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detour: Word.. But there's several ways to make this shit work now that there are people outside of hiphop that enjoys this shit weekly. I got a couple of friends that isn't even into hiphop that checks out these videos. Now let's look into this shit.
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A video that gets 333k views, that's about 1100$. A night with 4-5 battles can generate around 5000$ based on views alone. It isn't much, but it still is a bit.
If we look at what a lot of indie developers that make games have started doing nowadays is free games with a donation button where you can pay the ammount you think the game is worth in order to support them. I'm sure that if the people behind KotD, GT etc. makes a FAQ or a video explaining shit (or even a couple lines before each battle) the way you did here people will want to help out or give a donation every now and then. If a video has 2-300k unique views we can deduce an average of 500-1k donations per video, an average of 10$ each we're starting to look at numbers here.
If we add that on top of the 1100$ we're probably looking at 1-2000$ extra per video. +/- an average of 7500$ per night. would it really be un-realistic to think that there's 7500$ generated per night? 4000 is spread across the battlers. 2000$ to the hosts and 1500 for other expenses (renting a venue, the editing dude, filmer).
And all of this is before we bring in sponsors, entrance fees and other things that bring in some money (t-shirts/merch etc. etc. which can be used to pay for travel expenses to get battlers to come, cleaning personell, bouncers, top prices for play-offs/finals). Since they already got a working program it shouldn't be impossible for those dedicated to this shit to keep it going or get involved somehow and live off battle-rap or something related to it. But to keep battle-rap the way it is now it might be shortlived if we want to keep outsiders interested. It can't be redundant or repetitive another 5 years. But right now, I fail to see how this can't be done. There's SEVERAL ways to make this work, this is just a fucking freepost ffs and it might be naive, but there's a shitload of ways to make money from this shit and still keep it free for viewers if they wish.
All it takes is someone that is good with money that can make a yearly estimate of how much cash they're making, how it should be spread around and to whom. What ya'll need to do as battlers is to bring this to the attention of hosts/those behind this etc. unless they're already at the top of their game. It takes an effort from everyone tho', but I believe it can be done.