Shortly after Chicago, Illinois rapper Lupe Fiasco turned to Instagram to express his frustration with Atlantic Records, another artist is sounding off on the social networking site.
According to AllHipHop.com, Brooklyn, New York lyricist Bobby Shmurda uploaded a post on Instagram this week complaining about taking part in numerous shows and not being paid properly.
The Instagram post has since been deleted, but AllHipHop.com did save the caption added to the post. Shmurda’s caption can be found below:
“Nah idgaf I’m doing all theses show not getting ma money dey got me doing shit every fucking day so its hard to keep up Witt dis shit den I ain’t got nobody to trust ain’t no help in dis bitch I’m ready to go back to da trap be4 jail #RNS dats how I feel foh.”
In addition to reportedly taking part in shows every day, Shmurda also served as the closing performer at the BET Hip Hop Awards, which aired last night (October 14).
Aside from Shmurda’s now-deleted Instagram post, the rapper has not posted any other social media posts about not being paid.
Shortly following the release of Bobby Shmurda’s “Hot Nigga” music video, which has received over 25 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded in March, the rapper signed a record deal with Epic Records.
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Bobby should go independent. He made that dope song, Hot Boy, into a hit ALL ON HIS OWN!!
Vine made that into a hit
vine aint made shit a hit stop wtih the bs he just killed the track simply
Nobody cared about that wack ass Hot Boy song until it showed up on Vine. Vine made that song a hit, Bobby didn’t kill shit with his illiterate wack ass.
killed the tracK?? quote ONE GOOD LINE FROM THAT SONG. bet you cant. that shit garbage lyrically
“if you ain’t a hoe, get up out my trap hoooouse!”
“mitch caught a body about a week ago!”
those are the two most popular lines out of the song. quit hating on the young man. bobby goes hard.
@youngsta hes saying he likes hoes who the fuck likes hoes.. have fun with aids
Bobby goes hard? Lmao. You peanut brain lames love this shit because you’re stupid just like it. Makes you feel comfortable I bet! That shit is lame lil’ doldier boy music! FOH!
i feel bad for the kid, people taking advantage of another young dumb black kid.
Another sad illiterate being taken advantage of for making a retarded little dance
He got that 360 and he don’t even know it
Gettin’ Paid for WHAT, doin’ your silly dance that will be OVER in 15 minutes?! Concerts are a complex business of agents, promoters & talent. IF you have a good agent & a demand, you’ll get offers that if accepted spell out EXACTLY what you’ll be paid. If they don’y honor the contract you can sue them….. SO obviously you EITHER don’t have a good agent or paperwork with these promoters, OR you’ll another in the long line of ‘artists’ that get FULL OF THEMSELVES, believin’ the hype & imagining that you are OWED ‘this’, when you agreed to ‘that’, & NO ONE should feel sorry for you! It’s ALL about the ‘paperwork’ not the HYPE or your homies gassin’ you UP, like ‘you should be a millionaire yo!’……. straight up business!
Look it’s Mr know it all……
i hear you, make sense but were do you find all that good good?
360 Deal……”Rapin U Records” (LOX)
What the fuck you think it was….They already know his 7 minutes of fame was going to come real quick so they had to use it up fast……
Becasue the New track is straight garbage
shut up…..bitch. that new track is G’d out….sucka!
G’d out?? LoL. You lame ass niggas turn up to peanut brain music. FOH!
nigga a dummy…he was in that breakfast club interview and charlamagne kept telling duke don’t sign dont sign they going fuck with u…next day son goes and gets signed..cmon b
he ain’t do sh@t on his own, lol stfu you ain’t never seen a contract in your life boy
they ask you if you want your own lawyer but thirstballs always looking at the signing money, never the fine print
Pay for what your a fucking one hit wonder dude, I just shake my head whenever I hear bobby schmurdas name, he performed at the BET awards? So did young thug, and Rae samuurrrrddddddddd what a fuckig joke this game is turning into, pure trash, this was hands down the worst year for rap
You sound dumb ass fuck. Rather or not he is a ONE hit wonder, if you perform you deserve to be compensated jack ass. You sound like a bitter ass nigga mad at life because you broke and probably suck d*ck for studio time.
if I told y’all how these award shows REALLY get down y’all would be crying like bitches
y’all just do not know how much you get SUCKERED into believing the hype
Lol oh I know it’s all political I don’t know who it is exactly but people WANT young thug, rich homie quan to pop off, so they shove them in our faces on awards shows, probably will fake record sales all the usual shit, same hint they did with officer Ricky and Arab Montana
“Arab Montana”… LMFAO!
anyone under the first anon is a fuckin pocket watching bitch
im not going to agree on wwhat you said in the last sentence … you dont know whats popping so i think you should take that back… now bobby is a dumbass cunt when i see him im going to tell him striaght to his face”fuck you you fake ass nigga (no offence to all yall African americans)…. i ALMOST forgot about rich homie pan you might be thinking why did he put pan instead of quan well let me explain why he is a puussy he cant rap his own battles but then agian he still think he is legit… not on my book . hahaha homie really? you aint no homie your more like a phoney… ooooh and bobby im going to take your kill beat use it for my first sont so i can make a kill… the title is going to be HOT LATINO. HOW DOES THAT SOUND….
YOU GUYS ARE VERY STUPID GOOD FOR NOTHING IDIOTS!!!!!!! HOW THE FUCK CAN THIS CLOWN BE A LYRICIST???? TAKE THIS L DX
sooo…whats your moot point? nothng…bobby is doing shows, and he’s not getting paid. thats an issue….dum azz
They’re just randomly using ‘wordsmith’, ‘lyricist’ and ’emcee’ as synonyms to ‘rapper’, without any corellation to said rapper’s skill
but you signed the papers tho….
smdh
2014 Trinidad James
Bobby Shmurda screwed himself by signing a record deal. What does he really need a deal for? If he drops an album it’s not going to sell shit and the label will take what little money it makes. I’m sure he signed a 360 deal which is why they’re dipping into his tour money and merch as well. He should have used the money he made to fund his own tours and create his own products. He doesn’t need to be worrying about putting out an album. A new song/dance video on youtube/vine every two weeks would have been a good way to make him some quick, easy, money. He made the same mistake Chief Keef and Trinidad James made, and put too many hands in the pot. These are the not the type of artists who are meant to be “famous”. They could have been internet famous with cash in their pocket…But now they’re mainstream famous and broke. I’m not impressed
bitch please indie artists get beat too
YOU are supposed to READ, and get the BEST representation for YOUR best interests, NOT COMPANY’S
hahaha he signed a bum 360 deal and hes going to jail for that gun case he caught before he blew up
he tried to start a flash mob and it was a giant fail because no one was dancing they were all just holding their phones recording like morons
signed a bad deal bout a week ago
didnt he say he make like 40 racks bout a week ago? literally!
where is your lawyer?why are you talking to us on social media?i cant help yo ass lol
Because he’s an ignoramus.
He should’ve tried to get a deal with YMCMB. Lupe, too.
And still be broke. You must haven’t read about Tyga and Lil Twist label beef with them lately?
wow, so much hate for this nigga. hot nigga is one of the hottest songs this year. dude makes that club/party music that you just get turnt up to and recite the lyrics with your friends. people always expecting super duper, big word lyrical content from the young niggas, but all we wanna do is have fun and live life while we’re young. if you want all that lyrical shit, go listen to old ass eminem or old ass nas and leave us the fuck alone.
If your idea of having fun is acting ignorant, just remember, you are how you act.
Kendrick Lamar and Logic proves your comment wrong.
So you’re saying young rappers should just make wack ABC bullshit so simple that a 6 year old would write something better instead of music with substance and lyrics that aren’t some ignorant trash like this Bobby Schmurda shit. That’s a good message to aspiring rappers. Fuck being a good rapper or having bars, just shout nonsense over a trap beat and idiots will like it because they’ll listen to any noise. Besides, these same people let Young Thug become a thing.
Also, you can make club/party music and be lyrical at the same time, you don’t have to sacrifice talent for something that’ll be forgotten by next year. And who wants to turn up all the time? That probably gets boring.
okay, idiots have responded to my comment, reply time!
@ 1st anon, that’s not what i meant. the music is strictly for having fun and partying. you seriously think we’re going to start acting ignorant elsewhere and start shooting places up because of a song? you’re mad delusional if you think that.
