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Apparently there's a whole side industry around renting out sports cars and other bling to people making hip hop videos.

Now there's a growth market

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There's even services that let you rent private jets when they're grounded to take instagram photos on.

NYMag but there's other sources - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/you-can-rent-a-groun...

Speaking of which I used to watch MTV Cribz back when I was a kid. The cars were rented, and the homes apparently never even belonged to the celeb. Was all manufactured, which I understand given the amount of crazies, celebs would not want to show off their homes. And the cars being rented to maintain their status.

I was watching an episode a while ago (forgot which one) where it was obvious the two rappers had never even been in the house before, like having to look around what sort of room it was before saying 'this is the lounge' or whatever. There was a picture of a sail boat that they looked at for a bit, slightly perplexed, and then said 'yeah this is a picture of a boat because we like boats' or something like that. It was hilarious.

The Cash Money Millionaires episode was totally like this. Big empty mansion with generic decor and the requisite shiny cars parked outside.

Sadly, this is not new. Even in the Bible it warns:

"There is one who pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;" - Pr 13:7

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1001070124/16870

From stories I've heard from exotic car rental companies, it seems they end up renting to people basically at cost and the real money is made when they ship out 10 cars at once with a full time handler for a photoshoot.

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