Prince is an underrated legend. Literally he got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just off his work in the 80s. I wish people would recognize him for all the stuff he went through just to show us how unfair the music industry truly is.
WB tried their best to end him in the 90s starting in like 93 because he wanted his masters. They started painting him as crazy to the media and people listened. Then, some 20 years Taylor Swift has the same message, “Artists should own their music” and people are like yeah she’s right they should. Like Prince wasn’t telling people that for the last 23 years of his life smh
If Prince wasn't musician genius, he'd be philosopher or poet or someone changing the world for better anyway. Wildly intelligent, wise and profound man with strong personality who couldn't be manipulated or fooled, not even being ,bought' as 99% artists are - just selling out their souls (most of those 99% not even having real talents) for money and fame. Prince was so different not only as artist but also as human being. Absolutely rare gem to be found on many levels. He has my respect for his personality too because no matter if people are famous or not maaany go through life just not even thinking about life in deeper sense, not even trying to find out who they are, just accepting the routine and whatever society is serving them on their life's table, never questioning it, not critically thinking, not aiming for some sort of Truth behind all parade...but Prince was not like that. That's why I say take away fame, even musicality from him (hypothetically), he'd still be the rare kind of soul on this planet Earth.💜🌟
@@dallastx3322 Nah they still would because bills and food and shelter and clothes. But they’d be pissed. Which is really what’s been the case for about 8yrs now. Especially exiting the worst of the pandemic. I’m 26, the younger generations like mines have a “be my own boss” mantra even while they’re employed. It’s just the idea of no longer wanting to work for someone else.
if every business provided the means of production then publishing companies wouldnt need contracts. employees produce hamburgers, not music. @@dallastx3322
thats not why he stopped recording, its just how he made a lot of money without just relying on sales. By the time he stopped he wasnt even buying up those anymore
Jay never sold comedy albums or did music, so he had no idea. If he did, he wouldn't have said that to Prince in the first place. You can see Jay was pissed once Prince schooled him because Jay was talking out his bum
A 20mil deal doesn't mean he got payed that much money. It means they invested that amount on him. He probably got payed way less than that and he owes them all the money they invested on him. He got screwed over big time. They all do
@@HrSamstagThere are languages where he/she is the same word. My boyfriend has this issue as well as his native language does not have this difference. He tries his best but with languages where there is no difference, I can understand one gets confused with he/she. My first language is also not English but it is a language that does differentiate between he/she. So I don't struggle with this either but doesn't mean others can't.
In a sense yea... Technically you could make more doing it on your own... But the thing is... With a record deal you are GUARANTEED 20 million dollars even if your albums don't go that great. If you do it yourself you have to cover ALL expenses for production and what have you so you could actually end up losing money
Exactly.and it's sad and the killing part is he really didn't even say much over years but I'm sure knew it was going to cost him his life shoulda spilled it all
Technically they paid her cash 💸 out to end that deal early because of her glitter album.... then she signed and released her biggest hit We belong together.. and kept the cash on BOTH ends ... Thats how you do it. Just when they count you out . Have them count the dollars they missed on that lost bet ! . sooooo no she screwed them !
But theres bit of detail missing theres a difference between mariah carey and prince in that mariah has to pay people to write alot of her material and play the instruments and produce etc unlike prince who can enter a recording studio by himself and write, perform, record, and produce everything just by himself without the need of a company help other than distribute his work so he deserves more than mariah Carey
Every artist trying to get signed by labels should watch this video so later they won’t be signed to a nigga that’s signed to 4 more niggas just like Birdman.
A record label probably only gets half of an album's revenue because the rest stays with the retailer. So even if the artist got half of what the label took home (which would never happen in a traditional record deal), that's $4.50 per album. You'd have to sell more than twice as many albums than Prince's math to make Mariah's deal "not worth it" in even a slightly more realistic scenario. Plus that assumes Mariah's earnings per album were capped at $20 million. She earned a $20 million advance in anticipation of what the album would sell, and once the advance was earned back through record sales she would earn additional royalties, which were probably considerable if you're Mariah Carey signing a record deal in 2001. I'm not saying that the record industry doesn't screw artists all the time because they do. But in terms of money I don't think this was a situation of an artist getting screwed. This is still one of the biggest record deals of all time; Mariah negotiated this one from a position of strength.
Damn Prince and his math skills! He could be my sexy math teacher anytime :O And yep. Mariah got screwed like how she screwed up her dignity and the way she presents herself.
I got a Question ⁉️ does a record labels request money from a new artist to sign a contract ... for an example they ask a new artist for $350 to $400 to get the contract drawn up so they can arrange the signature ...
They offer you 20 million flat for that one album if that album makes 60m you only got twenty million of it ... and the record company comes out on top.
