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Duwop

Duwop

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that's the hot topic in bmore this week. I don't know if another thread was made or if anyone outside of bmore cares, but bmore rappers are mad as fuck right now.

Some nigga fromth e county had a credit card account with his job and was using it to fund his rap career.

at the end of the day nigga spent like 4 million dollars on his rap shit, and other shit, and nobody know who the fuck this nigga is... in his own fucking region....

shit had me crying laughing, cuz known rappers mad af like "$4 million!!! $4 million and i can put the whole city on...da fuq"

Maryland Rapper, ‘Chad Focus’ Indicted For Allegedly Spending $4.1M On Company Credit Card To Promote Music

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019...4-1m-on-company-credit-card-to-promote-music/

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — He looked like an artist on the rise.

His music videos averaged four million views on YouTube and he had thousands of followers on Instagram.


Chad Arrington, known as Chad Focus, surrounded himself with money, cars and a lavish lifestyle; One that federal prosecutors say was allegedly paid for with stolen money.

An indictment released Tuesday said that Arrington worked as a search engine analyst at a company where he was issued a credit card for business expenses.

Prosecutors believe that between January 2015 and August 2016 Arrington used the company credit card to make $4.1 million in unauthorized purchases.

“He was using that company credit card to make purchases for himself, to enrich himself and his own personal business and his brand,” U.S. Attorney for Maryland Robert Hur said.

Some of the purchases included concert tickets, billboards, audio equipment and travel expenses.

The indictment also says that Arrington bought followers on social media and paid outside platforms to artificially increase plays on streaming services.

“He took a number of steps to basically cover up his tracks and make it much, much hard for his employer to figure out what he was doing and stealing over the course of time,” Hur said.

Those steps included allegedly forging signatures from supervisors signing off the purchases and having co-conspirators use computer software to falsify billing statements.

Arrington now faces up to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Arrington made his initial appearance. He will have a detention hearing later in the week.
 
How the fuck do you spend 4M to promote yourself and nobody knows about you? Cats on YouTube getting worldwide fame for free.

Maybe this is the balance Thanos was talking about. For every Lil Nas X, you gotta have an idiot like this.
 
Goldie said:
lol i just read about this shit a few mins ago, smh niggas
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bruh, i be on some of those city group pages where niggaz be wilding like fuck....


they HOT about this shit....niggaz in there defending him n shit..... imma see if i can find some of the comments
 
Duwop said:
youtube jumpin though


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That video looks kinda low budget considering he had a $4Million.

He should have sampled a hit from the 80s by Michael Jackson, Madonna or Prince and paid for the sample. That always works.
 
he had a billboard in times square last year from like summer to the fall. i work around there so every time i walked down broadway i would see that shit. i wondered who he was, but just assumed he was one of these new young niggas that was on the right label. I must admit, a few times i wondered how in the hell could he get a billboard and i not even know of him or hear of him on abw.
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The Lonious Monk said:
How the fuck do you spend 4M to promote yourself and nobody knows about you? Cats on YouTube getting worldwide fame for free.

Maybe this is the balance Thanos was talking about. For every Lil Nas X, you gotta have an idiot like this.
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He promoted and marketed wrong
 
scene in the video with the BMW look like it was shot inside a VoTech shop classroom or some shit.

$4 mil and nooooooooooooobody know you??? That's how you know your shit is diarrhea doo doo grits.
 
bruh coulda paid Boosie like $300 to blow him up

he woulda been known across the south for 1 song

this shit is crazy.....looks like he shot for fame and said fuck everything else

I hope he had fun mane
 
this breaks down some of what he spent his money on lol

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chad-...any-credit-card-to-build-fake-rap-career-feds

One of Arrington’s songs had earned more than 4 million views on YouTube, and more than 180,000 people followed his posts on Instagram. He spent than $65,000 on custom jewelry, including a custom bear-shaped pendant worth more than $10,000.

Arrington offered to share his secrets with his fans, boasting in one billboard, “I will teach you how to be rich.” According to prosecutors, though, Arrington’s preferred method of getting rich involved committing multiple federal crimes.

Arrington allegedly bought fake YouTube views and Spotify plays, and spent $100,000 just on hats for his alter ego that said “FOCUS.” Arrington even allegedly paid $125,000 to get tickets to his own concerts in an effort to inflate his popularity. With help from four co-conspirators, Arrington allegedly spent millions on billboards and other efforts to boost his career.

Arrington’s plans weren’t limited to rap. He allegedly spent thousands of dollars on hoverboards and even spent tens of thousands more to create a bikeshare company, according to prosecutors.

Arrington’s scheme relied on forged credit card statements to his employer, according to the indictment. He allegedly spent more than $1.5 million in company money at companies controlled by two co-conspirators, who then kicked the money back to him so he could spend it on his music career.

