An Artist Worth $60M Exposes Music Industry Secrets  

That's not free.

😂

On a clip about greed you flaunt you greed, classy

What is the original podcast called?

@@rozberry666 the Joe Rogan experience

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Pretty much

Still one of my favorite songs.

-what a great lyric

Stop! 😆😆...just stop!

It's a satanic game

Dope game aint even like that.

It's the pimp game on a bigger level.

@@xahsinor4364 Sounds like marriage

@@joshnorton498 Exactly what it is....PIMP GAME!!! SAD TOO!!

Rich slaves

@Dan Rice What is a slave?

@@brandongreco4675 only with money management. Most end up broke, just like they say in this video.

@@dreamsofkaia7275 Do you know a lot of slaves worth $60 million?

@@youknowitstrue3826 their worth that but it doesn’t mean they actually get keep that.It imagine of a number.I wanna know what actually get to keep

The music industry is dead as far as rock . Rock is dead because there's not enough album sales to generate the cash flow . Record companies are not going to sign a 5 man band , not enough money to be made and split . Rock bands also need a large road crew , expensive instruments etc. While rap and pop needs a mixing board and a microphone lol . This is why it's mainly rap and pretty faced solo artists these days . Very few new rock bands make it now . Touring generates money for the Bands that were already established 20 + years ago but they're aging fast . Streaming killed the " potentially big" up and coming Rock Bands .

Take the indie route. Less of a chance to end up enslaved by a very-long-term contract.

Just for them to blow up and sign a deal😂

Exactly💯

​@@manchesterexplorer8519yea it's sad isn't it. Rap artists who are rich even though they're not real musicians

They talk about Courtney love?

About to watch it now🎶🎶🎶

The only thing I learned from this guy is how to be a scumbag and I do the opposite

Wow I will definitely watch this!

Billy walked into a party at a friends house I was at once ⚠️

It’s rigged. It needs to be investigated. It’s almost like a ponzi. All these guys are connected. Even the lawyers for some of the entertainers, work quietly against their client. Looks like crimes are being committed. Someone should start a petition to have the justice department look at this. And if it’s all okay. We carry on

How you gonna do it without using their platforms like Spotify?

So what to do?

We must start creating our own wide open free speech platforms and switch to them. We’ve allowed one big group of parasites corner the entire market giving us one option when we should have endless options.

Repent!

"Best bands of all time".....BWAAJAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhHHHHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Best band of all time Seriously LMAO

lol nice try

They have like 7 good songs dude

​@@williamvonderheide162music is subjective to some degree. It's not all about being technical

Right & their lyrics are programming as well🤯

Nah he wants to cry about selling his soul

This!!!!

I bestow upon thee the tin foil hat of nonsense my good sir

I think they successfully broke that 7 album contract... What's that old saying? "contracts are made to be broken" Make enough money after 3 or 4 albums, then shop for another label whose lawyers can help break that contract. Or, you can do what Vanilla Ice did and meet up with "Shug" Knight at his 12 story crib to have a balcony signing party😆

Pimp the government

Positively inspirational and motivating pereon

As with any other industry. Take your pick

It was always like that

To Pimp A Butterfly

Staying Independent you don't get the radio play or notoriety as a signed label!?

@@frankbalazs8816 actually you can get radio play it depends the luck cause I can name few artist who had radio play. In addition when it comes to clearing samples it’s easier as well because their is a service that helps you clear samples as an independent artist pretty much anything that a label can do independent can do. Furthermore it also depends on building connections too for like managers to help you book tours and stuff and I actually know one person personally that be doing that and me too ones I go back to release music cause I havnt in a while imma be true and yea man. It all comes down to how hungry you want it

​@@frankbalazs8816the game is changing

​@@frankbalazs8816you can

@@frankbalazs8816 Tom Mac Donald ;-)

@Max Power they can always get a real job for thirty or forty years and a gold watch 😂

@Max Power who said I don’t like my life? my life has been fabulous and just gets better all the time. I retired 12 years ago, got bored of that and got another job that takes me all over the country. And that pays for some real nice toys and vacations around the world. My comment was aimed at these so called poor artists who just want to complain about shit that they signed up for.