As I understand it, $___ record deal usually means they’re (the label) going to put up that amount of money to make and promote the music. It’s an advance, a loan. So ALL the money made from the music needs to go back to them (the label) first. THEN it depends how much of a share the artist gets from the album sales (what uses to be sales anyway). So a cd or whatever maybe sold for $18 but the artist may only be entitled to like $1-2 per copy sold. It can get very complicated with publishing and songwriting royalties and mechanical royalties, etc, but the leading figure of “$20 MILLION” can be very misleadingz
In a recent interview, musician Prince addressed the issue of record labels' contract deals, criticizing them for being too restrictive and favoring the labels over the artists. He argued that these contracts often tie artists down for long periods of time, limiting their creative freedom and preventing them from pursuing other opportunities. Prince also expressed concern about the lack of transparency in these agreements, stating that many artists are unaware of the true terms until it's too late. He urged for more fair and equitable deals that prioritize the best interests of the artists and allow them to maintain control over their own careers.
Thank god Jay doesn't run a music company because by paying artist half they won't make enough profit to run their company. Try 90% company and 10% artist. Artist are more desperate than companies are. They get tons of songs sent to them everyday!
@@DenzelHarrisonOfficial You don't understand. Number one record alone doesn't mean anything. If you have the number one record and own your own publishing then that's a big deal. Prince owned his own publishing and that's going against the grain and making enemies with the record companies because that's when you become a threat. He and Michael Jackson were big powerhouses because in the industry.
@@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459 Yes that's how it works. They're worth more dead than alive because of the insurance policy the record companies have on the artist.
That math is deceivingly wrong. No artist gets even close to 50%, Carey only gets about 20% which is way higher than most others Still the fuckin Man though, so awesome how he tried to get others to demand their rights back too
I also belive half is too much... Mariah's sales: - Mariah Carey sold 6kk; - Emotions 3.6kk; - Music Box 8kk; - Merry Xmas 5.8kk; - Daydream 8.5kk. If she got only a 1/3 of this example, 6 bucks per album, she would have got 36, 18, 48, 35 and 48 million. The sales continue with time, I just used USA sales and this money would now become 185... USA only!
Vocals : Prince
Guitar : Prince
Producer : Price
Accounting : Prince
SCREAMING 😂😂😂😂
"ACCOUNTANT"
@@IAmJe oh wow that's his moola freestyle, so no need for a licence. 💎🤑💵
Accountant 🤣🤣🤣
"Oh you feeling that?"LoL I miss him so much,smart man.
Glad he’s gone he had a horrible heart
@@jordandukes9294 it was alleged that one prince's friend turned out Tevin cambell and that;s how he contracted HIV. allegedly
@@jordandukes9294 Only you
@@jordandukes9294 people that didn't understand Prince would say that. Prince wasn't afraid to speak is own opinions.
@@jordandukes9294 It seems you have none.
Prince is still teaching us .....I hope young people will get to know his wisdom.
I will listen and not fall for "their" tricks
@@s0me0ne63 absolutely based
@@user-co4xl7wx3q okay
Iam 20 year old and just found who he is today
Prince is risking his life by talking about his owners!
Nas wanted to make a song with Prince and Prince asked Nas, do you own your masters? Nas said no, Prince said, come back when you own your masters.
I think that’s why drake and 21 made a album cuz 21 owns his masters and could probably give drake checks instead of doing shows getting tired
Jays reaction is priceless after an unexpected real ass response from Prince😂
Jay's response is we have to kill him now...
Prince is an underrated legend. Literally he got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just off his work in the 80s. I wish people would recognize him for all the stuff he went through just to show us how unfair the music industry truly is.
WB tried their best to end him in the 90s starting in like 93 because he wanted his masters. They started painting him as crazy to the media and people listened. Then, some 20 years Taylor Swift has the same message, “Artists should own their music” and people are like yeah she’s right they should. Like Prince wasn’t telling people that for the last 23 years of his life smh
Prince is a boss
Prince definitely isn't underrated.
@@NSW-ye3xw Tf he isn't... All he really gets recognized for is his work in the 80s. Nothing else
Prince lives on forever nobody can touch the style like him
If Prince wasn't musician genius, he'd be philosopher or poet or someone changing the world for better anyway. Wildly intelligent, wise and profound man with strong personality who couldn't be manipulated or fooled, not even being ,bought' as 99% artists are - just selling out their souls (most of those 99% not even having real talents) for money and fame. Prince was so different not only as artist but also as human being. Absolutely rare gem to be found on many levels. He has my respect for his personality too because no matter if people are famous or not maaany go through life just not even thinking about life in deeper sense, not even trying to find out who they are, just accepting the routine and whatever society is serving them on their life's table, never questioning it, not critically thinking, not aiming for some sort of Truth behind all parade...but Prince was not like that. That's why I say take away fame, even musicality from him (hypothetically), he'd still be the rare kind of soul on this planet Earth.💜🌟
They hate it when you tell the truth
I looked up the sales and did the math. She made them about $150M off those 3 albums
Thats a fact smh
@jerico And she only made 20 million!!!!
