Waching daily Sep 28 2018

- I GOT A JAYWALKING TICKET IN MONTREAL.

I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.

I'VE JAYWALKED SO MANY TIMES IN MY LIFE.

IT'S SUCH AN EASY THING TO TIME OUT.

IS THERE A CAR COMING? NO?

LET ME GET ACROSS THEN.

I'VE DONE IT THOUSANDS OF TIMES.

BUT THIS TIME IT WAS ME AND THIS OLD LADY.

WE WERE JAYWALKING TOGETHER.

WE WEREN'T TOGETHER LIKE THAT,

BUT IF WE WERE, SO WHAT?

MIND YOUR BUSINESS.

I JUST MET Y'ALL.

SO ME AND THIS OLD LADY, WE GET ACROSS THE STREET,

THEN A MONTREAL COP APPROACHES US,

SPEAKING IN FRENCH.

[imitating French]

FRENCH.

[laughter]

I SAID, "HEY, MAN, I DON'T TALK LIKE THAT.

"THAT'S NOT HOW I TALK.

CAN YOU TALK TO ME HOW I TALK?"

THAT PROBABLY WASN'T THE BEST WAY

TO START OFF OUR INTERACTION,

BY MOCKING HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, BUT WHO CARES?

I TAKE RISKS IN LIFE.

AND HE SAYS, "YOU WERE JAYWALKING!"

AND I SAID, "SORRY ABOUT THAT."

AND I TRIED TO KEEP GOING ABOUT MY DAY.

'CAUSE I THOUGHT THAT'S HOW JAYWALKING WAS HANDLED

AS A CRIME--

"YOU WERE JAYWALKING!" "MY BAD.

"WE'RE DONE HERE, RIGHT? THAT'S IT.

"I ACKNOWLEDGED THAT I JAYWALKED, I APOLOGIZED

"NOT FOR THE ACT OF JAYWALKING,

"BUT HOW MY JAYWALKING MADE YOU FEEL.

"I'LL TRY NOT TO JAYWALK IN THE FUTURE WHILE YOU'RE WATCHING,

"BUT TRUST I'M GONNA DO IT THE REST OF MY LIFE.

IT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO ABOUT BEING A PEDESTRIAN."

[laughter]

AND HE SAYS, "NO, I HAVE TO GIVE YOU A TICKET.

GIVE ME YOUR I.D."

I SAID, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.

"I ONLY GIVE PEOPLE MY I.D. FOR REAL STUFF.

"THIS IS NOT REAL. THIS IS A FANTASY CRIME

"THAT YOU'RE ENFORCING TO COVER UP THE FACT

"THAT YOUR CITY IS HAVING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW.

"THIS CITY IS BROKE, AND THEY PUT YOU OUT HERE

"WITH A QUOTA, AND THAT'S FINE.

"I WILL DONATE 60 OF YOUR COLORFUL-ASS DOLLARS

"TO YOUR BROKE-ASS CITY.

BUT LET'S JUST DO IT LIKE THAT. NO PAPERWORK, AND IT'S GOOD."

GUESS WHAT. TWO MORE COPS SHOW UP.

NOW WE HAVE THREE MONTREAL POLICE OFFICERS

WORKING THIS HIGH-PROFILE JAYWALKING CASE.

THREE COPS FOR ME AND JAYWALKING.

FAIR ENOUGH.

I DECIDED DURING THE TIME I WAS JUST GONNA TALK TRASH

TO THE COP STANDING CLOSEST TO ME 'CAUSE I DON'T LIKE HIM

OR WHAT HE REPRESENTS.

SO I JUST WANTED TO MESS WITH HIM

AND SAY WHATEVER I COULD SAY TO MESS WITH HIM,

'CAUSE HE'S WASTING MY TIME, SO I SAY,

"HEY, MAN, HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU MAKE A YEAR?"

WHICH IS A DOUCHEY THING TO DO, I'M AWARE.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS DOUCHEY?

TO HAVE THREE COPS WORKING A JAYWALKING TICKET.

THAT'S OVERKILL. I ONLY HAVE TWO LEGS.

THAT'S A COP AND A HALF PER LEG.

