 What's up everybody, once again, it's Brandon Shawn and we got to talk about what you should do if you get scammed by a bigger artist. Now what am I talking about exactly? Well picture a situation where you pay an artist for a feature. After you pay that artist for a feature, they do the song. You get a verse. Either it's a pre-recorded verse that you know you lay over a track or you guys record it together on the same track, whatever it is, it happens. However, after you record that song, after the song is finished, you're like yo I'm about to blow up, I'm about to get all this traction, this artist is already moving, people are gonna love that I got this bigger artist that's taking off on my music. There's the problem here. A lot of artists are running into situations where the other artist, the bigger artist is not abiding by whatever the agreement was, whether that's showing up for the music video, whether that's promoting the song on their Instagram page or their Twitter account and all these other forms of promotion they might have access to, for whatever reason these artists are not holding up to the agreement. One big reason is something that you can control kind of not sorta and then we're gonna get into two ways you can solve this for yourself if you already got the music. Alright so first of all, one big thing, the reason it's happening is a lot of these artists are hating and what are they hating? They're hating when the smaller artists who are supposed to be nothing perform better than them on the songs. That's one thing that has actually happened multiple times that I've heard of just running into people randomly and they mentioned that this has happened and it's not like oh the artist thinks yo I perform better than that bigger artist they hating on me is something that they've actually learned through real information that that's how people feel and that artist is aware of that feeling as well now they're in their feelings. It sucks but I get it. I guess you know one of the 48 laws of powers is never outshine the master in this case the artist that's bigger is kind of the master and I'm not saying that you shouldn't perform well right you would want to kill a track that you have a big feature on because in most cases that track will probably get more attention to your other tracks so why would you not make sure that you're at your best? Once again I get it. I get it. It sucks. Whatever. I'm not gonna get into the nuances of some of the smaller things that might happen but two ways that you can solve this for yourself is this. Numero uno, you can create a cartoon visual type video of you and that other artist. They didn't show up for the video, cool you'll just make a video that they don't need to be in because you know you got some heat and even though there might be some things as far as you need to figure out how to get the money or you might want to sue them at some point all in all you might just have to do what you have to do so creating a cartoon visual animated video or something like that integrates their presence without them actually having to be there could work for you and then the second thing just a single you don't necessarily even have to have a music video in this case but the track is done they haven't promoted it you already dropped it you're slowly losing traction on this new track that you thought was gonna blow up because they're supposed to post it you know a week or two weeks after you dropped it yourself well one thing you can do is go to that artist followers right that artist has followers on Instagram and just start dropping it into people's DMs like telling them yo here's a song I did with such and such you can even make it seem like it might be a song by that person and let them hear it that way it might be a super manual process it might be annoying that you have to go this route as opposed to the person just promoting it themselves but honestly in my opinion I'm not opposed to even if they did post it you doing this anyway because it's just doubling down on getting their fans attention that this track exists it just makes it better that the person supported it and posted on their page anyway those are just two ways to handle a kind of you know iffy situation if you really really feel like your back is against the wall there's a lot of nuances that could be in other people's individual situation that I'm not gonna get into but it's definitely something to think about we love to know you guys thoughts have you ever been scammed by a bigger artist how did that happen how did you handle it other than that if you liked this video go ahead and like button if you like your miles well share it and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe