De La Soul has reportedly regained ownership of their masters.

[Race Jones]

 

[Big_Ev]

Man that is great news. Tommy Boy has been known to jerking artists.

 

[Maywood]

 

[Norrin_Radd]

About damn time! Fuck Tommy Boy!

 

[Olorun22]

Having your master is only good if you can make money from it... if you own your master and nobody wants to hear your songs then it's useless

 

[Old Man Cain]

About damn time! Fuck Tommy Boy!

this

 

[Valentinez A. Kaiser]

It's just me, myself and masters!!!

 

[Don Dada]

those niggas can spit

 

[SneakDZA]

Having your master is only good if you can make money from it... if you own your master and nobody wants to hear your songs then it's unless

De La Soul has an incredible catalog. They'll be alright.

 

[T. Sanford]

I was 10 minutes too late to post this. This is my sht right here

 

[Don Dada]

If swizz and timbaland are real they should put de la soul on a versus now when they have their ownership

 

[dontdiedontkillanyone]

Having your master is only good if you can make money from it... if you own your master and nobody wants to hear your songs then it's unless

It's De La Soul you're talking about

 

[Don Dada]

 

[5 Grand]

Having your master is only good if you can make money from it... if you own your master and nobody wants to hear your songs then it's unless

Actually in most cases it's better if the label owns the masters, not the artist.

Think about it, are De La Soul really good at marketing, promotion, and advertising? The people who work at Tommy Boy (or any label) have college degrees in how to market a product. The artist is good at making music, the label is good at making money. In a perfect world, the label would make a million dollars and give the artist half of the money since they made the music. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world and you constantly have to look over your shoulder and you can't trust anybody.


Anyway, in perfect world, you turn in the music and the label does their thing. It's too bad that greed and ego gets in the way.

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Finally don't have to keep going to YT for one of the GOAT posse cuts

 

[Maywood]

 

[Olorun22]

De La Soul has an incredible catalog. They'll be alright.

It's De La Soul you're talking about

I wasn't trying to come off like they wouldn't get money from their masters.. I was just speaking in general

 

[Big Lurko]

Having your master is only good if you can make money from it... if you own your master and nobody wants to hear your songs then it's useless

Man shut up

 

[Big Lurko]

Actually in most cases it's better if the label owns the masters, not the artist.

Think about it, are De La Soul really good at marketing, promotion, and advertising? The people who work at Tommy Boy (or any label) have college degrees in how to market a product. The artist is good at making music, the label is good at making money. In a perfect world, the label would make a million dollars and give the artist half of the money since they made the music. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world and you constantly have to look over your shoulder and you can't trust anybody.


Anyway, in perfect world, you turn in the music and the label does their thing. It's too bad that greed and ego gets in the way.

Man shut up

 

[5 Grand]

Man shut up

Man shut up

In a perfect world, would it be better for the label to own the right to market, promote, and advertise the music, or would it be better for the artist to own that right?