During an look at ComplexCon on Sunday, DDG instructed Akademiks that he made more cash in 30 days of streaming than he did from his document label deal.
“For what I signed for, I made that in 30 days on Twitch,” DDG stated when requested to check his rap contract to what he makes on streaming, as seen on the 2:09-mark of the video beneath.
Per their web site, DDG is signed to Epic information(*30*)although the quantity of cash that he signed for is just not disclosed. According to chart knowledge, his most up-to-date album, moo, offered 4400 items in its first week of launch.
Elsewhere within the interview, DDG stated that “streamers make more than rappers, a hundred percent.”
“There’s too many ways to make money,” DGG stated, pointing to all of the completely different income streams that streamers have at their disposal.
DDG’s interview was only one factor for an eventful weekend for the streamer. At one level throughout ComplexCon, DDG gave a 10-year-old upcoming journalist some money for performing properly at school.
He additionally teamed up with PlaqueBoyMax to call Kai Cenat because the streamer of the 12 months.
Speaking of Kai, DDG defended his fellow streamer when Akademiks implied that Kai is simply in it for the cash.
According to him, Kai does marathon streams not for the bag, however for “legacy reasons.”
“It’s like, nobody can be bigger than them right now,” he added. “I think it’s more so that.”