to raise capital for the company and artist if they know what’s going on and have a broker

[@benmisner6457]

Who got snaps on the petro. Slangin all that sh*t in the hood and aint got no money. What a g what a legend

[@bfestudios6677]

@@benmisner6457 Pay for your own petro, no snaps given over here bro. Jokes 😄 #BreakYourself 👆🏽😎

[@MIDAZSITH]

Any profession that has the word master. Can't be good.

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

Can we show some respect with the brother while we on camera and Tuck our phones🎉

[@Cogic]

Of course rappers live off touring and doing shows this been admitted by them for years now....Its how they make they money

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

Yeah cus you're on the charts and know 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

Yeah cus you're on the charts and know 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Cogic]

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg Im repeating what they said and the first I heard say that was Missy

[@RayNLA]

@@Cogic Same with every type of artist. Not just Rappers

[@millionmiledriver]

The first minute when first OG was speaking immediately opened my eyes. I’ve never heard it discussed like this. I mean kind of but not as clear.

[@keithbaucum7156]

The record labels are investing in you to make them money. The record labels are not recording you for free.

[@WyndonJohnson]

There was an article from 2018 that said musicians only got 12% of the $43 billion dollar industry generated in 2017 and most of it came from touring so Eiht is not lying about this at all

[@himgod6495]

Yep it seem like bone thugs in harmony are in Minnesota every other year

[@KingG-d4h]

Ironic. I was bumping Section 8 at work few days ago.

[@background187]

14:10 - 14:16 I recall Pac spoke on rappers being unionized

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

Pac never said that Pimp C did

[@Mythoughtsreviews]

You get me 😂

[@SKOTxFREE]

I worked in the music industry and Eiht tells nothing but truth. Artist do not make money off their record sales. Most times they are not even making a full dollar on each record sold. This is why artist are pressured to make these pop friendly records and cross over. The artist make most money off touring as Eiht said and live off credit cards.

[@universal3024]

It ain’t nothin but a Compton thing, y’all. Shout out from the east coast ..

[@marsbars1657]

Regular workers have problems to face as well.

[@ivandiaz9103]

BIG UP ! ! !

[@reeselightningelectric1338]

Shout out to the Cleveland Brotha, you got a new subscriber. Been listening to the G Eiht since H.S... "You can get the Duck Sick, Geah!"✊🏿🫡

[@divinetheasiatic7596]

Ehit hype with that wisdom. Peace lord

[@durtdogg34]

See that’s why I f wit this podcast yall keep it real n gutta bout certain points on the fame n shit Love and blessings from Richtown, Va!!!!

[@neil12011]

Streiht Up Menace💪

[@tooflamboyant479]

The more people we expose ourselves to makes you a liability or maybe not because not everyone reaches of substantial amount of people in one day as most do who are in a profession of such standard

[@joseph_the_human]

Im Black. I'm my own self taught producer, artist, business manager, stock holder and ceo etc. And I dont sell music. I came from extreme poverty. Find your Niche, and be the BEST at it around you. Simply the Best. Success Will come.

[@larrybee7713]

How did you come up exactly? Any wisdom jewels to drop?

[@Lofilegacybeats]

But with the technology social media start you own on line label LLC produce your self put 2 songs on steaming service and your whole album on your online record label direct to consumer sales.

[@donyellowens]

How do you conduct an interview with someone who keeps their head down for the first 90 seconds of the interview?

[@T123gn]

I keep telling you, "that entertainment money is not real ".

[@RTM661]

Entertainers have fortune but no freedom. They’re just privileged slaves to their own society.

[@1.--_--.1]

Industry illusions

[@Brooklyn-AllDay1300]

Eiht should start his own podcast because that dude, Steele, talks too much in every video. Most people wouldn't watch this show if it wasn't for MC Eiht

[@regiment6541]

Rap, and Rock on its way down. Country music on its way up. Facts..Look it up

[@matthewprince9705]

Country-POP is coming up... It's far removed from what country was in the 80s and 90s. Some of it includes electronic elements like keyboards & autotun e and rock guitars. Taylor Swift has incorporated everything in her music, is she even country any more?

