Bladee sits in a very comfortable position as an independent artist. There’s this hard to achieve level in the industry where you can get publishing/licensing deals while never needing to sign over your entire discography or sign entirely as an artist. The reason its so hard to do this is because you need to prove to majors that you can consistently drop projects that will always do streams, and keep a cult fan base. And because he always continues to prove that, he’ll always retain his creative control. You’ll never see anyone from Drain/SB ever give up creative control and thats whats so special about them. They sign over their projects, but not their careers. One of the smartest ways to move as an independent and all of them have been using the same strategy for ~5 years. Basically, make a project, have your management pass around the project in the industry for you, sign over the licensing, make racks, and best of all RETAIN CREATIVE CONTROL 💯
this sounds like it was written by chat gpt and edited by someone who has never listened to a bladee project all the way through… avp not even mentioned
The images at times don't align with what is conveyed, a complete lack of novel information, spelling errors, and an overall irrelevant title to the the video.
before drain there was gravity boys. bladee always been around just not as big as he is today sad boys and gravity boys hung out a lot back then u can even catch bladee in a lot of the earlier lean interviews and vlogs. not a fan as i used to be but he def deserves the recognition lot of yall just think bro came up out of nowhere.
"Why the Music Industry HATES Bladee" *proceeds to just go through his discography and say "well, okay, his music is DIFFERENT, y'know... and yeah, he's doing whatever. idk."*
i actually heard bladee play on the radio one time. i was at a blood donation center when i was flat broke and lost my job and they were playing some generic music station that starting playing the song w Skrillex. it was honestly so trippy hearing them play that while getting my blood drained.
Bladee is spiritually fit and spreads positivity through his music!! I am grateful for drain gang. Note how the artists mentioned do the exact opposite and rarely ever mention God and the positive aspects of the human spirit. the reason bladee is so popular is the same reason the mainstream doesn't push his music the way they do other artists... its because bladee gives his listeners hope in a power greater than themselves!!
3:02 bladee using his voice as an instrument is a perfect way to say it and why i love bladee, some of my fave bladee songs idek the lyrics to because hes an instrument not just a singer
It's just wrongfully said. An voice is An instrument. I think you guys mean he uses his voice like another instrument FOR the beat, and not just on the beat.
bladee music will change your life forever fr, the best music I've ever heard, something I always needed, but I wasn't realising it, pure love and emotions
This video is more summarising his discography and bio than it is talking about industry politics. Maybe re-name the video short essay/analysis or something. Kinda just read out loud what a google search could tell you.
What does this have to do with a contract with Sony Music which is in the thumbnail and didn't mention why the industry hates him which is the title of the video.
@@waltertownshend5662 chill out man it’s clear he’s not a bladee fanatic or anything just a RUclipsr tryna make a vid plus i dont gotta mention every interaction theyve ever had
@@sev5449 nugga tf u talkin bout Sigmund Freud pfp having mf u should go and watch a 5 hour analysis of Pythagoras philosophy headass... bladee has the most autistic fans out there ong
I saw a few days ago when Spotify Rewind dropped that Bladee is the #1 most listened artist by Spotify for Artists users (ahead of JPEGMAFIA, Alchemist, Ken Carson & Destroy Lonely) The industry might hate him but the influence he has on other artists is undeniable
@@fifanmennensubladee is the most listened-to artist by accounts that are tied to Spotify For Artists. It’s an app that lets you track and customize your own releases. Basically artists tend to enjoy more bizarre or unorthodox art. Which isn’t new, Kurt Cobain enjoyed some weird shit
