Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "YOUNG THUG SPENT $50K ON FAKE STREAMS FOR GUNNA & EXPOSES $150M DEAL FOR LIL BABY"

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

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You know they haven't since 6 o'clock and I have to eat. Do you want some food? They still ain't getting me. Do you want some food? Okay. We'll give you some food. I told him, man. Yeah, you can't make this stuff.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. This is my favorite right here. That's my favorite. You understand it? You're not your attorney. You feel more comfortable talking with her.

I'm just, I'll just, I'll be. He's been so good. Okay. He really has. You have been the perfect gentleman. Oh, he's been. But then you. know what i'm saying i was like damn look at the state of hip hop like what's going on oh ladies and

gentlemen what i tell you i've been having a ball dissecting this two-hour audio clip like a kilo of myly cyrus i was sitting back thinking to myself you guys see that's the problem see if you're going to allegedly break the law then when it comes to in a two-hour interrogation clip that you know could surface at any moment because this was back in 2015 right for the alleged shooting of Little Wayne's tour bus, which I've talked about a lot, but you know, I guess people don't really care about people committing crimes unless it's somebody they don't like, right? So anyways, all jokes aside, I don't really care too much for the snitching allegation, which is why I didn't cover it at all. I am a Hall of Fame pocket watcher, and ladies and gentlemen,

after I heard this clip, I knew we was about to have a ball. You what? Hold on now. Don't tell me, you said, you said what? never told him that you know car just got i just we just got the plug on that what what type of plug you talking about my boy you never earned the number one album i spent 50 extra grand buying buying my fucking stream 50 what for you to be the same flow so cash could do it the same thing but cash like let it go cash is like spat down like man let the nigg got the way i ain't son of shit that is insanity Ladies and gentlemen, he said he paid $50,000 for Gunna to get a number one. Now, of course, I talked about this when it initially happened because I was thinking,

I was like, no way in the world is going to outsell in the weekend. But he ultimately did. And I think that's one of the biggest upsets in music history as far as when Gunna went number one with, what was it called, drip, something forever. i think it was ds forever let me see it was the one with drake on it obviously you already know what drake does as far as sales i'm not saying that drake helped out because of course you already know how he feels about bots i mean just as size seven fans so as far as ds forever right that came out 2022 um as far as my let me see as far as the weekend the weekend had an album

that came out around that same time i think it was donned fm let's see dawn fm okay that came out also around the same time because the main thing i was wanted to look at yeah okay so both of them came out around 2022 now the main thing i was wanted to look at was the first week sales for that because if he said he spent 50 000 i wonder what 50 000 gets you in first week sales so ladies and gentlemen let's look it up right now shall we so as far as hall of fame pocket watch and just know that's what this entire segment is about because we're going to get into little baby's deal in the second funny enough this is all coming from young thug that says he does not snitch and whole time he must have not thought that

the police was listening to his phone call so they could release it to the public because you know as far as him making a mockery out of fondy willis and her prosecutors safe to say they was going to get the get back you know they was going to be pun intended spinning the block as far as trying to get young thug after he made them or made a mockery out of them you know via brian still so as far as the actual breakdown of d s forever by gunna of course course and Don FM by the weekend is very peculiar once you hear young thug say he spent 50,000 for his album to go number one because if you look at it it starts to make a lot more sense ladies and gentlemen when it comes to album sales by Don FM it tracked as far as the first week

sales 14,000 actual album sales and then for gunna d as forever it was 4,700 so 4,700 but where it gets interest in is the total units as far as first week sales d s forever sold 150 000 for first week and don't film by the weekend sold 148 000 first week so you're probably thinking what is the what is the difference between young thug paying 50 000 how did he ultimately surpassed the weekend if he if the weekend basically more than doubled his album sales in actual units when it comes to um the physical purchase right well if you look at the show streaming equivalent units Gunna Diaz forever did

144,000 which is 193.5 million on-demand streams. The weekend album Don FM did 131,000 which is approximately 173.04 million on-demand streams. So safe to say that 50,000 came in the form of him having more on-demand streams because guess what?

