Nipsey Hussle says that Jay Z purchased 100 copies of his “Crenshaw” mixtape, which the rapper sold for $100 per copy.
Nipsey announced this via Facebook today (October 9). The update was accompanied by a photograph of stacked copies of the mixtape.
Nipsey Hussle sold the mixtape for $100 yesterday (October 8) as part of his #Proud2Pay initiative. The rapper reportedly made $100,000 off the effort after selling 1,000 copies, 100 of those copies being sold to Jay Z.
Hussle’s Facebook post can be viewed below.
Hussle spoke about this effort on Twitter, saying that he made $100,000 off the release.
Hussle also announced that additional hard copies of the project are set to be available in Los Angeles, California.
Additionally, Hussle announced an upcoming Crenshaw tour, though no dates have been provided. The tour announcement came via Instagram. The post can be viewed below.
RELATED: Nipsey Hussle Makes $100,000 Off “Crenshaw” At $100 Per Copy
Haha I knew the fans weren’t stupid enough to fall for this
LMAO I knew this nicca aint make 1000 legit sales. You know his moms and homies all bought multiple copies too.
You laughing at the fact Jay Z paid $10,000 for his mixtape and he made 100k? LOL you haters don’t even know how to hate right.
I thought buying 1 copy for $100 was a bad deal. Fuck was Jay-Z thinking? Is this nicca on Roc Nation?
…thats jayz giving recognition to someone who’s trying to do something outside of the norm
by showing the world that jay-z bought 10% of the albums he sold? LOL that’lll show em
lett eye tell us why u burnt the board walk down in nj
why is jay z on side lines at baskball games around kids and still rapping about drugs and killing ppl
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the 3 posts below me were all typed by the same loser…those 100 copies are on top of the 1,000 sold…props to nip for coming up with an innovative idea and making it a success
the bottom 3 posts*
wait so he told everyone it was limitied to 1000 copies then once his fans bought them thinking it was all limited and numbered he sold 100 more? LMAO what a fucking liar
he said he was making more after he sold them all yesterday…
thats bullshit. i bet a lot of fans counted on that shit being 1 out of 1000 copies
The original Anon. doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.. he was only selling 1,000 copies… the thing is free download today, so Jay bought a tenth of the special edition mixtapes.. Anon #1, please stfu
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no dumb ass Jay bought 100
If he put Respect Ya Passion on it, I would’ve paid 100 bucks
I heard Jay-Z and Beyonce ran out of firewood for the fireplace in blue ivy’s room so he just copped 100 of these mixtapes
shit aint gon sale 100 ya dig
niggas is starving in africa and jay dropped 10k on nipsey hussle mixtapes that were available for free download!!!! America FuCk YeAh!!!!
Here you go…every thread there is one of these guys.blah blah why dont he give that money to the hood blah blah.The democrats really have yall brainwashed to think that handouts are the way to improve society. Africa has a record number of foriegn aid money coming in as is,more handouts wont help. and I am five percent so dont reply with that sell out crap. Your thinking is stuck in the slavery era and I called you out.thats all.move on.
you talking like this wasnt a handout to Nipsey Hussle though
Jay-Z saw this nicca had to charge 100 for an album just so he can eat so he blessed him with some of his pocket change
2 stupid niggas fucking in the ass, Gay z and gaysey nutsel
Yeah but my reply was more about the cliche “why these niggas wasting money on chains when there are people poor in the hood” comments that pop up anytime dollar signs are involved in the article. Its like these self righteous cats think nobody can spend money till everybody in the hood is rich. Newsflash there will always be poor and there needs to be as a measurement of success. Its trick knowledge that has them thinking progress is not earned till everyone is free, its false logic and not science.
IF JAY IS SO INTERESTED IN HIS WORK, WHY WOULDN’T HE SIGN HIM INSTEAD??
cause he knows he would lose a fuck of a lot more than the 10k he just wasted
this way he can still be cool with Nipsey but not bring failure to his brand.
I would buy Tech n9nes for 300$
Woooooord…. He get 100 people to pay 200 every show just to meet him for 5 mins
diddy bought 250 of em
Does diddy fuck with Nipsey? I really wouldnt be surprised if 50% of those 1000 were sold to indsutry people and friends
^^So what?? A sale is a sale.
