credited as an artist on all these yeah so there you go he's got like NUMBER_TOKEN monthly listeners on spotify new york times journalist with a ballpark of seven songs per album that's over three thousand songs and those songs might be generating barely anything in revenue individually but all together that's potentially thousands of dollars per month for uh ian urbina yeah seems like a scam seems like a hell of a scam they call they call it a hack yeah so uh and again watch the video there's several other sketchy layers of this whole thing like the fact that the record label that he told artists that he had partnered with for the project is actually his own company and also the fact that he used his new york times email address for all the correspondents despite no longer even working there by the time he was sending these emails but yeah really go watch watch that video it's NUMBER_TOKEN minutes long and it is it is fascinating like seems like oh okay whatever like oh you got scant but like it i literally i remember watching this in bed a couple days ago like wait what oh PROFANITY_TOKEN uh yeah it's fascinating and you know of course once people saw the video and started talking about it online and urbina started just smashing that block button blocking everyone left and right saying this was all just a big troll operation oh the trolls are after me again but that didn't work it just strikes and affected uh and so he finally came out with a half apology where he blamed everything on bad communications on his part and he did at least offer to hand over the publishing to any artist who asked for it back but like he's still been making money off of it this whole time like it's like oh you caught me in my scam yeah you can have it back i don't care but also because of the way like publishing works i'm still listed as an artist you can take these grammys from my cold dead hands yeah so uh very just a very interesting saga that i've been following on twitter over the last like week of like sort of mid-level like working musicians all realizing that they'd all been scammed by the same guy but like didn't know that other people had jeez there's like but like PROFANITY_TOKEN hundreds of artists yeah it's gonna be huge like we're we're gonna get a netflix documentary the project was getting me rich and there might be a netflix documentary this gets big enough uh yeah wow yeah but it's just like you what you i mean i know journalism doesn't pay that well but it's just like why why do this like he was making he was making i think ben jordan figured out he was making like at most like a couple thousand a month because elliott as every crypto bro knows that's called passive income yeah i guess that way you can work on all your side hustles while you have that passive income but yeah if you're into like uh music production or anything ben jordan great channel uh also uh big announcement considering we just got like the contract today uh we're gonna be in austin texas yeah the second weekend of uh january second third is yes
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN uh also uh big announcement considering we just got like the contract today uh we're gonna be in austin texas yeah the second weekend of uh january second third is yes END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN