Kanye West says he’s giving all his artist 50% of their masters that he owns

After all the crying from haters last week, this thread is awfully quiet...

 

Thats love

no matta if u hate his c00n ass n shyt

If he really do this he changin the game

big ups to him

 

Shouldn’t they have 100 percent of their masters though? Nice gesture though


Edit: I misread he is giving back the “50 percent that he owns” so it sounds like he is giving back all that he owned

 

Def Jam owns the other half of the masters. Publishing is a different thing.

Props if he follows through. He says and does a lot of dumb shyt but this would be a big move

 

Publishing and Masters are two different things


It was common at one point for artists to own their publishing but 360 deals gave labels a slice of all of the artist’s pie.


It’s NEVER been common for artists to own their Masters. The Master recordings means that whoever owns them owns the rights to the
Music itself. So the label decides who can purchase or license the songs. Publishing means that when that music IS purchased or licensed, the writer/composer gets royalties.

 

I've been shytting on Kanye so yes I will man up and dap him for this. Assuming it's true, because lord knows this man has lied and fabricated shyt for the last few years.

 

Shout to Ye for this if he's serious

 

Thank you for pointing that out. A discrepancy on my part, I had actually misread the original post and inserted publishing in place of masters, so I’m going to edit that original post as to not cause confusion

 

can't give him props for shyt he shoulda been done. He's doing this AFTER he called out the label. AFTER people called him out for this hypocrisy. AFTER he's already reaped the benefits of owning the masters of records that have already peaked as far as financial viability. He gonna give that money back? Until then I aint gonna give props for that. But it is a good first step...a nice good faith gesture if he really wants to get the ball rolling for musicians. And I'm sure his artists appreciate it. Its better than most get. What next tho Ye?

 

Lets name rappers/artists who we know own their Masters

Jay-Z
Nas (from King’s Disease onward)
J.Cole
Childish Gambino
Rihanna
Frank Ocean
21 Savage



Also RIP to Michael Jackson and Prince. Both fought for and owned their Masters in the end

 

Add Chris Brown to that list. It was big news when he got his last year

 

Let's see if he actually do it first

 

Let's see if he actually do it

 

LL owned his for a long while now.

But current ones:

Jeezy
2 Chainz
Chris Brown
Chance The Rapper (well duh)
Ciara