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Title: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on June 05, 2009, 12:06:25 AM
With no albums released how is he paying for studio time with the amount of free music he puts out? I know he has a legion of online fans but that doesn't translate to paying fans. I doubt he can fill up a concert. Dude must have one helluva 9 to 5.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Aaron on June 05, 2009, 12:15:26 AM
Treacherous pay for the studio time. Crooked been grindin for years, he has appeared in over 200 tracks as a feature just in the last couple years alone.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: EFFeX on June 05, 2009, 12:18:41 AM
Shows, Features, Guest Appearances, side hustles

Slaughterhouse money, lol
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Episcop Cruel Cvrle on June 05, 2009, 02:19:03 AM
Shows, Features, Guest Appearances, side hustles

Slaughterhouse money, lol

and like Aaron said treacherous ofcourse, they have a great studio thats worth  million $  or more as i heard.

Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: The Watcher on June 05, 2009, 02:44:27 AM
he probably has a job @ the local mcdonalds flippin burgers
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Mygla on June 05, 2009, 03:41:23 AM
Treacherous pay for the studio time. Crooked been grindin for years, he has appeared in over 200 tracks as a feature just in the last couple years alone.

I know for damn sure that Crooked I hasn't appeared on 200 albums... and mixtape features doesn't count...
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: The Flying Dutchman on June 05, 2009, 04:18:33 AM
Shows, Features, Guest Appearances, side hustles

Slaughterhouse money, lol

plus you know he's traffickin green
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: elmizzy on June 05, 2009, 08:32:59 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: scarface2oh4 on June 05, 2009, 09:26:25 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: EFFeX on June 05, 2009, 10:18:35 AM
Shows, Features, Guest Appearances, side hustles

Slaughterhouse money, lol

and like Aaron said treacherous ofcourse, they have a great studio thats worth  million $  or more as i heard.



The Treacherous studio is nuts, I've heard people say a lot of good things about it.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: IamWest on June 05, 2009, 11:28:30 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: GangstaBoogy on June 05, 2009, 11:35:07 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...


Where are you niggas gettin this info from? With so many homes going into foreclosure I find it VERY hard to believe that Crooked I is ballin enough to afford 2 houses. Maybe a 2 bedroom apartment.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on June 05, 2009, 11:38:29 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...

you been to his houses?
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: S P I C E on June 05, 2009, 11:45:31 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...

LOL at this fanboy, I find that hard to believe
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Þŕiņçë on June 05, 2009, 11:53:05 AM
I don't think crooked has a family...like a wife and kids? I'd be surprised if he did
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: DTG Entertainment on June 05, 2009, 11:56:16 AM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...


Where are you niggas gettin this info from? With so many homes going into foreclosure I find it VERY hard to believe that Crooked I is ballin enough to afford 2 houses. Maybe a 2 bedroom apartment.

Dude grinds hard, him and Tico got some kind of jewelry shit going on on top of Treacherous which pays the bills.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: elmizzy on June 05, 2009, 12:20:13 PM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...
lol believe it or not, a lot of people can say that
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: EFFeX on June 05, 2009, 12:31:16 PM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...


Where are you niggas gettin this info from? With so many homes going into foreclosure I find it VERY hard to believe that Crooked I is ballin enough to afford 2 houses. Maybe a 2 bedroom apartment.

Dude grinds hard, him and Tico got some kind of jewelry shit going on on top of Treacherous which pays the bills.

Exactly, not all the loot is coming from rap music.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on June 05, 2009, 02:18:23 PM
who gives a fuck?

this is some straight gossip wendy williams type shit.

"noooo, he has TWO houses"



wtf is this shit?   :grumpy:
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: papa-smurf on June 05, 2009, 02:34:58 PM
crooked i is smart.he was smart enough to invest his money and not depend on rap.so hes good money.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: TRU 504 BoY on June 05, 2009, 02:37:17 PM
who gives a fuck?

this is some straight gossip wendy williams type shit.

"noooo, he has TWO houses"



wtf is this shit?   :grumpy:
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: EFFeX on June 05, 2009, 02:37:55 PM
crooked i is smart.he was smart enough to invest his money and not depend on rap.so hes good money.

Exactly.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: IamWest on June 05, 2009, 02:43:29 PM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...

LOL at this fanboy, I find that hard to believe

lol @ fan boy.... Dont have to believe me, just lettin the poster know that he does well for himself. Just cause u rap, doesnt mean all ur money has to come from it.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Quadruple OG on June 05, 2009, 03:10:35 PM
Mega Millions or Powerball
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: J Bananas on June 05, 2009, 03:11:47 PM
 saved for a few years and got a pro tools set up for about $500.00, he probably does it from his apartment.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: EFFeX on June 05, 2009, 03:13:48 PM
saved for a few years and got a pro tools set up for about $500.00, he probably does it from his apartment.

