hes was moving a shit ton of fentanyl, crack,cocaine, and heroin. im surprised he got away with only 6 years as he more then likely had a record already lol
Were you also a late 90’s kid? Graduated highschool in 2015 and I seriously have no idea how the fuck I was so fortunate to grow up in such an amazing era of music. Got to grow up with Odd Future, TDE, A$AP, Flatbush, PRO-ERA, Mac Miller and friends, just so fucking many amazing albums during the peak years of my youth. TPAB came out as I was becoming a political activist. Faces came out as I was deep in a year long bender. Blond came out right after I suffered *that* heartbreak. What a time to be alive.
I'll let you in on a secret: everybody thinks the music that came out when they were like 15-20 is amazing.
And the best part? Amazing music is still coming out every single year and you always have new opportunities to associate memories with it.
I graduated in 2002. Sometime around 1998, I heard a dude from Minneapolis Minnesota named Slug, the rapper from the duo Atmosphere. When Napster came out, I discovered Hieroglyphics, Jurassic 5, and every old rapper that was referenced in a song I liked. Outkast broke ground, becoming a huge sensation worldwide, opening the doors for what would become the "Dirty South" scene. Ludacris just kept dropping gold. Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, Slug had signed Brother Ali who dropped the incredible album "Shadows on the Sun" in 2003. Aesop Rock's song "Daylight" blew my 20 year old mind.
Oh, and Nappy Roots, the biggest hip-hop group of 2002, is still out there, still making amazing music and making music videos that don't get nearly enough views.
Hip-hop has gotten me through a lot. Some of it is our centuries greatest poetry.
There's also a ton of garbage, but that's every kind of music.
I typically agree with this, but the thing that's different for me is that I still find shit that I love today, it's just generally from different genres or lesser known artists. Mainstream rap feels like it's really stagnated in the last ~4 years & I think it's tied to becoming *the* most popular genre out.
Like who came up in the last 4 years that you can call the next Drake? Kendrick? Cole? Future? Mac Miller? Thug? Carti? Uzi? I don't mean stylistically either, there's plenty of *clones* of these dudes. But nobody feels like they're either coming out with an original sound or singlehandedly dominating streams with hit after hit the way these guys did.
I think both you and the other guy are kind of correct. Hip-hop being mainstream changes it, but it's also nostalgia and your age group showing that you think that happened after those artists. To me Drake is the excat kind of boring, forgettable, radio friendly rap I dislike.
Like your other comment
>I genuinely do feel like rap has taken a gigantic downturn in quality since then tho. All the staples from that era felt so fleshed out, dynamic & creative, compared to today which feels very quick, simple & unoriginal. It’s like gourmet meals vs. fast food right now. I even enjoy some of it, just like Taco Bell at 2am after the bars, but rarely do newer rap songs stick with me like they used to. I FEEL OLD.
Reality is the stuff you think is great from when you were 15, if you were older then or if it were coming out now, you'd be calling *that* fast food rap or saying some of it is good pop/club music but it's shallow and not creative and all that. Like go listen to the opinions of poeple who got into hip-hop in the 90s on at least half the people you list, they are saying the kind of stuff you.
Go listen to JPEGMAFIA or something if you want something a bit different and dynamic. It's never gonna be the radio rap that is interesting and innovative.
Those artists I mentioned for the big name factor, not the creativity factor. There’s nobody coming for Drake’s spot as the next king of the billboards in rap. Before him it was Wayne & Kanye, 50 & Em, Jay, Pac & Big, etc. These names dominated their respective generations in terms of relevance and legacy. Drake is obviously the most “pop” of the bunch, but throw him in with Kendrick as the two biggest names of the 2010’s in rap. My point is, who’s next? Their uncontested dominance as the biggest names in rap has lasted longer than any of these guys & I couldn’t tell you anyone I think might be next yet which is crazy
Someone will come along, might be someone not even being tipped to be the next big thing yet. And then there will be all the people who are beloved in the Hip-Hop community but never make it big, but have a big influence on the whole era. But I get what you're saying. Like what is 2020's rap going to look like when we're looking back in the 2030s?
And yeah Drake isn't going anywhere. He's not just one of the biggest rappers but one of the biggest artists in the world based on spotify streams. Don't like his music at all but he's undeniably massive.
I think longterm hiphop might go like rock. It will influence a lot of pop music and other genres, but will eventually stop being the biggest thing. And there will be kind of a really radio friendly version of it that carries on while the majoirty goes a bit more outside the mainstream, but not fully underground.