By 👁🔺️

To Pimp A Butterfly 🦋

And more....😢🤮🦠

Rappers simply get screwed over easily because half of the ones that get signed know nothing about music, or the industry and the other half can't even read the contract they're signing.

There's actually a documentary from awhile back about Thirty Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto and the band, and their lawsuit with their label. It basically exposed it back then and the type of deals/contracts that any type of music artist is exposed to or signed on to. It isn't new news that artists have been in some serious contracts, and screwed over in or by the industry... Goes back awhile not only the last decade. Just more people are talking about it now.

@@skulkid2886 Nah I think most of them get screwed no matter the genre.

There have been songs for 50 years about it. Pink Floyd " Welcome to the Machine" ect

@@smith97320 Nirvana "Rape me"

Who??

@@a.nobodys.nobody russ

​@@a.nobodys.nobodyRuss. He's a rapper. Listen to him. He's speaks on the game regularly, he's one of the only ones on our side. As well as Ye.

Nipsey too.

lmao yeah like what? joe rogan said over half your life and that’s not even close to half lmfao

He meant half of your life up to that point at age 23. 🤦‍♂️

Im laughing so much at this comment 😅

I think he meant that when the contract is over , at age 37, essentially half your life is over

If you're 23 then half of your life so far was 11 and a half years, going forward committing 14 more years means more than half of what you already lived

There used to be a time that I would have mocked Corgan for having personal security, but then Damageplan had their final show….

@@kidwajagstang, all of the big name musicians and artists have security. And there is always security at the venues that they play.

@@kidwajagstang Yep. RIP Dimebag Darrell.

I was thinking the same thing lol

Lol Right, Smashing Pumpkins is a classic 90s rock band, been sampled so many times

Or we just don't know who tf he is?? You act like he's micheal Jackson or some shit

@@dalanijoseph9354 looool

@@dalanijoseph9354 uhh he basically is Micheal Jackson for alternative rock. Smashing Pumpkins is a top 50 hall of fame band.

@@ron6927 signing a contract to take you past half your life.. 37+37=75 He said for more than half your life, at 23 years old signing a 14 year long contract is indeed more than half.. The latter is what he actually meant.. if he misspoke and meant the prior then it still makes sense. 🤷

That look isn't shock, it's possibly the effects of the air freshener.

I mean then don’t sign the contract lol. If you don’t like the way labels operate stop supporting them lol. How can we be mad they are just giving us what we want

Listen to their song from GTA 4 called 1979

Yeah they're garbage.

I only heard of them.. But yeah

@@willapple8145 Nah, listen to Vice City GTA. That song was such a hit, it hit the airwaves.

You probably heard it bro just didn't know it was them. They were one of the biggest bands.

Artist funny ru-vid.comSZz3MK9p_tE?feature=share

Talent that doesn’t have the means or the machine to push their music in an supply and demand world complain that people who hire thrum controls them…well how about they do it on their own then?? OOOPPPS forgot…they wouldn’t have blown up without the “people with no talent”

I used to feel this way, but hustling is a talent. Duping people is a talent, too. Not necessarily one that’s viewed well, but it’s a craft, nonetheless.

People with money making money off people with no money 👍🏾

Think about it... An artist is into the art An artist wants to make art, share it with the world, and make enough to provide and have fun doing it. The music industry isn't invested in art or the artist. The MI wants to squeeze every drop they can get out of the artist for the sole purpose of making money. How does that leave the artist and their art in the end? The MI will pump you and your music so much that you'll become a fad that everyone will get tired of, and the grinding process will destroy your spirit, your love for the art, and your relationships.

@@MrSPIDEY21 A woman who marries a wealthy man can experience abuse even though she has materials and sustenance. Should she be grateful and be silent about her abuse?

What did he do or expose from them isn't he independent?

He didn't exposed anything. He took what he learned and went his own way. This isn't new, and he ain't the first to do it, especially when you have music platform to self promote.

When you show that advances are just high interest loans and that once you stop being the A-side of the music industry they dont have to promote you anymore or put any money behind you. Anything you put out is on contract. You dont own it. Russ didnt go independent.... He promoted himself until he already had a little bit of a name and used that to negotiate a better contract where he owns the masters and he gets the royalties and what ever else he wanted. He EXPOSED how record companies treat up and coming musicians. He EXPOSED how with social media you can promote yourself and build a brand. He might not be the first person to talk about these things. But he was the first i really heard about it

@@Ben-xf7uy he was the first for you because that's the type of music you listen to. It's alright man.

