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It's not about just doing something new you have people come from acting into hip-hop/rap just fine. They rap more about stuff that pertains to their life and it's more believable. Woodley put on a gangster image instead of doing a wu-tang style and rapping about fighting and martial arts. Anyone looking up Woodley will see he went to college to wrestle and got into mma after wrestling in college. That doesn't fit the music image he's putting out. He was a completely different person in his music, that can work for some that portray an image just for their music but Woodley was already known before his music career so people know how his life was before rapping.Nah, it didn’t take off cause he’s doing nothing new in a very dull way. The people that consume what he’s tryna put out could get a far better product from too many places. Can’t build a core fan base that’ll continually support until the followers follow.
Yes he could've been a better rapper and made better music, but with Woodley no one is going to believe what he is rapping about. In order for it to work you have to completely stick to that image for your music like what Rick Ross did. He was a correctional officer but rapping about being a drug dealer. He just stuck to his image and went all in with it and made good music so people still listen to it even though they know he's fake. He borrowed his image from a real drug dealer, exact name and everything. But with Woodley he was still doing his mma fighting with UFC and doing TMZ with his non rapping image so there's conflicting images of him. If he wanted to have a fake image for rapping he needed to keep that same fake image for everything else he's doing in UFC and TMZ.