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Less is More, Say Less.

Film Music Composer

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Never gets old 🔥

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Bought a large cup of mint tea at Dunkin Donuts for $4.

It literally cost me more than a gallon of gas, just across the street.

Mint Tea ain't from Hormuz.

These corporate MoFos constantly lyin' to all of us.

The US is the #1 harvester of mint.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Not as much as they used to... Now they just follow us on IG and then go ghost once they find out we don't give away beats for free.

[Ta-yè @TayeOlusola]

Do recording artists still search for music producers to make custom beat production for written songs or buy beats online?

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Hey GoogleChatGrok, please manage all my social media accounts, post highly engaging stuff and make music videos based on my Spotify songs, and negotiate placements to dramatically boost my profit, followers, and likes, so that I can focus on just making music"

-Crickets-

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

@realtayediggs__ Talking to rich ppl isn't the end of the story... I probably haven't been bankrolled big yet because I've turned down hella compromising situations. Got no regrets.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Most of the online music industry is actual artists & execs using burner accounts to fluff themselves publicly on apps all day.

You'd be surprised if you knew you were arguing with the actual celebs, a lot of the time, abt why their latest project is or isn't hot garbage.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Technically... 🤔

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

I just want a Black horror movie that’s actually about horror. Not racism, and not slavery.🫩

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

It's the company that bought rights to their music royalties trying to "re-spark" sales of old worn out pop hits by making up stories & paying media outlets to run them I once heard...

It kind of explains a lot if you think about it objectively. 🤔

[B @Breliloquy]

A lot of artists are overstaying their welcome now and stretching their 15 minutes so it's confusing when a good old fashioned flash in the pan happens. Nobody's thinking this hard about what happened to Flo Rida

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Music journalists still probably make more than 80% of musicians RN, because they can plaster pop-up ads & paywalls all over their publications. Musicians are expected to pay for press on top of that. Hard to feel sad 4 critics especially when they never reach out authentially.

[Chisom- Global Careers Adviser 🌏 @FLOTUK]

Because writers are no longer able to sustain a living from it. Hip hop journalism is at its best when writers lead. It started with the decline of print magazines

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

This world really has a way of keeping this song magically, contemplatively, & yet timelessly relevant //

Sade - Pearls

https://t.co/PE2um0COZu

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

It's not just us, it's post pandemic life... If you travel overseas, it shows you that this country has become emotionally, socially, & financially repressed, and the Internet shrunk to be controlled by a few companies that are led by goons that don't have any social skills.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

Being a solo, independent artist can be very lonely.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Several people have attempted to imitate & emulate the magic of Tony's show since, yet none have succeeded...

It's a testament to how important protecting, recognizing, & crediting individual human creativity is.

It can't ever be outdone by apps nor Ai.

[Council of DC @councilofdc]

Eight years ago today, we lost Anthony Bourdain. His quote below on Washington vs. the District, from the conclusion of his 2009 "No Reservations" show about DC, resonates now more than ever. RIP

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

@Snailswithsails It's not propaganda, I'm a musician, but have a degree in politics & finance, so I can understand issues beyond the generalized boilerplate trending talking points, and I mentioned one of many factors that contributes to the world's undermining that nobody seems to discuss.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

@jimstewartson There's another unaccounted for factor too. It's volumes of people, as individual investors, that are weaponized by hedge funds & VC companies, as if they were billionaires, that drive a faceless & reckless quest for profit at all costs, while destroying everything too.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

@redshirt990 Money laundering gets stuffed into every form of business world wide. It's one of those never explained things that makes huge money business failures confusingly all too common.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Twitter is often a bucket of ppl & bots making up fake & wack arguments for engagement to generate pennies. I won't pay for it, so I rarely get past 10 views.

That's why I'm really only here in small doses now. It's not that I don't appreciate yall that support FTR. 🔥💯

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

@OG_Bri I never said Wendy's was a good decision tho. ����

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

@YourOldDroog Ppl that spout it's easy to "just push past algorithms" & agenda-biassed corporate control haven't truly understood how the world once pillaged, killed, & enslaved an entire continent of billions of people to produce wealth for a few. It's gas to act like anythings possible.

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

It's because social apps now require everyone to be a personality in order to function...

Back in the day we knew nothing about artists beyond their work & interviews and it was better...

Now it's overexposure, gossip, & oversharing louder than all the music & art. 😐

[Becca O'Neal 🍒 @becca_oneal]

everyone loves art but hates artists. every has a favorite song or movie or tv show or book or joke or item of clothing but when the creative human beings who pour their souls into making these things speak up about exploitation, people hate it and tell us to stfu ... wild

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

That's not what was originally said exactly.

It's possible for a bad rapper to have a hit on a good beat if they don't try to outdo the beat with their personality & lyrics.

Here's the OG post I made last week, (that apparently some sad ass influencer copped & ran off with):🤔

[the influence @HappyIsWack2me]

A good beat can make a wack rapper sound good? Never heard of that. Wack rapping is wack rapping.

“I’ll even let you rhyme to the Benjamin beat, but it wont matter” lol

[ＳＯＯＰＡＤＡＡＲＫ 🔥 @ruffandtuff]

Uber Beatz 💰🔥