The Macon lick! $3,000 Scam? | Young Thug | Bankedoutt Radio Show | Music and Business Talk

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The internet is completely on fire. Today we're

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exposing how a mid -sized city like Macon became

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a prime target. We're talking about the local

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crews dropping $3 ,000 on stage -front VIP booths.

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Welcome back to Bank .Radio's show, Music and

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Business Talk. I'm your host, Andreas, and today

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we're going to get into the whole Young Thug

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debacle. Today we are stripping back the layers

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of the massive entertainment scandal right here

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in Georgia, Macon, Georgia to be exact. The internet

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is completely on fire of what happened at the

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Macon Arts Center on Pinolo Avenue. Everyone

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is talking about Young Thug walking off the stage

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literally. After literally after one minute everyone

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is talking about the gunna song that the DJ accidentally

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played and we'll get into you know He also apologized

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for that, but on the show We don't just talk

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about the guy so we're breaking down the business

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the contracts in the street politics Today we're

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exposing how a mid -sized city like Macon became

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a prime target for an industry leak That's my

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word, industry lick. We're talking about the

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general mission tickets sold for $80 cash out

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of local storefronts like Girl Factor on Bloomfield

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Road and others. We're talking about the local

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crews dropping $3 ,000 on stagefront VIP booths.

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And we're also looking at the leak contract that

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proves the fans were walking into a financial

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trap from the very beginning. like him because

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we're about to break down the mechanics of the

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play. So let's get to the right to the paperwork

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because facts don't lie. Local promoter OG Ball

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went on Facebook and leaked the official contract

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to protect his own name. And when you look at

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the document, the whole narrative flips. Point

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number one, this was never a Young Thug concert.

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The contract explicitly states that the venue

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licensed solely for Isaiah Reed's birthday celebration

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featuring Young Thug. This was a personal local

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birthday party for Thug's manager Isaiah GQ as

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in referenced on IG that used Thug's names to

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drive up the hype. Point number two. Look at

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the performance clause. The contract text explicitly

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reads, Young Thug shall perform a minimum of

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five songs during the event. Most business owners

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tell me they are too exhausted to scale because

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they are drowning in manual labor. Here's the

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fix. Stop doing things that do not scale. If

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you recorded one single 30 minute educational

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video or podcast interview, you have just built

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a content factory. From that one piece of digital

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real estate, you can pull four short social reels,

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a weekly text newsletter, and searchable blog

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posts. You have recorded once for 30 minutes,

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but your message is now working for you horizontally

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across multiple channels simultaneously. This

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is how you turn a single hour of effort into

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hundreds of hours of digital visibility. If you're

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ready to step in the booth and turn your knowledge

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into an automated asset, click the link in my

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bio or see the comments. Five songs, that's like

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a 15 minute walk -through appearance, not an

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arena concert. Yet the marketing treated it like

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a stadium show to justify predatory pricing.

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They charged $80 for a pre -sale, $150 to skip

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the line, and $3 ,000 for a booth with a 50 -piece

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wing and some hookahs. Point number three. The

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trigger that blew up the play. The venue provided

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the Luckle House Nat Thug's official tour DJ.

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The instructions for management were simple.

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Do not play gun. Now, I want to go on record

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here saying that The particular song selection,

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if you're an artist, you've had to follow down

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with an artist that you signed to your label.

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Why is that even a song that you want to be considered

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playing when you have a whole discography of

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a lot of songs to choose from? To me, I think

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it was a setup, but you know, hey, it is what

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it is. We'll see. The house DJ accidentally queued

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up the track featuring Gutter on the start of

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the night. The music was stopped. He told the

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crowd he was on street shit and stormed out.

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Those little words coming from Thug's, you know,

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representation. It looked like they were standing

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on principle against a traitor. But for the business,

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it was an ultimately unchallengeable excuse to

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make the money and run out without technically

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violating the contract. Now, I was told that,

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you know, Thug didn't get paid. Who knows if

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that's true or not. And even if he did not get

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paid, a friend and all his expenses were paid.

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for him coming there, someone would recoup their

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expenses. So let's talk about the management

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team, specifically Isaiah Reed or Isaiah underscore

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GQ on IG. He broke his silence on Instagram.

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He posted a long message about accountability,

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street principles, and how Thug whispered to

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him before the show, let's turn, make it up.

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He even tried to balance the backlash by reminding

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everyone earlier that day. He brought Doug to

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Sirius Academy Charter School to speak to the

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kids for free. That, to me, is political move,

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whatever they say, political posturing. The two

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events are separate. They have nothing to do

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with one another. Yes, it happened in the same

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city, but going to the school, talking to the

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kids. And then he's blowing up now on social

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media because of the way he said to the kids.

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And then also performing at night when there's

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a contract at play or two different things. You

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can't put them two together. They don't belong

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together. But if you look at the past, the polished

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captions and look at his casual Facebook videos,

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a completely different picture emerges. Isaiah

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doesn't strike me as someone who genuinely cares

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about how the making community views this. One,

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posturing and placating to a different narrative.

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You didn't acknowledge the communities hurt from

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everything that happened because ultimately the

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community of making is what lost. Not anybody

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else. Isaiah, he is living the luxury life under

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the absolute guise of managing an A -list superstar.

