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- Recently, DJ Vlad sat down with Damien Ritter, Hopsin's former business partner, and manager, to talk about their falling out and cleared the air on his behalf on what caused their falling out. Before their estranged relationship, Ritter says that he was introduced to Hopsin after being laid off from his management consultant position in 2008. Together, Ritter says that he and Hopsin went half on their Funk Volume label and even personally invested $50K and spent 2-3 years on making money on the side and helped Hopsin pay rent before things took off.
As things progressed, Ritter says they landed on the XXL Freshman Cover, and once the Raw tour commenced he began to feel some tension. It wasn't until the last tour date in Las Vegas when Ritter says Hopsin felt the need to get new management. Unfortunately, the split wasn't amicable, and Hopsin responded to the move with a diss record which Ritter felt was embarrassing and had him caught up in a few emotions. The former manager says that he tried to reach out to Hopsin to work out their issues; however, he was blocked from any phone calls.
Watch the full interview to learn more about Ritter's next move and his new label Still Movin.' - บันเทิง
Dame is more famous for breaking up FV than he is for managing it.
Perry Latour no shit hop made a song about it
Perry Latour 😂😂
Savage
Hopsin broke up FV don't get it twisted bro. That's why everyone on the label stood behind Dame in the feud..
Definitely
lmfao hopsins impersonation of dudes voice was so on point
Ragtag General littetaly the main reason I initially watched this and I thought the same thing
I came here just to see if I was true lol
Lol I just said the same shit. Spot on
LMAOOOOOOOOOO FACTS
On me bro😂😂😂,when he started talkin in the interview I started laughing cause hopsin impression was so spot on😂
he asked vlad for a job when this was over
ftw 185th W
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ftw 185th 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Shit made me geek 😂
after watching this i think im gonna bump ill mind 8 at max volume again
Classic example of why you should NEVER mix business with friends.. it simply never works...
ill save you the trouble what you came for starts at 10:26
anytime brody check my channel out 1x
lmao
You the real MVP
Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto you the real mvp thank you
Thank you 💪💪
manager and the label owner? this dude is a snake .. that is conflict of interest
this guy is a smooth talker ..I dont trust him
sam sneed man this guy is good at talking...... i hate it
for some reason, I believe him.
You mean he's an intelligent speaker.
eternal60214 intelligent speaker dont always equal honesty ..
Why cant Hopsin be the same just lyrically?
Damien is the Co-founder of Funk Volume the same way Christopher Columbus discovers land.
Funk Volume already existed, Damien made it profitable
damn.
Jamal Turner Well said!!
Jamal Turner you make jerk chicken?
WINSTON TORRES 😐 no.
That's not true. It existed as not much more than a concept. Hopsin had the sound and image. But Dame helped turn it from a brand, to a label. He financed it, had a business model, signed artists and made them successful. We'd have nothing more than Ill Mind of Hopsin youtube videos without Dame.
YOU NEVER TELL SOMEONE THEY DON'T WORK HARD FAM THATS A NO
just like if your a man you don't wear pink gay in ur pink tee queer in ur pink tee all u want to do is get a man in ur pink tee
Not even if it's true? Niggas always bitching when somebody keeps it real with them. Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow
well hopsin wasnt working hard, and he should've taken the constructive criticism, hop would work hard on the music but when it came time to promote it hopain would bitch and moan, not show up for important events and meetings, and walking out of live shows people already payed for. I always been a hop fan but he threw a tantrum its very clear to see.
UNDA SQUAD it's a business this isn't a friendship or a hip hop club!! There's nothing wrong with criticism...
Scorpio1988 if he didn't work hard then he wouldn't be where he is today
Damn hopsin's impression of dame is dead on 😂
He sounds just like swizzz
Where is this at
I agree with hopsin, this guy seems pretty useless to me...
So putting up most of the money, handling the lawyer shit, management, tour arrangements and handle the infrastructure of a company is useless? lol ... Niggas...
LOL, Man, you are tripping this dude is the brains behind the outfit he comes from a business background. He's a Management Consultant. Without him, there would be no Funk Nation
na I'll admit he might have took a few L's in the business but if he kept at it they probably could've been the next big indy machine but hospin didn't wait it out and make his moves you can't play checkers in the game you gotta play chess
Real, hardcore artists rarely understand the importance of the business. It's tough for them to switch their mind up.
Evil Henry I'm not even a fan of hopsin I just call it how I see it you jabroni
Yo. This guy says he is not the accountant for fv. But at 21:30 he says he does the budgeting for the tour. Wtf
11:49
Just listen to ill mind 8 and you'll know he's the accountant, manager, everything. He's a thieving jew.
