Obviously, an artist like The Weeknd owning his masters is big, but if ur not a superstar who’s music is gonna be played forever then it’s not a huge deal

KING

Why the f*** is it always the anime avy dudes having the worst opinions

The Weeknd makes more money then Drake ?

King

Also pretty dumb of republic to not get his masters. I guess they didn’t think he’d cross over

wonder what would happen if the weeknd wouldve debuted nowadays and dropped trilogy himself on distrokid or tune core or some s*** and played the same game he did with waiting til EOS to sign

U really have no concept of creative vision like if the label owns your masters they can put that song in places or causes u don't align with, brands u don't f*** with, its basically ur song is now the labels tool for cashing in instead of yours

s*** is a predatory business and its better for artists who give a f*** about how their music is represented to have creative control

label gonna end up putting Crack Music in a back to school homework supplies commercial from target

No. That's not effectively what happened and we've been spreading this lie for going on 10 years now when Weeknd himself said otherwise

Also, only on KTT will asking for a song, then paying the artist + giving them a huge amount of shine = taking advantage.

W

Yeah no one else wants them

You don't speak for each and everyone!

I'm sorry!

I will give u, that for some artists that label money could push them to the next level, but I feel like rarely is it ever a good situation a few albums later when they're holding on for dear life to the artist who now wants to own their catalogue

The real king of Toronto

He got some bangers cmon man don't do em like that

You mean all your money comes from touring if you don't own your masters, lol.

Imagine being Kanye West and knowing Nav got a better deal than you

Drake said himself he was never mad at The Weeknd not signing with him and was always happy for him in the Rap Radar interview

It’s like y’all love creating your own narratives and warping the truth

Ur acting like getting most of ur actual music sale money is a lot. It isn’t if ur name isn’t drake or adele. For The Weeknd it prolly is tho