Make Money in Hip Hop - Turn to Drugs
I have been thinking of this for quite sometime. Being a huge fan and active member of Hip Hop - through many of its ups and downs, and once being an Analyst - I started seeing trends through the culture.
If you are a hustler, you need to know trends. You need to know what effects those trends. The top investors in the world know what elements effect their stocks or companies. They know things that are going to happen 10 years later. I’m not saying they are the new breed of Nostradamus, but they simply know how to read numbers, stats, and human psychology.
Now let’s apply this to Hip Hop. For awhile, I was a hip hop hippie. I wasn’t doped up, but I did listen to a lot of records. From Iron Butterfly to George Clinton to Miles Davis to John Coltrane to Beatles to Rakim to Roxanne to Pharcyde to Roots to Soldier Boy. I am a bonified music junkie and I still haven’t taken out the needle and kicked the habit.
As your ear becomes more trained, you get a little infatuated and immersed in the culture where that music was created. Hip Hop - created in the Bronx out of poverty, out of gang culture, out of expression from inner city kids. Hip Hop - created from looping a break of a song and looping it to create what we now call an instrumental. BBoying - created in place of gang fights. Graffiti - created to get props and express themselves in a rebelious way. DJing - created to move parties in the park, created to help dancers get down to that funky part of the record.
Who wouldn’t want to learn about this culture? Most of the hip hop records told a story of where they lived. Tales of the hood. GrandMaster Flash’s “The Message” told me a story of where he lived and I wanted to learn more. He talked about the hood as he saw it. The crazy sh!t that happens daily. Gangs, broke glass, robbers, drugs, etc.
Drugs. Yes I said it. Drugs. The title of this blog is “Make Money in Hip Hop - Turn to Drugs”. Drugs, I said it. Many of my friends have made some good coin off slanging drugs on the corner. Quick money. Fast Life. That game is not for many. It wasn’t for me.
If you really want to hustle Hip Hop - turn to the drug culture. Why? Drugs and parties and music all go hand in hand no matter what you think. Drugs has always been a part of listening to music. You may not do it, but there are millions of kids and millions of consumers that listne to music while they are high, trippin’, or crunk.
Choose your choice - crack, weed, ecstacy, sizzurp, meth - they all have a part in hip hop. Well maybe not meth - I only see white people on that (no disrespect).
But let’s take a closer look.
1980 - early 90s - Crack Cocaine hits the streets.
Music is much faster. New Jack style of Hip Hop. Hustlers are portrayed on the covers of hip hop albums. Rakim and Eric B look like hustlers with gold chains - the usual uniform for hustlers in the 90s. Listen to the beat around this era. LL Cool J was even spitting over fast beats. Everything sounded so sped up. Cocaine was the drug of choice for thos who wanted that lift - that speed - that adrenaline - that rush. The style of dancing was much faster too. New Jack!
Early 90s - Crack is Wack - Get the Weed
When Crack his the streets, it was tearing up the neighborhoods. People were zombies. People were dying. So there were many songs that proclaimed “Crack is Wack”. Hip Hop music changed from there. Golden Era of Hip Hop? Some say it was the 80’s with Rakim leading it. But in my opinion - the early 90’s was my Golden Era. It was a reborn consciousness. Weed. Wu-Tang Clan. Common. Black Sheep. The Chronic. Black Moon. Nas’s Illmatic. Reasonable Doubt. Much slower times. Slower Tempos. This was chill mode. You sit back - smoke a blunt - listen to the words.
Late 90s - 2000s - Ecstacy
Something happened to Hip Hop. It turned wierd. Not wierd, but it was just too dramatic of a change. The last album from the last era, in my opinion, was Black Starr (Mos Def & Talib Kweli). The synths came in. Timberland showed up and started using different sounds. You heard a lot of the sounds that Rave kids were glowsticking too. Lots of weird electronic sounds were incorporated into hip hop beats.
Early & Mid 2000s - Sizzurp
Chopped and Screwed music finally made it to the mainstream and so did the sizzurp. The cough syrup people used to take to give them that mellow buzz. In turn, they made music tailored to their state while they were on Sizzurp. Slow, extremely slow beats. Now not all of America was on a sizzurp. The double time, crunk, down south beats started coming into play. Very simplified beats - think - “Shake That Laffy Taffy”.
Late 2000s - What’s next?
