We’re currently in an industry where streamers want to be rappers and rappers want to be streamers. Even the streamers themselves admit there’s more money on Twitch than in making albums. DDG once told DJ Akademiks, “For what I signed for, I made that in 30 days on Twitch.” How did we get here? What was the inciting incident where drama and content started to outweigh the actual music? Apparently, 6ix9ine thinks his incessant trolling and generally annoying public image is the reason we got here.

Recently, the “GUMMO” rapper spoke with Adin Ross on his Kick stream. There, he argued that his antics preceded the big wave on TikTok, Kick, and Twitch. Through him dominating the social media timelines, he essentially created the idea of content creation. “In 2018, there was no TikTok,” he says

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