Scar Lip realizing in real time she's getting robbed by her label on Dj Vlad
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A good handful of times, it's the agent (Manager) that's the main one robbing the artist.
Her label had her meeting Cardi B before she understood anything about the music business. Right away she is made to feel like a star without knowing how the business works. That's the reality for many artists, the record business isn't looking for an artist that knows the business unless you have a great deal of prior success. The game works better if you're thirsty and ready for whatever.
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
I saw this awhile back and this was sad
Piff Perkins
Veteran
But Swizz said.....
REdefinition
Superstar
Thread title is not true. I watched the interview when it dropped a year or 2 ago. She was unsigned at the time. She told Vlad she had a couple offers but wasn't feeling one because it wasn't a lot of money (advance). Vlad was telling her its not always bad to take less money upfront because in the end that's less money to recoup. Then they go into the convo in the clip.
Well yeah he gets a kick back and probably much more over the lifetime of the deal
The way they trap them as far as I've seen is usually by setting an arbitrary condition to complete the contract and then moving that goalpost
So for example, they'll give you a 5 album deal, give you an advance for each album (which is the loan/budget for the albums), and then from there take a percentage out of everything you do musically from that point forward. Then they can decide that certain things don't or do meet the criteria to be called an album, decide not to clear certain songs, etc. All type of fukkery to keep you under contract
Corporate bullying, really
Edit: this isn't to say gotti is robbing all his artists cus he very well could be doing good business, I'm just saying that this is usually how those things go
You’d be surprised how many people think a credit card is “free money” that doesn’t have t be paid back. But to be fair, if no one teaches you something you won’t know until it’s too late.
She didn't know that?!
Ain't that like the "ABC's" of record contracts.
thelonious21
I like my women tall
Hmm.
You're right, is someone with good credit sets a contract up where they get a cut that money is the other person's - not the artist.
I wonder if legally the debt is in the artists name.
If it's co-signed, the cosigner is on the hook for everything.
If these rappers don't sell they're ruining their credit bigtime.
Ruin credit for getting some fame.
There's levels to this.
Taylor Swift is out here earning big, true profits while mad vlog bytches try to tear her down.
And I too think she's too much sometimes, but factual business wise - even her announcing her album at the Grammys was a right prepared hustle.
Lord Mecca
Eyes May Shine
Ok that makes more sense.