Nah he sold everyone's s*** under young money and unfortunately that included Drake's albums up until recent

It's crazy that drake continues to work with wayne lol

Feel like you're talking about 2 things here. But yeah his record deals for distribution seem quite amazing. As good as it gets

the masters part? yeah its important he owns his but that part isn't the biggest aspect cus many own theirs. We already have MJ who in the middle of probably the peak of all popularity bought some of the most important music industry masters ever and began to collect a significant amount of industry masters for 2 decades

Sony f***ed with him tho label wise cus he was on the brink of getting out of the contract AND owning half their company. They couldn't let that s*** fly

Universal bought these rights man lol
It was how they got wayne out from under birdman
Drake and Universal have a good working relationship

I’ve heard Akademiks allude to that to that Drake has some custom deal with Universal and gets paid directly

Makes sense

Tory Lanez blueprint is not as high profile but it is more important. Tory will go down as a Che Guevara type figure

The roc has ensured that wont happen

Kendrick is on Tory team now I believe they can do it and shake up the industry

Yeah they cut all the middle men out

So who owns his masters up to scorpion birdman? Universal? Or him

Universal up to scorpion.
Care Package, DLDT, CLB all owned by him

He owns his releases now but not his first 6-7 albums. Its not that surprising when you think of how much money gets generated from Kanye's peak. He's been used in so many commercials, movies, etc... that they 100% will not give those masters up unless forced to. Its a cash cow

So is universal gonna sell him his s***?

Through OVO, yep.

Maybe, maybe not, but clearly he can keep making music and have a whole new catalog of masters now.

They’ll probably eventually sell it to him for the right price. Maybe their is even a clause in his contract to allow him to have the option to purchase down the road at its future valuation.

Wow this whole thing a big dub then fr.

It was rumored that drakes OG deal was 75/25 in the 1st place which was one of the best deals in all of music for a starting artist. So he always got his $$$, was never in a 360, never had to rely on touring to make money. Now he’s fully independent, just signs a 1 album deal with a label for licensing, let’s them handle the hardest part which is distribution. His imprint is directly under UMG too, can go right to Lucian and say give me xxx for this and Lucian will say yes sir drake here you go, it’s that lucrative for them.

A great move

ye drop drake addy

drake drop ye best song in his entire discography

This thing is bigger than Nino Brown Kendrick

He sold HIS portion not the entire catalogue

His portion of the entire catalogue ya dumb b****

ownership >>>

very ironic how things turned out for certain artists considering false narratives they'd spread for years and now they're literally f***ed in terrible contracts they'll probably never get out of