OPNov 3, 2021Hi Rollerhe wont be answering Joe Budden’s phonecall on podcasts anymore
- Nov 3, 2021
POOM POOM DOOMLike imagine they slide the contract towards you, and then they got their hand out like this waiting for you to take the pen and sign it
But you're like this going "nah not until I've finished reading this whole thing"
They throwing contracts at me u know that niggas cant read
- Nov 3, 2021
americanaArtists and athletes are the only workers in todays times who truly earn their millions, and they deserve their moneys worth
F*** the industry
Bro u so flicking aggy no they don’t!!
- Nov 3, 2021
BlueDreamRecord labels prey on and take advantage of broke artists and we don't talk about it enough smh
They don’t gotta sign lol stop
Nov 4, 2021·1 reply
JT is Electric85k might not be alot for you but if I tell any nigga ik right now that they’ll get 85k for singing? s*** I might turn into Diddy
yea for sure that’s why so many people sign it. it’s a lot of money to get at once no doubt. but its important to remember that it’s a LOAN not just free money. you get that 85k and then have to generate enough money from music to make the whole thing back before you will see a penny of it. basically it’s like gettjng 2 years of a 40k salary which is livable but I prob wouldn’t call it “life changing” unless you were really really broke beforehand
- Nov 4, 2021·1 reply
How long till this turn to bashing my African brethrens
Crazy people don't go all out with lawyers. Seems like the best investment only if they all in cahoots with the labels but who knows
- Nov 4, 2021hadji
yea for sure that’s why so many people sign it. it’s a lot of money to get at once no doubt. but its important to remember that it’s a LOAN not just free money. you get that 85k and then have to generate enough money from music to make the whole thing back before you will see a penny of it. basically it’s like gettjng 2 years of a 40k salary which is livable but I prob wouldn’t call it “life changing” unless you were really really broke beforehand
It sucks that’s its not common knowledge that advances are literally loans where the distributor controls what counts against it or not
- Nov 4, 2021·1 replyMr Papi Nigga Dave
How long till this turn to bashing my African brethrens
Crazy people don't go all out with lawyers. Seems like the best investment only if they all in cahoots with the labels but who knows
How is a poor person gonna go all out on a lawyer lmao
Nov 4, 2021Niggas that say she is a grown woman and that she shouldnt have signed are f***ing dumb
Labels pray on these people, and when they give u some money u desperately need, they take advantage on that and give u an ass contract
- Nov 4, 2021·1 reply
$85,000 is more than enough for a record deal tbh the average American makes 30k a year and she still getting more than that after they tax it. I think you guys think every artist should have $1 million advance deal and that would hurt her more cuz she gotta pay it all back
Nov 4, 2021
Cole2Shouldn’t have signed it
she prolly saw that advance and just signed. That’s still life changing money, but not much in grand scheme of music
85k ain’t no life changing money at all. Especially when paired with signing your career away
- Nov 4, 2021
BanditoThere's no way they didn't sign him to 360 as well.
Yup. Especially since he was a literal nobody until that point.
- Nov 4, 2021·1 replyMr Papi Nigga Dave
Y'all tripping. Shawty was signed when she was still cleaning houses and didn't pop for 2 years. Her album got big out of nowhere and she had a drake cosign I'm sure no one woulda expected. If she ain't pop would y'all say the deal bad
Yes because LVRN could’ve gotten any talent female popping at that point. They had the major label’s full support and the Apple connect.
- Nov 4, 2021
MiguelMeyerzCan't be cosigning her getting 16% on every dollar she makes. That's a robbery.
Is it every dollar? The industry standard is usually around 16% of every album sale. If it’s 16% of every dollar that summer brings in, that’s super wild.
- Nov 4, 2021·1 replyPOOM POOM DOOM
Like imagine they slide the contract towards you, and then they got their hand out like this waiting for you to take the pen and sign it
But you're like this going "nah not until I've finished reading this whole thing"
Labels aren’t handing you an offer in physical form lol. Those signing vids we always see is after everything is negotiated by both ends and in black and white, just awaiting final signatures
- Nov 4, 2021·2 repliesJT is Electric
How is a poor person gonna go all out on a lawyer lmao
You hire someone good to negotiate a great contract and use the proceeds to pay them. It's an investment
- Nov 4, 2021·1 reply
KeeFirst of all, Niggas need to read their contracts if they're going to sign to a label.
Second of all, BE F***IN INDEPENDENT!!!!!
You can still make a name for yourself, just have a team with you ready, so you can make your career happen.
Hardly. You’re not getting popping or getting any real traction independently without a pretty solid budget at your disposal. That narrative has to stop. It’s simply false hope.
The odds of an indie artist hitting the lottery on a social media algorithm with no good amount of money thrown on the flame to push the content piece is so damn low. To the point that it’s literally.. like playing the lottery. Most of the popping “indie” artists we see are secretly signed to someone. This isn’t a well kept industry secret whatsoever.
Nov 4, 2021
mjpplusSo her contract is so bad that she has to eat off dustpans? Wild
- Nov 4, 2021·1 replyMr Papi Nigga Dave
You hire someone good to negotiate a great contract and use the proceeds to pay them. It's an investment
You know how expensive entertainment lawyers are? U thinkin like a kid lmao
- Nov 4, 2021Allen Iverson
Hardly. You’re not getting popping or getting any real traction independently without a pretty solid budget at your disposal. That narrative has to stop. It’s simply false hope.
The odds of an indie artist hitting the lottery on a social media algorithm with no good amount of money thrown on the flame to push the content piece is so damn low. To the point that it’s literally.. like playing the lottery. Most of the popping “indie” artists we see are secretly signed to someone. This isn’t a well kept industry secret whatsoever.
Nah, I think it's possible, we just gotta get out there promote, make your money, and make the best possible connections. No matter how hard it gets, it's still possible.
Saying s*** like it's "false hope" is f***in terrible mindset to have. At the point, you're destined to be a failure, because mentally you keep throwing yourself down. You gotta have faith
Nov 4, 2021·1 reply
tomorrow volversehow many starving artists can realistically afford a lawyer to negotiate their Interscope deal?
it cost like 400-600$ for a lawyer to check it (i did it for my music contract) so … yea it’s not that much
- Nov 4, 2021·1 replyMAZDA6
it cost like 400-600$ for a lawyer to check it (i did it for my music contract) so … yea it’s not that much
did you sign?
Nov 4, 2021Mitch Baker$85,000 is more than enough for a record deal tbh the average American makes 30k a year and she still getting more than that after they tax it. I think you guys think every artist should have $1 million advance deal and that would hurt her more cuz she gotta pay it all back
She gets 16 cents per album sale after everything is split it f*** the 85K
- Nov 4, 2021tomorrow volverse
did you sign?
Nope, it was a good management deal, but I heard some red flags about the manager, so I passed on it
- Nov 4, 2021·1 replyJT is Electric
You know how expensive entertainment lawyers are? U thinkin like a kid lmao
I'm dead. Are u stupid. It's an investment that should pay in the long run no matter how 'expensive'
