Of course I know he don't pay that **** in cash - you think I'm a retard? Lol
Either way though, Maybach is still seeing money from it - I don't know how the supply chain works for ordering one but if it goes through a dealer they have to buy the Maybach first from the company and if its going through Maybach directly, well, they're seeing the lease income directly too.
My overarching point is that these rappers are just getting played by the big boys of the corporate world. Talking about getting money when you namedrop a million different brands in one song, thereby putting money in someone else's pocket that you ain't gonna see anything out of.
Here's something that's kinda backwards though - people thinking that leasing is a bad thing. I dunno bout the tax laws in the States but I majored in accounting here and everyone knows that leases are an expense that you can use to reduce your overall tax bill. Buying a car outright is capital expenditure so you can't take any of that **** off your taxable income to reduce the tax you gotta pay.
So long as the amount extra your paying for leasing as opposed to buying < the amount you'll save in taxes, its actually smarter (from both a tax and cash flow perspective) to lease a car than to buy it, especially considering the fact that its depreciable.
I guess the idea is that some people are so filthy rich they don't worry bout that ****, but a good businessman should always be trying to get their $ up in as many ways as possible in my opinion.
Note: There is a difference between FINANCING A PURCHASE and LEASING a vehicle.
Y'all dudes up here know everything without knowing anything. There's plenty of "Filty Rich Americans" yet, you relate that to a rapper who makes what a surgeon makes annually for 5 good years and then falls off? Maybach ain't making money off no damn rappers. Especially one who doesn't actually "own" one but shouts them out until the day he can't make the payment.
NBA Players, yeah, but not as much as they make off rich kids in Europe who order 3 at a time. Rich guys here who go thru mid life crisis and show up with one paid for cash that the wife insists they take back.
Just because hood dudes only know them from Jay and Ross mentioning and showing them off, don't mean they even thinking about those dudes business.
And if you couldn't identify with my seperation of leases, rentals, and purchases with monthly payments, you must've halfway skimmed my last posts. You own NONE OF THE ABOVE. 2 come with the option of possibly owning one day. A company like Maybach isn't "getting it's money" from any of the three. That like saying Dre and Timbaland get's their money from guys leasing their beats. Why when they can sell one for a fortune would they care about montly payments that add up to what owner's pay in insurance and maintenance.
Only riff raff are sad enough to make payments, lease, or rent cars that are made to be bought on a whim by the true wealthy. As for "these rappers" you keep mentioning. If you haven't cleared more than a few mill, you're not gonna get any bank to cover a half million dollar payment plan on a car when "musician" is your job title. No one signs, goes gets a Maybach and get's trapped by the label. They do that off 740 Beemers and 600 CLKs. No one who can't afford to pay cash in the entertainment world owns these type cars unless they're in someone else's name...and then...can they say they "own" them?
Maybach get's real money. The 6-10 Rappers who may actually own one are small potatoes to the company. They aren't impressed by rap money. Neither is Ferarri, Lotus, Aston Martin, Bugatti, even Bentley.
We just live in a world where some can only relate to these things when they see a rapper in one(on a vid shoot, cause most of your favorite rappers can't afford/have the credit to actually take one home).
But I get what you were trying to say. It's just flat out wrong. Standing in front of something every vid you do and shouting it out while the monthly payment eats at your pocket is not gonna influence or inspire the next guy to do the same when the audience your reach can't afford to fix the transmisson on their civic.
It's just showing them sh*t they know nothing about and never will. Don't forget how much closer he is financially to us than he is to the guys he pretends to be as rich as. I know dudes with h2s and SL500s who's family is taken care of, those Maybachs must be why his kids getting raised by call girls and women with no vehicle whatsoever? "Getting money"...right. When I came back to VA, I gave a car away, got here and copped another one, this dude can't give his kid's moms a means of to and from? He could give her the 57 and keep the 62, right?
