DJ Pain 1 Man, this is so true! There’s never an issue when it comes to investment in other fields. It’s simply a part of doing business. It’s expected!

It's a different industry though. A construction owner knows they are getting paid, how much they are getting paid, and how much they can budget to pay their employees per job. Yet for music it's backwards. They spend first then hope they make it back. A lawyer knows he'll make X amount of money on a job. A musician is just hoping to make that money back. They have no idea what the return is, and most of their music won't make any return. This is how the music industry has always been so shady. The industry knows this, that's why they pay you upfront to take all those rights to your music, they know theirs only gonna be a few good hits you make in your career that'll hopefully make a ton of money. But they'll give you a small chunk now upfront to get that dough later. Music is a gamble. That's why people don't want to pay. Musicians are better off paying percentages of royalties to producers. But it seems only big name artists have that luxury.

@@Dance1617 poor premise. that construction company owner may magically start off fully booked, but as jobs end if they don't sell their services, there is no booking fairy that appears and fills their calendars. layoffs aren't just an excuse to keep all the money. When a company loses good workers because they can't afford to pay, it hurts like selling off your keyboards. law school hopefuls don't know they will pass the bar, and not all lawyers get to star in tv shows. some are drudge working 9-5 people who may even regret their expensive choice of occupation. same everywhere.

It's 💯 facts.. the artist has to believe in themselves and take that risk and invest in themselves. A producer spends money upfront to buy the gear to produce the music the artist gets to sing/rap on.. These days you could lease a beat for 25.00. Theres alot of artist that won't even want to spend that on their careers but will buy weed on a weekly to daily basis. Honestly I think the artist that doesn't want to invest in themselves and will only rock with the free beats they can steal/download from KZfaq or other free sources just lack the grind mentality to really make things happen for themselves. Think about the end goal for most of these artist is to make a million win that Grammy and be the next dude to smash amber rose but expect all that to happen but can't lease a 25.00 beat so they can legally put material out there to start a buzz and monetize their art. Don't let the fear of failure dictate your future. Take charge of your destiny and put in the hard work and stop taking this career so lightly.. thats the only way to really win.. you gotta be willing to spend/invest your time and even a little money to get things going in the right direction for you to blow up.

That’s a great point as well!

bigtimedrum Well said! Definitely.

HitMen Production Group Exactly...and then they never luck up. Lol

ClintMusic Yup!

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Very good point. There are definitely options for those artists who are serious.

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Yeah...Gigs, merch, music sells, etc.

They just need to find another producer.