Diplo praises PlaqueBoyMax
It's so easy to make a song or buy a song.. but to build a community.. a fanbase. Diplo put that in perspective while praising PlaqueBoyMax, who sits among the rare few managing to grow a loyal streaming audience without sacrificing music that actually lands. The distinction between dropping a track and cultivating a real following is where the real work lives.
Transcript (en)
It's so easy to make a song or buy a song, whatever it is, but to build a community, to build fan base, like people that really want to fuck with you, like your whole like, your culture, that is like hard. And a lot of people don't realize that's the real business, like building a community around you. You have it. When I talk about like people that stream, make music, you're one of the only guys that like has your fans that always check you out on Twitch, but you also make music people fuck with. The streamer guys, they can't figure out like good music taste and figure out how to like be like on Twitch all the time. So I feel like if you can figure out both, which I think you might be one of the only guys that I've seen that kind of has that power. But guys, building, having real fans that want to come up and show up and everything is really difficult because people just make these like 15 second clips that just go away and no one knows who's made them, you know, like facts.
