Y’all really want them to fail just cause they ain’t put out albums yearly lol

u changed ur avi

Why exactly do so many rappers use big labels for distribution tho ?

Distribution is expensive
You basically gotta hire all of the different pieces that the label already has ready to go
Usually easier just to give the label a much smaller % in exchange for them distributing than it is to try and build a team to do it yourself

Isnt distribution nowadays just having ur s*** sent to streaming services ?

for a small artist yea but someone like Kendrick it’s marketing, physicals, interviews, rolling it out in foreign countries etc
even someone like Frank who’s totally independent did an Apple deal to do a lot of that stuff for blonde

I don't think marketing and PR is part of distribution ? That doesnt really make sense to me...

Correct me if Im wrong please and I'd love if you could elaborate some more

why yall tryna create this issue and turn it into beef Top already said its all love

because tde is a trash label

they are but they’ll be alright as long as they have sza, Q, and sir. if they leave its a wrap

Been done

Who cares

In the past yea distribution deals were basically just funding for manufacturing an album (CDs etc)
But now the difference between label services and distribution is super blurred so it includes marketing, music video funding, sorting playlisting and etc
Could include PR but sometimes big artists have their own PR team separate from the label

Basically the reason an artist like Drake does it is because he has 3 options
1 - regular label deal where he probably gives away the masters and he gets something like 20%. Label does everything for him, funds the album creation etc
2 - full independence. He can do whatever he wants but he has to distribute the album, potentially produce physicals for himself, market the album, potentially clear samples and features, fund any videos, organize interviews etc. he gets a higher cut here and owns the master
3 - distribution/licensing deal. Basically he still gets to own everything like the master but he licenses the master to a label for say 5 years and let’s them collect 20% of revenue in exchange for distributing, marketing, etc

So sure being independent entirely would give him a higher cut but for someone in his position it’s probably easier to just license the master and let the label figure it out since the label earns a % of revenue they’re Incentivized to help it profit as much as possible

blog.stundar.co.za/2020/03/03/how-music-distribution-deals-work
This has some extra info under licensing deal

do you like work for a record label or something

Nah I’ve done a little bit of stuff here and there but mostly I’m just interested in the industry

Tde been done since tpab dropped

People who like SZA will keep listening to her.

People who like Zay will keep listening to him.

Y’all acting like a music label is a sports team where Kendrick was leading them to a hypothetical Game 7 win.

I think he’s gonna retire tbh

Kendrick helped build tde. I doubt hes leaving

He already said today he is have u seen the note?

lol.

I mean what are they left with without kendrick, a bunch of has beens and sza