Young thugs said himself that he paid for it. No, but he got some little Dill, he got some little signs of a little niggins from his hood, whatever, whatever. But he did a deal where he took their money. So they did, they need a nigga, some young niggins too. They didn't get like 17, 18, like real kids, baby. The oldest one of them probably be 18, the oldest one. No, probably about 20.

The oldest one probably be 20. It's like five of them. They probably like 16 to 20. And what's so funny is Young Thug really does not do any interview, so to have this amount of audio footage leak is insane. I don't heard them. They didn't do like three, four shows in the city. So anyways, I'm trying to have him talk about the $50,000 again.

I need the money, whatever you want. Just on some we brother shit. Like, I know you can't go nowhere in this world and get no $20 million check from no label. You're not doing numbers like that. You're all right, but you ain't doing that like that. You know, the number one a habit you just had right now, I paid for you to have a number one of happens. So he's talking about gun as D as forever when battling. the weekend on that film i just read off the numbers and this is young thud talking about how that

happened you know what i'm saying honestly earned a number one album over the weekend my boy i paid for that how much you pay for it i never told them that you know car just got i just we just got the plug on that no but how much you pay for it though you never earned the number one album i spent 50 extra grand buying buying my fucking stream not 50 extra buying strings for you for you to be weak and cash know the same plus so cash could do it the same thing Hey, he said somebody else knew the same plug. I wonder who that plug is. I bet you UMG just knows that Aubrey,

Karen Graham is going to put that in his next lawsuit. Ladies and gentlemen. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? Sad day in history, when at the end of the day, Drake's whole lawsuit is about the inflation of numbers. And here is, young thug speaking on certain people that they know

that, you know, for some reason, you send a couple, you send some money, and they rise up on the charts. I wonder what other rappers are doing that. But you know, all jokes aside, I'm going to be honest for a second. As far as impacting the masses, right? And a lot of different artists in the game know this,

but a lot of people don't as far as on the outside. Every company, whether it's Apple, McDonald's, Disney, they have a marketing budget. Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you already have people who support you, and now you have a marketing budget, what do you think is going to happen, right? Marketing budget could entail a lot,

lot of things and that's where I'm gonna leave it at because as far as being taken seriously for some people a marketing budget is necessary for the ones who don't want to succeed it's not necessary so do have the information which you will anyways with that being said young thugs said he paid 50,000 for fake streams I thought that was insanity right and as a Hall of Fame pocket watcher after hearing because I listened to all of these interviews because of course young thug doesn't do interviews so with these clips these audio and it being leaked i wonder who leaks it right i could probably guess who leaked it probably gunners camp

but as far as yuntha and what he's getting at he's basically telling on himself but also revealing a lot of things that we did not know we speculated on especially when we talked about the migos on little baby beef we kind of speculated on megos being upset that little baby is the uh the newest golden boy and QC as far as him being able to drop whenever he wants to. Amigos, not really doing the numbers of Little Baby, which to this day, no matter how successful Migos was, they definitely laid the foundation for a future QC artist. Little Baby, objectively speaking,

is the most profitable artist QC's ever had, and they had Amigos for quite some time. If you really wanted to look at it, before we get into this clip, quality control music is what I'm speaking on. Their artist, Little Baby, Migos, Little Yadi, City Girl, are the top of that as far as revenue earned they are the top more specifically little baby estimated to have around a hundred to 150 value for QC as far as

quality control me goes was set to have around 70 to a hundred so it's not like night and day as far as little baby amigos but there's a significant gap to where now the animosity starts to be a build up between the Migos and little baby and then the whole offset and little baby thing happens right uh loyadi is estimated to have around 20 to 25 million as far as value for quality control and then the city girls they was actually um set to have around 10 to 15 million so they was actually pretty valuable as far as for QC i know people like to make their jokes but they was actually really value valuable for quality control and if you don't believe me as of right now you can literally look up the deal between

in QC back in February 2003 where QC was literally sold to a South Korean music giant Hib and the deal reported around $300 million. Now, ladies and gentlemen, what do you think that money was coming from?

But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? So Coach P cashed out Hib paid $250 million in cash plus $50 million in stock to P and Coach K who retained control.

