 What's up everybody, once again, it's Brandon Shana and today we're going to go over how Abe Boogie with the hoodie took over New York. He blew up. Go ahead and share this and you know somebody who likes Abe Boogie or this is helpful for you. Other than that, let's get to number one. Experimentation. Abe Boogie said he'd been riding since he was at least 12 years old, but he didn't really start singing until he was in a relationship with this girl and she was pregnant with a baby but he didn't know if it was his baby. Oh, trifling that. Lo and behold, that put him back in the mindset of being in the studio and while he was in the studio, he started doing some of these singing voices and things like that and he realized, I kind of like that, it's still not my thing, but he found a pocket and next thing you know, he just started singing a lot more often and it helped him take off. I can't stress how much experimentation is important for new artists or artists who haven't blown up yet because it helps them find a pocket that they might not have known and also find a unique thing for them to help blow up when they separate from everybody else. Number two, Abe Boogie is authentic as a mug. Yes, a lot of people just throw that word out there, but let's put it this way. He says stuff and airs things out that a lot of people wouldn't necessarily talk about. They might be in bears and things like that and for Abe Boogie, he splits this up into two sides. He says there's the artist side, not just regular artists, that's his real name so it's more personal, more affectionate and just those softer feelings that he has, the Abe Boogie side, which is just the street dude where he grew up also, which is also authentic to him as well, but it's like him running with the fellas. And the artist side is where he really, really makes that connection. Even the dude fans connected that side, but a lot of them don't really, you know, they don't want to admit it because they're trying to act hard and stuff, but you know you got emotions, bruh. If you look at the YouTube comments on a song like Still Think About You, you'll see stuff like I swear you can only really feel this song and you actually relate to it. Who heard Boogie? I feel the same way, bro. My girl just broke up with me for a nigga that only gave her money. She's a hoe. This shit will have you deep in your thoughts. What a hoe. Fuck that hoe. Alright, it's a lot of hoe themed comments in here, but y'all get the point. People only make comments like that. They say things like that because they're actually connecting to the story, the emotions in there. If you can connect to your fan base and they feel something, they feel like they know something about you. Not only do they connect to you, but they become stronger supporters of you. And number three, Boogie grew up in High Bridge. He basically used his hood for the most part as an engine. He had a decent name for him. People knew him, and a lot of people were just supporting him off the strength of him being him. But then, as they listened to his music in addition, his music got better, then people really supported him as true fans. So he used those people that were just the homies, just people that knew him and supported him, and then they became true fans, and then he leveraged that to the point of having like 500,000 soundcloud plays a day without any corporate backing. If you can get a cult following a strong support base for whatever reason they're supporting you, then you can get a lot done. You can go a long way. Number four, he got signed. Now, just keep in mind, though, that he had a lot of leverage at this point because he was already moving and shaking. He already had a show that brought out 2,000 people that he set up himself at BB Kings, I believe, at BB Kings in New York. So he had leverage where he could get a good deal to make sure they only accelerate whatever he's already got going on. He got his own record deal, representing where he came from, naming it High Bridge. You can get a good situation like that if you really work on developing, get that following going in the same way he did. And number five, Drake gave him a co-sign. Once again, I know that seems like, oh, of course, that helped him out and put him on top, but he had to work to get to that level when Drake found out about him. Drake only brings out people that are going to make him look good. Point blank. If you look at everybody Drake puts on tracks or when he gets on their track, it's only because he's trying to get to another audience and he's trying to stay looking cool. Abe Boogie was moving and shaking to that point where he got this huge co-sign, but basically because he was the shit at that point. So that's a condensed version of how Abe Boogie got to the top. If you want to know some more, you can ask me some things in the comments. I want to thank True Money Generation for recommending that I do this video. I know this took forever for me to get this up, but I actually was about to post it like a month ago, but the original version of it got corrupted, so I had to record. It just took a while to get back to it. Anyway, I hope you guys thought that was helpful. Make sure you share this video, get it out to as many people as possible, and other than that, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button.