I know how it works, but who exactly would they be granting those rights to? Who is requesting them? Old school hip hop radio stations? And does chuck possess the entire rights on his own? Or is it split between the entire crew?
It will be split between Chuck and Flav at least but I'd imagine Chuck gets a higher contribution percentage. These things were worldwide recently man, plus PE are an iconic group. Chuck is doing just fine lol. He's comfortable, is he a billionaire? No, but he is doing just fine and richer than probably all of us. Remember PE sold a lot of records and were pop in a sense (culturally not content wise). They also have some iconic songs like Fight The Power, you get money from all the usage of that. Harder Than You Think was a huge song, the Paralympics thing made the song go back into the UK charts at a high spot so they get royalties from that too. It's been in numerous adverts and campaigns too, they eating off all that. Plus the shows, plus the old and new album sales. It's not old school radio stations, it's film companies, and some massive organisations, Harder Than You Think was a big hit for PE. Anyone can lose their money but Chuck has always seemed humble, down to Earth and he lives comfortably but not extravagantly, with his intelligence this should come as no surprise, Flav I can't speak for, but Chuck is good.