[@Lofilegacybeats]

That’s what Ice T did

[@keepsit100atalltime9]

TLC let us know how this really goes.

[@Ghettobank69]

Y'all just regular people, I pass by celebrities all the time. Rappers and movie stars, used to anyway.

[@panchopablo6887]

People got less for starring roles in movies! They wish they got 90k! 😂

[@sammycolt4931]

Chyeah.........

[@drozzieternal1379]

salutes

[@iSee109]

Wow!!!!!

[@TheDogbreath1]

Looks like the one whose really getting the cool deal is the record label. The artist is like a middle man and does all the grunt work and has to pay for overpriced services to the label. Its the ultimate setup...

[@demitriuswilliams4729]

The music business is the most corrupted business there is😡

[@fredtafoya6526]

Wow o boy lookes at his phone when you no RW R mob james

[@DemondNellum-f7g]

🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@jayizzett]

The game hasn’t changed. Yet they still surprised. Silly modern human. Study something

[@shayn4697]

Welcome to being a public figure. You asked for it bro. Lol

[@alltimeklazzikz]

Yeah thats why MC Eith couldnt pay 400 Bucks to a Rapper from Germany called Blokkmonsta. Blokkmonsta wanted a Feature, Eith said yes ok received 400 Bucks from that Dude & basically scammed him 😂 the Dude said if youre ever come to Berlin i will see You. Thats exactly what happend, Eith shxx in his Pants he gave Blokkmonsta his Money back, while being Scared as F..... wannabe tough guy without Money. TRUE STORY #FACT

[@3-dmanhood974]

These dudes have no spiritual discernment at all…

[@alexanderberki]

Was eigt falling asleep??

[@BonafideDG]

Thats why you shouldn't sign to no damn label. Do as much as you can yourself, hire a pro bono mofo for the other stuff, and you better off

[@PhoenixRising82672]

Real gangsters use pens

[@dollarperlike4087]

This a broke conversation

[@SincerelyVegas]

CMW

[@ColdheartCuzo]

Bring that real music bacC

[@dnlxl]

Steele sleeping on air again

[@marcuskelly670]

🫡 Family

[@kingveteran9100]

Ya'll must of forgot satan 👹 is the master of music! ...

[@Opp-pack93]

Suge Knight wanted to unionize rappers and look what happen to him

[@brianking4225]

@@Opp-pack93 that's why we need some type of counter intelligence agency in place so we can fight back

[@Martin-kq5kx]

You think it was a conspiracy to lock suge up... You don't think suge was engaging in criminal activity.. he put himself in jail

[@StanleyHolmes-z5f]

What

[@JohnEastmanExAttyAtLaw]

Let's not forget the sales of crack and cocaine to their own people in their own communities. Good money in that.

[@mcm2678]

Hold on rapping is a choice a job is 24hrs of doing sometimes what u don't want to rapper is getting high partying what are u talking about common job is a real job u can't catch a felony an work do drugs all day harder work is a 9-5 I respect that more honest man work your choice of words was terrible

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

How does a dude who hasnt been on tour in a century or ever been successful know how successful artists make they money ????? Bro just a hater

[@flyermorecreativeminds]

He was tour recently.

[@timothyworkman1275]

Quit crying 😢

[@robertpolinjr]

Excuse Chronicles lol

[@robertpolinjr]

The internet just gave these dudes a platform to make excuses and hate on other people thats doing better than them😂

[@Primo-1]

@@robertpolinjr you don't know how ignorant and uniformed you truly sound.

[@DueceSpice]

FANBOY LOGIC…THIS IS A GUY WHO BEEN IN THE INDUSTRY FOR 30 YEARS AND YOU THINK HE DONT KNOW WHAT HE TALKING ABOUT?

[@Tony2Times-jn1jq]

Old saying . Everything glitter ain’t gold. Cats in my city thought I was always up half the time I was broke. I just know how to put myself together before I leave the house

[@larrybee7713]

Good point.