Bow Wow has a word for independent artists who grab their beats from YouTube. As the massive video platform continues to be a resource for both producers to share their beats and artists to find them, the Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta personality broke down the proper protocol to avoid getting jammed up down the line.
“To all independent artist: When you go on youtube and take a beat make sure YOU HANDLE YOUR BUSINESS!” he began on Twitter on Tuesday (November 3). “its tricky. I always hit these producers and PAY them and we do business the right way.
“Meaning …. You might have recorded it and thought it was yours… meanwhile you have no paper work on the record. You don’t own nothin. Then you sitting there clueless saying someone stole my song. Naw.. nobody stole your song … ITS CALLED BUSINESS!”
Bow Wow continued, “And we have paperwork and ownership of the song. This is the music biz. Once i do all that the beat is mine. So .. now you know how to go about it. Pay these producers and u can claim it. You dont pay… well… it aint yours.”
Bow Wow found himself defending his music catalog earlier this summer after Timbaland suggested he may not have 20 hits to compete in a Verzuz battle. The legendary producer’s comments came after the rapper/actor turned down an opportunity to go up against Soulja Boy and Bow was quick to explain that wasn’t the case.
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“@timbaland you been drinking too much ciroc,” he wrote on Twitter. “20? Timbo you betta stop playing w/ me. I can give you 10 before i hit my 3rd album. The Bow Wow era was nothing to play w/ Ima let the people tell you about me tho.”
He followed up with a retweet of a fan-made list of 21 of his biggest songs and reminded fans in his post there were even more than that.
“What about: Oh i think they like me,” he questioned. “Where the party at remix. Destiny child remix. Ima flirt. Theres more…. 3-6 mafia side to side we past 20 right?
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Imagine downloading a beat from YouTube and actually spending your free time writing a rap and rapping over it and thinking it sounds good lol You dont any have the actual wav file of the instrumental there has to be millions of these clueless fame seeking idiots out there all tryin to get a piece of this rap pie
You can record it and make it sound good, you’re stuck in the circle thinking there’s only 1 way of doing things, it can be made to sound good enough to build a buzz and then it would be time to re-record the right way, you sound like nothing more than a hater who thinks he’s a know it all, yes people have found success finding a beat and writing to it from youtube, the fact that you want to ridicule someone for using that technique shows how ignorant and narrow minded you are, exactly the kind of person that people shouldn’t listen to
I guess you’re laughing at 50 cent because you don’t really think he had the proper instrumental files for all those beats he jacked right?
You can record it and make it sound good, you’re stuck in the circle thinking there’s only 1 way of doing things, it can be made to sound good enough to build a buzz and then it would be time to re-record the right way, you sound like nothing more than a hater who thinks he’s a know it all, yes people have found success finding a beat and writing to it from youtube, the fact that you want to ridicule someone for using that technique shows how ignorant and narrow minded you are, exactly the kind of person that people shouldn’t listen to
Producer made him take it down said he had to pay, LMFAO
you don’t just get your music from youtube i mean this is the first time i have heard of this. if you do, you are lazy. if you do, you have no soul and so will your music. i am not a pirate btw, because i think also as well as bow wow we both think piracy is wrong. M.A.G.A..