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He gets to go on private jets, the premium VIP

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birthdays, and the massive upfront cash bags.

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But the night life falls apart, the public blames

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falls on the local promoter or DJ while the inner

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circle flies away completely untouched. And this

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happened because teams know that midsize regional

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markets are soft and they're easy targets. Ever

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since his massive YSL trial, Young Thug is on

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a strict 15 -year probation. One of the core

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rules is that he is legally banned from entering

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Metro Atlanta for 10 years. So what do you do?

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You get your money from all the other markets

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that are outside of that, especially if you're

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around in the state of Georgia. Because he can't

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make money performing his own hometown, his team

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targets places in our way like Macon, Savannah,

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and Augusta. These cities are starved for celebrity

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interactions. So the fans are desperate. The

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local promoters lack corporate guardrails and

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the market is open wide to be exploited for quick

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cash stops. So I just want to dive a little bit

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into that. When A -list celebrities or big time

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celebrities participate in metropolitan areas

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or big Atlanta, like not big Atlanta, but cities

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big like Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, whatever

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the case may be. There are insurances. that are

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in place. Meaning real insurance. There are companies

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that insure to where they go and pay their premiums

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and if the artist or whomever that they book

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backs out of their contractual obligation, they

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can file those insurance claims. People in mid

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-sized markets are not doing that, the local

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promoters in style one, because it's expensive.

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You have to be able to, you know, pay those insurance

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premiums and then you gotta wait on the money

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to be filed and the claim and all that stuff

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whatever they get opportunities to try to make

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it right with you know future dates and stuff

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like this so it could take months um hell it

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could take up to six months to get your money

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from a local promoter's perspective, you don't

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have enough time, you don't have the bandwidth,

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and you don't have the cash flow to be able to

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do something like that. So that's why markets

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like Macon, Augusta, Savannah, Columbus, Albany,

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all these different markets are prime targets

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for situations like this to happen. So what's

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the ultimate takeaway for the banked out radio

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show family, right? How should a professional

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management team actually execute a play like

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this? Well first, Never trust a local house DJ

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with verbal instructions. One, not to say that

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they cannot do those verbal instructions, but

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you just don't leave anything to chance. That's

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one. That's a part of doing business. A professional

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manager emails a single pre -edit show mix, 48

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hours in advance, with the rival artist's verse

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completely cut out. The DJ just presses play

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once. I would even go so far to say, why even

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pick the song? But if you're going to use a song

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because the fans do love it and you don't want

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that particular person getting in the shine,

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then you have your own show mix that you've done.

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This particular event was promoted 10 days in

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advance. There's plenty of time to have sent

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a show mix ready because they knew that this

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particular possible situation could occur. Second,

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you practice truth and marketing. You don't label

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a five song birthday hosting as a full live concert

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just to trick people into buying $3 ,000 tables.

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When? Uh, I blew the flyer and I'm gonna put

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it on. I have a screenshot of the flyer. I put

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it on the screen. It said performance, I believe,

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by Young Thug. So that means he's gonna at least

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perform something. You know what it was. I'm

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going into the situation. Me, that's predatory

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pricing. The bare minimum. Concert tickets cost

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$80 and above or whatever and you're getting

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the whole concert. So you're getting like 60

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to 90 minutes of a set. Not five songs, but you

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could've equate to like 15 maybe. 20 minutes

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at the max $80 just to get in 150 to 120 skipping

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the lines uh $1 ,500 sections $3 ,000 sections

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i'm like come on especially in a market um like

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making predatory pricing but yet you know anyway

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there is um ethical things to do. Might not be

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illegal, but there are ethical boundaries. But

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here's the cold hard truth, and I want to hear

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from my listeners in the comments section. This

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will absolutely continue. History making proves

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it. We have seen the exact same chaos years ago

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when Boosie didn't show up at the Whiskey River

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Club on Pionono Avenue due to parole issues and

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the venue got trashed. We saw when the city officials

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shut down Quando Rondos show over safety concerns.

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The loop never stops because the power of hype

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and FOMO which is fear of missing out is too

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strong. Six months from now another promoter

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will drop a major flyer the local crowd will

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forget the scam and the people will allow them

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to pay premiums all over again just for the status

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symbols of VIP booth. Right now fans are mass

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filing credit card charges back or they should

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be filing charges back to simple ticks. for services

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not rendered, using OG Ball's contract leak as

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physical evidence to their banks. But the everyday

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working people who handed over $80 in physical

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cash at local shops are completely out of luck.

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Macon was treated like a target for a quick leak.

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The Inner Circle got their birthday payout and

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the city was left holding the bag. I want to

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know what you think. Is the DJ entirely to blame

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for breaking the code? I don't think so. Let

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you know I know people have their own. opinions.

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Should Young Thug have performed for his paid

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fans anyway? I think so. If you want to keep

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a lasting relationship, or did Isaiah and his

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management team use this party as an intentional

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bait and switch? Evidence points strongly to

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that suggestion. Like I said, you had 10 days

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in advance. The way you posted the flyer, and

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then from my understanding, the flyer was changed

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as well. So why are you posting one flyer and

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then it changes? that means that everything else

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along with that and expectations should change

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