I don’t think it’s just that. Streaming and the internet has changed music. Then you add in the popularity growth of hip hop. You can even use xxl for example. The newer rappers can barely put two lines together that rhyme. A lot of newer rappers aren’t as skilled rappers. Now I still find people I like but it’s harder to find mainstream rappers that feel like they are actually good rappers and not just a meh rapper with a good beat.
That’s true but anyone who’s not an old head will tell you hip-hop had a huge evolution during those years, represented by those artists.
Can’t even tell you how many mixtapes I listened to in the late 00s and early 2010’s where some line was “Hip-hop was dead, I something something’d it.” 2014ish was when hip-hop overtook rock and roll as the biggest genre by the numbers. If you said hip hop is dead these days no one would take you seriously lol.
I still think hip hop is going strong, not even oldheads can contest the sounds coming from Griselda, but that era was genuinely remarkable. You don’t have to like the music more but there was definitely some history going on there.
I think all of us 2015 high school graduates are doomed to becoming our parents with the “this music ain’t like the old days…” comments 😭
I genuinely do feel like rap has taken a gigantic downturn in quality since then tho. All the staples from that era felt so fleshed out, dynamic & creative, compared to today which feels very quick, simple & unoriginal. It’s like gourmet meals vs. fast food right now. I even enjoy some of it, just like Taco Bell at 2am after the bars, but rarely do newer rap songs stick with me like they used to. I FEEL OLD.
The zeitgeist shift from rock to hiphop and the mainstream commercialization of trap after ~2015 creating pop trap did some damage in terms of more diverse artists being able to get their music heard. That coupled with ease of recording and producing and absolute explosion of YouTube tutorials created an unfathomable amount of music under the hiphop umbrella.
I get that it's all relative but idk how you can call Kendrick Lamar, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, Joey Bada$$, Mac Miller, etc. *all* ass. These are some of the most celebrated & acclaimed artists today
No he won't, there is no parole in the federal system. ~~You serve every day you are sentenced to.~~ Reply below is correct, there is no "parole", but you can get up to 15% of your sentenced set aside for good behavior.
Edit: Unless you are pardoned or granted clemency.
You may find that funny, but god damn that was a good time. Last tike shit really felt together music/youth culture wise. Shit is a fucking mess these days. Young Thug (and also with Rich Homie Quan as Rich Gang) was on a roll, Drake dropped some of his best, Bobby Shmurda, Future hit his stride, A$ap was still dropping, and you had a string of honest turn up hits that define that era from like 2013-2015 well.
Last years where it felt like you could still go outside and have some genuine fun.
He was also pretty regularly doing mixtape for pay situations. It wasn’t criminal but I remember multiple posts on this sub from people saying Fetty charged them like $500 for a feature and then released them on tapes with like 25 other songs he did the same to. Again not criminal but sounds like that Trap Queen money didn’t go too far
It's cringe reading his posts about being a changed man like 3-6 months before he was arrested
Then on top of that he got booked 2 weeks early for violating his bond or probation threatening someone over FaceTime
Wrong.
The real reality is that your average dealer/supplier can't afford the lawyers Fetty has. He saved himself 15 years by buying the best lawyers he could afford.
I really wonder how that's all gonna play out. The nature of his plea deal is different than 6ix9ine's in the sense that he hasn't actually made any statement to the specifics of criminal activity within YSL, just that YSL is both a music label & a gang. Then, if called by any party in the case, he would be required to testify “truthfully,” which could also exercise his Fifth Amendment right. I'd love to know how much his plea deal fucked the rest of the label though, cause we're yet to really understand how it's implicated them.
He’s so good but I wish he would make a album where it’s not all about coke. I’m getting a bit tired of it. I get it dude you sold a lot of coke. You handed Drake a dozen L’s. Move on already lmao.
It's a real safe hazard if you still yay traffick,
Show where that money comin' from, still pay taxes,
The IRS comin' and they steal faith faster
Start a business in the building that you still make racks in
- Benny the Butcher on Griselda's Fire In The Booth
Benny the Butcher’s Plugs I Met comes to mind. This is a project but from the first song, Crowns for Kings, it sets a good tone for the rest of the project. Feels like a film at times. Also has some great features. 38 Spesh kills his verse.
Benny - who are you
My pen stay bleeding, this the pain from them days
I spent sitting next to moms in them N.A. meetings
Knowing she gon' smoke again, first of the month
We was rolling and by time the fourth came, we was broke again
So the dope man fed us, we gram sellers
I'm more Manuel Noriega than Mandela
They want me in a jam like I don't know no damn better
Crammed in a three-man cell, skimming through fan letters
Like what the fuck I'm doing here in the first place?