THAT'S A WASTE OF CITY FUNDS.

THAT'S WHY THEIR CITY IS BROKE NOW.

AND HE TOLD ME HOW MUCH HE MADE.

I DON'T KNOW WHY HE TOLD ME.

HE DIDN'T HAVE TO TELL ME.

THEN HE SAID, "HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE?"

AND I TOLD HIM. AND HE GOT UPSET.

AND HE SAID, "WHAT DO YOU SELL? DRUGS?"

I SAID, "NO, I DON'T SELL DRUGS.

THAT WAS KIND OF RACIST." "WHAT DO YOU SELL? CARS?"

[laughter]

"WAIT, WHY ARE THOSE YOUR TWO FIRST GUESSES?"

"HEY, THIS DUDE IS DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL,

"OR PEOPLE LOVE BUYING SUBARUS FROM HIM.

"HE'S A CHARISMATIC GUY. SELL THE HELL OUT OF A CAR.

"THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO JOBS I KNOW BESIDES POLICE OFFICER.

I'M A DUMB GUY. MY WORLD VIEW IS LIMITED."

THEN I SAY, "HEY, MAN, YOUR COLLEAGUE HERE IS 50 YEARS OLD

"AND HE'S WRITING JAYWALKING TICKETS FOR A LIVING.

"IS HE CONSIDERED A FAILURE AS A POLICE OFFICER?

'CAUSE THAT SEEMS LIKE SOME STUFF THAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING."

HE WAS A YOUNGER GUY.

HE WAS UPSET ABOUT THAT.

HE WAS TRYING TO HOLD IN HE WAS UPSET,

BUT I COULD TELL HE WAS UPSET, BECAUSE THE NEXT THING

HE SAID WAS, "OH, YOU A COOL GUY, HUH?"

I SAID, "NO, I'M NOT A COOL GUY. ARE YOU A COOL GUY?"

HE SAID, "YEAH, I'M A COOL GUY JUST DOING COOL STUFF,

TRYING TO BE COOL."

I SAID, "MAN, COOL PEOPLE NEVER SAY SHIT LIKE THAT."

[laughter]

THEY GAVE ME A $37 TICKET FOR JAYWALKING

AND A $444 TICKET JUST FOR BEING AN ASS[bleep].

THAT'S HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BE AN ASS[bleep]

TO MONTREAL POLICE, JUST IN CASE YOU'RE PRICING IT OUT

FOR YOUR NEXT VACATION.

BUT DON'T WORRY-- DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME.

I'M NOT PAYING EITHER OF THEM. IT'S IN CANADA.

IT DOESN'T COUNT TO ME. IT'S NOT REAL.

I WAS AT THE AIRPORT, THERE WAS THIS KID,

FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD,

WALKING WITH HIS MOMMY, FIXED HIS FINGERS IN A FAKE GUN,

AND THEN TOOK A SHOT AT ME.

NOW I'M LOOKING AT THE WALL TO SEE IF THERE'S SOMETHING

ON THE WALL HE COULD HAVE BEEN SHOOTING AT,

'CAUSE I'M IN DENIAL.

I LOOK BACK AT HIM, HE LOOKS ME IN MY EYES,

AND TAKES TWO MORE SHOTS.

NOW I'M HIT THREE TIMES.

THAT WAS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION.

I HAVE TO DEFEND MYSELF.

I'M A MAN BEFORE ANYTHING.

I WILL POINT-BLANK FAKE-SHOOT THIS KID RIGHT HERE.

"HEY, DIE, BITCH, LITTLE KID.

"DIE. WHAT NOW?

"NOW WHAT? WHAT YOU LOOKING AT, MOM?

"CONTROL YOUR KID AND SHIT LIKE THIS

"WON'T HAPPEN IN THE AIRPORT.

"NOW EVERYBODY'S GETTING FAKE-SHOT.

"WHAT'S EVERYBODY ELSE LOOKING AT?

"THIS HAS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.

"AMERICAN AIRLINES LADY, GET DOWN RIGHT NOW.

I'LL SHOOT UP YOU AND YOUR BANKRUPT-ASS COMPANY."

MY OTHER AIRPORT NEMESIS IS AIRPORT SECURITY.

