her deal was structured like she was signed to the label just like Megan, or Uzi, or Juice Wrld bruh, keep up. it wasn’t structured with her independent artist rights interests at the forefront. it was structured like a record deal under an “independent” headline. with this type of deal, I can establish an LLC and use that to facilitate deals with distributors or leverage major label distribution channels while maintaining all rights to my music. nowhere in that does the label or distributor own my music, I can take it all down at any time

Valentine has to be the most argumentative and least persuasive person on the website

I’m giving you facts of the business and you arguing bullshit cause you saw a high number figure. Just shut up bruh. You hate a user on a forum. Grow up with the childish s*** lmfao, this not KTT and we not in high school anymore

F*** me, now my coins have value after i sold this s***?

pgLang isn’t an imprint of Interscope, it’s a distribution deal that requires a lot of leverage from the artist

Aftermath is an imprint of Interscope through a joint venture, a 360 deal

that’s one of the big differences in these deals, not “he got $50 million” lmao

Kpop invented

indie means owning your music and doing it all yourself but once a major’s infrastructure touches it, you’re independent in name, not in fact

Yea there's tiers of independence

Yea, you either own/control everything, or you don’t.

I dont think its binary. Creating a body of work without financial backing and owning the masters and publishing for it still makes you an independent artist to a degree regardless if a major distributes it.

@op

Gift and a curse because in those days labels used to shelve artists all the time when they believed they wouldn't recoup so the artist would be stuck and eventually forgotten about. With streaming labels don't even consider that barrier anymore but it's cheapened the art to garbage, bots and artists making even less than what they would have

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so bandcamp