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Believe Us

Artists Brodie Fresh x King Beamo
Directed by JL Shot That
Label Popular Stranger Records / UnitedMasters
Runtime 2:19
Sound NY flex anthem — LI meets Brooklyn drill
Visual Chains, whips, the crew
Certified
17K+Views early
1,000+Likes
2Boroughs at war
7Moves in the plan

The Read

01 · Core insight

The song is literally called “Believe Us.” The video is a wall of receipts — chains, whips, the crew — and the YouTube comments are already split arguing whether Elmont/Long Island, Brodie Fresh’s turf, or East New York/Brooklyn, King Beamo’s turf, “believes harder.” That argument is the campaign. Every move below turns “believe us” into something people have to see, wear, or win instead of another generic giveaway.

The Chain

02 · Seven links

The Receipts Tour

Print the hook as real thermal till-receipts — "1 chain... paid in full" — and get bodegas and barbershops in Elmont and East New York handing them out for a week. A QR code on each one unlocks a snippet or a merch discount.

Street drop~$40 + trade

Borough Court

The regional pride fight is already happening in the comments for free — stage it. A deadpan street-interview series: barbershop regulars and corner-store owners from both blocks, asked one question on camera, "do you believe them?" One clip every 2-3 days, alternating boroughs.

Content seriesCamera only

Believe Us or Cap

"Receipts" (screenshotting proof to win an argument) is already a massive TikTok format with zero music attached. Seed 15-20 micro-creators to duet their wildest DM or text screenshot with the hook as the reveal sting.

TikTok / IGSeeding only

Verify the Flex

Every flex record gets called cap. Own it live: a stream where Brodie and Beamo verify the song's claims on camera — the actual chain, the blurred bank balance — while chat votes real-or-cap under #BelieveUsOrCap.

Livestream1 date

Two-Borough Chain Drop

Trade a small custom pendant with one Long Island jeweler and one Brooklyn jeweler. Entry is a post repping your borough with the record. One winner per borough, announced live.

Jeweler co-sign2 pendants

The Toast

At 2:19 this is a run-it-back record. Brief 8-10 lounges across Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn for two weekends: hook drops, lights dim, every phone goes up as a flashlight, filmed vertical.

NightlifeDJ outreach

The Fake Flex

Drop a deliberately absurd, clearly-labeled "leak" a few days early — an armored truck of jewelry, someone notarizing a flex claim — captioned "y'all don't believe us so...". Follow with the real video: "Now believe us."

Bait & switch1 skit

The Drop

03 · Rollout sequence
Side A
Side A / WK 1

“Fast + slow, at the same time”

Launch the TikTok seeding (Link 03) and the bodega/barbershop receipt drop (Link 01) together.

Side A / WK 1–2

“The engine room”

Borough Court (Link 02) posts 2-3x/week, alternating neighborhoods.

Side B
Side B / WK 2

“Give them a reason to keep posting”

Announce the Two-Borough Chain Drop (Link 05).

Side B / WK 2–3

“The payoff”

Book the Toast weekends (Link 06) and Verify the Flex (Link 04) back to back; optionally open with the Fake Flex (Link 07).

The Count

04 · What moves
LI vs BK split in comments & shares Track
QR scans off the receipt drop Track
Chain Drop entries per borough Track
Any UGC clip outrunning the official video Flag