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Hit-Boy on the music industry and how creatives have been exploited by people far removed from the art: “I know people that ain't never made no creative, nothing on a level of ‘****** in Paris’ that's eating off of music more than I am. That don't add up to me. It's the music business. I'm making some of the best music, but it's motherfkers that don't have to touch nothing creative at all that's caking, sitting back.” Hit-Boy’s father, Big Hit, was released from prison last year and they immediately got to work. Hit-Boy has been placing a major emphasis on being independent, focusing on ownership and bringing his father up: “When you do things as everybody else does…you get swept up in a wave. Like if you don't have this big giant first weekend, then you kind of feel like, ‘It's over for me.’…[but] with my dad’s album, I would say the money we made in the first week [from direct album purchases], we'd had to have millions of streams.” As Hit-Boy notes, what constitutes a “hit” and how artists accumulate streams is a murky thing nowadays: “You will hear a record that's top ten and it's like, ‘I know this sht ain't better than what I'm making right now’…A lot of people are swayed and a lot of people can be bought.” Big Hit’s debut solo album ‘The Truth Is In My Eyes’ is not on streaming and instead, they decided to make it available for purchase on Big Hit’s site https://t.co/oJ8prNa0CH. Hit-Boy on the decision to do this release differently: “We just wanted to create somewhere that was a hub for him. He drew all of his merch, hand-drawn, use of some of his prison art just for different pieces. It's really bringing people into that world because I feel like it's something that people never seen before. You’ve never seen this dynamic. You never seen a son come up, go through trials, make bread, all these things, and then bring his dad up.” Salute to Hit-Boy and Big Hit for the movement they’re building rn 🫡 “It's more than just music, it's an art piece.”