Cash Money Chronicles: Blueface is signed to four different labels. Never saw his paperwork.

[ReadOneBookAWeek]

So what it's working

He has the biggest buzz right now

Same thing Tekashi said

 

[MrRDU]

Master P said years ago that dudes couldnt care less about the $, they just wanted to be famous. I guess he wasnt lying

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

their reaction after he said that had me even yee had a look like

the fact envy and ctg had to brighten the mood up by saying he'll be alright let's you know what it is. whenever someone has to say you'll be alright, you probably won't be

 

[CarltonJunior]

WHAT DEGREE DID YOU GET?

Comp Sys & Telecom

Basically an IT degree. A degree is a plus but without the certifications you won't get your foot in the door, I work a pretty okay job but I could've got it without a degree and most people I work with and my higher ups don't have one. I didn't have to go the student loans route so I did alright.

Point is, it's fine to raise your kids the traditional way and aspire for them to be scholars and work good to great jobs but if they find their passion then just go all out for it, there's not that much to lose. Even if I was making 100k a year working a regular 9 to 5 I probably would still be depressed and trying to find a way out and be my own man.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

It's usually after people becoming household names that they can actually have a relatively successful career as an Indie Artist.

E.g. If Taylor Swift went without a label she'd still eat heavy. Labels will often get artist to extend their contracts as they peak.

Also, the economics of scale you get with these labels can't be denied. Access to producers, distribution channels, clearing samples, recording, promotions etc. These labels have been playing the game for a long time and have the music operations down to a science. As an indie artist, you have to take on all of the aforementioned tasks by yourself and out of pocket. Labels help subsidize that cost to the artist.

However, with the internet, I'm sure some of these artists could start their own labels/distro channels. Kinda like how Disney pulled all their content from Netflix and created their own streaming service. I'm sure someone like drake could create his avenue with the pull he has.

dap/rep for an actual thoughtful post

The idea of the “independent artist” gets revered on here sometimes to the point of parody...so I can only imagine it comes off like I’m an apologist for the labels...which isn’t the case at all, just trying to paint a more realistic less idealistic view of the business ... the majority of independent acts are either

1. former major label artists leveraging the brand they’ve built over the years

2. on a indie label that’s doing the same exact thing as the majors but on a smaller scale

3. has some other form of funding and backing that essentially acts as a label by proxy (think of Chance The Rapper being repped by CAA or Tech N9ne whose partner Travis was the money and business know-how that funded and structured Strange Music and now owns half of it)

4. Truly on some independent “did it on my own” shyt...but just long enough to negotiate from a position of strength so that they can get a more favorable split from the majors (think Master P, Baby and Slim, more recently Nipsey Hussle,etc)

That fourth option is probably closer to the ideal people have in mind when they talk like every random rapper off the street should say fukk the labels, go indy...but unrealistic to expect every artist to have the entrepreneurial spirit, money and know how to pull that off...it’s walking into McDonald’s and asking every worker why they didn’t just open their own burger joint...or asking a coli poster why instead of just using their certs to get a gig clocking 6 figures, they didn’t just make their own tech company and become a multi millionaire

Take somebody like Cardi B...who in two years has gone from a stripper hoe and instagram personality to performing at the Super Bowl...and made millions...could she have done that independent? I’m gonna say no

 

[spliz]

nikka need to change his name to Eggface. Smh.

 

[itsyoung!!]

I work in music, most of these nikkas are signed to a few labels whether it be in production deals or management deals.

most of these street rappers sign to the nikka that will introduce them to a cash money or universal.

And while this situation is not ideal...things are working for him. He has done more in a few months than I've seen some acts do the past 5 years with millions invested.

You work in music? So I can use you to broker deals to book artists you work with ?

 

[No Ma’am]

You know Game‘s wise ass congratulated him

 

[ISO]

Wayne just settled his issues with CMR. Drake has also passive-aggressively hinted at issues in his raps.

Kanye is complaining about not owning his publishing.

Uzi said he’s quitting because of his label issues, and that he never should have signed.

I think the more important question is: why do some people continue to accept the model when they’re consistently shown it’s not in their best interest? Because everyone else is doing it? That sounds like a really stupid reason to do anything.

Where would them nikkas be without a label? Again the game is the game

 

[KingSol81]

I meant flip it like open a business or invest some.

Which he said in the interview hes in the midst of doing 17:30

 

[Long Live The Kane]

My posts in here also are only really bout the four label shyt...not really the blueface dude's specific situation cause I have no idea... I know no one would be shocked if he and wack fell out over business or any manner of cash money fukkery

 

[Legal]

lol i just finished watching the interview

that silence was painful as hell. felt sorry for that young man


and then CTG like blueface gonna be alright then hittin the

Yo, Charlamane hitting that ".......it's still early, though" damn near killed me.

You could tell he wanted to say something funny, but couldn't find any humor in the situation

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

He signed his life away for a blue Benjamin Franklin chain....how ironic

 

[NYChase718]

Diddy just got a new idea

Form three new labels and sign an artist 4 times without them knowing

 

[Pimpdaddy]

I work in music, most of these nikkas are signed to a few labels whether it be in production deals or management deals.

aint you a photographer?