Game must have bought like 50 minimum for his blood niccas
fuck this bitch, drop a fucking album if you want some respect
So we’re supposed to overpay for “throw away” cuts….I mean if it’s for charity and some special addition cd sure. But there seems to be no good reason at all, then he’s bragging? What is this a charity plea!?
yep. jay-z saw how poor he was and took pity on him and bought 100 with the money he was gonna spend on dinner next week
Wonder how many lames sat and counted the stack of cd’s to make sure there was a 100 haha c’mon tell the truth niggas
Nah, pretty sure you’re the only one
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/PJc3bWW0iu0/mqdefault.jpg
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DUDES IN HERE ON? The man’s hustle is working. Numbers are numbers, money made. Publicity achieved. Gaddamn yawl get mad over every fucking thing.
thank you. gotta love that hes hustlin. gotta love that jay is showin him props. nuff said.
this dont even sound right
HOV liked how he played it but cutting out the middle man and as a salute to a new way of making money in the industry he showed love buy buying 100 of them. #Hustling
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Exactly.
Jay-Z will paperhang with the cover LOL
I have a hard time finding albums I’m willing to pay $ 10 for and this dude wants $ 100 per copy? get the fuck outta here. He’s not even that good
pics or didn’t happen
100 mini frisbees for Blu Ivy to play with!
good one!
Ya sour as hell right now…. LMAO! You crab in the buckets get angry when you see the next man getting it. Ha!
get angry when we see rappers boasting about ripping off their fans
Exactly what I came to say after reading “album throw away’s”
You said it was something special for the hardcore fans Nipsey WTF
You say that now, in a couple years, all music industries could be pulling this $100 dollar hard copy strategy. Don’t matter to you though, you probably bootleg all your music any ways.
^^No clown… I buy my albums! You bum ass leaches most likely don’t though!
I bet non of ya are his fans but your hating ass is worried about supposedly ripping them off! Motherfuckers know what they’re doing when they buy something! They don’t need you crab in the buckets asking ‘why’… SMFH! What are you a hero trying to save his fans… Crabs stick together in the bucket! LoL
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good shit hov! yall should checkout thegrandreport, they got good videos on there too!
Yeah right Krab…..
You real playful my nicca
This is probably the biggest mixtape buzz that anyone has generated without having to fake their Datpiff downloads (I’m talking to you Meek Mill)
not really. he didnt even get that much buzz and most of it was from people hating
Tax write off, Jay showing homage to emcees who are innovative in the industry, instead of throwing stones at Nipsey, HOV showing the Brooklyn Way of doing things and showed love.
Um, Brooklyn way of doing things would be to stick up Nipsey for all his CDs
LMAO!!!
Nah the Brooklyn way of doings things would have been to stick Nipsey for his earnings, unscrew the bezel out his watch and give him back the band, and be out.
Y’all feel some type of way because he said the tracks were “throwaways”? Most mixtape tracks are songs that don’t make the album. No big surprise there. It could have been tracks that the label he was on didn’t want to use. But really, it’s just a fuckin’ lyric.
good for him, great to see a low key artist making dough, they gota eat
Well there’s many reasons people do things and jay is a self interested smart guy, its good business for jay to keep rooted and hustle at ground level
Find out when we will have a MMLP2 Tracklist here!
http://www.eminemalbum2014.com/mmlp2tracks.htm
And for you lames reaching and trying to run with the “throw aways” comment! He means albums that didn’t make it on to the album… Probably because of sample clearance and not all songs are evenly hot! You can only have but so many songs on 1 album so homeboy released those to make some street paper! He probably could’ve used better wording but I’m sure he was trying to get the haters mad by saying that! But like always the crabs are running with just that and are trying to pull everybody down in to the bucket with them. I don’t see his fans complaining just you hating ass clowns that aren’t his fans! LMAO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zRiaLOkfc
People are actually that fucking stupid to buy this garbage? This motherfucker is a horrible MC and I wouldn’t download his shit let alone pay for it. Bunch of suckers bought this.
PICTURE A WORL WERE BUY 100 DOLLAR CDS YEAH RIGHT THIS GUYS JUST BEGGING FOR MONEY LOL
…who gives a fuck what a hater gotta say…
ma nigga living up to his name haha ma niga hustler haha fuck all y’all haters hes making paper
thanks to niccas like jay-z who felt sorry for him and gave him some charity for his effort
Do you get a ticket to a show when he comes to town at least?? This makes no sense.
Bundle a gpen or somethin with it at least lol. This is how you combat piracy?? Makes it that much sweeter to torrent
^^^^^^^^^^^^lol
How is selling 100 copies to a fucking BILLIONAIRE even remotely considered “hustling” and what’s that got to do with “pleasing your core fan base”?
