Is $30 Too Much? Akeem Ali's Real Talk on Support & Worth

My good brother my tickets are $30 Now I'm not I'm not saying that I'm pocket watching a chicken about I'm telling you what you should have in your account How much you should be making I? Made sure to drop my date six months in advance You can't say $5 a month Five you spend $5 doing shit it cost you $5 to to look out the wonder Yeah, $30 But I think a perspective has to be Made from the individual and these are these are some of the same people I'm looking to camera when I say this we are right here right here We are some of the same people who get on Instagram who get on Facebook and pop it with flicks We're going by new Jays every weekend right we do out. We're going to em bar. We're going to fourth We're going to names and faces right we're going to Johnny T's and we spend our money, and that's okay I'm not telling you where to spend your money. We're not spending your money how to do what you gonna do But I'm asking for support. I don't mind saying please Jackson, Mississippi. Could you please buy them tickets and sell my show out mm-hmm? Every other city that I'm going to a tutorial is 40 cities and 40 days. Could you please buy them tickets? I ain't too proud you know I'm saying cuz it's like you can get on Instagram like like like like he's the greatest Well, I'm going on tour come on to see me man. Just come out of support buy a ticket yeah Yeah, you're going too far now. You're asking too much. We already like it on Instagram Instagram. Don't pay me it doesn't know You know that yeah You know I'm saying so when you getting like this soon because you in this place in that place around these people that you have shit Yeah, I just in 2022. I walk to a club mother you came to get it up, but I got $10 in my account You know I'm saying and so this ain't to be saying that I'm broke or nothing now But it's just like you don't know the circumstance. You don't know the situation behind closed doors If I didn't need it, I wouldn't ask so let me ask you this and this is playing devil's advocate to the degree Do you think you've earned the right for a person to pay for your performance to pay $30? You don't get to say what $30 is for for a specific person put a cigar down man $30 brother I pray for patience It's testing it Okay, I pray for God to make me harder working more ambitious. It's testing it right so when it tick is not selling out What do I do or when I can't get these people to show up such such such such what do I do? I'm not mad y'all just don't see it for me the way I see it for other people and it speaks to their worth ethic it speaks to who they're marketing to it speaks to How they're moving their operation around and it's something that I'm doing or not doing that's causing y'all to want to or not to It's something that I'm not doing I don't blame y'all it's cutting dry You don't want to come because you don't want to come I ain't rapping hard enough. I ain't got enough songs I ain't put out a hit song ain't this ain't that that's fine I'm holding myself accountable for all of it Cuz it ain't shit that y'all doing or not doing other than not buying the tickets