STRONG HIGHBRID new age jerry heller
@@bywryt2347 stroooooong
@@r4ng3k03r1 Don't bring jews into it. It has nothing to do with that and everything to do with what power and money does to people. He's a greedy piece of shit and capitalism enables people like him to take advantage of everyone he possibly can. It's a problem with the entire system of capitalism, not race, gender or religion.
Moral of the story. Never start a label with a dude named Dame. It'll end badly.
Yeah turns out it was Hopsins fault 🤷🏾♂️
@@KimbroughFilms with the lockdown comeback 😂😂. How's life man? What did Hopsin do?
@@citizenblane6848 lol go watch the recent podcast they posted. They both had a sit down conversation and Hopsin pretty much admitted it was his fault because he didn’t understand bussiness at the time
@@KimbroughFilms He took blame for ending funk volume not for why it went under this guy was a snake the entire label was driven by hopsin don't disrespect the guy keeping your business afloat.
@@dwhit6529 and how is he a snake. You Hopsin fans suck up to him so much that you can’t accept the truth even when it’s in front of you
I think Dame screwed Hopsin over that was hopsin's label all his
sound like a BS talker to me.
At the end of the day hopsin is the talent so without him there's nothing!!
Woh woh you crazy person lol
In the end it's still a business. Do you think Apple would be anything without the people making the iphones? But the people working in the business making/designing phones don't get a bigger cut than the people that own/manage it.
So, when he said Hopsin didn't work that hard... was he forgetting "promotions and business" was HIS job and not Hopsin's? Sounds like he was the one not wanting to work.🧐🥴
I love seeing & hearing both sides of the story...
Hopsin has easily passed everybody who was on the cover with him music wise
danny brown is better than hopsin
That's not saying much the only ones still relevant from that cover are future and Danny Brown. Both make better music than hopsin corny ass
Alex Ramos L
olawalejinadu Sarcasm right?
Future actually created a style that people love and emulate. And what's wrong with Auto-tune?
Hop and Dame recently had a 4 part conversation where Hopsin admitted to being wrong/ignorant about the business part of this all and most of it ended up being his fault. Always 2 sides to the story.
Right it was great ! I hope they come back fully
It was always clear that this guy was telling the truth… a lot of fans only believe “the star”…
Where it at tho?
@@RandoManFPV they actually put it out on the funk volume channel, believe it or not. I met Dame w months after they put it put at a park. Very cool guy.
@@jeremebonesaw ah man I found the video but hopsins stupid mask ruined it I couldn't listen to 3 minutes of that maskmumble
So this interview was split 50/50 as well ?
"Pay Hops rent" lowkey diss?
It was probably a lowkey diss because what he said wasn't needed lol
Maybe. But a lot of us kind of already knew that with Jokerr's diss song on the whole Funk Volume "Permanent Enemy" .
what min ?
what min
+tman229 no one listens to that shit
Good interview. Always good to have the alternative side to the story.
I bet Dame spends more time around numbers than actual money
lmao
Damn So basically he's a low tier accountant.
Yea most people do
Honestly, at 16:20 he just starts throwing numbers that make no sense out there, these random percentages he is making up on the spot
just dame saying that raw did "OK" tells you that he's a hater
Matthew Edwards Jr. Why would he be a hater if he got money from that project while doing no work on it
prod. les haze To make hop seem like he weren’t doing that good
It did not do as well as a established artist
Sha valentine actually most established flop hop however didn’t
Raw did terribly so if anything he was making it bigger than it was.
we owe this guy an apology now, sorry dame
I honestly think they are both in the wrong. Hopsin just needs to learn to not make actions out of emotion and Dame needs to learn to choose his words more wisely since he claims he didn't mean it in the way Hop took it. They could have honestly just figured this out though.
Brian Garcia I agree dame kept telling hopsin that he didn't work hard multiple times. When the whole FV crew got together for a meeting, before the meeting started Dizzy told dame not to disrespect Hopsin.
I agree with you in the sense that they could've patched this shut up, but some good shit came from this. Ill Mind 8 was good.
The thing is rappers uses their music to show their emotions either good or bad if you dont like what they showing thas yo opinion but hopsin is in the right hes allowed to show emotions in his song its HIS music he can talk about lion fucking zebras if he wants cause its his music nobody can take that from him, telling a rapper to not show emotion is rlly stupid cause rap is poetry and in poetry you show what you think
Izaak Lane ILL MIND 8 IS NOT GOOD 😐 ITS ALRIGHT BUT HOPSIN HAS HAD MUCH BETTER SONGS
Hopsin was probably also thinking he's the only one bringing in the money and he doing 50% with this guy for nothing. Now Hopsin is still making money and these guys fell to the wayside.
