\Do you have a single? How are you going to bring attention to it? What is going to make people stream it? Playing it in the club …
The artist, in many cases young, impressionable, and happy to be in a position where they can become rich and famous, essentially does what they were signed to do.
Frank Lucas, notorious Harlem drug dealer, whose claims of smuggling heroin in cadavers and coffins, as depicted in the movie, American Gangster, have been exposed as lies by the DEA and his own Southeast Asian connection Lesley “Ike” Atkinson, Lucas proudly declared “I never testified on nobody.”
Sony RCA froze Kelly’s contract about two months ago; and thus the value of his publishing took a huge hit. Radio stations have declined to play his music and Spotify and other on-line portals have put restrictions on his music or deleted it all together.
On the surface that seems like no big deal, but because they are hunting for a ‘cop killer‘ who has stated via his manifesto that he has more in his sights, the police will equip drones with technology and use procedures that up till now are not allowed.
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