RIAA hasn’t made meaningful changes to their rules in 10 years. Meanwhile music consumption is more global than ever before. They’re basically giving you a regional award in a global market, and then saying you have to buy it lol. Even billboard changed their rules to account for a global market. RIAA is getting lapped in the race.
One of my songs I produced is about to hit 100M streams - top 0.01% of all recorded music.
It hasn’t been certified Gold or Platinum by RIAA because 65% of the streams are outside the U.S.
Once we finally have enough streams in the US to be certified, THEN I gotta buy my own plaque 😭😭
The industry is one big racket 😂😂
Let somebody touch my mama, touch my sister, touch my woman
Touch my daddy, touch my niece, touch my nephew, touch my brother
You should chip a homie, then throw the blower in his lap
Matter fact, I'm 'bout to speak at this convention, call you back 🤳🏽
I can't even keep the peace, don't you fuck with one of ours
It be murder in the street, it be bodies in the hour
Ghetto bird be on the street, paramedics on the dial
I wait in front a homie's spot and watch him hit his block
I catch a homie leavin' service if that's all I got
I chip a homie, then throw the blower in his lap
Walk myself to the court like, "Bitch, I did that"
Ain't no Brown Power when your baby killed by a coward
"I can't sugarcoat the answer for you, this is how I feel
If somebody kill my son, that mean somebody gettin' killed"
Tell me what you do for love, loyalty, and passion of
All the memories collected, moments you could never touch
He said, "K-Dot, can you pray for me? It been a fucked up day for me
I know that you anointed, show me how to overcome"
He was lookin' for some closure, hopin' I could bring him closer
To the spiritual, my spirit do know better, but I told him
Yesterday, I got a call, like, from my dog, like 101
Said they killed his only son because of insufficient funds
He was sobbin', he was mobbin', way belligerent and drunk
Talkin' out his head, philosophin' on what the Lord had done