Yung Bleu recommends utilizing YouTube ads as a primary marketing tool for music, noting that it is currently more effective for exposure than traditional radio.

“So YouTube is like the new radio, you know what I'm saying? Yes, sir. Radio still big, but it's it's either you listening to something on YouTube or you listen to something on the radio or you listen to Apple Music or whatever.”

Bootleg Kev notes that while artists have more accessibility to distribute music through platforms like DistroKid, they are still vulnerable to being exploited in the industry.

“I feel like the transparency of like record deals becoming public and like the ease that artists have now to just hit upload on like DistroKid or whatever, I think it's a little bit easier for artists to not get taken advantage of, but still you still see [ __ ] getting [ __ ]”

Young Drummer Boy claims that distributors offering label services like Empire yield higher payouts per stream than basic distribution platforms.

“I don't want to say like let's say whatever, DistroKid. Like your pay per stream is going to be a lot less. A lot less. That's the difference I think just from the checks.”