@@j-us-t_be-in-g you still have to have that indecipherable "something" that makes people wanna buy your records...a lot of technically talented artists just don't have that "heart" put into their music that makes a lasting connection with the audience.

They are lawyers and not music lovers…to them it’s about taking advantage of the impressionables aka the youth.

@@outoforderspace2711 but what’s the point?? Wouldn’t it make more sense to promote their artist which makes them money in return

@@qbennett7232 I think they know that the next hungry talent is always going to be a readily available infinite source. Hence why there are so many of the same type of artist pushing the same type of music that you hear of today but not tomorrow

@@qbennett7232 there's a clip by Chaka Khan where she said a music exec told her she was worth more as an artist dead than alive.

I’d have to see the contract but my guess is that they risk a lot investing in you as well. I’m guessing the marketing and promotion side costs a lot and often yields no fruit for a lot of artists. Just playing devil’s advocate.

Florida?

You still have a CD player in your truck?

Lol. No I’m in Texas but yeah it’s original and still going. Just don’t have the heart to remove it.

Infinite Sadness not intimate

Is it the best double album ever? With all due respect to Biggie, Pink Floyd and Wu Tang I say it is.

He’s talking to people that don’t know about the music industry……

@@SP7000SP I mean artists have been talking about how shitty the industry is since the 70s I'm surprised people still don't realize this

Lol you can just delete the first sentence of your comment.

@@gregburger5186 bro what???

@@NecroSage naw

*everlasting

*who, not that, follow

@@Ultamami free English lessons hey LOL

May Lord Satan deliver you from your closeminded ideology. Hail Satan!

😮 what

That was from ALOT of hard work on the road on touring

@@90745 i worked stacking cell towers, 80 hours a week , never made a million, some towers were 1500 feet high

Pay attention! He doesn’t get that $60m. And the pressure to return on profit is nearly impossible, with the system he signed up with.

@@albusai 80 hours /week? How long did you do that? Not too long; I can imagine.

@@AllHandlesRTaken 10 years

Aid?

@@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 *paid. The artist gets paid a lot more than average person

Except the pay is more like a loan. A loan you have to pay back from your small % of the revenue generated.

@@SL-pg4dh that is a weird comparison to make. I know so many talented broke artists. Average person in the corporate world doesn't equal to the average artist. Only the ones that go mainstream make a buck that too while they last. Corporates atleast give benefits and money for donkey work and they do climb the money ladder.

@JAY CHROM3 You people are really like children.

Love Daft Punk, but what exactly did they do? Were they independent?

@@cynthiaschmidt9420 i was hopping he would respond to. i was curious about it

@@cynthiaschmidt9420 they owned their music outright and every album was shopped to the labels and they could only sell it for a certain amount of time.they kept everything

@@cynthiaschmidt9420 watch daft punk unchained itll bring you up to speed on how they dealt with deals and labels.all their docs and movies are great too.good watch

@@TheBrob1983 but that's an extremely hard thing to accomplish, you can count how many artists have been successful going that route without using your other hand. ICP is another example of an artist getting extremely lucky to have success independently, they signed with a small label that quickly got bought out by another label who gave them a small advance for one album, said label renegotiated their contact for more albums and gave them an advance to reflect the change in contract, that same label was bought by one that was owned by Disney who did not want clown faced rappers who rapped about torturing sinners and were more about concept albums then producing singles so they quickly bought out ICPs contract. In one year they were under 3 different labels and after all the advances they received and the payment to terminate their contract they earned 1.5 million. They used that 1.5 mil to create their own label Psychopathic records and two decades and almost a dozen albums (2 platinum and several gold) later they're one of the most successful independent artists of all time

Truly !!!! U can make it independently especially if you have money

@@IamJalayaaa yea, you do need money but not as much as people think. The main thing, before anything, having good music. Idk, man. I can talk about this for hours but I'm sittin here now tryin to make some music 😏🎧🎸

Cause he was so popular. He knew he could climb by himself

YEPPERS AND THE INDUSTRY HATES TOM FOR IT BECAUSE HE IS STRAIGHT UP SPREADING HARDCORE TRUTH LOVE HIS MUSIC WISHING YOU A BLESSED WONDERFUL DAY STAY SAFE HEALTHY HUMAN AND BLESSED

He never had the chance to not be independent, buddy. 👍

@@arthurramirez5665 that's bs

and chamillionaire lupe fiasco soulja boy 🔥

​@@veneraberens4653 Oh yea, the industry hates him sooo much, they still offer him contracts.... Nah. He's a plant.

