Here’s a Typical Contract offer from Universal Music
Long gone are the days of the million dollar advances. The music industry is now a singles driven monopoly.
Long gone are the days of the million dollar advances. The music industry is now a singles driven monopoly.
In light of so much chaos going on these days, especially in minority communities nationwide, don’t you think it’s time that we more input in what gets presented to our communities through the media?
It takes 776 streams on YouTube to earn a dollar, and just 32 on Microsoft Groove. On SoundCloud, you’ll need 766 streams to earn $1, while it only takes 96 from the SoundCloud GO premium service
The people who own the media are the same people who own private prisons, the EXACT same people, and using one to promote the other is (or “would be,” depending on your analysis) very lucrative.
Rap music in its heyday was an incredibly diverse genre that had room for hippies, hustlers, militants, gangsters, teachers, romantics, intellectuals, party animals, poets and more.
Having used Hip Hop culture as a medium to empower youth for the last 15 years, I’ve seen first hand how mainstream rap impacts young impressionable minds.
Just as you have no business rapping without knowing the history of the race that spawned your art form, you have no business rapping without knowing the history of the art form itself.
The culture of materialism and degradation that’s posing as hip hop makes me nauseous. Listening to modern-day mainstream rap after growing up during hip hop’s golden age is like finding out your little sister has become a prostitute.