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

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


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.
 

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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.

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
 

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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?
 

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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
 
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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

LL owned his for a long while now.

But current ones:

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