Record
Deals
VS
Independent
Artist
Alz checking in... I'm gon tell you like
this here, if you poppin and you suc-
cessful with your business, what do you
need somebody else for, Why when
you getting every penny? If you come
with a deal on the table, you think that
you really gon get most of the money?
If you don't need them then don't do
it. That's the key, do it if you need
it. Signing deals, that's really like
throwback now. Instagram are making
people millions. Streaming and singles
is where it's at. They got people like
Youtube, MyMixTape, Apple Music,
Spodify, Tidal...you can download for
free and I'm gonna still get a check...
so what do you need Universal for? We
don't need yall nomore, yall gonna be
Summer 2018
going out of business in a minute, ya
feel me. They really won't lose busi-
ness because they pay people to do the
work ten times harder than indepen-
dent artist. Independent artist is basi-
cally trying to find a way to keep them
out of our business. We tryna keep
them greedy business minded folks
from taking advantage of capitalizing
on what we trynng to do.You still got to
respect their hustle because like he say,
if you need them, you use them. They
gon come at you and do all the work
for you and they asking you in return
to take forty percent of this deal and
we gon take sixty percent, but that's
only for a two album deal, that's cool.
Becasue if that album sell ten million in
sales, you still walking out there with
four million dollars. So it's not hurting
you to let them do all the work, because
sometimes you gotta start from the
bottom. We done been through so
much, so may different times, dealing
with so many different people like on
the national and international level,
that's wondering like what is going on
with yall and why yall playing. We just
realized that we don't need all them
other cats, that's like we could've eas-
ily signed to Universal or Interscope
and let them burn us a long time ago
and will still have us locked into a six or
seven album deal. We're not planning
on doing six or seven albums anyway.
So if you don't meet the expectations
as an artsit with the sales from the
investment, you don't neccessarily get
kicked off the label, you just will have
to work your ass off on tour and selling
merchandise. Therefore, if you don't
make the quota that the label has put
out, there is other ways to make the
money back. Now if you just don't pop,
sometimes it just doesn't workout,
that's just what it is. No matter what,
even if it's ten years down the line, you
still signed on that dotted line.You still
owe them people. Also, if you feel that
you want to make some outside money
without them knowing, you will have
a letter at your door. That's why a lot
of people be so stressed out and can't
make moves. See that title shit, pres-
ident, CEO's and artists & all, that is
for that, we're partners, everybody eat.
All that is for them purposes, to have
it in black and white. We founded the
company so of course we have the top
titles, but that's nothing.