What?

Tyler doing skits/vine/comedy really doesnt indicate that he would be interested in streaming for significant amounts of time or as a career lol

everything about tylers messaging is his passion for creation, having actual skills etc. He would never have chosen the streaming path

That is literally how most streamers start lol and its literally a same pipeline and "content lane"

Also idk why you acting like his vids of him f***ing around and his skits were high level lol, it wasn't and was mostly on the fly until he got the tv bag

And you're inflating later Tyler with early Tyler, which early Tyler was trying everything, and early Tyler was actually frustrated and shunned in music early on - he was literally known and more famous for his antics, vids and personality than music for some years and being highly opinionated and an a****** online

Also, he could have easily (and more likely) bring some of his music love to his streams and streaming such as some do now - on top of his high energy f***ing around personality back then

And, Tyler has even claimed he had to make a choice between being a content creator or a musician at the height of loiter squad - which he ultimately chose to go fully into music - but what he was doing is literally streamer-like s*** and his personality would have seen him get instant success in it unlike what happened in music

Tyler has even claimed he had to make a choice between being a content creator or a musician at the height of loiter squad - which he ultimately chose to go fully into music

He would have always made this choice imo

A lot of the blog era rappers like Tyler, Cudi, Wale Charles Hamilton had a lot of webcam/streamer-ish content upon their arrival. There wasn’t really a lane for live streaming at the time but I’m sure any one of them would’ve pivoted if it existed back then. They all expressed frustration with the music industry in the beginning

The live streaming lane doesn’t have gate keepers and corporate overlooking everything so these guys get a lot more creative freedom and control over their content opposed to a signed artist

All of these videos I’m about to post were gems for us at the time because we never saw artist coming up organically until the blog era

Joe Budden definitely

I could see Blue face tryna do some "bring the hood to the internet" type of streaming "niche"

Jim I actually don't know why he's not streaming, he used to vlog all kinds of s*** and being on random ass low budget reality shows tv but also online made up ones too in the late 2000s to mid 2010s

Ok?

X did youtube

the rest of these i dont think so, Q streams since 2021 like just him playing games so maybe that tho. and tyler cuz he been in mad shows

Yeah it's also a natural lane with video content and the same s*** just live

Some Rappers got big off their personality and/or side content too, or eventually are only remembered for their personality and antics - which Live Streaming would have been a way to truly capitalize on that and be relevant in a space that has potential to bounce off into other things

Like how a lot of them have gone podcasting, which is basically just old nigga acceptable "streaming"

streaming def takes more skill than vine lol

oh s*** i forgot CH doing streams, he would rant about his sonic faith and s***

Idk y old niggas acting like 7 sec vines f***ing around and YouTube kickflip tutorials is such high art compared to streaming when it's the literal same s*** just live and longer form

being entertaining to an audience for hours a day consistently unedited vs 7 second edited gag or hey guys heres how to do the thing i do every day

Makes me even more confused when niggas deep throat vine but still scared of TikTok when it's literally vine 2.0 but with more to do

The old really just hates the new, irrationally so

Lil B

The Game corny ass

I don’t think none of these guys would be streamers

Lowkey would kinda be like flight

Old head rappers that would be streamers if they came up today with be the whole Dipset crew, chance the rapper, Wu tang, and the greatest of all missy elliot and busta rhymes

lol definitely

Charles Hamilton lol

6ix9ine
Bow Wow
Nelly
Will Smith
Rae Sremmurd
T.I.
Nick Cannon
Tupac
Lil Wayne
DaBaby
Doja Cat
Juice World
Master P
MGK
Flavor Flav

French Montana started off doing DVDs

Q
Lil B

Lolol he had that bizarre stream with the Russian dude where they hunt down predators

Wiz Khalifa had his daytodays