I DON'T LIKE THEM AT ALL. THEY SEEM SO DEDICATED

TO KEEPING BOTTLED WATER OUT OF THE SKY.

THAT'S THE MAIN THING. IT'S PROBABLY EASIER

TO GET COCAINE ON A PLANE THAN A BOTTLE OF WATER.

PROBABLY ONLY WAY YOU COULDN'T GET COCAINE

ON A PLANE IF THEY LOOKED AT IT AND SAID, "WHAT IS THIS?

POWDERED WATER?"

"NO, IT'S COCAINE."

"GO RIGHT AHEAD. ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT."

BECAUSE A TERRORIST TRIED A LIQUID BOMB THING,

NOW NOBODY CAN BRING LIQUIDS ON A PLANE.

ONE PERSON MESSED IT UP FOR EVERYBODY.

BUT I FEEL LIKE THAT'S BEING REACTIVE INSTEAD OF PROACTIVE,

BECAUSE TERRORISTS ARE ALWAYS TRYING NEW STUFF.

SO NEXT TIME IT'S GONNA BE SOME TYPE OF SNICKERS BOMB,

AND AFTER THAT HAPPENS, YOU CAN'T BRING FULL-SIZED SNICKERS

ON THE PLANE ANYMORE.

YOU CAN ONLY BRING MINIATURE SNICKERS

'CAUSE ONE PERSON MESSED IT UP FOR EVERYBODY.

NOW YOU HAVE SECURITY TRYING TO NEGOTIATE

YOUR SNICKERS SITUATION.

"HEY, IS IT ALL RIGHT IF I BRING FOUR MINIATURE SNICKERS?

THAT'S ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS A FULL-SIZED SNICKER."

SECURITY SAY, "DON'T PLAY WITH ME.

"THIS IS NOT A GAME!

"WE ARE SAVING THE WORLD ONE SNICKERS BAR AT A TIME

FOR YOUR FREEDOM IN AMERICA!"

"RELAX, MAN, I'M JUST HUNGRY. STOP YELLING AT ME."

"YOU CAN'T BRING THE BOTTLED WATER, SIR."

"WHY NOT? IT'S NOT BOMB WATER.

WHAT IF I SIP THE WATER TO SHOW YOU THAT IT'S NOT BOMB WATER?"

"BUT WHAT IF IT'S SIPPABLE BOMB WATER?"

"THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SIPPABLE BOMB WATER.

"YOU'RE BEING SILLY RIGHT NOW, MAN.

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BOMB WATER."

ONE DAY, THEY STOPPED ME FOR ADDITIONAL SCREENING,

BUT THE ONLY SCREENING THEY DID,

THEY RUBBED THE CLOTH ON MY HANDS,

AND THEN THEY WENT AND TESTED IT, THEY CAME BACK

AND SAID, "ALL RIGHT, YOU'RE GOOD."

"OKAY, COOL, GOOD THING I DIDN'T HAVE BOMB JUICE ON MY HANDS.

WAS THAT THE BOMB JUICE TEST?"

WHAT IF I DID HAVE BOMB JUICE ON MY HANDS?

WHAT IF ONE OF MY FRIENDS-- "HEY, HANNIBAL,

"BEFORE YOU GO TO THE AIRPORT,

YOU WANT TO HOLD A BOMB REAL QUICK?"

[laughter]

AND I SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT, I NEVER HELD A BOMB BEFORE,

I'M OPEN TO NEW EXPERIENCES, LET ME..."

[laughter]

"THAT'S PRETTY COOL. THANKS, MAN.

THAT WAS REAL COOL."

THEN I GET TO THE AIRPORT, THEY TEST MY HANDS,

THEY SAY, "YOU HAVE BOMB JUICE ON YOUR HANDS.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO TELL US?"

"YEAH, ONE OF MY FRIENDS, HE GOT A BUNCH OF BOMBS.

"AND HE SAID, 'YOU WANT TO HOLD A BOMB REAL QUICK

"BEFORE YOU GO TO THE AIRPORT?'

"AND I NEVER HELD A BOMB BEFORE,

"SO I THOUGHT IT'D BE SOMETHING COOL TO DO.

