To think that J.Cole has never headlined Coachella, ACL, Glastonbury, or ever had a Grammy, MTV Music Awards or a SNL performance is crazy to be as big as he is, but it also goes to show you that building and catering to your fanbase will take you a long way! Its about the fans
I can leak music from JID from
2013 that’s insane 🤯🤯🤯 when he was really trying to just out rap niggas. Every song from “The Never Story” was 2 years old 😂😂😂😂 except 2 record Cole producer so the bars were from 2015 hit in 2017. DiCaprio 2 shit was half old half new.
I watch Lil Wayne and Mack Maine tell JID in Miami that he’s too nice for them not to hear him enough and ever since then JID been hopping on niggas shit going brazy!
The shift is happening, be prepared.
That shift will change the financial and the cultural structure of black music.
Get aware and be prepared. It’s back to the basics
J.I.D & EarthGang will be nominated and or win a Grammy within the next year
And EarthGang will be nominated and or win an Oscar within the next year
Remember and favorite this tweet!
You heard here first!
Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice’s ‘Barbie World’ was the MOST streamed rap song in the world on Spotify yesterday with over 3.8m streams 🎀🔥
It is the first time a female rap song has reached this many daily streams in over two years.
JID - 8/26 - The Forever Story
J. Cole - 9/1 - NBA 2K Dreamers Cover
Ari Lennox - 9/2 Away Messages EP
Ari Lennox - 9/9 Age/Sex/Location/
____________ - 10/xx/22
____________ - 11/xx/22
The Ville is dropping. The reign has begun
Remember I got into a verbal battle w/ niggas on here about recording equipment and that if you really wanted it you are willing to record on anything anywhere and niggas replied with Kanye has … Kendrick in Keem bedroom on a twin bed going crazy 😂😂😂 y’all don’t want this
Before saying a word, remember we toured the states (5) times, the world (2), did shows for free, traveled in minivans, slept 7 ppl in 1 hotel rooms. My point is hard work pays off. Congrats to all the other freshman but most importantly congrats
@JIDsv
I just want artists to understand that 50 Cent in the span of 3 yrs from 2003-2005 sold niggas wife beaters, G-unit Reebox, vitamin water, lloyd banks, Tony Tayo, The Game, Young Buck, Olivia, a video game smh all in 3 years bruh 😤
So I have this method that I use when developing an artists that maybe old or new who’s knows 🤷🏾♂️ but I called “The Inside/Outside Theory”
So I’ll explain “The Inside/Outside Theory” like this ..
I advises all artists to think of their career as a house or a piece of property.
We gotta get back to booing niggas. Like once you get booed you either go home and get better or you quit. We not booing enough niggas nowadays. We gotta bring back some balance to the game
A lot of y’all up-coming artists struggle w/ gaining new fans because y’all always trying to be to cool.
You are running a business. Interactive w/ people, comment back, if someone repost your music don’t just repost it, start a convo.
A Fan A Day use to be our approach.
My unreleased music playlist just played..
Metro Marrs - Back Of The Club
JID x Thug - ********
Lauren Hill - by Spillage Village (Olu only of EarthGang)
Hardo - Balance Feat. FTR Drama
NJOMZA - Island Boy 🌴
Cole and Drake being
#1
off a rappy rap song is good for the business and IDGAF at
#2
shows how strong the kids is.
A great day for rap music if you ask me
Meet
@JIDsv
—hip-hop's patient and potent new superstar. The rapper tells Playboy about adjusting his path, mourning Mac Miller and eyeing the next level. Read the full conversation now.
The Labels = 🏦
Going Viral = 🎰
Nobody’s building movements, brands, deep catalogs or making hits anymore, everyone just playing the music lotto everyday hoping to go viral and cash out.
This shit feels like the music business version of the matrix right now
JID don’t like popping his shit loudly, cause he’s more about the art but imma pop it for him.
105k tickets all sold out!! Stop talking about development w/o mentioning the gang
Wanna hear something crazy???
Stick off of the Dreamville’s D-Day mixtape and Just in Time on The Forever Story once upon a time was the same song!
#TFS
🫣
The funniest part about this is Mac was dead ass serious 😂😂😂😂 and so was
@Innerviewq
responds 😂😂👀 you two were and still is my baby brothers. Miss my nigga dirty sock 🧦 Mac
Idc what anyone says, if you can NET six figures off of your music career, per year that’s a good career.
