[Kool Keith:]

The rap game has changed

You got four different types of promoters

The luxury promoter, the hustler promoter, and the alternative promoter

Of course the roach promoter

The luxury promoter is basically the top pop promoter

He'll book Neil Diamond, fly a 20-piece band overseas

Take out stadium insurance, pay artists three hundred thousand

Four half months ahead, with no problem

Run advertisements on Billboard, TV

Usually teamed up with big investors who write checks

The hustler promoter, he's as good as the little bit

for the luxury for the ghetto celeb treatment

Usually book acts to prove he can do it, the hustler promoter

He'll make you feel like a big star

At home whether he's a pimp, drug dealer, gambler

He'll supply the best treatment, money up front

Paper bag ten to fifty grand cash, limo to and from

Five star hotel, he'll even include girls

He'll take you to dinner and chaffeur around his hood

Let you see how he's livin, not a hater

If he had a girl cousin he'd even let you meet her, THUMBS UP~!

Jacuzzi and everything, big radio advertisement

The alternative promoter uses weeklies and internet

Is a little strict, scared to spend, usually out of billions

The ones that do raves, go out baller style

Brand new clubs, new mics, also travel to and from

But others messed it up so it don't drop the same

Has sense to crease, they cuttin it

They also cut into the rap game for low prices on artists

the hustler promoter already treated well, sometimes tricky

The roach promoter, wants you to pay your own travel

Does not even have SHIT together, no transportation

Runner, a small cheap venue, usually holes in the wall

Don't have a liquor license

Wants to book you, with 20 acts for five hundred bucks

Still uses flyers in Motel 6's, and Travelodges

When you see a guy with a tiny Volkswagen goin back and forth

pickin up a known artist up, from the airport

Most of the time a rejected whack rapper don't fuck with 'em!