"I MADE SURE NOT TO BRING THE BOMB WITH ME,

'CAUSE I KNOW Y'ALL HATE THAT."

[laughter]

"SO I WANT TO JUST HOLD A BOMB REAL QUICK.

"I THINK YOU NEED TO CHILL OUT

"AND STOP BEING JEALOUS 'CAUSE I GOT ALL TYPES OF FRIENDS.

"SOME OF MY FRIENDS OWN BOMBS AND LET ME HOLD THEM.

"YOU NEED TO OPEN UP YOUR SOCIAL CIRCLE

AND MEET SOME NEW PEOPLE."

I HATE WHEN THEY TRY TO MAKE CONVERSATION WITH ME.

"ARE YOU GOING TO NEW YORK FOR BUSINESS OR PLEASURE?"

"I'M GOING TO NEW YORK TO TALK

"ABOUT YOU IN FRONT OF STRANGERS.

SO I GUESS BOTH."

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Sadhguru - Nation is just an idea, It is not a reality.. - Duration: 11:08.

Chelameshwar: I suppose so long as human beings being what they are and the society is ,

they are certainly bound to be certain things which are right and certain things…certain

acertain conduct which are right and certain conduct which is not right.

Now I don't think anybody will contribute to the

proposition that corruption is right by …from any point of view.

Sadhguru: Let me tell you.

Chelameshwar: Somebody sitting in a public office, making money, using his office.

Sadhguru: Let me tell you.

See you are calling it corruption.

I have…

I have had the unfortunate privilege of sometimes moving closely with the people whom

you consider corrupt.

Okay?

Chelameshwar:All right.

(Laughter) Sadhguru: And you will be amazed

you will be amazed and – initially it was shocking to me but when I

really looked through them, I see their reasoning.

They don't think they're corrupt.

(Laughter) I tell you.

They don't think they're corrupt.

They… they just say everybody would do the same thing.

I got the opportunity, they don't have the opportunity.

(Laughter) So they are only complaining that they don't

have the opportunity.

So what is corruption, what is not corruption itself is not defined.

I am not trying to give a (an?) escape route for all these people,

who are doing horrible things to the nation.

So the only thing that can fix this country, in terms of corruption is

we need people who have a huge passion for this nation.

Okay?

So right now we need somebody who is capable and who has great passion for this nation.

That is the only way – it is not all problems will be fixed –

that is the only way we start moving towards a solution.

Right now, we are heading for a big problem, because what holds a nation together,

everybody must understand – if you want to run a nation - whatever the

nation, you must understand what is it that binds

the people?

There is some passion because nation is just an idea.

It is not a reality, let's understand this.

Nation is just an idea.

What is it that binds all the people as one nation,

that idea and that passion has to be constantly strengthened.

If you constantly keep weakening it and then try to hold the nation together,

you will not succeed.

This is the time this generation of people have this responsibility

that if we do not change the trajectory of this nation the way it's going right now,

there will be no one 'India' in another fifty years of time.

It may not take fifty years.

Chelameshwar: But how does this generation do it?

Sadhguru: See 'how' is not one aspect alone.

There're many aspects to it.

See it's all right where people wear imported watches, imported clothes,

but they shouldn't import their brains and hearts from somewhere else.

It's very important.

(Laughs) And that is happening in the form of our education.

In the way we are culturing ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with anything that comes from outside the country,

we must take the best that comes from everywhere from the world.

That is the nature of any evolving, growing society.

But at the same time, what holds us together as a nation should not be sacrificed.

If you sacrifice that you won't be able to hold it together.

People will not stay together.

You know you can't hold three, four brothers together.

Unless you bind them emotionally and create a passion towards something,

you can't bind them together.

If the parents did not take care of that, you can't hold them together.

They will go away somewhere.

If they live far away, they won't fight.

If they come close, they will be in your court.

(Laughter) You must understand what holds the nation

together.

The basic thing that held this nation together was always that - in this nation,

we did not believe this nor that.

Only thing is we knew we have to become free.

Liberation was the highest goal.

If you keep it that way, if you manage to activate this back in the

society you will see people will stay together.

