Jumptheturnstyle - Sam Adams week is officially over here @ JumpTheTurnstyle.. and more than likely, so is his career. Scam Adams, rather Sam Adams’ recent rise to overnight super stardom and #1 iTunes hip hop debut is a complete farce. That’s right.. dude is a fraud of epic trustfundian proportions.In a stunning turn of events, multiple music industry insiders, including the head of a major independent record label, an employee at iTunes, and an industry source at a major digital distributor (who have all asked to remain anonymous) have confirmed the following allegations to be true; close to 75,000 downloads of Sam Adams iTunes debut were charged to a single credit card. That’s right – Sam Adams has used the age-old industry trick of record buy backs to blow up. Meaning, young Scammy has his people downloading his record to boost his sales numbers – and in turn, push his debut to #1 on iTunes hip hop charts. Scam Adams iTunes debut has been baffling to all levels of the music industry, from artists to executives. No one could seem to understand how a complete unknown with no major label backing could chart #1. Last week no one knew the Trinity educated, silver spoon fed, captain of a division III soccer team college boy — and seemingly overnight, with multiple features on JumpTheTurnstyle and a fraudulent boosted iTunes debut.. Sam Adams became the biggest name in hip hop. Now it’s all over. Scam Adams is fake. His people manufactured his entire career.. and he got caught out.

R.I.P. SAM ADAMS.

UPDATE: I just wanted to state on the record – I have not seen these credit card statements, nor can I produce them. The sources stick by their claims. If this story isn’t true.. he sure has some major music industry haters trying to soil his reputation (and in turn, mine as an esteemed journalist a shitty blogger). We will give Sam Adams ample opportunity to address these claims if he wishes to do so. I’m not trying to soil or ruin his career. Just stating what I heard.

 

So about 100 people sent me this link yesterday.   And more people are sending me links to sites that linked to this article today.  To be honest I’m not even sure how anybody found out it because as far as I can tell Jump The Turnstyle is a tiny ass website.   But that didn’t stop me from wasting valuable Barstool blogging time yesterday by going onto their comment section and ripping anybody and everybody a new asshole.  Or at least trying to.   Because let me state this loud and clear. Only an idiot who knows nothing about life would say that this kids rigged his Itunes buys.   It’s just a bunch of jealous rappers who don’t understand how a white boy soccer player from Trinity just smashed their faces into the ground and gave them a facial.  That’s really all there is too it.  It’s jealousy pure and simple.   I could rant and rave forever about this but I’ll let this exchange with some Bigge Smalls wannabe explain the situation…. 

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From: charlie the cat
To: tips@barstoolsports.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:43 PM
Subject: here’s a tip for you re: Sam Adams

Sam Adams …fraud? He is being heavily clowned in hip hop circles as we speak.

http://jumptheturnstyle.com/?p=7508

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From: tips
Subject: Re: here’s a tip for you re: Sam Adams
To: “charlie the cat”
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 2:15 PM

Yeah I just replied on that website. They are fools.  If he’s not popular why would I sign him up before the Itunes release? Because I can tell what’s hot. Kid is as legit as they come.

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From: charlie the cat
To: tips
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: here’s a tip for you re: Sam Adams

I don’t know why you signed him. Apparently because you have a lot of faith in your taste. That means absolutely nothing to me or anyone else. He’s good because you say so? OK.

I have worked in the hip hop business for over a decade. No one knows who this guy is. Before he was exposed, anyone who has heard of him had the same theory. Now it’s confirmed by legitimate journalists who have no axe to grind. The same writers were on his dick last week. Why would they change? Because we have sources, people who will be fired from ITunes for violating their confidentiality agreements. It’s not a single source, it is several. People way up on the food chain.

Believe what you want, you are in a position where you have to defend your self-imposed “taste maker” status and more importantly, your investment. You are caught between a rock and a hard place. Fight or flight, you choose fight. I get that.

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From: tips
Subject: Re: here’s a tip for you re: Sam Adams
To: “charlie the cat”
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 4:11 PM

I’ll tell you why I signed him. Because people love him and he’ll put ass in seats. I don’t care how long you worked in hip hop. I know when something is about to be big by the sheer volume of email and shit we get. I guess you just feel like an idiot for not knowing about him when a non rap guy like me did? Because I could fucking care less whether he is good or not. I know I can sell 2,000 tickets in 30 minutes to any show in New England right now.

