problem I have and had since 97 was that its cool to own the label and publishing ... whatever you want to say about contracts and shyt
but it really fukked up not only music, but more money being made by blatantly not coming to an agreement on purpose. Selling Mase his publishing back in say 2002-2003
would have made more money because he would have made more music. He would still be probably making music with Puff till this day if he just gave him his ownership back.
Plus you can always work out a distribution deal where he gets his masters back but you still make money off the distribution portion... so many ways to make both sides work
and he just took all the dough and never looked back for 23 years. In turn making Mase promote himself less so Diddy wouldnt profit at all. It was just stupid all the way around.
Even the Gunit thing with 50, he could have cashed out... shyt is wild funny style.