The stuff I was on was more or less local stuff, like I'd do the studio work for a band that played in bars and sold CDs at their merch table.
The most anything sold was in the 90s when I actually played guitar that actually went into rap music. I was on four or five tracks.
However, I'm pretty sure that studio closed after a federal investigation and a bunch of them went to jail. Like, the recording company was started by gang drug sale proceeds and then the gang used it as a way to launder money. There were rumors of them holding artists at gunpoint to make them sign away the rights to their work. It was a shitshow. I don't think they exist in any form.
That one sold a lot of albums, but they all sold locally. The group (band? I'm not sure what to call them) was very popular locally but never made it to the national level - as far as I know. It was straight up gangster wrap.
Do you have a copy of the gangster rap album?
Fuck no...
Well, maybe somewhere around here.
I don't actually like rap, as a general rule. I sure as fuck am not a gangsta rapper. I just played guitar parts as described and in the right key. It was my job. Though, by the time I did that I no longer really needed the money. I just did it 'cause I like playing guitar professionally. My hourly rate would work out to $100 an hour as an average by that time. You usually hired me for a two hour block and the cost was $200.
I don't like rap either. $100 bucks an hour will buy a lot of beer
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