The music industry has a long, deep-rooted history of artists feeling like they’ve been taken advantage of financially by major labels. Meek Mill is vowing to take a stand against the routinely unjust contracts and expose those who are offering “slave” deals.
On Thursday (December 19), Meek voiced his frustration via Twitter, writing, “What about major companies taking kids from the ghetto and got them signing they lives away for a lil bit of money? We taking control of that 2020 and exposing the people offering these slave deals! Ima get some lawyers to break down some of these deals y’all offering these kids.” [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
The co-founder of the Reform Alliance continued in another tweet, “I don’t trust people and they motives really nomore … everybody planning to make something off you with out you knowing!”
Meek isn’t alone on this. Last Saturday (December 14), Tory Lanez took shots at Interscope Records, threatening to expose them, too.
Of course, Meek is always willing to speak up on injustice or social issues. He recently addressed the armed robbery of the Milano Di Rouge store and defended Nipsey Hussle’s legend status, along with being a criminal justice reform advocate.
Prince, Jay Z, and several other artists have already done this. Stop trying to be a social justice warrior and go back to making music.
Nothing more annoying that a fake woke who just is dying to find a cause 2 front. And not everything id slavery or slaves. Why not open a firm to help young artists get repped?
Meek theres nothing 2 see here move on *hands an evelope full of money* now stfu and go be with ur kids.
Why you mad u scare dat he going to expose ur dum ass stupid
I know your illiterate ass didnt refer to somebody else as stupid
No one is forcing them to take a deal. Maybe Meek should offer them better deals.
If you don’t like the deal then stand firm, believe in yourself, and reject it. Nobody is forcing anybody to sign any contract. However to call it a slave deal, when it’s in fact a standard contract, is divisive and corny. There are much bigger problems in the world than some rappers over inflated ego being bruised. Give me a break.
These young kids signing deals usually dont even understand what they are signing. Would you know all the ins and outs of a 50 to 70 page contract at 19? I doubt it, it’s like reading the terms of service. They’re young, naive, figure signing means you’ve made it, and have no idea what they’ve actually agreed too
Any legal agreement involving real money requires the same knowledge and understanding that the labels have. If you don’t have it, hire someone who does. They’ll wait to get paid until after the contract is signed.
You ever heard of hiring a lawyer?
Yeah, the guy signed on to make 4 albums the way the record labels tells them to for $1 million plus percentages is total slavery! Those millions of minimum wage workers? Much better off!
Those million dollar advances are basically loans. The artists has to make that back for the label before they even see the small percentage of money made from each album. And guess what? They don’t own any of the music that they create.
Nothing but record execs in these comments.
You are a groupie for lame ass egotistical rappers, just admit that. These guys blow thousands of dollars at the strip club everynight then have the nerve to call it slavery lmfao shut your mark ass up
One hundred percent controlled opposition or ignorant people mad they dont have record deals so they automatically hate and discount complaints of everyone who does. I made a comment explaining many of the dirty tactics used and DEHH deleted it so that should tell you how much this site can be trusted
Yeah we’re all record executives with nothing else to do but post comments on this raggedy ass website.
Realest meek wrote – the reason rap is so wack is because labels only sign idiots willing to sign these ridiculous contracts – fans too stupid to realize – there’s a reason rap is on the decline. Shout out meek
Rap ain’t on the decline clown lmao smh old heads like you want it to be so bad. Just cause you don’t like what’s out don’t mean others don’t smh now back to sleep old head
Little kids are so funny lmao old head lol I like how you try and use that as a negative term … we know more … we’ve done more (not just talked about it) … did you invent some gadget that stops you from aging … because you will blink and become an “old head” …. we’ve seen the way your life turn out because you are nothing special …. we invented this rap shit … so you are welcome …. take your bottle and take your nap
Every old head you know; is a young nigga that made it. Ain’t no RIPs for them. They delivered the eulogy. You don’t gotta respect what they say, but listen. They was in your shoes before you could fit em.
Sorry, but I’m not going to respect someone who writes or speaks like “they was”. You’ve been on this earth long enough to have 4th grade speaking skills.
Lol you ain’t gonna be young forever. Hope you keep that same energy when you’re an “old head”.
You mean MAINSTREAM rap is on the decline. Rap is on the decline for lazy cats that RELY ON THE RADIO. And on the decline for cats that go to RnB SINGERS (Drake) for bars.
yeah right.
Most Music contracts are slave deals. It’s the nature of the business. Therefore artists will get burn. It is a trap but it doesn’t mean you have to be a fool.
That’s anti-semitic of him to do.
It called an offer. You don’t need to accept it. How about all the people you kept a slave to drugs you were selling? Or was that all made up? Snitching on the industry.??
He should try to expose a decent album instead…. or at least expose a new flow. This dude is tired.
This guy is going to tweet next year about how he tweeted this because he was high off CBD potato chips SMH rappers don’t care they want chains, a car lease and to re-up on that package. Go preach to the rappers on how to stop spending money like women
The meek one is BITTER, because he got THE WORST SLAVE DEAL with MMG and William ‘Fake rickross’ Roberts, aka OFFICER RICKY who is the BIGGEST FRAUD in the business! Warn everyone about THIS SLAVE OWNER FIRST!
That rick Ross FRAUD nonsense is stale bruh. I GURANTEE you don’t know EVERYTHING your own family/friends and partner did in their lifetime. So what makes you think you gon know the life story of a STRANGER?
There’s NO such thing as a bad Deal that 2 parties agree to sign. The artist reviewed and accepted the terms and signed. To ‘cry’ about a deal you accepted ‘later’ is unfair and stereotypical. All ‘artists’ are ‘good’ and all ‘businesses’ are ‘bad’….RIDICULOUS! An offer was made and you accepted, It’s called ‘leverage’, it was the Best you could find and accepted the terms. End of Story!
Stfu…….you out here backin that bullshit……to say that is to say that their no unfair business practices……you sound like apart of the problem!!!!!
Backing that bullshit? How about people be more responsible, and only sign contracts that they actually are happy with? Very simple. Hire a personal lawyer to do so. We all do it when we buy and sell real estate. Common sense dude. Don’t blame the industry and business owners. Don’t like the deals they offer? Then stay independent.
That’s not exclusive to the ghetto or the rap game though. Music history is full of people getting pimped in the music industry.
this goof tryin to act like tory lanez?? who still listens to this clown??
His fans obviously
Classic example of fake woke vidctim mentality….people throw out the word slave too easily nowadays. Nobodsy force you to sign nothing, nobody force you to sign stuff you dont completely understand and nobody force you not to be able to consult with people before signing. Meek just a fake a$$ wanna be civil rights social media warrior….he aint doing nothin but running his mouth.
Right. Mf talking about gettin some lawyers to breakdown the slave deals…Mf you gotta big mouth and you in the industry but you gotta find lawyers to breakdown the deals, you can’t do it yourself?
The only time Weak Mill can get any attention is when he’s crying about something. Nobody ever talks about his music, his tours, or albums. Everything this guy does is either tabloid or social justice warrior which can only mean he is an industry puppet. Hopefully he will have a Britney Spears type meltdown and smash some windows with an umbrella next.
If hiphop had a union they coy fight against this. 40yrs later and there is no union to fight for artists
Because there are plenty of great artists who will choose to stay independent. Hell, Dr Dre has helped destroy far more careers than he’s built. Yet they still love him here… Dre is a fine example of someone that’s held back many greats, just recently being Jon Connor. Jon has lost all his hype, abd shouldn’t have signed with Dre.
Sorry I’m confused. Are rappers signing these bad deals under duress? Held at gunpoint? Are their families being threatened?