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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: In an era when many artists are selling their catalogs

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Speaker 2: for hundreds of millions of dollars, hip hop mogul Diddy

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Speaker 2: recently went in the opposite direction by giving away all

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Speaker 2: the publishing rights he owned back to the artists and

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Speaker 2: songwriters responsible for each song, potentially forfeiting a nine figure payday.

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Speaker 2: It's an incredibly generous and unprecedented move, so much so

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Speaker 2: that people are accusing him of doing it as a

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Speaker 2: publicity stunt or pr move. But did, he tells Variety,

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Speaker 2: it's just doing the right thing. We as an industry,

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Speaker 2: we have to look in the mirror and make a

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Speaker 2: shift forward. It's about evolving, leading by example and reforming

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Speaker 2: an industry that needs it in a world that needs reform.

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Speaker 2: One thing I do want people to know is that

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Speaker 2: this was decided about two years ago. All the legal

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Speaker 2: stuff just got taken care of. Now it is not

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Speaker 2: a publicity stunt. Ditty's the love album Off the Grid

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Speaker 2: and its lead single Another One of Me feature on

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Speaker 2: the Weekend twenty one. Savage in French Montana's out Now

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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood