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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this. On the independence side, Snoop.
Speaker 4: I only met Snoop one time and it was crazy
Speaker 4: because he gave a lot of game just in a
Speaker 4: very short period of time. One of the things that
Speaker 4: he said was extremely insightful. He was saying that we're
Speaker 4: talking about Beats BA Dre and you know everybody know that.
Speaker 4: I think Apple bort it for eight hundred million dollars
Speaker 4: something like that, And he was like, sometimes they'll buy
Speaker 4: you to shelf you, yeah, meaning like Beasts by Dre
Speaker 4: was lit. They had everybody they had all the rappers,
Speaker 4: they had athletes there. You don't really see too much
Speaker 4: about Beat by Dre now, so his Apple Apple, Apple
Speaker 4: bought them, so he's his thing was like, as soon
Speaker 4: as Apple buys Beats ba Dre, all you hear is
Speaker 4: the iPod, the AirPods. So they essentially brought the competition
Speaker 4: to kill the competition so they could push their products,
Speaker 4: which is AirPods as opposed to Beats by Dre.
Speaker 3: What have you heard that before?
Speaker 4: Though, Well, that's why I'm tied in with the music
Speaker 4: because like slim Thug is my guy, Like that's a
Speaker 4: personal friend of Buston. And he was saying like how
Speaker 4: he kind of regretted going to a label because it's
Speaker 4: like the label, the allure of a label, like I
Speaker 4: got a d I got my own label under a label.
Speaker 4: But he was like, looking back on it, it was
Speaker 4: better to just stay the independent route.
Speaker 3: You think that that the music business has done that?
Speaker 5: Like, of course that's what I was alluding to earlier.
Speaker 5: I even take it a step further. Okay, then all right,
Speaker 5: see y'all starting with I'm trying to stay on business.
Speaker 1: All right, So peep this, watch this, watch this.
Speaker 5: Gonna blow your mind. It's funny because I saw part
Speaker 5: of it here. What was the big the Virgin megastore.
Speaker 5: That was when I knew they won. Watched this, so
Speaker 5: they sucked up all of the independent artists. First, gave
Speaker 5: us more money than we ever seen before. But what
Speaker 5: that is to them is a tax right off, right,
Speaker 5: because they make sure in most cases that we fail.
Speaker 5: And then the other rappers who were like me, unlike
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. If if if let's say
Speaker 5: Manny Fresh decided that he wanted to leave, right, I don't.
Speaker 1: Have that problem because I produce.
Speaker 5: Also, if Baby decided to leave, then they don't have
Speaker 5: to worry about that because I run my business. I
Speaker 5: understand my business. If Wayne decided to leave, whether they
Speaker 5: rapper left or Julie decided to leave, a BG decided to.
Speaker 1: Leave, well I do the rappers. I do the rapping.
Speaker 5: So what ended up happening is is after they soaked,
Speaker 5: they gave all this money and we thought we had
Speaker 5: all of this money. And then the first thing that
Speaker 5: you all know, I didn't understand is what forty forty
Speaker 5: five percent of it is gone just in taxi right,
Speaker 5: then you're catching up for all of the borrowing that
Speaker 5: you did and not having or getting your first house
Speaker 5: and car, getting your mom straight what see.
Speaker 1: Long Green said that money be gone. So they did that.
Speaker 2: That was easy.
Speaker 1: Didn't watch what they did.
Speaker 5: I myself got a seventy thousand dollars check from Southwest Distribution.
Speaker 5: We didn't need the majors we had and Zalees we
Speaker 5: had Southwestern. We had distribution companies, real solid distribution companies.
Speaker 5: They soaked them up and bought them out. Then guess
Speaker 5: what they did. Black people learn how to get mom
Speaker 5: and pop stores, even though a lot of them was
Speaker 5: burning CDs in the back in bootlegging. But that was
Speaker 5: we even learned how to We actually learned how to
Speaker 5: press CDs the fact.
Speaker 1: Then they sucked up the mom and pop stores.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you'll remember when they would put
Speaker 5: the Feds started going to the mom and pop stores
Speaker 5: like they were really like they were selling drugs. Bro Right,
Speaker 5: So then they sucked up the mom and pop stores.
Speaker 5: Then after they sucked up the mom and pop stores,
Speaker 5: then they went for the major stores.
Speaker 1: Bro. We at Virgin all we got to doing, say
Speaker 1: the Virgin.
Speaker 5: Mega store bro literally, and I know I know Jordan,
Speaker 5: but I gotta say it, bro, Like the Virgin Mega
Speaker 5: Store was one of the few times besides walking into
Speaker 5: a strip club, where I think I slightly had.
Speaker 1: An orgasm when I would walking to the store.
Speaker 5: I mean just being a I mean just being a
Speaker 5: b one thing that people don't understand about me.
Speaker 1: Bro, is I really loved hip hop. I really loved it.
Speaker 1: I really thought it was this real thing. Bro.
Speaker 5: I right, like, Bro, and I peak what they did
Speaker 5: to the game, Bro, and then we were okay with
Speaker 5: streaming after that.
Speaker 1: Bro. Like we it's just like, Bro, we are addicted to.
Speaker 5: Following our pressors, no matter how they treat us, no
Speaker 5: matter how bad they do us, we run behind them.
Speaker 1: Bro. I just left Forbes, and.
Speaker 5: What I was telling them over there at Forbes was like,
Speaker 5: one of the sad things is that we get caught
Speaker 5: in the trends, no matter how detrimental those trends may
Speaker 5: beat us. Like I told them, there's nothing from a
Speaker 5: business standpoint that you.
Speaker 1: Can tell me that was positive about streaming.
Speaker 5: And you all are owned your business acumen, bro, At least.
Speaker 1: At y'all age. Bro, I don't know too many people.
Speaker 5: Y'all ages beat y'all on that side, tell me one
Speaker 5: positive thing about streaming you were getting. I just told
Speaker 5: you I was getting ten dollars a CD, two fractions
Speaker 5: of pennies to just allow somebody to play my music
Speaker 5: over and over again on their site.
Speaker 1: That's all streaming is.
Speaker 5: They just play up, perpetually play your shit over and
Speaker 5: over again, and then people tap into their site.
Speaker 1: What's smart about that?
Speaker 3: It's just psychological.
Speaker 4: Even Swiss Swiss Beat had said something that was insightful
Speaker 4: off so with you know, he went to Harvard like
Speaker 4: that program that they have, and he was like, one
Speaker 4: thing that he picked up is that in business, you
Speaker 4: don't have to give somebody ownership, but you just make
Speaker 4: them feel like they have ownership in their work.
Speaker 3: So he equated that to labels.
Speaker 4: He's like, so when they started giving everybody a label,
Speaker 4: they felt empowered because now you're under a powered structure
Speaker 4: that you psychologically want to be under anyway, and they
Speaker 4: make you're still a worker, but you have a title
Speaker 4: of a CEO. So now all everybody got a label,
Speaker 4: but nobody has distribution, nobody has real ownership.
Speaker 3: But that's a way to keep everybody happy and satisfied.
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