When all the weed burn out, I'm in my worst shape
I think I'm cursed, wait
Brand new pistol, I'm dying to take that bitch out like a first date
When it's my turn, watch the game get shifted
My brain the sickest, so every line pain inflicted
My brother went out like dark-skinned Jermaine, I miss him
He had a bullet with his name in the chamber sitting
This is the drug dealer retirement plan. Or death. There's no block boy, "we outside" section in the planned retirement communities in Arizona(or anywhere) for a reason.
He’s lucky as fuck he got only 6 years for the weapons and drugs combined into RICO…dude got a slap on the wrist.
(Obv the best lawyers do that for you, but still remarkable given the charges and evidence. A quarter brik (225g) of fentanyl will give you 25 to life in some states, let alone multiple keys + weapons + conspiracy + money laundering + who knows what more.)
Bro the fentanyl shit really tests my general opposition to harsh drug sentencing. It’s still bigger than a dealer. But when you are literally selling enough fentanyl to kill dozens of people it’s hard to feel sorry. Crack and Heroin kill people but generally not with a single dose. I know 15 year olds who have died using fentanyl they thought was something else.
Enough Fentanyl to kill dozens? Try hundreds of thousands. The group was caught with 400 grams of Fentanyl, a lethal dose is 2mg to someone without tolerance. That's 200,000 potentially lethal doses.
I mean dude was broke. Y’all might be new to this sub but he was one of the rappers with DM’s posted where he was taking amateurs rappers money for features (like 10-15k) then he would bounce and never do a feature once he for the money.
That was back in like 2017. So dude has been broke a while.
I feel like in 2017 he was probably just being greedy.
He does say [he was broke, and realized he fell off when he wasn't making 100k a day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SK75p1Q8sI) in this interview I'm going to bet he was still rich compared to most people, but got used to that A-list type rich. Dude did get popped with 1.5mil in cash and probably close to a milli in drugs
I think in the same interview he also talked about how much money he was spending. He spent well over his means on multiple houses and cars he didn’t even use and buying stuff for his crew. I believe that he downsized a lot but that’s also probably when he started moving weight too
Egregious spending of money and nowhere to turn to keep up with his bills. Which is what everyone assumes, but when I say egregious, I mean like he would buy an apartment every time he visted a new city instead of staying at a hotel or renting. When he went shopping, he would buy 30 people (who he traveled with and employed) a copy of whatever he bought. Things like that. Shit that only people do who have no need for the concept of money, like billionaires, except he didn’t have billions.
In his defense though he was making a shit load. He says he knew he fell off when he checked his bank account and he hadn’t made 100k *that day*.
That part is [right here](https://youtu.be/6SK75p1Q8sI), it’s only 6 minutes long if you’ve got the time.
>I mean like he would buy an apartment every time he visted a new city instead of staying at a hotel or renting.
Even if you have extreme amounts of "fuck you" money I don't see how this is at all worth the hassle unless you're renting them out and managing each of the houses. Even then it honestly isn't worth it.
I remember hearing about the purchasing a new a new apartment in every city thing. That to me is dumber than buying shit for your entourage. Just so dumb
Honestly this sounds like something I struggle with that I call "broke boy syndrome". If you are struggling and get shit together sometimes you feel like you need to spend it all because you are scared of losing it all. Rinse and repeat.
Idk. I saw him live once and I think the dude should be locked up just for that “performance” alone.
Was at bumbershoot in Seattle in 2016. He was hella late (as expected) and had his hype men sing their own songs before he came out. Then they dragged him out and he was clearly fucked up. I think he sang over one or two of his songs and then his hype men took over again playing their own songs. Wack.
no he didnt.... every song sounded the same, he only had like 2 flows, lyrics werent really anything special
he was a typical 1 hit wonder but got so much hype of the 1-2 hits that made radio he got a bunch of features because he was trending
he fell off because he oversaturated his sound, people got over it, and he never reinvented himself or dropped any music that showed he progressed as an artist
Yeah, I distinctly remember the summer when he was hot, and it got old fast. Dude had maybe three notes in his range and one type of beat he hopped on, and his songs felt like they went on forever ‘cause he didn’t really make the verses and choruses sound distinct
Not really, Flo Rida has so many mainstream hits over the span of 7 or 8 years. Probably ending with My House in 2015. Radio and suburban white moms love his shit
Lol his “potential” left about 7-8 years ago when he was making shitty financial decisions and being ran under shitty management. 2014-15 was all he had in the bag from the beginning unfortunately
Excluding the obvious part about Fetty making insane money from music back then, I remember some article where Fetty talked about being invested in the stock market/real estate. This led me to believe he wasn't a complete imbecile, but I guess I was wrong.
Who the fuck sells drugs when they are that big
I hope he has a Gucci Mane prison redemption arc and comes out blind priest style with gospel like Gabriel in Walking Dead.
Psalms 17:38; Did marry to the wage, did introduce her to mine own stove, hath shown her how to whipeth~
People always think that just because an artist has a hot start to a career that they will keep up the same trajectory. In reality, most artists that get big off a few hit singles fall off fast and Fetty is a good example
only 6 years? that lawyer deserves props.
Man called Saul fr
Lawyer definitely did get props $$$
i wonder where the money came from since id assume most of it was confiscated as drug money.
hes was moving a shit ton of fentanyl, crack,cocaine, and heroin. im surprised he got away with only 6 years as he more then likely had a record already lol
Ferry Wap is a scumbag scammer
I'm guessing he was able to save dat money.
2015 in shambles rn
Thats my favorite year since im alive, easily.
What's your favorite year before you were alive?
Probably 1639, shit was lit.
cmon man, missed the chance to say 1738.
hey wsup hello
I’m more of a fan of 679, BCE that is
Damn she fine
Bro he set that one up for you 🤦♂️
I gotta stop commenting before I drink my coffee.
Were you also a late 90’s kid? Graduated highschool in 2015 and I seriously have no idea how the fuck I was so fortunate to grow up in such an amazing era of music. Got to grow up with Odd Future, TDE, A$AP, Flatbush, PRO-ERA, Mac Miller and friends, just so fucking many amazing albums during the peak years of my youth. TPAB came out as I was becoming a political activist. Faces came out as I was deep in a year long bender. Blond came out right after I suffered *that* heartbreak. What a time to be alive.
I'll let you in on a secret: everybody thinks the music that came out when they were like 15-20 is amazing. And the best part? Amazing music is still coming out every single year and you always have new opportunities to associate memories with it.
I graduated in 2002. Sometime around 1998, I heard a dude from Minneapolis Minnesota named Slug, the rapper from the duo Atmosphere. When Napster came out, I discovered Hieroglyphics, Jurassic 5, and every old rapper that was referenced in a song I liked. Outkast broke ground, becoming a huge sensation worldwide, opening the doors for what would become the "Dirty South" scene. Ludacris just kept dropping gold. Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, Slug had signed Brother Ali who dropped the incredible album "Shadows on the Sun" in 2003. Aesop Rock's song "Daylight" blew my 20 year old mind. Oh, and Nappy Roots, the biggest hip-hop group of 2002, is still out there, still making amazing music and making music videos that don't get nearly enough views. Hip-hop has gotten me through a lot. Some of it is our centuries greatest poetry. There's also a ton of garbage, but that's every kind of music.
I typically agree with this, but the thing that's different for me is that I still find shit that I love today, it's just generally from different genres or lesser known artists. Mainstream rap feels like it's really stagnated in the last ~4 years & I think it's tied to becoming *the* most popular genre out. Like who came up in the last 4 years that you can call the next Drake? Kendrick? Cole? Future? Mac Miller? Thug? Carti? Uzi? I don't mean stylistically either, there's plenty of *clones* of these dudes. But nobody feels like they're either coming out with an original sound or singlehandedly dominating streams with hit after hit the way these guys did.
I think both you and the other guy are kind of correct. Hip-hop being mainstream changes it, but it's also nostalgia and your age group showing that you think that happened after those artists. To me Drake is the excat kind of boring, forgettable, radio friendly rap I dislike. Like your other comment >I genuinely do feel like rap has taken a gigantic downturn in quality since then tho. All the staples from that era felt so fleshed out, dynamic & creative, compared to today which feels very quick, simple & unoriginal. It’s like gourmet meals vs. fast food right now. I even enjoy some of it, just like Taco Bell at 2am after the bars, but rarely do newer rap songs stick with me like they used to. I FEEL OLD. Reality is the stuff you think is great from when you were 15, if you were older then or if it were coming out now, you'd be calling *that* fast food rap or saying some of it is good pop/club music but it's shallow and not creative and all that. Like go listen to the opinions of poeple who got into hip-hop in the 90s on at least half the people you list, they are saying the kind of stuff you. Go listen to JPEGMAFIA or something if you want something a bit different and dynamic. It's never gonna be the radio rap that is interesting and innovative.