It’s 2008 - so where is hip hop going? Where is drug culture going? Meth? I don’t know if majority of black urban society or hip hop is down with Meth. There will always be weed. There will always be alchohol. What is the next drug of choice - the next expirimental drug? Crack seems like it’s making a comeback. I wouldn’t know.
Music and drugs will always go hand in hand. Music is a universal language, stirs emotion, and sets moods. Same with drugs. The two alter your state of mind in an instant.
So what is the new sound of Hip Hop going?
I’m really not sure where you’re going with this one. “Just say no!”…lol.
I used to slang drugs made about 10′Gs in a short period of time that white…But I measured the risks I was takin almost getting killed havign shotguns pulled on me getting jacked, jackin niggas i decided its time to leave the game, thats when I found myself E-hustling. I respect this post cause theres a lot of money in the drug game you just gotta know what ya doing. A hustler hustles where and when he can get it! keep up the good work, i went from having 500-1000 dollar days to making 1 dollar a day adsense or 250 dollars a week referral hustling, but its respectable money to me and keeps a nigga in school.
good shit, i like blogs that make me type comments, its rare i do this.
Great post! This type of posts gets me coming everytime. I can not say I totally understand it but its different from the John Chows - Pro Blogger boring posts, same ole Sh*^. Anyways you should read The Tipping Point interesting read and it kind of goes along what your saying here.
quite interesting
I like your blog…
Good job…
Whats up with the blog? No updates in a minute…
This is a lesson that Black Hat strategies burns and kills itself.
Try White hat strategies. I thought you had a future.
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You sent me a message I thought I wold catch up with you.
I wondered why you had not updated.
what happened? This was quickly becoming one of my fav blogs and it just died off.
nothing worst then a fall of blog…
Yo das wussup though. I done did it all, from promoting club events and slanging E out the bathroom, to slanging heavy on the block no matter the color, to hustlin tapes. I’m in Europe and the same rules apply. Couple of yrs back like garage and grime started getting spinz and I got into dat scene too. I use the street hustle with my music, you want to get ppl listening to yo shit tell em its dope. But make sure it really got dope in the cover. I stuck bud bags on the covers and handed out blunts with copies. I had a squad of dudes no matter the ave running up to me whenever they saw me. Face facts, rap is all bout how dope u are and how dope u are when it comes to credibility in the streets. Alotta DJs buggin saying I’m jus slanging but I got fans fam…
PEACE
I guess this blog sorta died ehh? To, I liked the first few posts but I admit that last couple were getting tough to read.
BTW… Yung mike, you make no sense at all.
I think this is the blog about drugs with no information on drugs
No wait I did get it.
FOLLOW THE DRUG CULTURE BUT DON’T TAKE THE DRUGS
and you will make money
So is this dude dead or what?
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I’m SHOCKED at some of the replies that was left
behind by some of the readers, MAN “lighten up”
YALL must have forgotten what it’s like to live
in this world. Give the man a break and try to re-
member how your life gets from time to time!!!
Kc
I completely agree with Kc01!
psychedelic drugs for sure coming back getting the jimi hendrix getting that black pride back with the president and everything, but i heard you thanks for the step up.
yo, first of all ..mad respect youre a wise guy and i would like to ask you some personnal tips and advices. i actually am doing little hustles, here it goes… sell 500-1000$ items on ebay and getting the most persons interested to add me on msn… when the auctions finishes, i keep the money for 45 days (untill buyers can`t open a dispute no more) (Paypal)
thats the first part. about 1/3 poeple will be hustled with that …now, about the msn contacts you sell them the item too … im using world of warcraft game card with a little box that contains 25 numbers wich unlock shits on WoW… so when you talk to them on msn, you convince em to send you the money trough Paypal directly using the Personnal–>Gift and voila …they cant do nothing eccept open a dispute for unauthorized transaction and after paypal looks the mac adresses that connected to his paypal,they see that only his cpu connected to his account … easy money . and if you get someone to come to your hood to buy it directly from you, you get your friends to come (RANDOMLY AT THE SAME MOMENT) tax up you two so it looks like the seller and the buyer got fked up.
im probably not the first one to do that ..but i though of it myself and i read ALL yo fkg acrticles. everything you say keeps in my head and helps me to continue and about the repeating things, if you do somethings and i works but not totally sure no one can retrace you …is the rule still applicable«? please if you still read your messages hollah at me for hustle sharing msn: le.dodu@hotmail.com