This sale elevated QC's global reach backed by Hives worldwide infrastructure and Scooter Bronze leadership, which is why my coverage about Little Baby, I tell you, I love pocketwatching. My coverage about Little Baby, as far as his album,

I talk about how it actually performed better than a lot of people thought it would have, because if you look at Wham, that came out this year, it's one of the best performing hip-hop albums as far as first week sales. Now, as far as overall, I already said, Drake, Kendrick, Big,

the plug as far as actual longevity on the charts those are the three artists in hip-hop so that's out the way looking at the first week sales play with cardi is obviously number one um i've already went over it before especially you know shameless plug to my gunna um breakdown just look up gunna i talk about the whole industry uh not too long ago what was it august 30th of this year yeah talk about i label it gunna aka the biggest gangster in atl sales 81 000 first week i basically used that to go over the whole hip-hop industry but when it came to little baby a lot of people forget that he sold a hundred plus k his first week so little baby's still a big dog unequivocally but of course the people backing him as far as hive that just spent 300 million if this is your cash cow if this is

the lebron of your franchise guess what you don't want him to flop at all because what's that say for the rest of your artists right so the main thing i wanted to get into was this clip because of young thugs talking about this deal behind the scenes safe to say that he knows the actual number so if he say an actual number as far as the little baby's deal, then we can basically estimate that when that deal went down, little baby accounted for over

half, well, approximately half of that deal going through as far as 300 million going to Coach K&P. You think he's going to get you 75 to $100 million on that deal? Be always real. The way I'm on the phone, I say, what do you think he going to give you out of that money? I say, you think you're going to give you $75 million or $100 million?

This man, y'all thought, loves snitching. He'd do it for the game. You know what I'm saying? He's trying to be like bird and magic y'all my fault my fault let's get back into it he like shit i'm like be always real do you think he gonna get you satisfied to a hundred million all that deal be always real he like hey good bruns off a look off of wham 150 million to run told wham i want to buy your rights i'm gonna get your 150 million wham tell this nigger now i'm cool i got to bring you pete to a meeting you know what that reminds me of i thought he was back in the interrogation room

He's been so good He really has You have been the perfect gentleman That's how the internet is reacting To all these audio clips Like hold on now He's been such a great gentleman He's telling us the whole

music game Ain't that about a You know what I'm saying Ain't that about a But then you know what I'm saying I was like damn Look at the state of hip hop Like what's going on

If you're wondering I just dropped my phone But it was my other phone So it's cool I ain't flexing I'm just letting you know what it is Let's get back into it It's started from school

From Scooter Brown Trying to buy a little wham He wants to buy a wham out of the deal. For how much, though? Well, like, shit. You got to talk to pee. I got to talk to pee.

You got to talk to pee by that. Nah, bro. Tell me how much he was going to make. Pete crossed that, nigga had red-out, worst weight. I'm on the phone. Wow,

he's just like, man, the nigga school of brunch. I try to have the same deal with me. The same meaning with me. I tell that, I ain't, I ain't really doing that without Pete.

You know, I'm just silent. What? Man, Pete can go take the, take the meeting with them. And get the jump being done.

Damn. For a n'em of three, Oh, honey, hold on now that he just said the number, ladies and gentlemen. That is insane. At the end of the day, when we're looking at this as a Hall of Fame pocket watcher, I'm not going to lie to you. Little baby being worth this much and then the perception of the internet saying that he fell off, if that's falling off, I want to fall off tomorrow.

But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? If falling off is being one of the most profitable artists from the same label that had the Migos, we're talking about a legend. megos run and you still the most profitable on that label and people on the internet saying you fell off that's why people time and time again says that say that the internet is not a real place anyways the main thing i wanted to get into was exactly that i wanted to break down the overall evaluation

of qc because i'm a hall of fame pocket watcher and the deal between uh the south korean music group high you know led by scud of brine and of course them buying qc for around 300 million like you know thug just said it was three to four hundred million so now as far as a bunch of reports coming out which i talked about in the past of it being around 300 million now we get another confirmation from somebody who's in the game that's why a lot of these audio leaks is so valuable because young thug doesn't do interviews yet he's one of the more prominent artists in hip-hop history right so getting back into the snitching stuff because you know that's basically enough for my pocket watcher uh segment the main thing i want to say about this whole crazy debacle that's basically a circus on if he snitch did he snitch like

