

Jessica McKinney of Complex explained how on this version, DaBaby 'discusses his multiple run-ins with the police, saying. It joined many other protest songs that spoke out against police brutality in the wake of the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. I’ve never seen anything like it.ĮDIT: this is from the perspective of a musician employed by the artist. 'Rockstar Black Lives Matter Remix' On June 12, 2020, a remix of the song, titled 'Rockstar Black Lives Matter Remix', was released. Touring industry is very volatile right now. I had A LOT of friends get permanently laid off, salary went to zero. Not trying to flex at all, just trying to say that even at the absolute highest level, if you have a family, the margins still aren’t that great and I never got to go on a family vacation.
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When Covid hit, I got checks from the record label for a while bc of PPP but after a few months I was basically like screw this - got a job at a tech company that works in the healthcare space - full benefits, PTO, paternity leave when my son was born - No regrets. We did multiple tours in the US and UK playing anywhere from 1500 people to 50,000 people depending on if we were headlining or direct support in a tour etc. Just because you recorded a song on a recording studio doesn’t mean anything, and most likely? It just means you have a higher tech version of shitty poetry that you wrote when you were 13 only now it’s on the Internet for the world to make fun ofįor the last 8 years, I was the utility player for an artist with a number 1 song on country radio (2x platinum RIAA certified in 2015) he had another song go top 20, and had a top album in the US and UK. And even after that? You still probably won’t make it.

A lot of little girls want to be veterinarians, but when they hit 21 and have to take animal biology and introduction to surgery? A lot of those dreamers stop dreaming. This kid falls in that category.Īn analogy would be something like this, if you’re out playing clubs four nights a week honing your skills… That means you’re actually “working“ you’re actually putting out effort to do something. A 12 hour day with a live touring band was no problem at all.īroke ass losers that would come in smoke weed try to rap and pretend that they were going to be super famous was the absolute worst it’s a level of hell I wouldn’t wish on anybody. The track features a guest verse from rapper 21 Savage. It was released on September 15, 2017, by Republic Records as the lead single from his second studio album Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018).
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The live touring vans were an absolute pleasure to work with I have no problem giving them two or three hours extra time to work out some kinks free of charge. About Rockstar 'Rockstar' (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by American rapper Post Malone. I was a record producer for around 22 years.
