Try Sam Cook 60 years ago .. He wrote, arranged the music, Sang the songs, played the instruments, Hired the musicians, Hired promotions & Marketing , created his Tours , Explained Copyrights & OWNING YOUR MASTERS- ect to the Likes of Fats Domino , Little Richard - Ray Charles and others. Only to be Triple Crossed by the (I)legal music industry who STOLE EVERYTHING by falsifying documents. Murder was the case as they sAvagely plotted his death from the beginning.

It was 50 cent who put him on to this there's videos of him saying this! 50 way smarter than the average rapper.

Exactly...good ear...Proud to pay wit Ryan Leslie

@@bigmarcfrmthapaul1021 Exactly if you know you know

Ryan Leslie actually is a great producer as well

@@tylerdurden8959 Not at all! Salute

Depends on the advance and how fast you recoup

@@VHARDJO yea but you actually have to be “Drake” or similar to realistically recoup as well as profit and rinse/repeat…but if you are indie and not drake and just want to develop a fanbase to be your own boss then this model is more practical for the average artist

Na. You go platinum... You're features fee goes way up. Everyone wants platinum. Those records get played for ever, as of now 🤣. So royalties for as long as people listen to music? I'm down with that. But you best get that TITLE. Features and shows makes most revenue for any artist. Signed or unsigned

@@teebee7374 gotta disagree. I wi agree it won't work for most artist if their focus is only on the art and craft. If you begin with what he says...it will fall in place.

He graduated from Harvard?😊

​​@@beb5407he graduated from Harvard at 19 years old, and was the valedictorian of his class.

@albertastewart8766 @beb5407 @marcocoscione8030😮Ain't no way in HELL(punIntended) Pdevil was ever gonna pay that bill for a 4yr ride for Justin (biological???or not???)2 go there, he was MAD jealous of this man's achievements + he had Cassie 1st😮

College is cool but you don't need to go to college to understand basic math.

Right. E-40 and Master P come to mind. But for him to graduate from Harvard at 19 is amazing.

FACTS

You people use that word too loosely

BARS!

Everyone knows this. The artists just want the fame.

Hell we could go weekly at this rate $80 for 2

That's a deal

more like 80x3 for a weekly, the cheapest is around 220 per week an that's on the low side for a weekly

Never will be.

Reminds me of when I paid 30$ for a lil Wayne concert more than 20 years ago. Good times.

All that ain’t make ur smarter I’m smart af bro but I can’t afford harvad cuz my parents ain’t rich like this guy prolys was

@@ronnieturner6820 He went on a full academic scholarship so it was free. But on the other handto have the stability and foundation to be able to graduate high school @15 means you had some people in your corner. A lot of us ain’t got that.

@@ronnieturner6820 Damn you’re smart enough to go to harvad? I believe you bro.

@@daman54 thanks u

@@ronnieturner6820 Your several grammatical errors lead me to infer that you are rather cretinous.

you don't need college for anything he said tho

@@jackjack4412 this true but it's still facts about him. HATER

@@reginamoneymakinggreen2233 im not a hater dumb ass. Just pointing out a fact. I think this dude went to Harvard.

Right he is an educated man no one “ put him on”

@@jackjack4412 to a certain extent you do...

Cassie knew

Silly girl​@@malickarevels1313

Technology made all of it possible from inexpensive software to social media an artist can produce, create and market their music without greedy executives digging in their pockets.

Just like black coffee and they mad they can't get him.

Cassie should have stayed with him.

@@beatricerights she couldn't. Diddy kind of "kidnapped" her.

HE was telling Hov nothing Pimp C dope fiend ass was saying outlandish stuff. Going to jail and sipping lean to death.

"Long live the Pimp".....

Out the trunk is where millionaires were made

Up close and personal, brings respect and trust to anyone who works for their money and is willing to trade it for anything. That dedication on both sides is always a win win

P

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Yep

Well he did go to Harvard lol so yea smart and talented

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Yup. Him and George Michael.

Wasn’t James brown also about running his own thing?

Actually I think the Grateful Dead stated selling Tickets to there concerts directly to fans skipping the middleman,..Who just happed to be “Bill Gram”,..This pissed him off to the max,..Then KISS stated counting every ticket at the door of there concerts,..Why!,.. because they didn’t trust Bill Gram,..and they good reason not to!

I believe the Isley Brothers also had T NECK RECORDS . Tho the band was always Attached to a Major Label. Their Music, Rights & Publishing went through T NECK RECORDS not the MAJORS.... ONLY Distributing. I believe

its universal, if its you and your clients or customers you get paid directly, yout ry to get it through a company you're waged

Dude did graduate from Harvard at 19 dude was a intellectual prodigy he could really been a politician, lawyer, or some type of government officials

Not saying he isn't a smart guy, but it's basic math if you know how to add.

@@jayworship2724 exactly 😂 it's not that deep. Plus he's talking about throwing a concert and selling records like there's no overhead

That like simple calculations Business and sale

“You know where I went to school man I’m so smart”

& DMX when he broke it down about selling 4 million albums TWICE within a 12 month span, but @ the end of it you're not rich !!!