@@fifanmennensu Spotify for Artists is the version of Spotify made for artists, where they can upload their songs, manage their artist accounts and actually stream songs too Spotify released a Spotify for Artists rewind to get a glimpse of what Artists themselves are listening to, and the most streamed male artists by artists in 2023 was Bladee
Really great video bro i hope you keep making more of these i love any drain related research and lore etc. (gattsu blew tf up from it saw it 1st hand good formula atm) in no way telling you how to run your channel paha i mean just there seems to be a gap in the market as a youtube cripple by that i just watch music bc im a physical crip-ple big up fellow brit!, deffo worth the sub if you continue your whole lotta drain shit man
Very good video, well researched and presented with passion. I'll just give a few minor constructive nitpicks: 1) I would have liked if you gave context to the streaming numbers of the projects you mentioned, for instance when you said "Gluee" performed "great" and racked up over a million stream on every song on Spotify, I don't know if I would necessarily agree with saying it "performed great", when it took damn near a decade for the project to rack up those numbers. When "Gluee" came out literally nobody knew about it, it was super niche. Or when you say that "Working on Dying performed great, and every song racked up over three millions streams", it makes it sound like all of those stream came in relatively quickly after release, maybe in a 3-6 month period, when really it took 6 years. 2) Similar to the first point, you said Red Light "racked up streams" and that 2018 was just more linear rising for Bladee, when it really wasn't. Red Light got a pretty mixed reception, and some very negative reviews, notoriously theneedledrop gave it a 1/10 rating, with a scathing review. After dropping Red Light, Bladee hinted at quitting music, he tweeted a couple months after the release of the album something along the lines of "Boys, it has been a good ride, but this is the end of the road for me". (Some people took this as him hinting he would kill himself lol). 3) He was featured on another Skrillex song, "Ceremony", with Yung Lean 4) Again the number comparisons are kind of disingenuous, Teezo's album came out three months ago and it's already pushing a million streams on most songs, whereas most of Bladee's albums absolutely did not reach those kinds of numbers in the same timeframe, especially the older projects. Bladee has reached that level now though. Bladee is awesome and your video was good, keep it up.
nah this video was certainly not well researched, numerous flaws and was mostly just rehashed general knowledge about bladee and some dangling extraneous thoughts on why his music isn't popular
Teezo is kind of perfect to put on for a verse and his random background noises. Also he has said that he's incapable of saying no to people and that's part of why he's featured so often
U need to do ecco n thaiboi, just the facts are really hard to find especially if you're aiming for originality and not jus regurgitated facts so many other youtubers mimic from eachother. Watched tons of drain content this actually captivated me in a while. im high as shit sorry
the comparison to teezo and Trippie makes no sense. your comparing teezo and trippie songs that dropped 1 year ago and have about 1 mil streams to bladee songs that dropped several years ago that have 2 or 3 mil. the teezo and trippie songs are doing way better in popularity. not hating on any of them i like all 3 artists. but the comparison is just wrong
It is very weird seeing these rich Swedish kids emulating black rappers from the American south without the lived experience. Proof nothing is real anymore on the internet
nobody hates bladee, he's the real god the real goat the real Jesus, he came to earth to teach to bring knowledge, HOW CAN ANYONE HATE THIS ANGEL???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????W
Hey I overall enjoyd the video, but your pronunciation is a bit unclear, there are almost no breaks, it seemed like you were just reading his discography without adding much and apparently you didn't mention some of his releases as I see in the comments. No offense, just my experience. Also misleading/clickbait title.