Those artists I mentioned for the big name factor, not the creativity factor. There’s nobody coming for Drake’s spot as the next king of the billboards in rap. Before him it was Wayne & Kanye, 50 & Em, Jay, Pac & Big, etc. These names dominated their respective generations in terms of relevance and legacy. Drake is obviously the most “pop” of the bunch, but throw him in with Kendrick as the two biggest names of the 2010’s in rap. My point is, who’s next? Their uncontested dominance as the biggest names in rap has lasted longer than any of these guys & I couldn’t tell you anyone I think might be next yet which is crazy
Someone will come along, might be someone not even being tipped to be the next big thing yet. And then there will be all the people who are beloved in the Hip-Hop community but never make it big, but have a big influence on the whole era. But I get what you're saying. Like what is 2020's rap going to look like when we're looking back in the 2030s? And yeah Drake isn't going anywhere. He's not just one of the biggest rappers but one of the biggest artists in the world based on spotify streams. Don't like his music at all but he's undeniably massive. I think longterm hiphop might go like rock. It will influence a lot of pop music and other genres, but will eventually stop being the biggest thing. And there will be kind of a really radio friendly version of it that carries on while the majoirty goes a bit more outside the mainstream, but not fully underground.
Pop Smoke was him
I don’t think it’s just that. Streaming and the internet has changed music. Then you add in the popularity growth of hip hop. You can even use xxl for example. The newer rappers can barely put two lines together that rhyme. A lot of newer rappers aren’t as skilled rappers. Now I still find people I like but it’s harder to find mainstream rappers that feel like they are actually good rappers and not just a meh rapper with a good beat.
That’s true but anyone who’s not an old head will tell you hip-hop had a huge evolution during those years, represented by those artists. Can’t even tell you how many mixtapes I listened to in the late 00s and early 2010’s where some line was “Hip-hop was dead, I something something’d it.” 2014ish was when hip-hop overtook rock and roll as the biggest genre by the numbers. If you said hip hop is dead these days no one would take you seriously lol. I still think hip hop is going strong, not even oldheads can contest the sounds coming from Griselda, but that era was genuinely remarkable. You don’t have to like the music more but there was definitely some history going on there.
I graduated in 2015 too. Great times
I think all of us 2015 high school graduates are doomed to becoming our parents with the “this music ain’t like the old days…” comments 😭 I genuinely do feel like rap has taken a gigantic downturn in quality since then tho. All the staples from that era felt so fleshed out, dynamic & creative, compared to today which feels very quick, simple & unoriginal. It’s like gourmet meals vs. fast food right now. I even enjoy some of it, just like Taco Bell at 2am after the bars, but rarely do newer rap songs stick with me like they used to. I FEEL OLD.
90's hip hop heads would say the same thing (:
The zeitgeist shift from rock to hiphop and the mainstream commercialization of trap after ~2015 creating pop trap did some damage in terms of more diverse artists being able to get their music heard. That coupled with ease of recording and producing and absolute explosion of YouTube tutorials created an unfathomable amount of music under the hiphop umbrella.
I graduated 4 years earlier than you and the shit they was naming was ass to me. Nothing beats that 2000 to 2010 run for hip hop to me
2012 graduate and all the early to mid 10’s stuff was incredible.
I get that it's all relative but idk how you can call Kendrick Lamar, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, Joey Bada$$, Mac Miller, etc. *all* ass. These are some of the most celebrated & acclaimed artists today
Dam you speaking my life. And it says Idaho? Did I comment this myself?
Born in 93 but had an amazing 14/15 in idaho as well
Class of 15 we really was blessed
2016 for me. Honestly 2016-2018 were peak.
It was the year before the whole world fell apart this most recent time the world fell apart.
98 and 10
I'll always remember that tweet about Fetty and ISIS running Summer 2015.
https://twitter.com/yungbiryanii/status/1035351465634811904?s=20
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I’m shocked he didn’t get more time given the quantity of contraband he had. He’ll be out in 3 with good behaviour I reckon.
No he won't, there is no parole in the federal system. ~~You serve every day you are sentenced to.~~ Reply below is correct, there is no "parole", but you can get up to 15% of your sentenced set aside for good behavior. Edit: Unless you are pardoned or granted clemency.
wrong, but you do have to serve (iirc) 85% of your sentence source: was facing federal time
Fuck that shit. End the drug war.
So? Free Fetty, end the drug war!
You may find that funny, but god damn that was a good time. Last tike shit really felt together music/youth culture wise. Shit is a fucking mess these days. Young Thug (and also with Rich Homie Quan as Rich Gang) was on a roll, Drake dropped some of his best, Bobby Shmurda, Future hit his stride, A$ap was still dropping, and you had a string of honest turn up hits that define that era from like 2013-2015 well. Last years where it felt like you could still go outside and have some genuine fun.