LOL @ apartment, you ever seen the Treacherous studio homie?
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on June 05, 2009, 03:45:35 PM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...

LOL at this fanboy, I find that hard to believe

lol @ fan boy.... Dont have to believe me, just lettin the poster know that he does well for himself. Just cause u rap, doesnt mean all ur money has to come from it.

again, you've been to his houses?
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Gotti......Xl on June 05, 2009, 04:17:34 PM
he ghost write
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: krzieg on June 05, 2009, 05:02:05 PM
he ghost write

ya thats what i was gonna mention.........he prolli makes decent loot off that too.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Detox Iz Not Active on June 05, 2009, 07:26:07 PM
how he affords it?



simple, I wire him money, he does small errands for me...
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: EFFeX on June 05, 2009, 07:41:27 PM
how he affords it?



simple, I wire him money, he does small errands for me...

I was waiting for you to hop in this thread and clear this up for us.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on June 05, 2009, 07:42:06 PM
haha effex you a fool




how he affords it?



simple, I wire him money, he does small errands for me...

I was waiting for you to hop in this thread and clear this up for us.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: dubsmith_nz on June 05, 2009, 07:51:33 PM
saved for a few years and got a pro tools set up for about $500.00, he probably does it from his apartment.

LOL @ apartment, you ever seen the Treacherous studio homie?

Yo can anyoen tell me what Treachorous have actually released? Where the fuck they get the money for such a mad studio from
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: OG Hack Wilson on June 05, 2009, 07:59:42 PM
Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...


and COUNTLESS ice from what i've been told before
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on June 05, 2009, 08:13:14 PM
one of the best rappers or arguably the best rapper has all that on his resume but doesnt have ______
thats sad




Studio baller, dudes got no money

Crooked has 2 houses, multiple cars and provides a comfortable lifestyle for his family.....How many can say that...


and COUNTLESS ice from what i've been told before
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Detox Iz Not Active on June 05, 2009, 08:14:46 PM
nigga got a studio apartment
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: thebayinthebildin on June 06, 2009, 09:57:41 AM
Treacherous pay for the studio time. Crooked been grindin for years, he has appeared in over 200 tracks as a feature just in the last couple years alone.

I know for damn sure that Crooked I hasn't appeared on 200 albums... and mixtape features doesn't count...


that would be sweet if u werent such a dumbfuck learn to read in iraq or whatever country ur from. he said 200 TRACKS not MIXTAPES OR ALBUMS lol. and yes he has appeared on over 200 tracks in the last couple years. this man has so many fucking bars in his mind i seriously cant comprehend how he does it. i have like 400 crook tracks easily now. how can u make that much music and be broke? cuzzzzzz hes not he gets soooo much money. hack was sayin hes always rockin new chains.


trafickin green. 8)
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Action! on June 06, 2009, 10:51:02 AM
i would say drugs but if he is involved he must by a higher up because he ain't on no corner hustling
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on June 06, 2009, 03:04:25 PM
Treacherous pay for the studio time. Crooked been grindin for years, he has appeared in over 200 tracks as a feature just in the last couple years alone.

I know for damn sure that Crooked I hasn't appeared on 200 albums... and mixtape features doesn't count...


that would be sweet if u werent such a dumbfuck learn to read in iraq or whatever country ur from. he said 200 TRACKS not MIXTAPES OR ALBUMS lol. and yes he has appeared on over 200 tracks in the last couple years. this man has so many fucking bars in his mind i seriously cant comprehend how he does it. i have like 400 crook tracks easily now. how can u make that much music and be broke? cuzzzzzz hes not he gets soooo much money. hack was sayin hes always rockin new chains.

trafickin green. 8)

Appearing on other rappers' mixtapes doesn't mean he's getting paid for it. Its different on the underground level. You appear on someone's joint and they appear on your joint. Unless the song blows up I doubt he's getting paid for it.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: GimmeYourShoes on June 06, 2009, 03:11:58 PM
I guess he works as a prostitute on Sunset Boulevard at nights.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: MakaveliThaDon1996 on June 06, 2009, 11:46:18 PM
Most rappers don't make any money from releasing albums.

They make their money from ghostwriting, touring, merchandise, etc.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Dopeisjay on June 06, 2009, 11:51:20 PM
Thats true..
Most rappers don't make any money from releasing albums.

