More rappers should follow YO GOTTI'S lead "I BOUGHT MYSELF OUT OF 2 RECORD DEALS (TVT & RCA)

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Instead of crying about being released or signing your life away for a slave deal....SAVE THE MONEY instead of blowing it on other shyt and INVEST in yourself and buy your SOVERIGNTY like YO GOTTI was able to do........

go to the 2:50 MARK

 

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He also talked about this in XXL. This cat saved and bought his freedom. Much respect to him for that.

On a side note,Can this dude ever find a hat to fit him?

This man has empowered himself FINANCIALLY and your worried about his FACIAL FEATURES?????????

are you a woman? :comeon:
 

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More rappers should just take their time and sign better constructed deals in the first place.

I came in just to post this. I was at a music seminar cause my brother was speaking and he ask the "artist" in the crowd how many people wanted a record deal and every hand went up....then he asked how many people have read any books on how record deals and the music industry work? There was like 3 hands still up. He then asked the crowd " If you want the music business to be your life then why are you not researching it before you get into it, when you get there you gonna be taking the word of people who's job it is to use you to make huge amounts of money for themselves. How bad do you want to be in the industry if you won't read a book on how it works? "

the whole crowd was :ohhh:
 

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I came in just to post this. I was at a music seminar cause my brother was speaking and he ask the "artist" in the crowd how many people wanted a record deal and every hand went up....then he asked how many people have read any books on how record deals and the music industry work? There was like 3 hands still up. He then asked the crowd " If you want the music business to be your life then why are you not researching it before you get into it, when you get there you gonna be taking the word of people who's job it is to use you to make huge amounts of money for themselves. How bad do you want to be in the industry if you won't read a book on how it works? "

the whole crowd was :ohhh:


because people especially in the urban market...DON'T READ.......I had a chick who just signed over her licensing and allowed me to trademark her name...

she been rapping for over a decade but had NO CLUE as to what PUBLISHING meant......

in the bible it says ..."my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

too many of these negroes are concerned with asthetics....the jewels the cars...the lights the cameras or THE LOOKS OF AN ARTIST like the phaggots in this thread instead of the intricate details about the BUSINESS OF MUSIC...

And the wonder why THEY GET SHYTTED ON....
 

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gotti must have invested a lot of his money once he first got on, he is always doing shows and is always in demand for a nikka who released his debut almost 10 years ago.


:salute: for him buying himself out of his own bad contract thougu not once but twice.
 

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because people especially in the urban market...DON'T READ.......I had a chick who just signed over her licensing and allowed me to trademark her name...

she been rapping for over a decade but had NO CLUE as to what PUBLISHING meant......

in the bible it says ..."my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

too many of these negroes are concerned with asthetics....the jewels the cars...the lights the cameras or THE LOOKS OF AN ARTIST like the phaggots in this thread instead of the intricate details about the BUSINESS OF MUSIC...

And the wonder why THEY GET SHYTTED ON....

This is why nikkas walk into offices and get offered "The Standard Contract" :takedat:

Ive heard of cats going to contract meetings without even having entertainment lawyers with them, those cats spent their whole career in label limbo
 

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It be a trip because artists that I knew personally would spend their advance on butter(chains, clothes, Xboxes) and tricking on these hoes out here and years later they crying wolf and stuck in limbo. Yo Gotti's situation is a rare power move in the industry. Very rare because most artist think about now instead of their career long term
 

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gotti must have invested a lot of his money once he first got on, he is always doing shows and is always in demand for a nikka who released his debut almost 10 years ago.


:salute: for him buying himself out of his own bad contract thougu not once but twice.


Yes sir..he has a history of making sound financial decisions in this interview from March..he said someone questioned him on why he seems to use the SAME WHIPS in videos and on promotional events...and he simply said cause "They MINE" :manny:

he understands the value of OWNING as opposed to leasing and borrowing from the label.........

fast forward to 2:05

 
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