its part TRUTH and part SHYT TALKING...
I helped create two LLCs (limited liability Corporations)..one of which still is active with my cousin as CEO whom i had advised to have his own business. .cause of The bad deals which was nothing more than loans in the form of 360 deals being offered to him by Warner/Asylum
and Yes LUDA is absolutly right nothing is better than owning your own brand. .. trademark. ..being a CHECK WRITER is a wonderful thing. ....
my cousin Loves his SOVERIGNTY...
but it aint EASY
and like LUDA says its alot og SMOKE N MIRRORS
for The record NOBODY NOWADAYS ARE 100% independent
all that sell it out your trunk philosophy died longtime ago. ...once the internet turned mixtapes and CDs into files
and small business record stores got ate up by big media chains like BEST BUY and little Hood bootleg spots got raided by The RIAA.....
but The real Nail in The coffin was The MAJOR LABELS morphing into ONE BIG CONGLOMERATE like VEVO...basically DISTRIBUTORS have swallowed up The Market full of indies
you cant do nothing without a DISTRIBUTOR ...ask TECH NINE ...his Strange Music "indy" HAS to go thru the channels of Universal Records and its sublabel like Fontana to Even be able to Eat...
LUDA knows this thats why he States in that Song he Will NEVER go against his PRESIDENT aka SHAWN CARTER who at The time was running DEF JAM...
Cause DTP at that time was an IMPRINT basically a subordinate of DEF JAM...
so in reality WHO IS ACTUALLY INDEPENDENT ?!?!?
and as far as The SHOW MONEY ...thats an Urban legend
Even IF you think u getting over by not dealing with LIVE NATION and THIER MONOPOLY doing ARENA TOURS
you still gotta break bread with TICKETMASTER at most of These small venues and chitlin Circuit Clubs
and guess who owns TICKETMASTER
...BYATCH u guessed it. ..LIVE NATION
so not only we have Industry plant artist. we have industry plant labels
being INDEPENDENT is an OXYMORAN These
days