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Who’s Going to Stop Spotify’s Viral Rap Impersonators?

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  1. Melody Bot May 23, 2019
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    Noah Yoo, writing for Pitchfork:


    There’s a rapper on Spotify named Lil Kambo who’s racked up 2 million streams and counting on his song “Kid Carti.” This would be a significant feat for any unsigned, self-releasing artist in the modern day. The only problem is that “Lil Kambo” doesn’t exist and “Kid Carti” is a pitch-shifted leak of Playboi Carti’s yet-unreleased track “Kid Cudi” (previously referred to as “Pissy Pamper”), a song the rapper’s been teasing for some time and even playing out live. Lil Kambo isn’t a viral hit—he’s a fraudster.
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  2. Mr. Serotonin May 23, 2019
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    whoa
     
  3. BradBradley May 23, 2019
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    Lil Kambo - AOTY contender?
     
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  4. SuNDaYSTaR May 24, 2019
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    Weird how it seems fairly easy to get your music up on Spotify, and even more so to get verified.
     
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  6. Mr. Serotonin May 24, 2019
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    It's easy to get it onto any platform, really. You just have to pay.
     
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  7. MrAirplane May 24, 2019
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    also weird that so many people like listening to a pitch-shifted song
     
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  8. chilllll May 27, 2019
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    Spotify has thousands of artist profiles that contain old mixtapes from Future, lil wayne, wiz khalifa and that type of shit. The artist name is something wierd like "dj all n" and itll be music from datpiff.com from way back in the day. Not even pitch correct these people just making quick checks