all of the the clips from the two hour video i mean i mean it's hilarious right i mean come on now hold up he's been a he's been so he's been so good today he rid of a ass you have been a perfect gentleman well you have so you look at this so anyways as far as all that and all that hoopla that's how that's how i quantify all it is this this is how I describe it because who in the world wakes up from the nine to five and says man i wonder if young thugs niche today like come on man you guys see that's the problem like it's really not that serious let's get to the business side of things that's why i wanted to break down the little baby stuff because that's a huge lucrative deal that went down and those take years to

basically construct and break down how much you're going to get out of a 300 to 400 million dollar deal so anyways that was the most exciting part for me but let's get back to what people like the negativity, right? People, people can care less about making money. Let's get back to if young thugs, snitch or not. So the funniest thing about the snitching allegations and what I would say about it is when 21 Savage who seems like the most solid person out of the group of gangster rappers, right? I say gangster with quotation marks because in 2025, boy, I mean, if you ain't seen enough information on what ends up happening, if you stick to the streets being a rapper, then I don't know what to tell you.

I mean, if Lil'Dirk didn't tell you, if Y'all didn't tell you, if Y'all didn't tell you, oh, y'all didn't hear about Boosie? Hold on, let me see. Boosey arrested. So, five days ago, Boosey officially pleads guilty to federal gun charge. What does that mean? Let's see what that means right now. Boosey is pleaded guilty for federal gun charges, right?

And ultimately, he was taking the court and I'm trying to see, what is the sentence? Let me see what this is. Okay, please guilty for. Okay, yeah, this is what I was looking for. So, Boosie is schedule of a sentencing on November 21st. Per his plea agreement, the government is asking for a 24-month prison sentence, though the decision will ultimately be up to the judge. They do say that the maximum sentence for the charge is up to 15 years.

You guys. See, that's the problem. Now, of course, if the government is asking for a 24-month prison sentence, I would say 15 years is a lot right so basically what they're saying like two to 15 years is what Boosie's looking at just the 15 that's going to run with the headlines because nobody likes to read the details right so people are going to just look at that and just think like oh the streets is over which it is. Lourke's going to be locked away for life um Boosie we don't know how much time he's going to get a lot of other rappers that you know I just don't want to make this morbid so

I'm not going to say their name but you know them passing away due to unfortunate events showcases how if you're a street rapper safe to say there's only two outcomes right and the glorification of street rappers is what makes this so intriguing to the to the youth to come up and repeat the same pathway

of either in prison or passed away right aka killed so 21 being the voice of reason talking about this whole snitch debacle because young thug wants to go at gunner 24-7 he basically brought up how young thugs brother's a snitch he's like hold him now you're not really keeping their pee all the way across the board because didn't your brother snitch yeah i don't hold on like man but you seen you seen your brother pee oh hold on now see that's why i love well pause with the love you guys see that's the problem

This is why I like when people with logical minds come into the fray while speaking to gangster people. Because gangster people have you thinking you're supposed to kill 12 people. And then when you get booked for it, you're supposed to sit down for all them years as far as 50 plus years time and time again. Because you know they're not going to run it consecutively, right? So at the end of the day, they make you seem like if you catch all them bodies and you saw me do it, you're supposed to sit in there with the same amount of time as me.

Because guess what? That's keeping it gangster. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? So 21 Savage is like, hold up now. You mad at Young Thub. I mean, you mad at Gunna, but didn't your brother do the same thing?

Man. But you seen your brother, please? Mm-hmm. I love the silence after that. 21 Savage is like, hold on. It's like, he's like, you want to talking? Hold on. This Young Thub, right?

This young Thug on the other side of the phone. Yo, you see your brother plea? Oh, just silence, huh? He don't want to, he don't want to respond. to that huh? Bro, you seen your brother, Pete? Most definitely. Silence.