Otherwise every group will form its own belief systems

and they will all go separate.

You can't keep them together.

At the very birth of this nation, we broke into three pieces.

Every hundred years, we may come to it or less,

if we do not take care of a few fundamentals.

Chelameshwar: And what measures are to be taken to

create that atmosphere where people work towards that goal?

Sadhguru:It's best that what you're strong on, you build on that.

You don't try to build on America United States of America in India - it's

never going to work.

You build an India in India, a strong powerful India you can build.

The North American people are there the way they are

because they came there for a different reason and they came together for that reason

and that reason is working for them.

Here it's not like that.

This is a completely different reality.

You're trying to super-impose another reality upon yourself.

That will not work.

This is not against anything, this is not for anything.

I am speaking English language, amn't I?

So I am not against anything for that matter but I am for that which works.

I am against all those things which do not work.

Why do you want to invest time and life and people's lives

in things that do not work? we clearly know from my experience of working

with village, being in the villages,

I clearly know at least fifty to fifty-five percent of people,

their existence is like cattle, not like human beings the quality of life.

Okay?

They are somehow managing, so we think they are okay.

So they're somehow managing.

That is not life.

After sixty-seventy years, two generations of people,

their lives are gone and if still we can't find basic solutions

that means we're doing something wrong, isn't it?

Chelameshwar: And why do you think it didn't work for sixty seven years?

What is your analysis and understanding of it?

Sadhguru: It's essentially because of this.

We are trying to transform people from being Indian to being English.

Do you understand?

English language is the only thing we should have picked up

because that's the passport to the world.

I am saying what we pick up… if you go shopping, what you pick up from a shop is by choice.

If you pick up compulsively or you buy whatever they're selling,

it's a stupid thing.

So the idea of MahatmaGandhi and the rest of the clan fighting for freedom

and getting the British out was, so that we could choose what we want to do

with our lives.

We did not choose because we were lethargic or we were just overwhelmed

or we were just… our idea of superiority was

you know misplaced.

We somewhere thought anybody who conquers must be superior.

We just tried to implement that system as it is,

including the judiciary everything as it is.

See I am not talking about traditional values.

I am not talking about India being an isolated nation doing its own thing.

No.

As I said earlier, if you go shopping, you must choose what you want.

You must not take whatever the salesman is pushing on you.

Something is fifty percent discount, so you don't buy it.

You will buy something that you need, isn't it?

So even from the rest of the world, the same thing.

You pick up what is going to be good for us.

You don't pick up something that they're peddling to us.

So what they don't need they would like to peddle to you.

You should have the sense not to take it in.

You must take in what we need and what'll work for us.

English language works for us.

Oh we picked it up.

May be we didn't pick it up, it was thrust upon us,

it doesn't matter but somehow it worked out for us.

Everything else, you must see.

From a simple thing to anything – I was… you know… there is a classic example

– The tribal school close to the Ashram where

we have been working.

First I went there about fifteen years ago to see

we thought we will, you know, participate in this school in some way

and I wanted to see how the children are.

I went there and all these kids there were just about eleven, twelve kids

in the school, and they are all wearing ties.

The ties are worn here (Gestures)like a necklace, okay - long string and tie here.

(Laughs) So I said first thing is 'remove these damn

ties.

Why these children are hanging this tie here on the chest and walking around?

(Laughs) This is not a necklace.'

But the kids don't know what's the difference.

Something you have to wear like this, they know only this and they are wearing it.

In Tamil Nadu, if you wear a tie in the summer, it's as good as a noose you know.

(Laughter) I am saying - from something so simple

what food to eat, what is comfortable in tropical weather,

what is the best thing to eat, what is the best thing to wear is something

that we have to look at, isn't it?

You just don't have to imitate somebody, simply because they managed to conquer you.

They did not conquer you because they were superior people.

They had gun powder and you didn't.

That's all.

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What is ISO – How ISO Affects Your Video Exposure and Causes Noise - Duration: 4:52.

So first off, ISO stands for International Standards Organization; and honestly, who cares?

Let's just talk about how it affects your video.

Hey everyone, Camber here back with you, and today we are talking about ISO and how it

affects your video.

And if you're new here, this channel is all about teaching you how to use your camera

to make good videos.

So if that's you, consider subscribing.

So, ISO is simply a camera setting that allows you to brighten or darken your shots.

And as you get higher ISO numbers it progressively brightens your images.

And so ISO is a great tool to use, especially in dark environments, and allows you to be

more flexible in shaping your shots through your choice in aperture and shutter speed.

Remembering that a stop of light is a doubling or halving of the amount of light let in when

taking a photo or video, you can know exactly how any change in ISO will affect your exposure

because any doubling of you ISO number will result in a brighter image by one stop while

any halving of your ISO number will result in a darker image by one stop.

Looking at this picture we can see that it is underexposed by two stops of light based

on the metering scale.

So if we double the ISO from 200 to 400, it will increase by one stop of light.

So now our picture is only underexposed by one stop of light.

So if we double the ISO again to 800, that increases by one more stop of light, and now

our image is properly exposed.

However, raising ISO also has consequences.

If you're using too high of an ISO, you'll start to get a lot of grain, also known as

noise, in your images, and it may end up being unusable.

So looking back to that previous example.

Let's say that when we were two stops underexposed, we were already at 1600 ISO.

So then we have to double it again to 3200 in order to get to one stop underexposed and

then double it one more time to 6400, and now our image is properly exposed.

But now you can see there is a lot more noise in it, and the image is deteriorating very

rapidly at the higher ISO.

So there is always a trade off with ISO, and you should really only raise it when absolutely

necessary when you can't change you exposure with shutter speed or aperture like with video

how we're stuck with using a single shutter speed for our videos to make your motion blur

look the most natural.

Now, I brought up the International Standards Organization at the beginning because they

developed an industry standard scale for measuring sensitivity to light.

And this was normally used in relation to camera film and how sensitive it was to light

because when you would buy film, you would buy a certain film speed, or ISO.

And at the lower numbers it would be less sensitive to light, and as you got up to the

higher films speeds, or ISO, it would be more sensitive to light.

And nowadays with digital cameras, it's commonly said that ISO is your camera sensor's sensitivity

to light; however, that's not quite true because your camera sensor only has one light sensitivity level.

Instead, with digital cameras there's a whole different process that goes on for boosting

exposure based on ISO.

So even though you camera sensor's sensitivity level isn't actually changing, it still can

be helpful to think of ISO as acting like your camera sensor's sensitivity.

So a lower ISO not only produces less noise, but it also gives you better colors and dynamic range,

which is your camera's ability to capture highlights and darks.

And so it's recommended that you use the lowest ISO possible in order to get the best quality

out of your camera.

And you can do this by using lights to light your scenes properly and opening your aperture

as necessary to let more light into your camera.

However, you won't always be able to keep the ISO at the lowest setting when you run

into low light situations or times where you may want to have a more narrow aperture to

have a deeper depth of field, and so you have to raise your ISO in order to compensate for

your exposure.

And certain cameras like the Sony a7S mark ii do really well in low light, and I've been

able to us that camera at 12,800 ISO in a wedding before and still been able to use

the footage.

However, I wouldn't suggest that with most cameras, especially if they don't have a

full frame camera sensor.

So just take your camera, test it out at different ISO levels, and see what's your personal limit

for usable footage and try not to go above that.

And that's all I have for ISO so if this was helpful, hit that like button and let me know

down below if you have any more questions about ISO.

Go ahead and subscribe if you haven't, and remember that the only way to get better at

something is to practice.

So get out there and film something.

See ya soon!

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Did Young Dolph LIE About The $22M Deal? Why He Is Still Independent! - Duration: 7:19.

What's poppin yall; Young Dolph has been independent for such a long time now and been

offered label deals with one of the most notable being Yo Gotti trying to sign him to CMG.

Of course there's the rumor or statement by Dolph saying he turned down a 22 MILLION

dollar deal that he had been considering for months; would you ever turn down a 22 million

dollar deal?

Before we get into it please click the like but more importantly subscribe and hit the

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there as well as content too short to make it onto the YouTube channel.

Let's get this outta the way before anything else; I refuse to believe Young Dolph got

offered a 22 million dollar deal.

I don't care if he said he did; rappers are constantly lying, 6ix9ine had said he

was getting a 15 million dollar deal and yall believed it.

The same thing with Logic and the 30 million dollar deal; it got put out that it was closer

to 10 million than 30.

And just look at the difference in popularity between Logic and Young Dolph; nobody in their

right mind would pay double for Dolph when he brings in way less money to a label.

With that being said though; the only way I could see a deal of even 8-10 million being

structured for Dolph is a full 360 deal where a label gets a cut from everything and also

throwing in the touring management with livenation or whoever as part of that.

XXXtentacion had signed a 6 million dollar deal and he was way hotter than Dolph ever

was.

I found out about Young Dolph in 2015 off some instagram skit where he was baby sitting

some 12 year old for being bad in school and then saw the music video or mini movie/skit

for his song pulled up which I liked and I started to listen to him more.

His best piece of work; if you've never listened to him is the High Class Street Music

5 mixtape.

THIS is better than any album he has released since, you get the full package here with

songs like; Big Deal, Make The World Go Round with Shy Glizzy, and Forever the greatest

song that I've ever heard from him.

I have a lot of respect for Young Dolph; his first mixtape was in 2008.

He didn't really get poppin nationwide until 2014-2015.

That's 7 to 8 years of constantly grinding, working on music, and putting out project

after project after project.

This makes it way harder when you're an independent artist and just the fact that

he's been able to resist the temptation of a deal when he was making way less money

and less known is impressive.

He does have a distribution deal or partnership with EMPIRE, he signed it earlier this year

and it's the biggest distributor and the one that most independent artists decide to

go with.

He said it's a multi-million dollar deal and he gets to keep his masters; that's

a big win there and it shows how business minded and long term thinking Dolph is.

A lot of people love it when a rapper is independent and I like to see them making more money;

I've also made videos being critical of what labels do but that doesn't mean I think

they're some group of people that provide 0 value to a rapper or artist.

For Young Dolph's case for example; if he had been signed to a major label when the

beef with Blac Youngsta was going on in 2017, I'm pretty sure a label would have been

able to blow that up to the point where everyone that wasn't familiar with Blac Youngsta

or Dolph would hear about them.

Not only did the vehicle he was in get shot dozens of times but later on he would actually

get shot in Los Angeles multiple times and rushed to the hospital.

Of course he survived since he's still out here healthy and releasing music but these

situations didn't go as big as they could have because he's independent.

Remember when 50 Cent got shot?

They marketed him as bulletproof and if you grew up during that time you know they made

50 look like he was a superhuman mutant; something like a Superman.

Now imagine what a label could have done for Dolph; his vehicle was shot several dozen

times and he didn't receive any injuries from it and the second time where he actually

got shot he's out and living right now.

When you remind people of this most of them say oh yeah I remember that happening but

it isn't in the forefront of their mind when they hear the name Young Dolph.

Sure Dolph made a whole album named after the incident and it did get a little promo

but it didn't reach anyone who didn't already know who he was and that's the whole

point of growing as a rapper or artist, you constantly wanna expand and be heard by people

who have no idea who you are.

I think Dolph has reached that point in his career where he's stagnating; he's no

bigger this year than he was last year but at the same time he does a lot of shows and

has a REALLY strong and dedicated fan base, so while his growth in popularity may either

be stagnant or perhaps rising at a very slow rate he is still getting to keep all of the

profits for himself and provide for his team.

Young Dolph is independent because he just has that boss mentality that not many people

have.

From back when he was hustling; I don't think he could ever stand to have someone

tell him what to change in his album or how he should act or present himself.

He's too prideful for all that and he's not in the chase for quick fame but for longevity;

all of this that's going good for him right now is 10 YEARS in the making and if he's

been able to do it on his own this far there's no reason he can't continue to do so.

While I think his music isn't great except for high class street music 5 it's not just

his music that his fans love but how relatable he is to them and his home city of Memphis.

He's become rich but being unsigned he's still close to them and not a sellout or going

hollywood; it lets them know they don't need to follow the same path every rapper

does.

But lemme know what yall think in the comments; is that 22 million dollar offer real or what

and why do YOU think dolph is still independent.

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