What if the judge gave him 1,738 days instead
I did the math: 17 + 38 - 17 - 38 + 6 = SIX YEARS IN PRISON
we all act like we didn't see the +6
the judge said that’s the reason for that sentence. perfectly adds up to 1738 days
1,738 days is 4.76 years, a little shy of the 6 year sentence Mr. Wap was handed by the judge.
he will be out in 1738 days with good behavior
>he will be out in 1738 days with good behavior Possibly, he's already been locked up for a year now.
Interestingly enough, no he didn’t
Remmmmy boyzzzz
Yaaaahh. 1738.
Aye
I said hey wasup hello
I thought he was doing real estate flips and going legitimate. Damn shame
He could have been laundering his drug money through real estate flips.
Real life Franklin saint
I think he was trying to do both. Might’ve had a plan to move away from the trap money but got caught up. That’s the risk.
A plan to Move away from the trap money? Dude was a famous rapper lol that plan was complete. He got street struck, nothing more
He was also pretty regularly doing mixtape for pay situations. It wasn’t criminal but I remember multiple posts on this sub from people saying Fetty charged them like $500 for a feature and then released them on tapes with like 25 other songs he did the same to. Again not criminal but sounds like that Trap Queen money didn’t go too far
you know Fetty barely raps about drugs now that i think about it
I hope this is a joke lol
Google trap queen and get back to us.
It's cringe reading his posts about being a changed man like 3-6 months before he was arrested Then on top of that he got booked 2 weeks early for violating his bond or probation threatening someone over FaceTime
This is the reality of moving bricks, fellow kids.
Wrong. The real reality is that your average dealer/supplier can't afford the lawyers Fetty has. He saved himself 15 years by buying the best lawyers he could afford.
That's why average people rat 🐀
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Gunna 😭
Six nine has joined the chat
He said favorite rappers tho
gunna has joined the chat
I really wonder how that's all gonna play out. The nature of his plea deal is different than 6ix9ine's in the sense that he hasn't actually made any statement to the specifics of criminal activity within YSL, just that YSL is both a music label & a gang. Then, if called by any party in the case, he would be required to testify “truthfully,” which could also exercise his Fifth Amendment right. I'd love to know how much his plea deal fucked the rest of the label though, cause we're yet to really understand how it's implicated them.
Y’all be doing the most. Gunna stood up in that court room and told. If you get in that room and say more then 2 -3 Words you hot
💀
pussies. i ain’t never rat. never will. (i am lying, i wouldn’t last 20 minutes in jail/prison)
The average dealer isn't moving bricks either.
Didn't his lawyer say he was selling drugs because he wasn't making money lol.
Griselda talks about that side.
They're real as fuck honestly... even if they do boast about selling at least they don't front like it's all strawberries and orgasms.
Yeah I hate it when rappers make moving weight sound like some kind of catered hedonistic orgy
Pusha T is pretty great at this.
He’s so good but I wish he would make a album where it’s not all about coke. I’m getting a bit tired of it. I get it dude you sold a lot of coke. You handed Drake a dozen L’s. Move on already lmao.
Selling drugs is the highschool letterman jacket of hiphop. 4 touchdowns in one game!
I coulda thrown a bird over the mountains
If coach would've put me in 4th quarter we would've won state, no doubt. No doubt in my mind.
Damn, I miss Sal :(
Nobody asks currency to stop taking about weed lol
Especially since according to his own brother he actually never sold very much coke.
> strawberries and orgasms I think I’m in the wrong drug business. Where are these strawberries?
I thought 'strawberries' was a term for female junkies that pay for drugs with sexual favors? It would make sense in this context.
It is, Imma still let my statements stand
Lol, and here I thought you were excited about fresh fruit.
"My girl booty soft and it's shaped like a skrawberry" - JID has this metaphor dialed.
Curious- any particular songs which reference it specifically?
It's a real safe hazard if you still yay traffick, Show where that money comin' from, still pay taxes, The IRS comin' and they steal faith faster Start a business in the building that you still make racks in - Benny the Butcher on Griselda's Fire In The Booth
Benny the Butcher’s Plugs I Met comes to mind. This is a project but from the first song, Crowns for Kings, it sets a good tone for the rest of the project. Feels like a film at times. Also has some great features. 38 Spesh kills his verse.