Some people get up and work 8 hr days, 40 hrs a week and get 2-3 paid vacation days off and make $30k a year.
It’s all about perspective, understand when you are blessed
By industry standards we have no hits but damn we got fans and good music! 30 million in a few days! Run your own race, fuck tryna to impress the industry
#NoRules
The shift is happening, be prepared.
That shift will change the financial and the cultural structure of black music.
Get aware and be prepared. It’s back to the basics
I want to start a show called “breaking in the music business” that revolves around up-coming artists and managers.
I want to give them a budget to work from, access to the rolodex and everyone gets to chose one expert to help them on the journey of releasing one project.
The coolest thing a/b JID’s surround sound going viral on TikTok is that it’s a rappy rap song. No gimmicks, no nothing & it’s authentic to him and his identity.
He didn’t go make any cookie cutter song or nothing. The people found it and ran with it. That’s the real W in this
Can someone pls explain too me why you can’t check into a hotel until 3 pm and have to check out by 11 am?
Why are we only getting 20 hrs in the hotel instead of 24?
According to the culture and list from Rap/Hip-hop elitist and media it seems like a general consensus that we (
@JIDsv
) put out a Top 10 rap album this year.
We have a headlining sold out tour starting in January doing rooms from 5-8k on 39 dates around the country.
CAA just bought ICM. I guarantee they go public.
UMG is going public.
& we sitting over here talking bout fucking 15-20% and 3-5%??
We fighting the wrong fight we better smarten up fast. The gold rush is happening right in front of ur eyes.
Is it me or does hip-hop/rap media feels like it’s in a strange place right now. It feels more like the media is taunting the artists and providing negative narrative more than your music or journey behind your music to the fans.
Only a few A&R in this business was interested in signing EarthGang when we first started JID had the never story done and we set w/ a bunch of A&R’s and they told us to come back when it dropped until they heard about J.Cole’s interests & then everyone wanted in.
J.Cole has this unreleased verse oh my, oh my! Dark Skin Cole is about to be in full affect 2019! The little devil in my is over excited can’t even lie
Rap needs a breathe of fresh air to arrive.
Where are the producers who's willing to push the sound and where are the new artists willing to take risk to alter the genre again?
Drake was supposedly at Dreamville Fest and was supposed to go onstage, but left 30 minutes before J. Cole went on stage
- via Mandii B on
@NeedToKnowPod
episode
Album still Matter…
Intros Matter…
B-side joints Matter..
Outros Matter….
Concepts Matter….
Storyline Matter…
Album’s Matter…
This Rap/Hip-Hop shit Matter…
Our culture and all sides of our environment and the ppl in them Matters…
This shit matters..
To become a “superstar” it takes sacrifice.
- time away from your family and friends
- not always available
- a lot of failed relationships
- tiredness
- a lot of questioning yourself if this is for you
- unwarranted criticism
- hate
- fake love
- up and downs
JID’s old Pontiac. The 1 that got him thru college on his back & forth trips to and from Atlanta. His home when he got kicked out, etc. It’s amazing when you can takes something that was so meaningful to the journey & extended it along the life and career of an artist.
I know in the past it may have been cool to sell this music industry shit like it’s easy & effortless but I have never been a liar & always been transparent, this is one of the hardest jobs in the world & you damn near gotta be a crazy person to want to be a part of it on a daily
Niggas be mad when you put that shit out and it hits!
Don’t get mad at bruh cause he actually thought about his shit, plan and built a team around him before jumping out the window.
This is what being smart & a little bit of luck looks like.
Why do we continue to gauge the quality of an artist music by numbers?
Is it due to instagram? Co-signs? The appearance of looking bigger than they are?
Either way this generation is killing off their actual talented artists w/ social commentary like this.
The most unexplainable trend in the music business right now has to be:
Artists spending x amount of time and money in the studio creating new music, only to deliver the new music to the market and go 👻
Here’s a basic illustration of what you are doing and hopes happen.
J.Cole rapped about his crooked smile
Fabulous rapped about his chipped tooth
Biggie told us his was fat, black and ugly as ever
We accepted their imperfections because it was a reflection of us & our imperfections
Now everyone just want the same teeth & lips shit crazy 😩