My point is I signed this kid for Barstoolpalooza before his EP hit Itunes. I didn’t even know that release was happening when I contacted him. Yet I picked him out of every rapper in the area and musician to headline our college tour?   So you’re saying I just happend to pick the one guy who was about to fake blow up?   Bullshit.  I picked him because he’s huge and I knew that because I run a fucking huge website and could tell by how often I heard stuff about him. For two years. Nobody else. Just him. So maybe not big in your little rap circles but to be honest I’ve never heard of any other unknown rappers. So you do the math. How did I land on the one guy who happened to just blow up on Itunes. Just a crazy coincidence? Also why did everybody on the Northeast contact me instantly asking for his show.

Again I could care less whether he sold zero itunes because I didn’t even know was doing that at first. I just know how popular he is. So you can say whatever you want.

As far as your sources go they probably just hate him because he’s making the music industry look like assholes by doing all this shit by himself and he’s white

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From: charlie the cat
To: tips
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: here’s a tip for you re: Sam Adams

First of all you really make no sense when you say things like “I’ve never heard of any other unknown rappers.”. I mean REALLY?

My little rap circles run from this entire country to Europe and Asia. Very tiny.

As I suspected, you don’t care about the music. You’re a shark. A fair weather man. You don’t give a fuck about anyone but yourself and your money. For example, this kid SUCKS but you just said you don’t care about that. How very noble you aren’t.

Also, checked with Northeastern Activities and nither the student or his faculty advisor know of this 15 grand. When is that gig?

That’s 1,000 for every minute of fame!

Ever hear of Mr. lif? Esoteric? Akrobatik? Sully? Gang Starr? Just curious because they sell 50, 000 units yet they managed to pass you by.

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From: tips
Subject: Re: here’s a tip for you re: Sam Adams
To: “charlie the cat”
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:18 PM

I’m a shark? I don’t even know what the fuck that means. I’m not affiliated with him. I’m doing a 6 city college tour with Barstool Sports. We wanted a musician. I picked the most popular one I could find to get people excited. That’s why I know he’s popular. That’s why I know his Itune numbers aren’t fake.  We get enough feedback where I can tell when something big is happening. That’s why I booked Sam. He’s the biggest thing going around here. It didn’t have to be a rapper. It just turned out he was the right guy at the right time for us. This was before any of the Itunes shit hit this weekend. So for people to say his numbers are fake is a joke. I know it’s a joke because we did the research on him.

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I really can’t explain it any better than this email exchange. This guy and apparently a lot of rap dudes have their panties in a bunch about the success of Sam Adams. Listen I have no agenda here. I asked Sam to headline Barstoolpalooza because he’s crazy popular right now. That’s it. End of story. I know that because all the college kids who read us also listen to him. He didn’t sneak up on me. I’ve known about him for years and watched his popularity continue to grow. I guess there are always going to be haters out there, but to flat out make up lies and then attribute them to “unnamed sources” is as cowardly as it gets.  Plus if all you need is 75K to rig Itunes and become the toast of the music industry wouldn’t everybody do that?  

Oh and did I mention that Jump The Turnstyle (the blog that everybody is quoting about this story) pulled this from the website?    Hmm, in the five years of doing Barstool have I ever pulled down anything? No because I don’t print bullshit. At least not on purpose. That’s obviously what happened here.   Just rappers acting like babies because they got beat by a college white boy.   

PS – If you want a good laugh I played the role of the nutbag commentator last night and wasted an embarrassing amount of time arguing with bitches on Jumptheturnstyle. Not my finest hour.    But you fucking come at me and I’ll fucking fight.  Anyway somehow it turned into a pissing contest about how I smash the Phoenix which I do.   FYI –  It’s a lot harder to be awesome when you don’t control the editing and shit.

UPDATE – Jumptheturnstyle just printed a retraction saying they made the whole thing up. Too perfect. In the words of the immortal El Pres. Viva La Stool! We’re the biggest baddest cats on the block and just like with everything in life when we say something is fucking hot you better better fucking believe it’s hot.    Barstoolapalooza is going to rip peoples dicks off in a good way.