De La Soul on Sway: Still Getting ROBBED by Tommy Boy Records on Their 30th Anniversary

[Deltron]

more info: De La Soul Announce They're Getting Jerked By Tommy Boy's Streaming Contract



Industry Rule 4080 still in full effect

 

[GPBear]

Tommy aint your mother fukking boy

“Old de la will be streaming with roughly 90% going to tommy”

Buy their new shyt, brehs. fukk those devils

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Dafuq type of contract they sign

 

[DaveyDave]

thats fukkin bullshyt

Tommy Boy

 

[Easy-E]

And The Anonymous Nobody was amazing and I still have all their albums from when they let them go years ago...great marketing

 

[DaveyDave]

I'm glad i bought all their albums year ago, it sounds like they got fukk all from the cd sales as well tho. fukk labels

 

[Arithmetic]

@THE RETIRED SKJ

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

@THE RETIRED SKJ

i hate it had to be them...

But im not suprised

Streaming revenue has been horrible for vets

De La Soul was my childhood....

posdonous is my personal top 5 dead alive....

FUKK TOM SILVERMAN AND MONICA LYNCH

 

[NYK Loyalist]

fukk Tommy Boy. I have their whole catalog on my phone from buying the CD’s. I will never stream any of the old stuff if they aren’t seeing money from it

 

[King Poetic]

fukked up situation

Wonder how Queen Latifah and the rest of them contracts was looking like

 

[Kal-El]

Culture Vultures

Where is Dame Dash when you need him

Probably in a dark room apologizing

 

[thelonious21]

Crazy how we are NOW hearing about this.. tbh most artist of the late 80s early 90s probably got signed to the rape. Im surprised that they haven't spoken out earlier even when tribe was saying they deal was trash.. or shyt.. even when the lox was talking about they deal...

Sucks tho.. jus like a poster quoted from "Labels"
Tommy aint ya mother fukkin boy

 

[ahdsend]

The phenomenal Hip-Hop trio that is De La Soul has been nourishing the genre since the late '80s, and during a recent sit down with VladTV they discussed the ramifications of their successful Kickstarter campaign to fund their upcoming album.

A joyful Maseo opens up the convo about the group's prosperous path with Kickstarter and says, "You know, I told somebody this is the best record deal I ever had." Soon Trugoy the Dove adds his perspective on how securing funds from Kickstarter dramatically differs from that of a traditional record deal from a label like E1 Music, formerly known as Koch Records.

"Koch is an entity and a corporation, or a company that's going to invest thinking that they're going to get a return. Kickstarter is the fan that wants to hear an album from you and doesn't expect any profit, other than the music. That's it," proclaims Dave.

This incredible account from De La Soul also includes other provocative subjects like dispelling the myth that the group is financially strapped, why signing to a major label is akin to slavery, and the beautiful opportunities that a supportive fanbase can offer.

 

[mson]

And fukk Tommyboy them nikkas just suck!- Noreaga

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

How you a conscious MC, but your paperwork aint right