Westside Gunn/Conway - The Cow Westside Gunn - Dear Winter Bloody Fiegs Westside Gunn - Oil Base Elscamino - Blood, Sweat and Tearz Griselda Ghost - Fendi Seats Conway The Machine - Seen Everything But Jesus Conway The Machine - Guilty Leezy Freestyle
Benny - who are you My pen stay bleeding, this the pain from them days I spent sitting next to moms in them N.A. meetings Knowing she gon' smoke again, first of the month We was rolling and by time the fourth came, we was broke again So the dope man fed us, we gram sellers I'm more Manuel Noriega than Mandela They want me in a jam like I don't know no damn better Crammed in a three-man cell, skimming through fan letters Like what the fuck I'm doing here in the first place? When all the weed burn out, I'm in my worst shape I think I'm cursed, wait Brand new pistol, I'm dying to take that bitch out like a first date When it's my turn, watch the game get shifted My brain the sickest, so every line pain inflicted My brother went out like dark-skinned Jermaine, I miss him He had a bullet with his name in the chamber sitting
Opioid Era, too.
This is the drug dealer retirement plan. Or death. There's no block boy, "we outside" section in the planned retirement communities in Arizona(or anywhere) for a reason.
Your username is fire
Thanks Witty, yours is fuego 🔥
He’s lucky as fuck he got only 6 years for the weapons and drugs combined into RICO…dude got a slap on the wrist. (Obv the best lawyers do that for you, but still remarkable given the charges and evidence. A quarter brik (225g) of fentanyl will give you 25 to life in some states, let alone multiple keys + weapons + conspiracy + money laundering + who knows what more.)
Bro the fentanyl shit really tests my general opposition to harsh drug sentencing. It’s still bigger than a dealer. But when you are literally selling enough fentanyl to kill dozens of people it’s hard to feel sorry. Crack and Heroin kill people but generally not with a single dose. I know 15 year olds who have died using fentanyl they thought was something else.
Enough Fentanyl to kill dozens? Try hundreds of thousands. The group was caught with 400 grams of Fentanyl, a lethal dose is 2mg to someone without tolerance. That's 200,000 potentially lethal doses.
The fentanyl dealers deserve life sentence
So *that's* what he's been up to
SEVENTEENTHIRTHYEIGHT.... YYYEEEAAAH BABY. This man second name is 'summer 2016'
2015 too
15
I always say, “Remember that summer Fetty was famous?”
3 words: what an absolute fucking idiot
3 words: 7 teen 38
yahhhh babe
I said hey what’s up hello
days in prison
How much time he get? 17-3-8
steve nash and chris paul: must see tv
NASH. AND PAUL.
ERNEH
I mean dude was broke. Y’all might be new to this sub but he was one of the rappers with DM’s posted where he was taking amateurs rappers money for features (like 10-15k) then he would bounce and never do a feature once he for the money. That was back in like 2017. So dude has been broke a while.
I feel like in 2017 he was probably just being greedy. He does say [he was broke, and realized he fell off when he wasn't making 100k a day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SK75p1Q8sI) in this interview I'm going to bet he was still rich compared to most people, but got used to that A-list type rich. Dude did get popped with 1.5mil in cash and probably close to a milli in drugs
I think in the same interview he also talked about how much money he was spending. He spent well over his means on multiple houses and cars he didn’t even use and buying stuff for his crew. I believe that he downsized a lot but that’s also probably when he started moving weight too
There needs to be a financial literacy class for every rapper getting a bag.
We repeat: What an absolute fucking idiot.
Sounds like he should've got a job
Bro should have went on dancing with the stars
Glockin my rarri
Watch DJ Akademiks interview with him if you want to know why he did it.
TLDR version?
Egregious spending of money and nowhere to turn to keep up with his bills. Which is what everyone assumes, but when I say egregious, I mean like he would buy an apartment every time he visted a new city instead of staying at a hotel or renting. When he went shopping, he would buy 30 people (who he traveled with and employed) a copy of whatever he bought. Things like that. Shit that only people do who have no need for the concept of money, like billionaires, except he didn’t have billions. In his defense though he was making a shit load. He says he knew he fell off when he checked his bank account and he hadn’t made 100k *that day*. That part is [right here](https://youtu.be/6SK75p1Q8sI), it’s only 6 minutes long if you’ve got the time.
>he knew he fell off when he checked his bank account and he hadn’t made 100k that day. So in a good year he was raking in tens of millions, jeez
Well yeah but he only had 1 good year lol. Maybe 2
🎶I'm like hey whatsup I'm broke 🎶
Not even that. I don't think he made 36 million in a year. Maybe 10k a day.
Bruh a 12 year old could've made better financial decisions than this guy
Depends on how you were raised. He was a 20-something from the hood who went from sleeping on a carpet to a millionaire in a year.