Arrington left copious records of the fraud scheme, according to prosecutors. Arrington titled one such email to a co-conspirator “Classified Work SHit.” In another email, Arrington purportedly urged his associate to falsify a credit card statement.

Arrington paid more than $300,000 to contractors on gig economy site Fiverr, according to prosecutors, after they promised that they could promote his music on industry charts. Interestingly, Arrington claimed less than a week ago on Instagram that he could make an album go to the top of the charts with exactly $300,000.

Arrington’s indictment offers a glimpse into the world of faked social media statistics. At one point, prosecutors say, Arrington spent $70,000 with a single company to boost his rap industry profile. He spent $1,119 per 100,000 YouTube videos, according to the indictment, $1,999 for 250,000 Spotify streams, and $1,499 for 15,000 Instagram followers.
 
If he give me $2 million, then I'll load his single on Napster to be download
 
VIBE said:
seeing that makes me now question most of these clicks, views, streams etc... you know most of these dudes are paying for these boosts to break records..
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click-farming is real shit.

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Get the right connect and you can pay for streams, likes, and everything in between.
 
Because im at work and am bored i been fucking around on youtube, and i think I have gotten to the bottom of this. One of the things that I kept coming back to is how did this dude steal 4m from 2015-2018 and not get caught PLUS none of the articles around are talking about the company this dude worked at. So i went to clicking. He has to have some sort of profile, right? well this is what i found. First he is on thisis50 talking all about taking over streaming and mobilizing his resources and leveraging cardi b and drakes fanbases. This is gibberish talk that you find in pyramid scheme activities.



there is no need to watch this whole thing, but you can see from this that he is good at this sales talk. which would make sense. so during this interview the dude interviewing said "i seen your documentary..." so i was like hmm, documentary?

and i see


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so he works for this company named MOBE. Mobe listed him as one of their "moguls" so i looked up Mobe, and i see this

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pre...obe-massive-internet-business-coaching-scheme

for those that don't want to read the whole thing here is relevant parts:

The Federal Trade Commission has charged three individuals and nine businesses with bilking more than $125 million from thousands of consumers with a fraudulent business education program called MOBE (“My Online Business Education”). A federal court halted the scheme and froze the defendants’ assets at the FTC’s request.

According to the FTC, the defendants behind this international operation target U.S. consumers—including service members, veterans, and older adults—through online ads, social media, direct mailers, and live events held throughout the country. This action follows the agency’s recent action against Digital Altitude, LLC, a competing business opportunity scheme that was also halted by court order.

The FTC alleges that the defendants falsely claim that their business education program will enable people to start their own online businesses and earn substantial income. They claim to have a “proven” 21-step system for making substantial sums of money quickly and easily from internet marketing, which they promise to provide to those who join their program.

According to the complaint, consumers who pay the initial $49 entry fee for the 21-step program are bombarded with sales pitches for membership packages that cost thousands of dollars, which the defendants pressure them to buy in order to continue through the 21 steps. The defendants eventually reveal that their “proven system” for making money is for consumers to sell the same memberships to others in the hopes of earning commissions on those sales.

Most people who buy into the program and pay for the expensive memberships are unable to recoup their costs, and many experience crippling losses or mounting debts, including some who have lost more than $20,000, the FTC alleges.


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here is another clip 0f him at the MOBE festival preaching business



chad is not the only MOBE mogul, there are many. It seems to me mobe is a pyramid scheme type thing. Given what Chad FOcus said in the thisis50 interview it seems he was doing his thing with mobe and scamming ppl in his neighborhood with this pyramid scheme shit. he was ascended to "mogul" status by the company and he probably pitched them on the idea of becoming some sort of one stop onilne record label shit that can find talent and manipulate streaming numbers and platforms to create a star. This is the shit he is talking about on thisis50. This also explains billboards in times square and shit. he was not trying to promote himself, per se, he was trying to present an image as a diddy or a late 90s/early 2000s version of dame dash, that way he could find a few young talents and hopefully stumble across the next drake or cardi b.

he was being funded by Mobe which is clear as they themselves have videos of him with the cars and the studio in his home. they were propping him up. BUT then they get caught up in an FTC scandal and the feds get to digging, they stumble across this chad focus guy and figure out MOBE was trying to manipulate charts, which brings a whole other set of legal problems. SO mobe says "oh no no, this guy chad stole from us." and then we get a headline.


this is not the case though. this is being presented to us as if this was just a normal guy working a 9 to 5 and stealing money so that he himself could become as big as jay z. that is NOT what was going on. he worked for a pyramid scheme and was a good salesman for them, they helped him branch out into some more shit, and he was spending their money in hopes to find a new drake or cardi b or whoever, to milk and bring the money back to mobe, but once they were caught they throw him under the bus in an effort to save their asses.

i just pieced these pieces together, but this makes way more sense than the shit they trying to present in the media.
 
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