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Thomas
Palatka, FL · a month ago
HOT

that's still five hundred thousand a year for doing something you love

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James
a month ago

the moral of this story is...don't beg to get pimped out... real simple

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Charlie C
San Antonio, TX · a month ago

why off set look like Eazy E and sound just like him here

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pax
a month ago

but what he failed to realize is the reason you have time frame for albums is simply because you also then have press tours, private tours, and a whole bunch of other stuff to get money to make the next album. if you ain't doing all the extras, you're basically just a SoundCloud rapper that gets paid more that three mil went to starting your career. now you have to build it

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Duke Jackson
Los Angeles, CA · a month ago

that is why you charge for features and do mixtapes or EPs. technically, not an LP, which is considered an official album and can include cutting the label off their slice. Also, these signees gotta stop being so wide-eyed, blindly happy, and thinking they made it by signing anything they put in your face. if you wrote that whole song, you better fight for most of the control of your work! your name! your whole gimmik, act, idgaf what you call it. if no one "built" or "manufactured" you as a talent, then most of that money is yours, and you should be signing onto a partnership, not a powerless talent puppet thats brought out the box every 9 months so the marionette (lable) could pull your strings and capitalize off your singing and dancing. work the angles, kid

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Charlie C
San Antonio, TX · a month ago

told y'all he's alive

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Najee Shahid
Flint, MI · 10 hours ago

y'all don't care you'll find a way to stunt on your fans

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juliojordan23
Monticello, NY · 12 hours ago

😲🤔

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SoundBetterTheWayYou
2 days ago

QC finesse the Migos and other artists regardless

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Its Me
North Las Vegas, NV · 2 days ago

Or be an independent artist and control your own shit and your own money really don't need labels nowadays with all the social media shit

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Dream
Syracuse, NY · 6 days ago

Aka selling your soul for crumbs

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Cory Williams
Allenhurst, GA · 5 days ago

he's telling the truth that shit takes so long... unless you go on tour ...

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Charlie C
San Antonio, TX · a month ago

hhhhhhmmmmm he sure sounds like someone when he's talking.

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Chad Douse
Denver, CO · 6 days ago

look bro, if you can't read contracts, please make sure you have a representative or a lawyer there who is competent and able when you are offered this contract. usually there's a time limit associated with reviewing the contract so it's really important that all your ducks are in a row at the time of signing and reviewing. Don't wait to get a lawyer

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MountSanai305
Lawrenceville, GA · 5 days ago

I think that is why a lot of those artists get their own record labels because of all that red tape!!💯🎯🤦🏽

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Cory Williams
Allenhurst, GA · 5 days ago

meaning you can be making music for the rest of your life if you don't invest in something

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Niño King
Philadelphia, PA · 6 days ago

PIMPING AIN'T EASY

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Leilani
Puyallup, WA · 6 days ago

So is that why he's trying to get Cardi's money?

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Spike NYC
a month ago

why are these non talents speaking about the music business. Clearly this girl doesn't know what she is talking about 🫩

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Kory Brown
Tacoma, WA · 13 days ago

why do these artists keep explaining the same thing every decade,yet still get taken advantage of

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GT
Miami, FL · 12 days ago

After all those years you just found this out you should blame your accountant he knew everything about the money scheme but kept quiet so his pay was secured 😆

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Branch Covidian
New Orleans, LA · a month ago

It would pay you to have a small library already written before you sign. If you can't do that you might want to look for a different career.

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Kevin “KD” Dawson
Tallahassee, FL · 11 days ago

create the Album, turn them in ahead of time or hell at the same time

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Mr.Gee
Bethlehem, GA · 17 days ago

you can keep making music. then drop one every 9 months. only work 2 years. do shows in between. stay ready. so you don't have to get ready.

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Woodrow Vereen
Middletown, CT · 17 days ago

TooShort explained it just like that in a interview awhile back,I guess he blew the whistle

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Wise1
17 days ago

quit been thirsty to sign and get a lawyer you can trust before signing

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FATT SAK RECORDS LLC
San Francisco, CA · 17 days ago

We in the world if fully Indy & these dudes be so damn scared to go on their own need to hold massa hand! Stop buying that weak ass chains watches & put your music out & go everywhere you went to perform

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Rocky Jacobs
LaGrange, GA · a month ago

His music sucked ass anyway

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BlackTim
Albany, GA · 18 days ago

These young dudes getting pimped. Yet all these Lil stupid yes following their words. lol That's crazy

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nickie ryvers
Miami, FL · 17 days ago

but u can drop singles he ain't keeping it a buck!

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Luke Da Lunatic
Detroit, MI · a month ago

and that y u do mix tapes

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Durty Rob
Stone Mountain, GA · a month ago

How you a artist looking for somebody to sign you 😆😆😆

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The Goat
Harvey, IL · a month ago

this been going on since the Jackson five and New Edition that's why before you sign do what ice cube did get a lawyer plain and simple 💯

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Oscar Carter
Phoenix, AZ · a month ago

back in the early 80,90s I was in a rap group and when went to the label they wanted us to have at least minimum of 50 songs written and ready to record

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Bryan Reddick
Baltimore, MD · a month ago

He think he has talent, which is funny. Who is he anyway?

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Danny Kolman
Broadway, VA · a month ago

i wonder if you can bargain for less sign on and more percentage of sales? or you just take anything until you are really big?

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Khoran Mustapha
Capitol Heights, MD · a month ago

Go on the internet or you tube you probably won’t do no shoes but at least everything is yours

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AmericanMan417
Brooklyn, NY · a month ago

Who cares

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Guest
a month ago

😲🤔

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jrocc kmh
Wichita, KS · a month ago

if you keep dropping the money will build that's why artists started dropping mix tapes they keep all the money 💰 now these new 360 deals they get a cut of that aswell

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Deuce
High Point, NC · a month ago

Signing contracts with the Devil!!!

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Demetrius Walker
Waterbury, CT · a month ago

how is 12 months 6 years

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Bangum blackhoodyfam
Brooklyn, NY · a month ago

jayz blue print...yall young boys still think it's elevator music

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darin
New Orleans, LA · a month ago

I lot of these artists are not making millions. That's the bottom line

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Devon Thompson
Bridgeport, CT · a month ago

wow that's crazy that's why having $$$$$$means a lot when you trying to get into the rap game independently is the best way to go pay ya own way all the way through it but it will be costly 🤔

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BIGMAN
a month ago

Plantation

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Roger Rabbit
Syracuse, NY · a month ago

Back in the days rappers didn’t need a label 😂😂😂👌🏽hit the street out your trunk I respect master p he did his own thing

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OGs4LIFE
a month ago

Rappers don’t make shit .. watch the Dr Documentary where he explains how it works.. it’s all loans people they gotta pay it back

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Jason
Louisville, KY · a month ago

i could care less. I live like I'm broke, cause I am. so even when I get a good amount of money, I still live like I'm broke. if I became a millionaire, I'd stay one

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jj
Kent, WA · a month ago

People save and invest to get two or $3 million and live just fine with that for the rest of their lives