The Ugly Truth by D-Wood of Lava Boiz

Rappers that only talk about money in songs, have pretty much messed the whole game up, and made a lot of people hate rappers that probably wouldn't if they didn't brag so much.  But the real kicker, is most rappers are broke as hell, not many people buy CD’s, so the only rappers that are actually doing good are the platinum selling artist.  And even then they would go broke, if there going to show all these reality shows, they should show some real ones, that show the real struggle of artist, that are either working to pay for studio time, or hustling, and still broke, just trying to pay for some promotion.  Being an artist is huge work, more work then you could ever imagine if you don’t have a team behind you, and if you do have a team behind, you might not sell enough records to be able to pay the team for doing what they did for you.  The artist that prosper are the ones that understand business, and come up with different streams of income, merchandising is where you can really get paid.  But most artist are so caught up in just being an artist, that they refuse to concentrate on anything but music.  And those same artist are always the bitter artist, that are mad at the business minded artist that keep getting called to do shows.  Stop giving people excuses not to deal with you, buy getting on top of your business, and make people believe you are a solid investment by making money on your own.