Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 193 It’s not dark yet

 Getting rid of the outspoken Christine, Link drove back to the beach house.

While it was still dark, he turned on the computer to discuss the recent work arrangements with Ivaca, Ms. Mandy, and Graeme.

　　In the fifth week since the release of "Go Forward", a lot of negative information about Link suddenly broke out in the media and on the Internet.

The origin of these black materials is related to a talk show.

On Wednesday, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, and T.I., among others, appeared on CBS' Nightly Show.

 In the program, the host talked about the competition between Jay-Z and Link and asked several people for their opinions.

Lil Wayne said that Jay-Z won the battle this time.

　　When they competed with Link for the charts, they only competed for the top spot on Billboard’s rap chart, and never competed for the album chart.

After the release of "The Blueprint 3", all the songs on the album entered the rap chart hot40, and there was not a single rap song by Link.

 There is no doubt that Jay-Z wins.

T.I. also said in public that he wanted to tell everyone a joke. His joke was, ‘Link said he can rap’.

 Neither the host nor the audience understood the humor of this sentence.

 But after T.I. finished speaking, the 50 Cent rappers all laughed.

T.I. then explained that Link was a pop singer and could not rap at all. Link was only responsible for the singing part of the song "I\'mTheOne", so strictly speaking, Link was not a rapper.

He suddenly released a rap song in May and claimed that he wanted to compete with rappers on the charts. It was just a promotional method to increase the exposure of his second album.

50 Cents also shared the experience of one of his fans in the interview. After hearing the song "I\'mTheOne", his fans liked it very much and thought that Link's second album would be a rap album.

 But when he bought the record back, he discovered that there was no rap in the entire album. His fans were very angry and immediately burned the record and called Link a liar.

 50 Cents joked that Link’s approach was misleading to consumers.

 Lil Wayne also mentioned Link’s participation in amateur boxing matches in the interview.

It is said that Link is a master of hype. Before the semi-finals of the Golden Gloves Amateur Championship, he promoted and hyped himself by stomping on boxing stars such as Chris Bird, Bernard Hopkins, and Behemoth Valuev. He is called 'Mr. Talkative' by netizens.

 After entering the music scene, he continued to use his "talking" skills and continued to promote and hype by attacking top star Kanye, his sexual relationship with actress Amber, sports events, and competition for rap charts.

 In less than half a year, he gained great popularity in the music scene.

Lil Wayne and 50 Cent expressed their admiration for Link's hype methods, saying that he is more suitable to be a media reporter than a singer.

Being a singer requires strength and good music. A singer who only relies on hype to become famous is definitely not a good singer.

Lil Wayne claimed that Link's current fame was far greater than his ability, and in a senior tone, advised him to calm down and create music with peace of mind, and not think about becoming popular all day long. Those who rely on hype to gain fame, It's just bubbles and of no use.

 This program caused great controversy in the music industry after it was broadcast on CBS.

　　First of all, the rumors of discord between Link and the East Coast rapper were only speculations by the media and fans in the past, and neither party involved has publicly acknowledged it.

On this show, Lil Wayne and others publicly admitted that they competed with Link for the rap chart championship.

Lear and others also mocked Link in public and used indecent words such as "Mr. Mouth Talker" to attack Link, turning the business competition into a verbal attack and making the conflict between the two parties public.

This behavior does not comply with the competition rules within the industry.

Secondly, Lil Wayne and others accused Link of being a fan of hype, saying that he had been famous through various means since he was a boxer, and that he was a person who would do anything to become famous.

These attacks sound nonsensical, but they can also mislead the public and fans, and have a huge negative impact on Link's reputation.

There are many people on the Internet discussing whether he is a star who became famous through hype?

 On the Yahoo Sports and Entertainment Forum, there is a popular post titled "Celebrities stepped on by Linkla in the past two years."

The poster listed dozens of sports and entertainment stars in detail in the article.

Including Roy Jones Jr., Tyson, Hopkins and more than 20 boxing stars.

There are also many singers, actors and stars such as Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Emma Watson, Miss Thompson, Lady Gaga, Taylor and Amber.

 Although this post was suspected of infringement and was deleted half a day later, it also aroused great discussion on the Internet.

More people think that Link started his career by relying on news hype and celebrity popularity. He is a celebrity who does not deserve his name and is not a glamorous youth idol.

 For a time, a large amount of Link's black material emerged on the Internet.

Including Link's discrimination against black people, using doping in competitions, plagiarizing other people's songs, taking drugs, throwing adult parties, killing people in his teens, etc.

Someone also posted a picture of an adult party online. In the picture, there is a man who looks like Link, and more than ten women with no clothes on. A group of people are having sex, and the scene is very exciting.

 Although professionals later confirmed that the picture was photoshopped.

Link often fights shirtless in the ring. This kind of material is not difficult to find, but someone used this kind of picture to frame Link.

That picture was later deleted by the platform, but it still aroused heated discussion on the Internet.

 Because everyone knows that Link is very strong in that aspect, and Link has publicly admitted it, everyone secretly speculates that the scene in the picture may be real, but it has not been exposed.

 Suddenly, there were more black materials and negative rumors about Link on the Internet.

