Kanye West has been on a crusade to remake the music business, get his masters back and terminate his contracts with Universal and Sony. Following a series of meetings with lawyers and label higher-ups, Kanye laid out how he imagines future artist contracts to look in a Twitter rant Sunday (September 20).
Kanye put forth what he believes to be the five pillars of music being: recording, publishing, touring, merchandise, name and likeness.
He divided the contract into eight guidelines with the first being artists owning their recordings and leasing them on a year-by-year basis to labels and the second being an “80/20” split between the artists and publisher.
The rest dive into dependents and lawyers’ involvement in deals, which he feels should be to make things more profitable for the artist and not more complex.
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Kanye sees equity and licensing making up the majority of an artist’s income, but also explains his feelings on royalties, portals, and how loans to artists as they’re currently constructed as advancements should be no more.
Kanye finished off his tirade by promising that he would be able to get his masters back but is calling for all artists to unify with him so they can also be treated fairly.
Crazy how hard ye is going right now. Revolutionizing the music industry. All the sheep who hate on Kanye because the media And all the puppet celebrities told you too, keep that energy
and they say to me, screw you.
This dumbass. If you sign a contract, you’re fucked. Real simple. If people can do it independent, they should and would have. He lays out his 5 pillars and there is actually 6 of them. LOL. What a clown. Dude needs to make beats and ugly clothing/shoes then STFU already.
You’re a follower
What he said seems legit.
Ye so full of sh#t. Go tweet all of your g.o.o.d. artists contracts ye ? I wonder why not. Fcuking hypocrite full of sh#t
Dude is dumb as a box of rocks. Says its unfair when he literally signed the contract. Says its racist when literally thousands of white artists are under the same kind of contract. Kanye is like a grown up kid with an IQ of a kid trying to “change the world”.
He’s opening another door for himself. He’s gonna lead all artists to his label under his new policies and dummies is gon make him out to be Mr fairness and equality. This should’ve been done decades ago by a naqqa like Bono … his stock as a ‘genius’ just went up unfortunately these lame-ass mericones gonna eat this shitass again … just go independent lazy rappers!
Also his concept is basically franchise the music as a product sold and the wholesaler (the artist) gets the biggest piece. Nothing new here really. People been saying this for many many years but it’s impossible to change the industry so like I said just go independent ..
This would revolutionize the music industry and all artists lives if it happens.
Well.. All the things he listed is what you can actually get now as an indie and it’s easy. The actual music part and releasing it is super easy.
If you’re just starting out and want some expensive videos that’s hard. If you want specific merch it’s not easy and selling shows is definitely not easy. That’s why these major labels will probably always be around. They can launch you fast. A lot of artists probably realize they can go from 0 to a 100 really fast with majors. That’s when all those advances and other stuff come into play. The impatient artist is as much to blame for bad contracts as the greedy record company.
All g.o.o.d. music artists SILENT while their Trump stan busy tryna get his fuhrer re elected
Trump has condemned white supremacists several times.
Media for some reason just does NOT play those clips.
Joe Biden wrote the 1994 crime bill and all prison, crime, sentencing and drug laws under Reagan presidency and George H. W, Bush presidency and first two years of Clinton since Democrats had a majority.
Biden wanted to keep schools segregated because Biden did not want a “jungle”
Biden was best friends in the Senate with Democrat Senator and KKK Grand Dragon Robert C. Byrd who was in Senate 1959-2010 and tried with other Democrats in 1964 to stop blacks from getting civil rights by filibustering Republicans efforts to pass the civil rights law for 70+ days.
Once Byrd died Biden and Hillary Clinton cried in his wedding what a great man he was.
That’s mighty anti-semitic thing to do. Everybody know god’s chosen people control the music industry! This schwartz goy is not even human to us!