Hate to say it but everything after icedancer I do not like, the Drain gang tapes are amazing but bladees solo work after icedancer just didn't do it for me at all. Still love him tho
I like every song on Icedancer and then there's 1-3 songs that I purposely go to listen to on everything after that. Same with Yung Lean and Stranger. Still two of my favorite artists
it seems like he just doesnt want to be mainstream, he doesnt care about promotion and getting his name out there, bladee is a big name in the underground who has inspired many waves of artists in many different genres, he doesnt need to seek promotion at this point when he is one of the pioneers of modern cloud rap
This video is poorly paced and written, I didn’t learn anything at all and it felt surface level, you spend too much time at explaining bladee and his discography compared to answering the question of your video, not only that but you finally get to the answer 1/8th left of the video and then abruptly end without a fitting conclusion
Even tho he is yet another person who literally just bit HARD off chief keef until they found their own sound; I’ve absolutely loved the last few bladee albums
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Bladee sits in a very comfortable position as an independent artist. There’s this hard to achieve level in the industry where you can get publishing/licensing deals while never needing to sign over your entire discography or sign entirely as an artist. The reason its so hard to do this is because you need to prove to majors that you can consistently drop projects that will always do streams, and keep a cult fan base. And because he always continues to prove that, he’ll always retain his creative control. You’ll never see anyone from Drain/SB ever give up creative control and thats whats so special about them. They sign over their projects, but not their careers. One of the smartest ways to move as an independent and all of them have been using the same strategy for ~5 years. Basically, make a project, have your management pass around the project in the industry for you, sign over the licensing, make racks, and best of all RETAIN CREATIVE CONTROL 💯
He's signed to YEAR0001 though along with leandoer
@bloodrain1776 yeah but assuming it's an indie label, it prob allows him more flexibility than other artists on a label
@@isthisreallife489 it's leandoer's label lol even his band Dod Mark is signed.
lol creative
@@bloodrain1776which is their label so creative control
Also, Bladee and Yung Lean would meet bc Bladee's brother was friends with Lean
And because the drain God meant for them to meet
Bladee’s brother was lean’s best friend
@@kenaye4895 was? he ded?
@@monsterzero9456 no he's alive
@@monsterzero9456no guz records some dg n sbe music videos
this sounds like it was written by chat gpt and edited by someone who has never listened to a bladee project all the way through… avp not even mentioned
Fr
The images at times don't align with what is conveyed, a complete lack of novel information, spelling errors, and an overall irrelevant title to the the video.
This is 100% a chat gpt script read by a click baiting loser
fr he didn’t even talk abt d&g either
most of the dudes that make these type of videos dk what their talking about it don't matter tho aslong as they get more people fw dg im all for it
before drain there was gravity boys. bladee always been around just not as big as he is today sad boys and gravity boys hung out a lot back then u can even catch bladee in a lot of the earlier lean interviews and vlogs. not a fan as i used to be but he def deserves the recognition lot of yall just think bro came up out of nowhere.
true words
Same with lean, Neal Yung has old songs that are before lavender
bladee pretty much saved yung leans life back in late 2015
Im glad I was here I. The GTBSB days
actually it was smog boys if you know you know
"Why the Music Industry HATES Bladee"
*proceeds to just go through his discography and say "well, okay, his music is DIFFERENT, y'know... and yeah, he's doing whatever. idk."*
Exactly
i actually heard bladee play on the radio one time. i was at a blood donation center when i was flat broke and lost my job and they were playing some generic music station that starting playing the song w Skrillex. it was honestly so trippy hearing them play that while getting my blood drained.
real drainer experience
Was it Real Spring.
Bladee is spiritually fit and spreads positivity through his music!! I am grateful for drain gang.
Note how the artists mentioned do the exact opposite and rarely ever mention God and the positive aspects of the human spirit.
the reason bladee is so popular is the same reason the mainstream doesn't push his music the way they do other artists...
its because bladee gives his listeners hope in a power greater than themselves!!
THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, I AM SCHIZOPHRENIC
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Imagine having the best comment just to ruin it by saying « iM scHiZOphReNIc » smh
@@bachiak1not ruined
@@bukkakemonster_ he def ruined it cuz he say the realest thing then say he mentally I’ll so that come across as bs
gluee is one of his best projects unreal and spellbound are on another level
fr
nahh shadow face and safe house are better
the worst album
@@sq5hadeletee
Spellbound is in another dimension
3:02 bladee using his voice as an instrument is a perfect way to say it and why i love bladee, some of my fave bladee songs idek the lyrics to because hes an instrument not just a singer
It's just wrongfully said. An voice is An instrument. I think you guys mean he uses his voice like another instrument FOR the beat, and not just on the beat.
as bladee an instrument?