Link’s many dazzling auras have also been greatly weakened, and this weakening is also directly reflected in album sales.

 Offline sales cannot be calculated for the time being.

 On various online digital music platforms, sales on that day fell by more than 25% compared with the previous day.

 “Link, put down the lollipop, we’re in a meeting.”

In the video, Ivaca was wearing a women's suit, putting her hands on the desk, and staring at him with a serious expression.

 “I know, keep talking, I’m listening.”

 In the study, Link said while eating a lollipop. Ivaca shook her head, "Obviously, Jay-Z and his people knew they couldn't beat us in terms of album sales, so they started throwing dirty water on you and ruining your reputation. Next, we will clarify some rumors through the media. And use legal means to protect our legitimate interests, Link, you will be very busy in the next few days, so you have to make good time arrangements."

"I know. Can we also dig up some black material about them? For example, Jay-Z, he used to be a drug dealer. There should be a lot of this kind of black material."

"It's useless. He changed his career more than ten years ago. Now that he proposes it again, it won't have much impact on him. Besides, don't forget that he is an old man in his forties and worth hundreds of millions. Even if he has dirty information, it will not affect him much. It doesn’t matter much.”

Evaka said.

Link nodded, it seemed like this. This is one of the reasons why many old people become bad. They lack moral restraint and start to let themselves go.

 “Ahem! Ivaca, I don’t think those in their forties are considered old people, they can only be considered middle-aged.”

Ms. Mandy reminded.

Ivaca smiled and said: "Yes, he is a young and middle-aged man, Mandy. In the next few days, you can watch Link more and urge him to complete various tasks."

“Don’t worry, I won’t let Link drive around in the car anymore.”

Ms. Mandy smiled and nodded.

 “Supervise? This makes me feel like you are an overseer sent by Eva.”

“Link, the songs for Lana’s first album have been recorded. When will you come back and listen to it, or we can send the sound source over.”

Mr. Graeme said.

“Wait until I go over and listen to it, there’s the MTV Video Music Awards next month.”

"OK!"

The video chat ended, Link closed the laptop, stood up and stretched, and suddenly saw Taylor quietly appearing at the door.

 Wearing a golden ponytail, a purple polka-dot dress, and a pair of silver high-heeled sandals under her fair calves, making her figure more slender and taller.

"When did you come back?"

Seeing him suddenly looking over, Taylor was also startled. He patted his chest and said, "Don't look at me like that. I just came back and saw you in a video conference. I was hesitating whether to go out when I heard You’re done, I’m not trying to eavesdrop on your conversation, I’m not interested in your work.”

 “I know, I didn’t misunderstand, you don’t need to explain so much.”

Link said with a smile.

"Who knows, the way you looked at me just now, you must have thought that I was a stingy woman who often hides nearby and listens to the conversation between you and that big ass, right?"

“I didn’t think about it that way, I heard the sound of the car and could you please stop saying big ass, it would sound weird.”

  “The truth I said.”

 Taylor walked back to the bedroom, took off her dress, untied her bra, and prepared to put on a loose T-shirt.

Link walked over and hugged her slim waist from behind, and kissed her neck.

 With a warm fragrance and delicate touch.

Although we are an old couple, we still feel wonderful.

“Stop it! I’m covered in sweat. I need to take a shower first.”

Tyler took off his belt and bumped him with his arm.

“Don’t worry, sweat some more and we’ll wash them together later.”

“No! It’s not dark yet, so don’t move.”

More than an hour later, the sky darkened, and Link came out of the bathroom in shorts, feeling refreshed.

Just thinking about the negative news, he took out his mobile phone and opened Twitter.

After registering a Twitter account in March, after several months of operation and accumulation, there are currently 8.013 million users following him. Although it is not the celebrity account with the most followers, it is still among the top 100.

The frequency of his tweets is not high, with only 12 tweets before and after. They are all about promoting songs, promoting boxing matches, and gold medal lottery numbers, and do not involve politics or other social news.

Due to the amount of negative material on the Internet in the past two days, many negative fans came to attack him under the last gold medal lottery tweet.

Saying that he can’t rap and going to the rap industry to challenge Jay-Z, Kanye and others is just to gain popularity, gain attention, sell albums, and say that he is the king of hype in the music industry.

There are also anti-fans who want him to post another rap to listen to. Why is there no rap work after May?

　　The album released is not a rap album either. He is misleading consumers and is suspected of commercial fraud.

In addition to the messages from anti-fans, there were even more messages from fans in the comment area, refuting the comments of anti-fans one by one, resolutely safeguarding Link's reputation, and urging Link to go to court to sue Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and others.

Regarding the prosecution of several people, Link and the legal team have discussed that although the conversations of the Lille people on the show were somewhat offensive, they did not constitute defamation. If you want to sue them for this matter, the probability of success is not high. .

If Link wants to win this public opinion war, it is best to rely on the power of public opinion through media channels.

Link leaned on the sofa to think about it for a while, edited a tweet and sent it.

 “Link!”

Tyler yelled from the bathroom.

"Here I am!"

 “You forgot to put on my skin cream.”

"All right!"

Link shrugged his shoulders, put down his phone and returned to the bathroom.

 (End of this chapter)