Curren$y essentially got paid twice at a recent show thanks to a hardcore fan who came prepared with lots of weed to throw at his favorite rapper.
Spitta shared a performance video from a fan’s POV to Instagram on Wednesday (April 26). In the clip, you can see another fan throw a bag of weed at the stage, which Curren$y slipped in his back pocket with an appreciative head nod. In the caption, he revealed just how much he ended up with at the end of the night.
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“The homie threw a zip errrtime a dropped one of the records he really wanted to hear haha almost left with a pound haha,” Spitta wrote.
Check out the clip below.
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Curren$y recently credited the blog era for putting his career on the map following his split from Lil Wayne‘s Young Money Records in the late ’00s. Stopping by Hot 97 last month to promote his new EP with Jermaine Dupri, Spitta explained how he essentially fell into being an accepted member of Hip Hop’s blog era.
“I went laptop,” Curren$y told Ebro in the Morning co-host Peter Rosenberg. “I tell people all the time my homegirl just typed in Google when I put my first mixtape… That’s how I learned of all the blogs. She typed my name in and it popped up that all these people had wrote these articles and posted the picture.
“It felt like I was looking at all the magazines. It felt like XXL, VIBE. I was like, ‘Damn, there is a whole other group of writers I don’t have to deal with this shit.’ If they not fucking with it, there’s a whole other batch of people that is. That just made me keep pumping shit out. What so happened was the labels were using these blogs to A&R shit.”
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He continued: “They wasn’t getting out in the street and seeing what was what. They would just go there and see, ‘Oh, they keep posting him, let’s hit him up and let’s find his Myspace or Twitter or whatever and see if the kid wants a million dollars.”
For more on the nostalgia of the blog era, ItsTheReal’s Jeff and Eric Rosenthal launched The Blog Era Podcast this month via Pharrell‘s OtherTONE imprint. It’s now streaming on all platforms.