@ 2nd anon and @youngsta, i never said all young rappers weren’t lyrical. of course you have drake, k dot, j cole, joey badass who get lyrical, but a majority of young rappers want their music heard at parties and in the club because that’s where the money is at. so of course they have to dumb their lyrics down so the music is catchy and easy to remember. and as long as trap beats are still the “it” sound, then people will still rap over them. who wants to hear boom bap beats at a club? nobody! name somebody that makes club/party music and is lyrical at the same time, and i don’t want no old ass 80s/90s rappers brought up either. name artists today that do that. i’ll go ahead and start you off, drake. now name some more. hard to do right? this is the turn up era, so stop hating and deal with it, or ignore it and listen to your old dusty ass rappers. out!
“but a majority of young rappers want their music heard at parties and in the club because that’s where the money is at. so of course they have to dumb their lyrics down so the music is catchy and easy to remember.”
And the majority of young rappers who just want to only make club/party music (which is not where the money is at) suck. Dumbing it down to make it catchy and easy to remember? That has to be the dumbest shit ever. They only make simplistic shit because they suck at rapping and it’s pointless because these songs and these rap dudes will be forgotten by next year. That club/party shit limits you as an artist.
“name somebody that makes club/party music and is lyrical at the same time, and i don’t want no old ass 80s/90s rappers brought up either. name artists today that do that.”
All of Black Hippy, J Cole, Big Krit. They can make club/party songs without sounding like some wack shit.
“this is the turn up era,”
It’s not.
Nothing wrong with making club/party songs, but a lot of these rappers don’t know how to rap. Besides, some people care more about beats than lyrics nowadays. They might as well go listen to EDM and not hip-hop.
When people start realizing that that music is SUBJECTIVE, we’ll all stop having these dumbass conversations. People like what they like.
nigga signed a 360 deal. dese street niggas need to get educated on the business before signing papers thinkin they life is made
Did him dirty with a 360 deal… smh! So thirsty to get on and didn’t even read he was signing his life away. A lot of rappers are under 360 deals fronting and got a bunch of lame fans thinking they got money!
Sha Money XL did him dirty
Its no surprise that Sha Money Xl signed this nigga. LOL 50 was right about him all along.
Same one who signed Trinidad James to Def Jam, but look what happened to him. XL also signed KRIT to Def Jam as well, but he’s still on the label, so that should say something to A&R’s.
People who talk bad about 360 deals don’t know Shit about entertainment. 360 deals are necessarily bad for artist who bringing in larger revenue. I guarantee T.I. probably has a 360 deal now. Jay-Z Live Nation deal is a 360 deal. Artist who got profitable potential and don’t want to take risk do 360s. For example take Drake. Let’s say Sony Entertainment gives Drake 75 mil dollar deal for rights to music, merchandizing, and productioncompany deals for like 5 shows. Drake gets 75 mil no risk in return in return Sony gets cut of tour, music sales and publishing until the 75 mil is paid then its essentially a partnership then
STFU u a dumbass a 360 includes touring, merch, sales, publshing (residuals) there is no benefit for a young and upcoming artist who isnt as profitable as a well known major name who has been earning a larger income because they dont have as much capital as a bigger name who has more money established over a longer period under his belt. So really he dont need the extra cash, but a Bobby Shmurda who is young and just gettin needs all he can get no cuts from the label. Drake didnt sign a 360 he has 100% of his merch and touring profit. Thats why he held out for so long when there was a biding war for him, cuz he wanted to find the right deal. He aint no dummy. Who would want a partnership in that aspect that ur talking of when there ARE deals on the table that allow you to keep some rights and your touring and merch but just require you to pay back half or all of the advance. Some deals base record sales on how much you owe. All you really gotta know is how to negotiate the terms of your contract not just saye yes to a deal and know your worth as an artist.
360 deals are good for artists who have gone as far as they can independently and want to take it to that next level ie. wiz khalifa
not up and coming artists with a hot song and a buzz
in what other industry does someone invest in you but NOT get a piece of the earnings????
NONE
360 deals are standard business. artists just give up too high a percentage of the net return vs principal investment dumb nigga
i think he should sign with bad boy and get managed by diddy if not that sign with the unit
Dude is garbage anyway….he does not deserved to get paid!
over rated
u signed the deal dumbass
We know he’s getting paid something. His dumb ass doesn’t realize the label needs to recoup costs.