Styles P believes modern music consumption through streaming and subscription models devalues individual songs to the point of being essentially worthless to the artist.

“So, how I go from a dollar for y'all song to listen to? So, if I listen to 10 songs, that's 10 dollars. But I might have y'all on repeat. So, I might listen to y'all song If if I buy it, I'm a cool to listen to it that many times. But I don't have to buy your [ __ ] no more. So, your music is really”

Sheek Louch observes that the lack of artist development in the current music industry leads to many short-lived, one-and-done artist careers.

“There's not really A&Rs no more. That's why there's not really artists who are the young artists ain't really being developed. That's why there's a lot of one-and-dones.”

The artist believes that building a loyal audience provides creators with the necessary leverage to navigate a changing industry and challenge systemic inequities.

“When you walk in with leverage, it's a whole different game. And the more leverage we have That's the That's the other part is like drawing that parallel as well to looking at the numbers that we have. We have leverage.”

Wale asserts that it is necessary for artists to maintain a cold demeanor to survive the exploitative nature of the music industry.

“it comes from being around such a debaucherous, you know what I'm saying? conniving industry, you know what I'm saying? Like you got to you got to you got to you got to harden up, you know what I'm saying?”

The industry is increasingly providing opportunities for female artists to claim space.

“And I feel like just like in the music industry, you're starting to see like females, you know, take up space and and have the opportunity.”