We’ve heard of this seriously unfortunate happening many times before, & some of you may have even fell victim yourselves & copped tickets to see a fraud, for a lack of better words. It’s becoming a new epidemic just as widespread as credit card scams these days.
Rich Homie Quan’s longtime manager Demonta “Monta” Gibson mapped it all out in a recent interview with XXL. Gibson claims that RHQ impersonators have succeeded in their doings at least 7 times within the past couple of months & it began happening about a year ago, just as he began to really take off.
About a year ago, people started contacting me on my DM in my Instagram and would ask me if Quan was booked in certain different places,” Gibson said. “We thought we got to the bottom of that issue then. Then things started picking up at a different pace; we would get phone calls and people would pick the phone up and just start cursing, ‘Quan missed my show last night’…It’s becoming a thing. It has become a hustle for other people… And it’s becoming a big issue, not just for Rich Homie but for a lot of different artists.
Chris Dual, a booking agent who has been in the game for quite a while detailed his encounter with a RHQ impersonator who caused him to lose over $12,500.
The crazy thing was that everything matched up,” Dual said. “It’s becoming so… It’s happening way too much, whether it’s people on the inside doing it, or somebody else. It’s kind of like marriage; it’s gonna cost you a couple thousand to get the ring on her hand, and then it’ll cost you $30,000 or $40,000 to get out of it.
I suppose the lesson gained from this story is to make sure everything is everything before you cut that check. Cheaters never prosper!
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