Hopsin is an extraordinary artist and this guy presents himself as a level-headed and well-spoken business man, there are probably holes in both sides of the story and we will all be none the wiser, but hey, what they did was incredible but the music industry can do that to people you love and care about, it can rip apart a friendship. Money and business matters, it's the poison to a friendship. I'm neutral on the matter, but I believe this guy is speaking genuinely.
I was thinking the same thing.
Matt S. Hopsin is anything but level headed
@@Dunkacino he said this guy is. Dame
agreed
@@mikepshena oh. You know what, my bad.
To all the people that claim he makes sense and explains things clearly...that is was business men do.
They are extremely good at explaining and talking, not a lot of them are good at doing things - which is what we see here.
Same goes with the rapper doesn't it?
Hero Alkard its not exactly their job to sweet talk people over business deals and they don’t train their minds to do so, so no?
Business men don't need to be good with people for shit lmao, that's what salesmen do and this guy isn't a salesmen. If u don't know what ur talking about just listen and learn, don't make iffy comments
a) i mainly clicked this to see if hops voice impressions of dame were accurate. and b) i am very curious at how dame makes money now and if dame will ever be making funk volume level money ever again
People are always going to trust the artists, because that's who they look up to. From NWA to Funk Volume.
x BublizZ yeah man that's how it is. There are so many stories about guys like Jay Z, Dr Dre, and so on. The people only want the product and if it's good they don't care if the artist is a basckstabber
I understand both sides of the story. I think it was really disrespectful for Damien to say hopsin wasn't working hard. He has been making the music, doing the shows, etc. for him to say he is not working hard is like insulting his whole career. HOWEVER, hopsin has definitely overlooked some of the great things Damien has done for FV. But in the end hop is making the music.
Don't build your fans off of hate. That's all people are gonna wanna hear from you. It gets old and fast.
'Daim what's good?' ... Not much 😆
😂😂😂😂😂
I can't listen to this because its not a diss record to Hop
Birdman #1 Stunna #RESPEK #YMCMB #RICHGANG #BLAAT L
What nuts?
Vlad said fuck that Ima drop this in one shot, nobody gives a fuck 😂😂
Mall La Soul xD
dame went from not talkin to doin interviews
Nigga forced his hand
I think its a mixture a both tbch
Isaiah Stone the man has to show & speak on his side of the story!!
ThaGreaT FranK i dont think theres anything wrong with it at all , dont take my comment likeni think he doin something wrong , idk anyone who would let sumone tarnish his character and not say anything
LOL "i invested my own money into funk volume fitness, like the website." Congrats you spent $50....
WeeBey Brice I think he meant 50k genius
Swizz isn't mentioned almost at all in any hop or dame interview. they say jarren went there dizzy did this but they never mention Swizz I'm so curious to know what happen with him
Swizz wasn't around the label a lot.
I think it's out if respect honestly. They were legit friends and that's his brother
A year later we get an interview from him? who cares now? He's had a year to compile some answers.
I think dame is telling a lot of truth though
Damien is just like Jerry Heller he helps out the rappers makes them get noticed then backstab them and keep the money
He didn't even do that, he did fuck all for hop.
I appreciate VLADTV for interviewing and getting both sides. I feel like I have a more complete understanding of the situation.
Good Interview
I like Hopsin and have done for a while but it seems like both sides were to blame in some respects
Damn there sure are a bunch of clueless Hopsin stans in here. Lol these comments haven't aged well after Hopsin and Damien squashed their beef and Hopsin admitted he was the one in the wrong 😂
I never heard him talk before, but Hopsin's impression of how he talks was spot on lol 😂
I really think hopsin didn't understand the business and he reacted fast I truly believe he deal with bipolar and depression
When I was younger I sided with hop. Now that I’m Older and understand more of the situation I’m on Dame’s side ahaha
I Thought This Was Crackhead Carl From The Itsreal85 GTA Vids 😂😂😂
At around 16:00 WTF?!?! WHERE DID YOU GET THESE NUMBERS FROM BOI?! 😂😂😂
good interview mr vladamir .
You can tell hop was speaking on emotion but Damien is clearly not. He's just stating facts, being realistic and giving his side to things and his perspective of the events that happened and were discussed.