The only thing you forgot is that you’re competing with big labels that have big marketing budgets. Marketing is equally if bot more important to break through the noise. It’s a business at the end of the day, and if you think uploading from your little distrokid account is enough you’re wrong

Not all Artists have lawyers representing them, and an artist would be lucky if every point was covered. Where do you get your false information?

@@AllHandlesRTaken Any reputable Record company would insist you have a lawyer. If you have a lawyer and he doesn't go over every point I don't believe it's the labels fault. Where do you get your information?

Not signing is infinitely easier today than 20 years ago. The internet has allowed artists so many tools to become self made, and you see it almost more often than not. Labels are a dying architecture. Just like legacy media is clawing, scraping and screaming to maintain relevancy

These are Entertainment lawyers. They don't have your best interest either. They also work alongside these demons....... they mean no one any good.

@Maurio Johnson I know they are entertainment lawyers. I worked with them for 30 years, and you're right some are scum but there are many good ones

Nah you can leave a job you can't just leave a label your sign to

Right bro, it's all the same with different degrees. Some people can't leave their job self made, some people can. jG310HOE just trying to explain this happens with companies too. Corruption? Bad people? Scummy pressure tactics? Not entirely sure...maybe all of the above..

Yep while you are there you should learn how they do things so you can do it for yourself. This guy blames being 23 and not being wise enough to know better. He signed to get exposure the people he is contracted for are not in it to lose money that would be stupid.

@@thesage90 yes you can

@@thesage90 you can but its not like saying you quit they signing a paper. You get so much from a label and if you wanna leave you gotta give it back and sometimes its that plus some. Its just better to find a good deal than to take the first offer

But most don't last long

@@ericthomas9804 sadly

They don’t “make you”, they choose.

Yah ok sure

Yeah uh-huh sure ummkay...f!@#'n weirdo

@@Mr.DejaVuOfficial love you too mom

@James Walker for about 4 years now

@Alice Kae Shut up.

Congratulations nobody cares, all Hail satan

Thats not entirely true... Elvis Presley for instance was not a Satanist and he took over the Music-Industry in 18months, became and still is the best selling male Artist in Pop/Rock-History and stayed a true Christian until he sadly died with 42. In the last Years he even preached the Gospel at his Concerts and also a lot of times when he was working on a Movie in the Sixties. Not every popular Musician is or becomes a Satanist. You imply that Music in general is EVIL and that`s simply not true. Music is also part of the Language of God. He speaks through people by Artists that love God.

@The Insult Pigeon Shit, insult pigeon on the job haha. Do ya thing Fly boy.

Sounds like the average 9-5

Sign a good contract then 😂 Some artists seem to be thriving signed under Republic Records, but idk everyone's story if they're actually winning big or not.

Dude, get a grip

@@teotvrdeic8260 grip these nuts

@@casualfoodenjoyer7951 LMAO

@@adangamez3608 got him crying fr

@@casualfoodenjoyer7951 making masic has nothing to do with publishing. I understand your desire to publish your own music but thats completly another thing. What daw do you use? What kind of music would you like to make?

At 23 it IS more than half your life that you lived until then.

Its a very complicated topic but yes: You are right...but it is also very hard to be on top and stay on top. You have to consider that. He worked hard for what he made. Thats what i mean.

Damn what label was it?

@@lastlvl it’s 🧢

@@lastlvl jive records

How’s that comparable to what is being said in the video?! If you were signed and then shelved and they never released your stuff, clearly whatever product you delivered to them was not up to par, even if maybe your demo or mixtape or whatever possibly sounded somewhat promising. So you never had hits, or a breakout album, or a level of fame and popularity to keep up to. And I’m guessing you didn’t really get much money from signing either, if that was the outcome of the situation