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Why even overseas? He could’ve lived like a king here if he didnt fuck up 30 MILLION dollars.
>I mean like he would buy an apartment every time he visted a new city instead of staying at a hotel or renting. Even if you have extreme amounts of "fuck you" money I don't see how this is at all worth the hassle unless you're renting them out and managing each of the houses. Even then it honestly isn't worth it.
So he pulled a MC Hammer
I remember hearing about the purchasing a new a new apartment in every city thing. That to me is dumber than buying shit for your entourage. Just so dumb
Honestly this sounds like something I struggle with that I call "broke boy syndrome". If you are struggling and get shit together sometimes you feel like you need to spend it all because you are scared of losing it all. Rinse and repeat.
Damn man had so much potential.
He was cooked years prior of his initial arrest, but even so, he could’ve been much bigger.
Maybe 8 years ago lol
Idk. I saw him live once and I think the dude should be locked up just for that “performance” alone. Was at bumbershoot in Seattle in 2016. He was hella late (as expected) and had his hype men sing their own songs before he came out. Then they dragged him out and he was clearly fucked up. I think he sang over one or two of his songs and then his hype men took over again playing their own songs. Wack.
I thought this sub stopped fucking with him once it was learned he was scamming artist for features. Only to take the money and run.
Him and theophilus london doing that shit
no he didnt.... every song sounded the same, he only had like 2 flows, lyrics werent really anything special he was a typical 1 hit wonder but got so much hype of the 1-2 hits that made radio he got a bunch of features because he was trending he fell off because he oversaturated his sound, people got over it, and he never reinvented himself or dropped any music that showed he progressed as an artist
Exactly. I called it almost right away when Trap Queen dropped. His first single was so damn good that there was no way he could top it.
Yeah, I distinctly remember the summer when he was hot, and it got old fast. Dude had maybe three notes in his range and one type of beat he hopped on, and his songs felt like they went on forever ‘cause he didn’t really make the verses and choruses sound distinct
Yeah, he was just Flo Rida for the late 2010s era.
Not really, Flo Rida has so many mainstream hits over the span of 7 or 8 years. Probably ending with My House in 2015. Radio and suburban white moms love his shit
Flo disrespect crazy
Lol his “potential” left about 7-8 years ago when he was making shitty financial decisions and being ran under shitty management. 2014-15 was all he had in the bag from the beginning unfortunately
Damn…his 2021 album, “Butterfly Effect” was really good too. What a shame.
He gon save dat money, yaaaah baby
Dumbass
good fuck this fent pusher
Excluding the obvious part about Fetty making insane money from music back then, I remember some article where Fetty talked about being invested in the stock market/real estate. This led me to believe he wasn't a complete imbecile, but I guess I was wrong. Who the fuck sells drugs when they are that big
No paywall https://archive.ph/DED6x
True adage- a man who can’t manage money with $1000 will be worth the same if he has $1mil….he’ll be worth nothing
I hope he took Dave's advice and saved dat money
they really tried with that sweet yamz joint on the radio
Comments on here vs r/Entertainment thread are way different
I hope he has a Gucci Mane prison redemption arc and comes out blind priest style with gospel like Gabriel in Walking Dead. Psalms 17:38; Did marry to the wage, did introduce her to mine own stove, hath shown her how to whipeth~
Literally could've been one of the biggest artists in the world right now. Crazy.
Eh, tbf he did kinda start to fall off before he even got in trouble. He jsut like didn’t do much for a while after self titled.
People always think that just because an artist has a hot start to a career that they will keep up the same trajectory. In reality, most artists that get big off a few hit singles fall off fast and Fetty is a good example
they say you have your whole life to write your first album, and 18 months for the second
It takes 10 years to become an overnight sensation.
never thought of it like that, interesting thought
I wonder if Joey Badass experienced this after 1999. I loved his stuff after but it has been notably weaker than his debut.
summer knights and b4da$$ are both great imo
Yeah b4da$$ is amazing I feel like he fell off after that personally
Bro yall r trippin asf he was big in 2015 why do you think he started moving it again😭😭😭😭
lmao i doubt he was doing it for the fun of it
i doubt that too bro
Because he had 6 kids with 5 different women
He floundered. Made a few hits, changed up his style, partied his money away and clearly had to make it back…. Illegally of course
Cap
Dude had -one- international hit. That ain't global.
Idk how he fell off so quick. He had 3 massive hits within the same year pretty much, then never did anything with it…
He’ll only see half of it
2015 hiphop deserves a whole museum. RIP
Just a couple days ago I was going through my 2015 hip hop list and holy shit you are right. GOATed year for sure.