You don't know either one so you don't know who's telling the truth or not and most likely the artist is telling the truth 😂
hows this dude note homeless yet
I'm just happy I have the top search for the Team Back Pack Instrumental
So check my math, at the end of the day Damien had 60% and Hopsin had 32% of the total Hopsin album profit. 8% was deducted from the label profit to get Damien to an even 60%. Damien's profits included 34% (20+14) of Hopsin's 40% (for management fees) plus 50% of the 52% label profit. I'm just curious how percentages of businesses are split up. Thanks
When 1000 is made, funk volume gets 600.
Hopsin gets 400
Of the 600 thers 50/50
Hopsin gets 300
Dame gets 300
Total hopsin:700 - manage fe
Total dame:300+ manage fe
The manage fees was 20% of artists money, 400*20%=80 which is 8% of the total 1000. Resulting in :
Hopsin:700 - 80=620 :62%
Dame:380: 38%
Great interview. Very informative. I wish we had a SwizZz interview, also. Seems like he's the only FV gut who never got his side out.
I think Damien was pretty mature in explaining everything, too bad FV is dead. There is only one loser here, we the fans.
They really needed to have respectful conversation, because they both have valid points and grievances...Too bad that didn't happen. Be good to each other from here on out and chase that success but not at the expense of others
If Dame was real he'd have let him keep the label he thought of before he was even involved in his music.
Typical money hungry snake.
im a huge hop fan but theirs 2 sides to every story. dame dont seem like a bad dude
+Devin Lease you're an idiot. i was talking about my perspective on him based off of hops claims.
there's 2 sides to every story, true
There's a million and one sides to ever story. Both sides in this case will tell some facts, some fake and some exaggerated. We'll never know.
unless someone wise actually tells the unbiased truth cuz it's just how they do... like hop
Gary Frank You must be young, Corporate People always “don’t seem like bad dudes” He is making excuses and not admitting to a single possible mistake he most definitely made. Like you said there are two sides.
Both Sides Made Mistakes Buddy.
im about to listen to ill mind 8 after this
Did you enjoy it?
I like him, think he is pretty straight forward an honest. Also indeed a low blow to out the gambling problem and he stands up to it still
Who else only clicked on this jus to see if hop was on point wit the impression of dame was on point ?
only reason why I watched this video was because I heard Hopsin imitating his voice and I was like...there is no way he sounds like that.....Sure as Shit
SwizZz still didn't respond to Passionate MC's Diss tho 😂
passionate killed him!
brought him back to life and killed him 😂😂
"I remember back when you and Hopsin went Haywire with the contacts in, now I know why you put the blacks in, because it's like the shadow of Hopsin that you were trapped in"
"Make that body lean like it's limbo"
He dead. The outshined you on Knock Madness and stealing his spot on the tour were K.O.'s. Passionate said that diss was LIGHT, imagine what he has on his arsenal.
What do you mean ? are you asking how this started ? or what the line means ?
Watch in about 4 or 5 days then swizZz will shut people like you up all the time
Me, hearing this dude talk for the first time sounds like I’m still hearing Hop impersonate him.
so i think what happeneded at 17:00 is as soon as hopsin got the idea of leaving and making undercover prodigy. he liked it so much that he was all ready working on ill mind 8. so his mind was so focused on making UP and not trying to fix FV. hopsin is the main reason funk volume had to break up because thats what hopsin wanted. everyone says the situation couldve been talked out, but hopsin didnt want to talk...
I think hop just wanted a excuse to end the label cuz these excuses he came up with are wack
That’s funny how’s there’s so much hate on dame and now we find out it was actually hopsin who tore down funk volume 🤷🏼♂️
why is Dame doing Interviews multiple months after Fv split ????
probably had to think of the stupid lies to say
here before it gets over 1K Views
He worked at Deloitte?? Damn
never trust your money with people who like gambling
I'll always be a Hopsin fan, but it does sound like even if the issues were worse than Dame made them sound, they still could have been talked out. I imagine there's deeper issues that none of them have talked about in public yet.
Never took the time to listen to this interview...Dame was pretty honest and to admit to a somewhat gambling problem...Hopsin is the talent...Hopsin needed a bigger split to make this happen....60/40 would been more realistic at the beginning...Hopsin doesn’t need Dame in any manner....Best of luck to Dame...Seems like a good guy....
