Welcome to Preservation of One.I'm your host, Alexandria Argus.Okay, so listen.Me and someone were talking about streams, right?And also, y'all know how I get the emails and stuff.Yes, one time for the emails.Someone asked me about streams.
I don't worry about streams because I don't fake my streams. But, you know, to each his own.I don't fake my streams.And at the end of the day, whatever my streams are, shit, it is what it is.
You know, it is what it is, you know, streams, they go up, they go down, you know what I'm saying?
Mine has just been increasing over time, but mine has been, mine has went down too, especially when this system here, when the company who I'm with, when they switched over to a new analyst, it dropped me down by like 20,000 streams, which is some foolishness, but it's all good.
It's all good.What can I don't do or whatever because one thing about it we always feel back up so Shit, it is it is what it is.But um about streams.
I mean listen in all honesty when people when you're dealing with streams when um When a lot of people Streams or whatever they're doing it boosting their fan base.However, they choose to you View it or whatever.How do you choose it?
What are you building it?You're boosting your number.So it seemed as if you got more fans or More than what you got or you got more downloads and more likes and stuff than what you got or whatever.Um Hey to each his own but my thing is I
I think it was boosie And he was like, you know, you can have two million instagram social media followers and If an event or something like that happened he said this a minute ago he was saying and if something an event or something like that happened or whatever sometimes you might only get
probably 12,000 people out of 2 million followers.You know what I'm saying?Or less than that.You know what I'm saying?I mean, it is what it is.
But at the end of the day, with them stopping streams, people from buying streams, I mean, that's not necessarily a bad thing.You know what I'm saying?
Like how they catching people with the fake streams, and the people got to pay all that money back, y'all on cooking.That ain't nothing but seasoning and spices, okay? I'm cooking some steaks.And honey, they are seasoned down.Yes.
Anyways, so yeah, so I mean, when people buy streams and stuff like that or whatever, I mean, by them cutting that out, making it illegal for all the fake streams or whatever, it's just kind of like leveling the playing field for people that is new and up and coming, because we all know record companies
Every other companies they'll buy a lot of streams to boost their artists You know, like who was the guy in North Carolina?
Got to pay all that dollar money back or whatever for buying streams or whatever I personally I could have heard of the guy, but I just don't know who the guy is off top Or whatever, but it's like you got to pay back millions of dollars
or whatever for the streams that he bought because they're paying him all this money for the streams and their false streams.But the crazy thing about it, let me tell you how stupid and twisted it is.
They don't want the artists to get the money, but they want the money to go to the higher ups.So it's like you're taking it from the artists or however you're doing it, finding it, penalizing, I don't know, whatever, however they work that out.
Are you going to take it from these big as X?You know? That's the crazy thing about it.And whoever else is involved.But look at it like this here.It's just leveling the playing field.And that's making it easier.I don't know.
I don't know what that whole biz is.Or whatever.And I guess they just don't want to pay out all this extra money.And then the streams aren't real. I mean all this money that they getting off them streams.
I wish somebody would have gave me a good stream like that Let me get one of them good old million dollar checks, you know what I'm saying?And a one not yeah, we get some of those good old million dollar checks.Good lord.I Gosh, crazy.
Antiwise, so yeah, I'm concerned myself with that, yeah.For me, I'm the type of person.You know, only thing you can do is work, shoot for the stars, do what you can do, and work on whatever it is that you're doing and keep on pushing.
Eventually, the streams and whatever else will catch up with you.Let it all align, you know?Anyway, that's just my opinion.Antiwise, Don't forget to get a copy of my book, A Conversation with Alexandria August.I am your host, Alexandria August.
Thank you.I made an error in there when I said, why can't the execs, you know, make their money?I meant, why can't the artists make their money?You know what I'm saying?
But I mean, not saying that I'm cool with the illegal streams, but shit, people out here trying to make a damn dollar.Everything's so doggone hot. is ridiculous you know what i'm saying but on some real talk like um even with the streaming service
All of it's pretty much really rigged because They push whoever got the money That's who the streaming service is going to push when people get with record companies, right?
They're throwing all this money at their streams their sales and everything else Because that's their investment, you know what i'm saying?But if you're independent And you're going at it with streams or whatever if you got the money
You can push it forward.You know what I'm saying?I mean, it's just it's it's it's just tricky I'm not gonna really say rig, but I'm just gonna say it's tricky.So I mean Shit, it works itself out somehow either way.That's it.I
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