One of the biggest artists ever, biggest artist of the last decade, is independent

This seems like a very big deal for artists, both up and coming and current, especially when we hear about big legends who can't get out of their 20 year old contracts

no

Seek therapy

This was an independent release?

Yeah cause its 100% Kanye would've bought them by now out of spite. Smart move by him to get ahead

giving earl sweatshirt a record deal pretty revolutionary

Yeah, teaching young artist the importance of music

I remember a video of Camron talkin bout when he signed he ain’t know what masters was and was like “yeah whatever take them s***s” or sum

Can’t believe artist huge like Ye Kendrick and em don’t got theirs

what is? or are you just upset?

lets not make this about kanye but i think he is focused on trying to get his own masters

basically says what artists probably already know

that you can sign whatever deal you want when you're small, then take every thing back when you get big enough

the big artists that complain about masters probably do it just to influence public opinion

yeah

Yep its a big shift in the industry

Maybe. But I don’t like applying the word “independent” in this way, it’s a reach, owning masters don’t mean independent. I know he has a great deal and a ton of freedom but it’s still a major deal and calling him independent is disrespect to the true independents imo

Kanye cant even buy his own masters lmao

OP a OVO meat jockey

No lol

He has no deal.
Every release he licenses his project to universal for distribution. He can choose to pick another label or just distribute it himself
Drake has no contract with any label

At this point he'd probably rather buy drakes tbh. I bet you Kanye had a "does drake own his masters? ....damnit!" moment lol what if drake buys kanye's

at the end of the day Drake is a glorified salesman

Doubt it man. Buying somebody elses Masters is pretty f***ed up

Lock thread. Mehn. Ask this s*** in the drake albun thread or something.

He kinda is independent same with cole. They work with labels, not for them

MJ did it to the Beatles. It can be done if you got the money and pettiness lol

The semantics of it being “under license” to Republic/Universal doesn’t make it a true independent release, it’s still major backed

True.