I dont know if i like vlad.. He seem like he type to hype someone up to go fight
Big time instigator..shit starter
that guy the jokerr absolutely knew the shit was gonna fall apart like 3-4 years ago. he knew Dame was a POS back then and got pissed off hopsin knew that but stayed with him for the money.
dame told hopsin he wasn't pulling his weight & wasn't working hard enough and he wanted a larger amount of hopsin's income so hopsin said fuck that I'm goin solo.
Jokerr ass
I’m here after I seen Hop post a picture up with Dame.
Why didn't you talk about the record he refused to give back to Hop?
I'm a fan of hopsin and I followed this close when it happened, I watched everyone involved interviews, it is clear that hopsin kinda went crazy over some bull shit and had to just go through with after he made it public. Hopsin story from his own mouth has been an extreme exaggeration and all the other people really thought it could be fixed. lol I still like hopsin but yeah if u research this its clear that hopsin threw a tantrum. But oh well it makes for good music.
thank you. I wanted the opinion of a fan other than myself who saw every side . yeah I'm with you on that . I feel like dame was taking advantage of hopsin but hopsin went overboard on the situation. I say it's 50/50 on whose fault it is.
Year Of the Dragon And A Scorpio You Can See Through The Bullshit Nice
100
He probably didn't want to go through the same shit that happened at ruthless
Scorpio1988 what would you do if you felt betrayed & taken advantage of & then on top of it all!, feeling like your dream is being taken out of your hands!!!???
Hopsin is a FIGHTER for the things he loves in life, which is a lot of what this world lacks of...this label was his life...his 'child almost!...at least take all of that into view.....but in Ritter's defense - Ritter was only strictly on the business side & I think forgot or was not clearly informed enough about the fact that Hops wanted to work WITH him! Which Hops should have tried harder to make clear to him. This could have gone another way. But when you're already broken and beaten from past experiences & wrongdoings that have been done to you, to be on your guard & eventually explode should have been expected or Ritter should have tried harder. Hops was in the right to defend himself & everything! It was obviously bound to happen.....lack of communication & willingness to understand one another was the issue here.
But everything happens for a reason!!! And I learned that from Hops! 💯 REALEST artist I've ever had in my ears! Fukk the fake shit everyone seems to love nowadays!! Wish this wouldn't have happened though! Sad day!
Look at that shave amazing
Haha. Good shit. 😂
as much as people are hating on him, he dosnt seem too upset, i feel like he's moved on
Its a bit ironic that he announces he was in charge of budgeting and has an in depth knowledge of the financial splits etc in the same interview he deflects the money managing questions by claiming be has nothing to do with that side of things...
Honestly that was the truth, and the truth hurts. I’d never get no money with hop, he’s inconsistent.
And he already had a bad track record with these labels....
@@mycommentaccount6930 exactly he lied and said ruthless signed him for $500 but got 100k.
hopsin is just too god damn emo i fux wit damien ritter nigga walked off stage at that revolt show wouldnt show up to meet and greets
Funny thing is that when Hopsin imitates his voice he sounds just like him. lol
ive listened to both sides and i think theyre both being straight up and i think dame was more in the right. hop jus seemed like he doesnt like confrontation and didnt know how to bring shit up (im like that too) and its unfortunate they couldnt settle this
Is that the label with all the black dudes that try to rap like Eminem?
nope that's slaughterhouse, which is horseshoe gang
+jdog killuminati #Horseshit gang
Dizzy doesnt rap at all like Eminem. Jarren, only close thing to Eminem is some of his lyrics cause theyre "horror" themed. Hopsin, yes, hes a cheesy Eminem clone.
Ha you know Hopsin hit up Vlad buggin after this one
You know
this comes down to that 80/20 50/50 split talked about at the beginning of this. hop has got to the point he could run his own shit and split it with nobody. So he did.
Why is Dame getting an extra 8% from album sales if HOPSIN was Co Owner?
HOPSIN gets 40% because he is the artist
HOPSIN gets half of remaining 60% which is 30%. Total of 70% of album sales.
Where does this extra 8% for Dame come from?
Dame seems like a reasonable guy, I think hop was looking for a fight so he could get his 50 percent back.
Dame what's good? Nothing.................exactly!!!!!!!!!!
dame said hop let him handle 100% of the business side no matter what if you are 50/50 partners in something you share everything hop should of been involved in the financial side as well as the creative side unless dame is lying but no matter what you dont let someone handle all of the money and expect them to have your best interest
Admit it..the algorithm brought you here after you saw FV pod
him and swiss really look alike...strong genes
Dude tried to start a gym in the funk volume name
There are always 3 sides to any story of conflict.
HE SEEMS LIKE A GOOD GUY AND BUSINESSMAN