KZfaq is even enough to make one famous. Same as social media

Imagine had Cassie stayed with Ryan.

Nipsey DEAD. Never take advice from a nigga that couldnt even walk the streets correctly.

Thought I was tripping

He got the knowledge from R. Les though. Nip himself always gave Ryan credit for giving him game. R Les also developed a software app that Nipsey used to track your fans and reach out to them directly to them whenever they purchased your music online.

​@@CevensitiesVery interesting fact thanks for sharing ❤

Yup. I been doing the science too. Ryan trafficked Cassie first.

@@RikkiMiraj Jaguar Wright has been saying these things about specific people in the music industry for a long time. She has been proven right so far. I said she insinuated. Her past insinuations have turned out to be true. The public has more reason than ever to take what Jaguar Wright says seriously. We're not always going to have footage, man. Critical thinking is necessary.

@Flamerberge IMO, he trafficked Cassie. He was the first to do it. He passed her off to Puff then he took over trafficking her. ETA "allegedly".

@TARAdubbleyuu This. The denial, deflect, and disconnect is how abusers and predators get away with their shit. When people find out a family member, or spouse, or someone else close was/is abusing someone...there is shock and disbelief by some. Even when there are/were clear signs. Photo and video evidence won't always be there. It's unrealistic to think that it would be. As if the moments of abuse are predictable, or that a camera is or can always be conveniently available and positioned (without detection), or that going to police or someone else is always safe and possible. Or that tapping into courage is easier than leaning into survival and doing what feels safest. I really find it strange when people attempt to lean to prescriptive or theoretical arguments to explain why they have a hard time believing someone's story. It's like they don't understand how the nervous system works and how fear can keep people trapped. For a long time. Especially (ESPECIALLY) if an abuser has something of leverage to use against the person they're abusing. And, for those who read between the lines in Cassie's suit, she essentially helped highlight this fact. She stayed there were videos of her doing things with men. She stated she was told there were copies or ways to retrieve deleted videos. She mentioned sex workers were hired for her to sleep with. I wouldn't doubt some may not have been legal age especially when we factor in stories of Puff and a young Usher and Justin Beiber. Revenge porn is something used against many women as a method of control and abuse. Anyone that thinks Puff never threatened to leak any videos of cassie doing certain things, if she tried to leave or tell anyone, have never been in such a vulnerable or compromised situation. Similarly, I can imagine threats being made to kill her or her family, or cause them other types of harm. She was a young naive girl when she hit the scene. Her programming to be under the control of abusive twisted men began at 16-17 with Ryan Leslie and eventually escaped when she met Puff. Thinking Cassie would respond to the experiences of abuse in a perfect, ideal, prescriptive, or theoretical way is pure ignorance. There's a reason she was targeted and why most 16-17 year olds aren't recruited by dudes like Ryan Leslie (25-26 at the time) and then picked up by a 36-37 year old man at 19. Most men don't think or operate like them dudes and most females won't have Cassie's lived experiences with those guys. As well, most men will never know what it's like to be in a relationship dynamic with an extreme power embalance by being with someone who has an upper hand (leverage) due to age, money, wealth, astatus, lived experience, knowledge, sex, connections, etc. Add threats on top off that and becoming programmed to normalise and accept the abuse & dysfunction. Especially knowing the police and the abusers team will stand loyal to him over you. Most people wouldn't be able to navigate their way out of that. Chances are Cassie would still be tied to Puff, or dead, if not for Alex Fine intervening. Stories of abuse, especially on the extreme emd, are very nuanced, layered, and contextual. Why didn't she go to the police earlier, why did she stay, Where's the evidence (etc) are questions privileged people ask...privileged in that they never had a similar lived experience and likely never will. And that goes for most men and most women. Even most women who experienced abuse won't have this type of story. We're talking of a teen girl who got groomed and fed to a grown ass multi millionaire. People saying she was "grown" when she met Puff, 36-37, when she was 18-19. By that time, Puff been had how many kids, worked how many jobs, accumulated how much wealth, had how many properties, had how many serious long term relationships, had achieved how many accomplishments, and received how much knowledge and awards, and travelled to how many places and met how many people, and had how many staff (etc)? He was grown. Cassie was developing. 18-19 isn't grown. Most grown people don't put up with abuse because they know the signs and aren't easily controlled.

@@TOWTOW-ms6do Well said and God bless you for writing all that. You are 1000% correct. Everything you wrote. The autonomic nervous system is something people need to learn about and understand in order to properly assess abusive situations: "fight/flight/freeze/fawn" vs "rest/strategize/digest". People need to also understand that it takes less than 36 hours to break someone through what is termed by our own government as "white torture" and sexual torture. Think Abu Graib. This is, from my perspective as a woman who has been trafficked, one of the reasons that Diddy was always on some "48 hours" verbiage with his victims (Bieber and Cassie specifically that are known at this time). Among other tactics that fall under the umbrella term "white torture".

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Audio Apes, we are an independent hip hop group from Chicago. Would you mind having a conversation with me and music and business??

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