They were too naive and trusting. They figured they're all friends and my man wouldn't try to snake me in the contract. And I think Joe did the same shyt record labels do where they sneak in certain language that gives the record label way more power than the artist realizes. Hell being able to decide expenses is one of the big areas record labels fukk artists by including all kinds of random shyt before breaking money out to the artists.
"Rip the rippers"nikkas have been warned multiple times to stop posting that yt page here
Fam Joe is a straight thief. There's a reason he keeps saying "the accounting I gave you". According to Rory it was just like 5 lines on the Excel sheet. None of the expenses were broken down. Also a reason everytime they ask Joe to see the actual Spotify contract or the taxes filed Joe throws a hissy fit and refuses. He was taking money that the pod signed for and using it to try and build the network. That's also why he complained about R&M not believing in him or seeing his vision because they wanted their money instead of it being designated to something they had no financial stake in if it worked. Which Joe claims that once the network was off the ground he'd bring them aboard lol. Again on some trust me shyt. Like he's already fukking them on the original pod and yet he wants them working even more to build the network on the hope that he'd kick them some ownership stake down the line.I’ll preface this by saying “I get my info from the pod”.
From what I can tell the real issue seems to be that Joe showed numbers but they looked fugazi to Rory/Mal so they wanted to open up the books more to a deeper scan.
At this point I think all of these dudes are wrong in some fashion until somebody sues and proves their case.
Yep. That homie deal is 100% dead when real money is involved or you know the homie you’re dealing with. Joes approach to this has been morally questionable even if he’s legally covered, ironically just like the record labels.
In that last pod Joe said himself, there's a difference between saying "you stole money versus saying I signed a bad deal". Most of us would think signing friends that we love to a bad deal is fukked up. In Joe's mind that's business. I think R&M in their naivety signed a bad deal and Joe took advantage. I'm sure that's why R&M haven't sued.
Even as a longtime fan I never trusted it being named after Joe in the first place
I have no doubt he would have been doing whatever with the money and rationalizing how it was none of their business 
Joe really thinks that he didn’t have to pay Rory and Mal after the Spotify deal endedHe’s truly acting as if that was a gift, like they weren’t working for it
He’s also lying by saying there was no money for Rory and Mal outside of the Spotify deal. How about YouTube? Why didn’t they get ANY of that money from the visual podcast episodes. They also were on tour, which is another stream of income.
As the “owner”, it’s your responsibility to pay people regardless of how much money is coming in. They’re not working for free.
He also keeps glossing over expenses and not explaining what exactly made the podcast so expensive to run. Joe Budden deciding to launch two new podcasts with 5 combined hosts and staff has zero to do with Rory and Mal. If they’re not getting a cut of those profits, why should those expenses impact they’re income?
Joe is a shyt businessman.
No those tickets were from stub hub resale. All tickets are bought by bots on Ticketmaster so of course its the top generatingThis tickets were for his top generating completely solo tour, that's a pricing strategy.
Maximizing the average price per ticket, it seems to be rocket science to some. But it's quite basic business applied by LiveNation.
Those 5 buck tickets were if you were lucky for the last maybe 100 tickets in a 20k arena.
Jay unlike other big rappers is the only one with balls to go on tour without other big artists too.
And I'm not downloading that kids app to listen to something about Jay-z aimed at kids and nikkas who like the same content as kids
That's still like 40-50 tickets you are seeing on there. You should've bought some since you were looking harder than the fans.
Also cause that shyt not real
I’m saying most tours sell out these days because bots by all the tickets when they go on sale on Ticketmaster and flood the resale sites.
