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his thing was control
even if it meant exclusively selling physical copies from his website or having his own streaming service
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"PRINCE would have not being able to get a RECORD DEAL in this era" -OWEN HUSNEY
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his thing was control
even if it meant exclusively selling physical copies from his website or having his own streaming service
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feelosofer
#ninergang
I disagree actually,
Prince was a transcendent talent he would have got the deal regardless. But he would have probably worked until he could buy up his masters etc. A lot like Frank Ocean.
Prince was a transcendent talent he would have got the deal regardless. But he would have probably worked until he could buy up his masters etc. A lot like Frank Ocean.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
He was always down with control, but he felt like you couldn't control that shyt on the internet.
Quote from Prince
“What I meant was that the internet was over for anyone who wants to get paid, and I was right about that,” he says. “Tell me a musician who’s got rich off digital sales. Apple’s doing pretty good though, right?”
He was alive to witness every change imaginable and still hated it.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
spliz
SplizThaDon
Did u read the original quote? He said Prince got a deal just off talent. He had NO shows. NO following. NO marketing. NO NOTHING. Big KRIT had all of that.
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CapitalforCapital
Banned
The problem with music nowadays isn't the music but the actual product is bad. The young nikkas in my generation are much too distracted to actually sit down and learn the skill of creating quality music. This is why new artists creations are "bad", they're just going off of raw talent, and raw talent doesn't make the cut in mainstream America which is why it is not translating to large sales numbers. Middle America needs things pitch perfect, decent lyricism and beautiful packaging. Artists of recent have no skill from a technical standpoint so they are turning off a vast segment of potential consumers. An artist of Princes caliber would have been a worldwide phenomenon just because of how many leagues ahead of the competition he was compared to the amateur artists of today. This white like many other "intelligent" talking heads has no idea what he's talking about.
"To convince Warner Brothers that a 17 year old kid should be able to get signed and write and produce his own album with no sales track record ..no shows performed ..is a feat that wouldn't be seen in today's market...."
"In today's market....the record labels want you to bring everything to them on a silver platter...hit records....a healthy fanbase and touring schedule and merchandising to match....and then want you to payback the "advance" they gave you and even after you pay them back...they (the labels) still own your ART (masters)"...
Prince’s first manager reflects on the music icon’s early days
Edit: Nah I take it back. He'd get signed.... somewhere. But only after 1999.
For his image, yeah. For that minnesota sound? hell nawl.
He'd be on soundcloud til he dropped his Controversy album, then everybody would be on his nuts.
He'd drop 1999 and Purple Rain on Roadrunner Records or some shyt.
Illified infinitely
Banned
Well good thing he ain't come up in this era. Ain't nobody will make it like prince did anyway. It's what makes him prince.
feelosofer
#ninergang
IDK if an album at the musical level of Dirty Mind came out the streets would be buzzing at least.
ok what marketing J. Cole had before Roc Nation came into the picture?
he produced and rapped all his shyt too.
spliz
SplizThaDon
J Cole had music, mixtape, and a fanbase before Jay signed him to Roc Nation. Plus he kept running into Jay and giving him beats. Prince had NOTHING fam.