And never again mention Jay and Brooklyn in the same breath, nigga ain’t been Brooklyn in a minute. He as Upper East-/Westside as they come. Disgusting.
u sound like u hatin on both of em lol……its ok…..get a hug from sumbody
Nah, fam. Ain’t hatin on Nipsey, he a nobody I couldn’t care less about. I’m happy for him that he got some dough now though, still don’t make it no “hustle” selling 10 % to a billionaire. That plain ridiculous calling it hustling.
Definitely hatin on Jay though, yeah. He just ain’t Brooklyn no more. Parts of Brooklyn ain’t Brooklyn no more, so he Park Slope AT BEST. That right where his quasi white ass belong now.
Stuck on stupid while other keep it moving…
How is selling ANY type of product, more specifically something created with an intent to distribute, not considered a hustle? The fact that someone wealthy purchased it shouldn’t take away from the effort nor time anyone invests in marketing something larger business normally handle. It was an obvious act of support, and more than likely, an appreciation of talent and grind it takes to be successful. Had any of my family, or people I respect, had a similar idea/initiative… I’d do the same.
I get it though… Hatred rules!
DatPiff and LiveMixtapes usually handle these types of shits. They’re sold on eBay for 3 $ or less, the price of a jewel case. If Nipsey Hussle were successful, he wouldn’t want his fans to shell out 100 bucks for something they can have for free, that’s already been said here a 1000x before. Then he differentiates between his “core fan base” (read: those buying ‘Crenshaw’) and “regular” fans. He never explicitly said that, but that’s what it essentially boils down to. That’s somewhat pathetic.
He should have just sold 600 more to Diddy and 300 to Dre and be done with it instead of constantly bigging himself up for what he “accomplished”. His “grand hustle”, yeah, right. It’s just a major insult to guys like Percee P or Ka who, in the past, stood hours on end in blistering rain or snow to hustle a couple CDs to passersby.
And anyone who doesn’t think there were ulterior motives (as there always are with him) behind Jay buying 100 copies off Nipsey is a fool, not me. He just wants to be recognized as the one big spender to be the first to support a “new movement” (that alone is a joke in itself). Quote him all you want – and one of his worst songs from his worst record at that -, but your favorite white rapper is not exempt from criticism.
Jay-z gives his albums away for free to Samsung customers and this nigga does the complete opposite!! Charges 10X the retail price!! LMAO fucking scam. But if someone was dumb enough to buy them more power to him.
Saigon and Papoose gotta be feelin some type of way seeing jay show so much love to an LA cat when their albums came out and went unnoticed, guess they should have ripped off their fans and charged 5x what it was worth!
HAHA! This nigga Nipple Hussle is LAUGHABLE! Who the fuck is gonna buy his wack ass mixtape for $100?! NO ONE! I’d rather buy a Rebecca Black album.
Its obvious Jay-Z aka Camelface bought 100 cuz he scared of Lil Wayne and hes practically HOPING someone sells more than Wayne.
Fact: NO ONE sells more than LIL WAYNE.
Lil Wayne is and forever will be the KIGN of HIP HOP!
YMCMB!
P.S Nipple Hussle’s mixtape will go DOUBLE CARDBOARD.
this comment is laughable… Wayne is garbage now, everybody knows that. He’s a joke, signing Paris Hilton and doing a song with her. Wayne ruined what hip-hop is and just now it’s starting to come back
i’ll believe it when jay comes out and say’s he bought it,i think he’s lying to build promo and intrigue for the cd, like khaled and nicki getting married type shit
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it’s obvious most of you fu** niggas aint really researched or thought about the shit very hard…
to the person saying “do you at least get a ticket when he comes to town?”;
YES, not only is it autographed, but you got a ticket to his upcoming show… and he still released it free, you don’t have to buy the limited edition, it was only 1000 copies made…
secondly, to everyone else saying he a fool for selling it for $100, do the math if you can… he sold 1000 copies in less than 24 hours, yeah 100 went to Jay cuz Hov respected his hustle… the other 900 sold legit… but no matter who they sold to, the math doesn’t change: 100×1000 = $100,000… no label to pay either, dude just cleared over 40k in one night just by releasing- as you said yourself- something you can get online for free… y’all get it yet? smh
bottom line, he’s a genius for this shit…
yall niggas straight retard. The album comes autographed with a ticket for his upcoming show. He also released the album FOR FREE but charged $100 for the “Premium Edition” to see where his real fans at. Bum ass niggas that pirate shit really shouldn’t even talk