@@pphnxxx yeah that's a better way of putting it, he always flows with the melody
crazy that d&g wasnt mentioned 😭😭😭😭😭
absolutely
Fr
always heard about bladee and drain gang on twitter but never dived into theit catalog, this video made it interesting now
listen to e by ecco
bladee music will change your life forever fr, the best music I've ever heard, something I always needed, but I wasn't realising it, pure love and emotions
@@halohalo3029 PREACH
Listen to fuck the world im still suicidal by bladee
@@peachtime lol it' not a full song, it's just his verse from a feature
Been a drainer/ sad boy from the jump, watching them grow has been amazing!
This video is more summarising his discography and bio than it is talking about industry politics. Maybe re-name the video short essay/analysis or something. Kinda just read out loud what a google search could tell you.
Lets bf its clickbait lol
i thought i knew all the bladee lore but i never knew he worked at a daycare
imagine being one of them kids what got brought up by fricken bladee
DOG DAYCARE D&G CHOKER
night goer i'm a kush blower@@user-ry7po4co4l
@@WindowsXP93 if you are a child in a daycare that bladee works at are you an oldgen or a newgen
Caregiver Bladee goes nuts
What does this have to do with a contract with Sony Music which is in the thumbnail and didn't mention why the industry hates him which is the title of the video.
New to RUclips? It’s something called “click bait” the oldest trick in the book 🙄🙄
Okay, but why the Music Industry HATES Bladee?
i always say this when i see a title like this
Very nice The Fool is also one of my favorite. First time I heard of GANT, surprised 😊 good video
dope vid, id like to mention Ripsquadds ties in Bladees albums like icedancer and the fool 🙏🧊
dis mf didn't even mention rip bladee & u call it a dope vid lmao... U think of urself as an RS fan?? lolol
@@waltertownshend5662u know nothing about rs bro 😂
@@waltertownshend5662 chill out man it’s clear he’s not a bladee fanatic or anything just a RUclipsr tryna make a vid plus i dont gotta mention every interaction theyve ever had
@@sev5449 nugga tf u talkin bout Sigmund Freud pfp having mf u should go and watch a 5 hour analysis of Pythagoras philosophy headass... bladee has the most autistic fans out there ong
I saw a few days ago when Spotify Rewind dropped that Bladee is the #1 most listened artist by Spotify for Artists users (ahead of JPEGMAFIA, Alchemist, Ken Carson & Destroy Lonely)
The industry might hate him but the influence he has on other artists is undeniable
can you clarify cus i dont understand
@@fifanmennensubladee is the most listened-to artist by accounts that are tied to Spotify For Artists. It’s an app that lets you track and customize your own releases.
Basically artists tend to enjoy more bizarre or unorthodox art. Which isn’t new, Kurt Cobain enjoyed some weird shit
@@fifanmennensu Spotify for Artists is the version of Spotify made for artists, where they can upload their songs, manage their artist accounts and actually stream songs too
Spotify released a Spotify for Artists rewind to get a glimpse of what Artists themselves are listening to, and the most streamed male artists by artists in 2023 was Bladee
@@BBZeheflink?
@@BBZehef thats pretty cool
this actually an amazing video i didn’t expect it to be this informational at all. Bro jumped right into it too no bullshit
0:27 he was in the fortnite radio once
Is this fr?
@@thisistheway3658 a bit late but yes, look up bladee fortnite radio
Went by many names shield gang, gravity boys, drain gang
Smile by bladee is exactly why he isnt mainstream he says exactly how he feels. He is just himself :D
Other than skrillex bladee got music with charli xcx
Really great video bro i hope you keep making more of these i love any drain related research and lore etc. (gattsu blew tf up from it saw it 1st hand good formula atm)
in no way telling you how to run your channel paha i mean just there seems to be a gap in the market as a youtube cripple
by that i just watch music bc im a physical crip-ple
big up fellow brit!,
deffo worth the sub if you continue your whole lotta drain shit man
Defo Australian but ok
Even Brits can't tell Aussie accents from Brit accents @@light9-xo
He was in the fortnite radio once
List of bladee crazy features(keep it going):
*Black kray/sickboyrari*
I love Bladee🥰
amazing vid, didnt get bored one bit
I'm a 29 yr tradesman from Australia and i listen to bladee, for his creative work and his bubbly sound
Awesome, man!
