The Crab Mentality: Why Artists Pull Others Down

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]I feel like it's we have a a very crab in a barrel mentality. It's very much so. Very much so. This This area is infamous for That is a common theme of the DMV. Like every Like if I help you, it's going to take away from me. And it doesn't.

[00:00:14]>> But because the problem is we're so small.

[00:00:16]So So for everybody that goes out of here, there are 20 people that missed an opportunity. So when you see one go, That's you like, "Damn!" So it's like so So once you get in those situations, like you just it it's it's sad, but it's an envious It's an envy thing. It's not It's not that you're not happy for that person. It's just that once they hit that point, the area is so The area is so small that people It's hard for people to reach back to grab you out of there.

[00:00:49]So when they do come back, you end up trying to pull them back in instead of, you know what I'm saying? Like you said.

[00:00:56]And I do I feel that, and I also feel like just to be to give some of those artists some grace, like we got to understand this is all new for them, too. So they're not really thinking Not in Not maliciously, but thinking about, you know, Ed that played the drums for me Right. 2 years ago, and I should come back and >> it's not even just that, but it's something of the situation of leaving like, "Yo, I'm I'm signed to a label now.

[00:01:22]The label has the people they want me to