k w 🇵🇸Dec 21, 2020OP is totally not a major label mole planting ideas on ktt2
Dec 21, 2020
Spliff Sparxxxi have never ever heard a Russ song in my life
Don't be ignorant
Dec 21, 2020Kanye, please call me. Let's work together!
Dec 21, 2020Nah, but you can get spammed on KTT
- Dec 21, 2020
So much bs in this thread lol
Dec 21, 2020
Oshonot true, he had 10 albums that flopped and got big from gamers using his s*** lol
in response to both of your posts, the title of the thread says "without a major record label" and both x and russ while both very much independently grinded, eventually made use of major labels.
- Dec 21, 2020·1 replyOsho
he was famous before that and he only got distributed by EMPIRE which isn’t a major label
lol i would hardly call it famous. he wasn't very known at all if you mean the time period when look at me was going up and he was locked up
Dec 21, 2020
GooRather have a career like Curren$y's where you are well respected and make a lot of money instead of being like a Fetty Wap who has 3 hot singles for one summer and then gets banished to the shadow realm and remembered as a failure
spitta has more money than most of these rappers flexing lambo trucks
Dec 21, 2020Tech N9NE out now
Dec 21, 2020·2 replies
- Dec 21, 2020·1 replyI AM LOVE
look more into travis's come up
jay z came up in a different time entirely. very slim chance of that happening today
drake was literally young money
- Dec 21, 2020·1 replywhippet volverse
look more into travis's come up
jay z came up in a different time entirely. very slim chance of that happening today
drake was literally young money
yes but over time they’ve all become some of the most relevant figures in rap who have started their own labels and companies
Dec 21, 2020Leif_Erikson92He has a weird deal where Warner Bros pushes his songs to radio even though he's indie
Like a distribution only deal?
Then he's still indie and keeps like 90% profits that counts.
- Dec 21, 2020·1 replySpliff Sparxxx
at some point every rapper needs that next level look.
debate me (with examples)
Jayz
- Dec 21, 2020
champagnepoopyI’d sell my soul for a bag 🤷♂️ F*** it id sell my masters too...
Smh
- Dec 21, 20206geW
Who?
- Dec 21, 2020I AM LOVE
yes but over time they’ve all become some of the most relevant figures in rap who have started their own labels and companies
does any of that change the fact that they had major labels?
do you really think they'd be in the same positions without them?
- Dec 21, 2020·1 replywhippet volverse
lol i would hardly call it famous. he wasn't very known at all if you mean the time period when look at me was going up and he was locked up
17 sold 85k first week and it’s a rock album... before that he had the most streamed songs on soundcloud
- 8J6 🤴🏼Dec 21, 2020
Even distribution deals
- 8J6 🤴🏼Dec 21, 2020I AM LOVE
All heavily involved with majors
Dec 21, 2020So if I’m an artist but I want help, the best way to not get f***ed is to try and get only a distribution deal?
Dec 21, 2020·1 replyrelevance is crafted by, as lucy from peanuts astutely noted, "a big eastern syndicate" -- which is to say -- despite some attempts at grassroots clout acquisition that succeeded during the soundcloud era and after -- labels and media companies do decide what's hot and spam it until it becomes true
even when people blow up autonomously, they get snatched up by labels dangling offers they feel they can't refuse
indeed, promoting the idea that certain people who blow up are not signed is itself a sneaky way to promote an artist as if their ascent to fame continues to be totally organic
Dec 22, 2020Imagine having a deal and still being irrelevant. The label won't f**k with you, your music gets shelved and they get more control over your work(Lupe)
Ppl still champion indie artist but they gotta work twice as hard and the fans have to also. Could be a double edged sword in the end