27 year old tradesman in The Netherlands here, his music is great to work to.
Very good video, well researched and presented with passion. I'll just give a few minor constructive nitpicks:
1) I would have liked if you gave context to the streaming numbers of the projects you mentioned, for instance when you said "Gluee" performed "great" and racked up over a million stream on every song on Spotify, I don't know if I would necessarily agree with saying it "performed great", when it took damn near a decade for the project to rack up those numbers. When "Gluee" came out literally nobody knew about it, it was super niche. Or when you say that "Working on Dying performed great, and every song racked up over three millions streams", it makes it sound like all of those stream came in relatively quickly after release, maybe in a 3-6 month period, when really it took 6 years.
2) Similar to the first point, you said Red Light "racked up streams" and that 2018 was just more linear rising for Bladee, when it really wasn't. Red Light got a pretty mixed reception, and some very negative reviews, notoriously theneedledrop gave it a 1/10 rating, with a scathing review. After dropping Red Light, Bladee hinted at quitting music, he tweeted a couple months after the release of the album something along the lines of "Boys, it has been a good ride, but this is the end of the road for me".
(Some people took this as him hinting he would kill himself lol).
3) He was featured on another Skrillex song, "Ceremony", with Yung Lean
4) Again the number comparisons are kind of disingenuous, Teezo's album came out three months ago and it's already pushing a million streams on most songs, whereas most of Bladee's albums absolutely did not reach those kinds of numbers in the same timeframe, especially the older projects. Bladee has reached that level now though.
Bladee is awesome and your video was good, keep it up.
idk if it was a good video all he did was talk about every album that he dropped and the most popular song on that album
Fantano does not like dg/sb
yea this guy has no idea what hes talking about
nah this video was certainly not well researched, numerous flaws and was mostly just rehashed general knowledge about bladee and some dangling extraneous thoughts on why his music isn't popular
no rainworld mention😠😠
They can't stand me. I'm not standing.
imagine being a kid at drain day care
Teezo is kind of perfect to put on for a verse and his random background noises. Also he has said that he's incapable of saying no to people and that's part of why he's featured so often
Bro didn’t explain why the music industry hates bladee lmao
love bladee
same
Clickbait title
why does
the background music go so hard oh my god
U need to do ecco n thaiboi, just the facts are really hard to find especially if you're aiming for originality and not jus regurgitated facts so many other youtubers mimic from eachother.
Watched tons of drain content this actually captivated me in a while.
im high as shit sorry
There's thaiboys PowerPoint of his life that he did for school
They like Bladee Dan this is preposterous
7:44 lmfaoo that lean interview
bruh skanstull isn’t sketchy in the slightest it’s damn near the heart of Stockholm
These kids did it for the art, and it shows
the comparison to teezo and Trippie makes no sense. your comparing teezo and trippie songs that dropped 1 year ago and have about 1 mil streams to bladee songs that dropped several years ago that have 2 or 3 mil. the teezo and trippie songs are doing way better in popularity. not hating on any of them i like all 3 artists. but the comparison is just wrong
It means that bladee actually has a fanbase that listens to his music more than once
got to commend the ad placement, right before the beans are spilled
how can anybody hate this angel
It is very weird seeing these rich Swedish kids emulating black rappers from the American south without the lived experience. Proof nothing is real anymore on the internet
the key is authenticity. they dont speak on things that aren’t them and they dont bite styles
yung lean was good friends with bladee's brother guz.
