DDG has been trying to break into the music industry for years, but now he says that he’s sticking with streaming because the music industry is a mess.
“I think all music in general is kind of f–ked up. People’s attention is going towards content. I feel like content is more lit than music right now,” he told DJ Akademiks. at ComplexCon.
“I’ll be on TikTok at least an hour when I wake up,” he continued. “I mean, I stream, though, so I’ll be looking at my clips and seeing what people fucked with and what was clipped and all that.”
DDG says he’s made more money streaming in 30 days than he did from his record label contract on a #Complexcon panel with DJ Akademiks pic.twitter.com/SV7GtEqdfJ
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DDG recently released his new album, Moo, which sold approximately 4,400 equivalent units in the U.S. during its first week. In May, the streamer released his Blame The Chat album, which debuted at #131 on the Billboard charts and more than doubled Moo’s sales, reaching 10,000 equivalent album units.
“For what I signed for, I made that in 30 days on Twitch,” he noted. “Streamers make more than rappers, a hundred percent. There’s too many ways to make money.”