A Very Special Message to Chance the Rapper

[ChrisL]

 

[Picaro]

Some people think that having one or two hits entitles some to a life of vast unlimited wealth and everybody working for them for free or something, especially mediocre talents. They think that because they wrote some gimmick song or two everybody else owes them free promotion, free services, free distribution, and free labor; too bad for them there is a lot of talent out there, lots of competition and a fractured market, and they're lucky anybody pays attention to them at all, much less willing to put up front hundreds of thousands of bucks and more to promote them with less than a 1 in a hundred chance of breaking even, and then hold their hands while they play 'Rock Star Hero' and whine about how they're not getting 3000% of what they're really worth on the business end. The Beatles would still be playing strip joints in crappy seaport bars if it weren't for a pro that came along and developed them, and usually these pros are the first ones the bands fire when they 'make it', so there isn't a lot of incentive for pros to do that any more. Most 'musicians' have their heads up their asses and big egoes, no matter how mediocre they are musically. Most of them are bigger crooks than the evil big labels anyway, and just as greedy and venal, if not more so, like a couple of mafiosi calling each other crooks and claiming the other guy is screwing them.