Not everyone either hates or is obsessed with bladee lmao, you can easily be in the middle on his sound
i only know bladee from memes about sweden, didn't know who tf was that before
His having a soul is the main difference between himself and mainstream artists
He has Spirit, which is with more than a mere soul, which all people have, even evil people have souls. But the Spirit, that takes work.
been listening to bladeee since 2013
nobody hates bladee, he's the real god the real goat the real Jesus, he came to earth to teach to bring knowledge, HOW CAN ANYONE HATE THIS ANGEL???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????W
Great video. Showing love for drain gang ❤
what’s everyone’s favourite bladee songs? mines Best Buy & 100s 😮💨
Idk actually maybe psycho, unreal, butterfly
Always changed but rn top 3 is psycho, velocitraptor and Smartwater
deletee, frosty the snowman, steve jobs, anything, who goes there
Hey I overall enjoyd the video, but your pronunciation is a bit unclear, there are almost no breaks, it seemed like you were just reading his discography without adding much and apparently you didn't mention some of his releases as I see in the comments. No offense, just my experience. Also misleading/clickbait title.
The Fools my favourite album along with Crest
i havent watched the video yet but i love bladee
I saw Bladee at his concert a week ago and my life hasn’t been the same since
Bro he literally has a skrillex feature
“Bad Vibes” on the Palmistry record is too good.
good vid bro
The gluee hate is crazy
if yall havent heard his single "wallet wont fold" ur missing tf out
Hate to say it but everything after icedancer I do not like, the Drain gang tapes are amazing but bladees solo work after icedancer just didn't do it for me at all. Still love him tho
U need to give the fool another chance
@@yucky.1 there are songs on the fool I really like but the whole tape doesn’t give me the same feeling the older ones did
I like every song on Icedancer and then there's 1-3 songs that I purposely go to listen to on everything after that. Same with Yung Lean and Stranger. Still two of my favorite artists
Yea same, artists/people change so hes just being true to himself but i cant lie that it is not for me
@@Dsquaredloser Thug pic goated, I miss the old bladee but im happy if he happy
Cmon posts the tracklist, its a video about music
what is the song that starts playing at 0:23 i need to remember what it is its pissing me off
Change deftones
@@emmanuelperez4592 nice one thats been bugging me all day
dey call me eedalb
it seems like he just doesnt want to be mainstream, he doesnt care about promotion and getting his name out there, bladee is a big name in the underground who has inspired many waves of artists in many different genres, he doesnt need to seek promotion at this point when he is one of the pioneers of modern cloud rap
anyone know the song at 4:22 ?
i thought the thumbnail had bladees face switched with mr bean
This video is poorly paced and written, I didn’t learn anything at all and it felt surface level, you spend too much time at explaining bladee and his discography compared to answering the question of your video, not only that but you finally get to the answer 1/8th left of the video and then abruptly end without a fitting conclusion
6:40 starts explaining why the mainstream hate bladee
song name at 00:34
upp
Bladee didn’t do anything. They just hate cuz they don’t like the music .
need the beat at @5:00 pls!!
Even tho he is yet another person who literally just bit HARD off chief keef until they found their own sound; I’ve absolutely loved the last few bladee albums
Fun fact: you can MK Ultra yourself into liking any type of music much like drainers do bc we all know this isn’t even about the music
Song at 4:23?
Have you found out?
Wym no labels ?😂 check again
In my opinion plastic surgery is his best work.
COLD🥶VISIONS
Bro read his wikipedia page n called it a day 😂😂
fr lmao
Born in skanstull bros family must be wealthy
The Fool is my favorite bladee project of all time
bro didnt bring up future wearing his merch
spiderr is so underrated still
This dude is wrong in every single aspect lol
Shout out my brother Bladee man
10 Trillion times better than ice spice
Is he blowing up on tiktok for like the 15th time
“Zack” riiight
Bro didn't mention AVP or D&G. 😭
dope videoi fr
My guyyyyy
what songs did u use on this vid?
u forgot to mention the hannah diamond x bladee song. good vid tho
Tracklist pls
bladee has those non binary streams
background music names ? 4:27 0:33