But he said you told him to do that. Mm. 21 Savage, really. What they, what the little girls be saying? Clock in their tea? Only reason I know that, because my sister going to college. They'd be saying clocking their tea, clocking that tea. You know what I'm saying?

Clocking that tea, you know what? Man, watch out. He's like, hey, bro, come on, man. We ain't coming with all that logic, bro. You know, we gangster rappers, you know what I mean? We only, what Rallo say to academics, bro. You're using too many big words, bro. You got to dumb that down.

I don't got that. That would he tell him to scream. Yeah, he's cap. Got him stumbling and everything. Young thud don't even know how to address that. So his brother snitched. Brother came out and said, oh, yeah, young thud told me to do it. As you can hear on a call, obviously, Yontha said that's cap.

You guys. See, that's the problem. So that's how I feel about the whole gangster situation. I believe everything about the gangster. rap persona and the ecosystem is fraudulent. That's how I feel. So when it comes to that, I want to stay on my soapbox because y'all already know how I feel about gangster rappers in general.

There's a reason why my favorite rappers are like Big Sean, Russ, Drake. Like, I mean, obviously, you know, when it comes to Drake, a lot of people be like, oh, he acts like a gangster, but come on, man, like, yeah, y'all know, y'all know Aubrey. You know, I know Aubrey. He ain't out here sliding on nothing. You know what I'm saying? So, never went to prison.

I don't even think Drake has a mugshot. Does Drake even have a mugshot? let me see Drake because you know all these gangster rappers need a mugshot I mean I think if you don't have a mug shot your effectiveness as a gangster rapper goes down by like 70% let me see Drake mug shot Drake doesn't even have a mugshot

it's like some fabricated stuff y'all want to see the mugshot that he has this is the only mug shot I can find Toronto police look at this ladies and gentlemen when I tell you that was a whole photo shoot with the OVO standem this is not real I don't know why in the world he has this Um, that's funny though. Like, at the end of day, Drake doesn't have an actual mugshot and there's a reason for that. Like, if you want certain dollars as far as sponsorships,

it seems like a mugshot is a necessity as a gangster rapper. I mean, have y'all seen little baby's muckshops? Oh, they'd be hitting like that. You know what I'm saying? They'd be hitting like... But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on?

Let me see, this is probably why a little baby was $150 million as far as being the most profitable artist. Let me see this. This is a muckshot. This looks kind of crazy. this actually is muckshot dang this boy looked like he did it I ain't gonna cap to you bro look at look at this right here

nah this muckshot looked like he did it whatever he was accused with he probably did that stuff I ain't gonna lie to you goodness gracious you guys see that's the problem yeah that's the face of a man who did it he's looking at there like hey bro I did it and so what do something about it

I know that ain't who I think it is so anyway that's probably why a little baby's gangster career is so effective but at the end of day my favorite type of rap is all obviously the the rappers who talk about their life in the music but it doesn't you know coincide with killing people and stuff like that it's all about introspection you know evolution you know stuff that gangster rappers i mean you know as far as the brain sales it doesn't really compute uh so at the end of day that's how i feel about young thugs snitching i could care less but that's why i dived into the little baby deal because i think that's the

more uh interesting details that came out of this i was not going to cover this at all until I heard Young Thug talk about Little Baby's deal, and he actually gave a cosine and solidified what the rumor reports of. So now I had to dive back into what I was previously talking about in the past and bring up those numbers again because it seems like Young Thug is making the correlation. Anyways. I got to bring you Pete to a meet. Man, that nigga good big way. You know it's funny. Young Thug's not even under QC, which makes me think that this.

this whole interrogation was just a little prep time. You know how you're in the gym, getting some shots up before the actual game? This interrogation room was just the warm-up until he had the pillow talk with Mariah, the scientists, and like whenever it just came out. And basically let her know what was going on and behind the scenes was really snitching for the love of the game. He's been so good. Okay.

He really has. You have been the perfect gentleman. So that being said, after covering the perfect gentleman, I just want to let you know click my link to you in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Young Thug? And him ultimately revealing a lot of things in the hip-hop game and just the music industry in general, as far as all of the smoking mirrors is going on.

And at the end of the day, I mean, if you care about it, do you think Young Thug snitched or not?