as usual the people on the internet only post surface level bullshyt
the money you release during the album wouldnt just be "Tied back into the estate"
because all of the people fighting over control and disputing the estate wouldnt let that happen
especially if you try to avoid what I just said and presume it would happen
then you'd lose all of the profit from the album from watching and accounting for the profit from the album in general
money doesnt magically settle into the estates hands and chill, nobody fighting over it would assume so either
if the estate was going smooth it wouldnt be a dispute in the first place, its obvious that people are fighting.
Not even adding in the fact of who gains creative control over publishing/licenses/distribution/press/production etc
If I hate you and we are fighting, I'm not gonna let you be like "oh I'll produce and publish the unreleased music on the side right now"
On top of paying the artist involved for whatever they put on the tracks, from engineers, writers, beatmakers, vocalists, sample clearance, etc
that's even more lawyers on top of the original handful you already have on the topic. You are looking at paying a wild amount of lawyers just to do the books and clear/pay everyone
for something you could just wait for and do independently with 1 lawyer and old connections to clear shyt.
I just went through all this shyt with just property involved and 3 people... you add in groups and groups of people and actual creative control, and you're looking at alot of fees in the hundreds of thousands and nothing getting done. You'd make 70% more by waiting and doing it with a deal after everything is settled and the main people who control split the deal in half from there. Pop Smoke's shyt went mostly to his mother I assume, they said fukk it let 50 produce and take his cut... and nobody challenged the estate to check and balance the income from the project.
I'm seeing Nipsey was also signed to Atlantic Records, did some work with Epic etc. All of the music would have to be cleared by them on top of it all and they would take a cut too and give a percent back to whoever. Republic records is way more relaxed as a label, under the Universal records umbrella and Pop Smoke wasnt that huge so who knows what kind of deal he actually had. He was just on a come up, as opposed to Nipsey, who is said to have earned 120,000k monthly from Atlantic royalty checks per month. So you could use that 120,000k for lawyers and a new project... or just wait until the dust settles and drop a solid project without 7 lawyers being involved and let the label handle that.
That would’ve been interesting to hear
