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Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

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Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#21

Sweet, hopefully people are realizing that Cash is the better app. Venmo has that weird public feed that no one wants — Cash is almost flawless.

Cash is still lacking a calculator feature, and I've had some problems sending money to people where it just errors out with no explanation. I wouldn't call it flawless. You can mostly ignore Venmo's public feed if you want to.

This piece sounds like an advertorial, and these artists are almost definitely being paid to mention Cash App.

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#22

Sweet, hopefully people are realizing that Cash is the better app. Venmo has that weird public feed that no one wants — Cash is almost flawless.

Venmo are cunts, they banned me for life and refused to explain and basically treated me like a terrorist. All I did was send money to various people once in awhile to be nice to them. That was it. I hadn’t even used Venmo for 3 months when they banned me out of the blue with a menacing email about how my activity set off red flags. Like they really went out of their way to be dicks for no reason, it was astonishing.…

Well they are owned by PayPal so no surprise there. Nothing like trying to buy something on eBay and getting the transaction blocked for potential fraud, calling support and literally being told that there is nothing they can do about it and there is no way to complete the transaction. Thank god there are other payment processors that aren’t complete trash

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#23

I do a lot of hardware sales online and often exchanging identities is a way to increase trust amongst buyer and seller. This article holds up to my observation that black people use cash app and white people use venmo.

I'm black and have the same observation, I currently live in Portland and everyone here seems to use Venmo, but when I was home during the fourth of July weekend back in Brooklyn everyone used Cash.

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#24
This article made my morning the other day for these lovely excerpts:

> “I just wanna know your name and your Cash App / It ain’t trick-trick-trickin’, you can have that,” Mr. Bentley soliloquizes on his track, referring to a more efficient way to tip an exotic dancer for her services.

and

> Rapper Brandon [...] called it out in a recent mixtape. The name of the song mentioning Cash App, “Shake It Move It,” can be printed in The Wall Street Journal. The lyrics cannot.

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#25
post #5

We used to call these kinds of artists "sell-outs."

RUN DMC - one of the forefathers of rap was rapping about “My Adidas” in the early 80s. Nelly was rapping about his “Air Force Ones” in the 90s and how he “needs two pair”.

Run-DMC were definitely not sellouts, they sang about Adidas because they genuinely loved them and grew up wearing them. They weren't paid until Adidas took the opportunity to promote them even further. They did reject Calvin Klein ("no friend of mine, don't want nobody's name on my behind")

Additionally, Run-DMC had tons of positive, supportive, pensive and wise lyrics about education ("I go to St. John's University / and since kindergarden I acquired the knowledge / and after 12th grade I went straight to college"), economics ("All day I have to work at my peak / because I need that dollar every day of the week"), hard work ("He gets better cause he knows he hasta / in 84 he'll be a little faster / cause only practice makes a real Jam Master"), and just being a good person ("here's another point in life you should not miss / do not be a fool who's prejudiced")

IMHO Run-DMC was easily the most inspirational and positive rap group of all time. And the best damn rappers period. RIP JMJ.

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#26

Sweet, hopefully people are realizing that Cash is the better app. Venmo has that weird public feed that no one wants — Cash is almost flawless.

Venmo are cunts, they banned me for life and refused to explain and basically treated me like a terrorist. All I did was send money to various people once in awhile to be nice to them. That was it. I hadn’t even used Venmo for 3 months when they banned me out of the blue with a menacing email about how my activity set off red flags. Like they really went out of their way to be dicks for no reason, it was astonishing.…

Why would you send money to people just to be nice?

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#27
post #13

Sweet, hopefully people are realizing that Cash is the better app. Venmo has that weird public feed that no one wants — Cash is almost flawless.

Theres a setting that will default all your transactions to private in Venmo.

Because no one wants it

Re: Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Venmo are cunts, they banned me for life and refused to explain and basically treated me like a terrorist. All I did was send money to various people once in awhile to be nice to them. That was it. I hadn’t even used Venmo for 3 months when they banned me out of the blue with a menacing email about how my activity set off red flags. Like they really went out of their way to be dicks for no reason, it was astonishing.…

Why would you send money to people just to be nice?

I am a descendant of an endangered high trust society lineage so I'm genetically programmed to get a dopamine surge when I randomly help others in need. Unfortunately. I'm also rich and I have no loved ones so there isn't much resistance to this wasteful tendency. I also have an occasional death wish so maybe it's the rich male version of a girl who cuts herself. There are also schizotypal motivations like I'll read Timothy 6:10 and get scared of having too much money despite not being religious. Sometimes I also think if I can relive the long lost anxiety of feeling like I'm not making enough money, then my urge to work hard on new projects will come back. The only way Venmo are not cunts is if they could tell I had unhealthy motivations for sending money and they wanted to protect me from myself. Since that obviously isn't what happened, Venmo are cunts.
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