They make their money from ghostwriting, touring, merchandise, etc.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: GangstaBoogy on June 07, 2009, 12:04:11 AM
Does he really ghostwrite?

What hot merchandise is he selling?

Stoppit yall.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Jimmy H. on June 07, 2009, 02:16:44 AM
Most rappers don't make any money from releasing albums.

They make their money from ghostwriting, touring, merchandise, etc.
There's also a thing called "advances". You really don't make much money off album sales since most of your sales go back to the label for all the expenses they have collected for promotion, budget, etc. The only real money you get upfront is an advance which if you're hot property can be fairly lucrative. Your advance is guaranteed money whether you sell one record or the album gets permanetly shelved. The rappers who are smart business men will use that money wisely and find a way to turn a profit with it. There's also the other side who think it's just the beginning and blow it all on cars and jewelry.

Crooked probably gets some fairly decent publishing money off of those Death Row albums he appeared on. Granted, they weren't multi-platinum affairs but he probably eats all right off of them.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on June 07, 2009, 11:19:49 PM
Most rappers don't make any money from releasing albums.

They make their money from ghostwriting, touring, merchandise, etc.

But their album selling well and getting airplay gets them all those things. I don't see Crooked making money from all that because he isn't a big star.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: dubsmith_nz on June 07, 2009, 11:32:25 PM
So what have treachorous actually released?
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: The Flying Dutchman on June 08, 2009, 11:24:17 AM
Does he really ghostwrite?

What hot merchandise is he selling?

Stoppit yall.

lol thank you

yall acting like some teenage girls
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: DPGC23 on June 08, 2009, 11:36:38 AM
ARMENIAN $$$????

DPGC23
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Rodger Ramrod on June 08, 2009, 12:28:26 PM
I don't think crooked has a family...like a wife and kids? I'd be surprised if he did

crook is married AND has 2-3 kids... i think he said he had his first kid when he was 17? i don't remember. he said it in an interview a couple months ago
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: al3000 on June 08, 2009, 03:53:31 PM
With no albums released how is he paying for studio time with the amount of free music he puts out? I know he has a legion of online fans but that doesn't translate to paying fans. I doubt he can fill up a concert. Dude must have one helluva 9 to 5.

Man I ask myself the same question....To never drop an album he's found some kind of way to keep eatin....i gotta respect that....but damn when is homie gonna drop an album and make that long range change.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Efrain on June 08, 2009, 05:05:20 PM
I think DR kept him on a type of retainer-style/stipend in lieu of a traditional record deal. They probably gave him a check every month as part of his record deal so he didn't have to worry about them shelving him (at least in the financial sense). I bet he bought everything he has back then and now he just works to live. I seriously doubt he's living "comfortably" though, the dude has to have next to nothing in the bank. He's probably still in that same SL500 he had back like 6 years ago in that issue of DUBS.   
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Jimmy H. on June 08, 2009, 11:29:03 PM
I think DR kept him on a type of retainer-style/stipend in lieu of a traditional record deal. They probably gave him a check every month as part of his record deal so he didn't have to worry about them shelving him (at least in the financial sense). I bet he bought everything he has back then and now he just works to live. I seriously doubt he's living "comfortably" though, the dude has to have next to nothing in the bank. He's probably still in that same SL500 he had back like 6 years ago in that issue of DUBS.   
And what evidence has brought you to this conclusion? Why would he go through that when he could get an advance like just about every other artist on any label? He said Aftermath had some interest in him as well so for him to go with Death Row, there must have been a pretty good deal on the table.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Booz on June 09, 2009, 12:06:39 AM
Damn, threads like this remind me how stupid some of you are.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: MediumL on June 09, 2009, 06:03:39 AM
JLos paying him $$$$ not to release that sextape of her that Suge was gonna bundle with Crooks album.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Brown Guy on June 09, 2009, 04:07:39 PM
There is only a handful of rappers on the west getting paid for music. I know for a fact most of these guys live on very little. Most of them live with there parents or live with friends. They hold down part/full time jobs maybe slanging some green. Any rappers who take rap seriously don't slang hardcore drugs and they don't actively gang bang.

Crooked I maybe makes 20-35k a year from rap. Which equals $15 an hr.
Title: Re: How can Crooked I afford to keep making music?
Post by: Detox Iz Not Active on June 09, 2009, 04:36:10 PM
Does he really ghostwrite?

What hot merchandise is he selling?

Stoppit yall.


I'm thinking the same thing, what merchandise that nigga selling?