If every worker found out how much they were making the business they would never work
@@dallastx3322 Nah they still would because bills and food and shelter and clothes. But they’d be pissed. Which is really what’s been the case for about 8yrs now. Especially exiting the worst of the pandemic. I’m 26, the younger generations like mines have a “be my own boss” mantra even while they’re employed. It’s just the idea of no longer wanting to work for someone else.
if every business provided the means of production then publishing companies wouldnt need contracts. employees produce hamburgers, not music.
@@dallastx3322
Prince was so gorgeous 😍
I love his eyes...
@@katygaston8777Yes pretty eyes
Prince was not just a music genius
Lowkey people don’t know that’s why Michael Jackson stop recording and just buying people masters
tho he was really bad with money, he had to start selling them to get the money
thats not why he stopped recording, its just how he made a lot of money without just relying on sales. By the time he stopped he wasnt even buying up those anymore
''I don't know how it works'' liar.. he knows exactly how it works
Jay never sold comedy albums or did music, so he had no idea. If he did, he wouldn't have said that to Prince in the first place. You can see Jay was pissed once Prince schooled him because Jay was talking out his bum
My nigga PRINCE...ALWAYS 100
True
Prince gave the record labels the middle finger 🖕 WITHOUT really give ‘em the middle finger 😅
A 20mil deal doesn't mean he got payed that much money. It means they invested that amount on him. He probably got payed way less than that and he owes them all the money they invested on him. He got screwed over big time. They all do
This is the 4th comment that I see where you refer Prince as She ; He’s a Man, lol.
@@harambeinhumanform english is not my first language lol
@@kiwi845Good enough to make a difference between him and her. She, Mariah, got screwed, that’s what he’s talking about here.
(English isn’t my first language also btw.)
@@HrSamstagThere are languages where he/she is the same word. My boyfriend has this issue as well as his native language does not have this difference. He tries his best but with languages where there is no difference, I can understand one gets confused with he/she. My first language is also not English but it is a language that does differentiate between he/she. So I don't struggle with this either but doesn't mean others can't.
In a sense yea... Technically you could make more doing it on your own... But the thing is... With a record deal you are GUARANTEED 20 million dollars even if your albums don't go that great. If you do it yourself you have to cover ALL expenses for production and what have you so you could actually end up losing money
No risk, no reward. Every business is like that.
could have summed it up by just stating that she had publicity
@Day
But those 20million are part of a debt. You're gon lose that anyways. She wasn't paid 20M, that was just the money that was INVESTED on her
You’re slow. The record deal is a LOAN. You have to pay it back.
You do realize that you have to pay them back right
Yup, this and various other exposés and his attempt to purchase warner bros got him murdered.
Hmmmmm, reminds me of what folks said about Cosby back in the 90's trying to buy NBC
Exactly.and it's sad and the killing part is he really didn't even say much over years but I'm sure knew it was going to cost him his life shoulda spilled it all
Technically they paid her cash 💸 out to end that deal early because of her glitter album.... then she signed and released her biggest hit We belong together.. and kept the cash on BOTH ends ... Thats how you do it. Just when they count you out . Have them count the dollars they missed on that lost bet ! . sooooo no she screwed them !
Truth
But theres bit of detail missing theres a difference between mariah carey and prince in that mariah has to pay people to write alot of her material and play the instruments and produce etc unlike prince who can enter a recording studio by himself and write, perform, record, and produce everything just by himself without the need of a company help other than distribute his work so he deserves more than mariah Carey
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RIP Prince n very intelligent brother was he.
Every artist trying to get signed by labels should watch this video so later they won’t be signed to a nigga that’s signed to 4 more niggas just like Birdman.
I love my self....
looks good here
A record label probably only gets half of an album's revenue because the rest stays with the retailer. So even if the artist got half of what the label took home (which would never happen in a traditional record deal), that's $4.50 per album. You'd have to sell more than twice as many albums than Prince's math to make Mariah's deal "not worth it" in even a slightly more realistic scenario. Plus that assumes Mariah's earnings per album were capped at $20 million. She earned a $20 million advance in anticipation of what the album would sell, and once the advance was earned back through record sales she would earn additional royalties, which were probably considerable if you're Mariah Carey signing a record deal in 2001. I'm not saying that the record industry doesn't screw artists all the time because they do. But in terms of money I don't think this was a situation of an artist getting screwed. This is still one of the biggest record deals of all time; Mariah negotiated this one from a position of strength.
#KnowledgeDeletesTheProgramming! 💯 Damn the schools! Let’s bless the next generation with this Man’s Wisdom at the crib!
Damn Prince and his math skills! He could be my sexy math teacher anytime :O
And yep. Mariah got screwed like how she screwed up her dignity and the way she presents herself.
I got a Question ⁉️
does a record labels request money from a new artist to sign a contract ... for an example they ask a new artist for $350 to $400 to get the contract drawn up so they can arrange the signature ...
Hell nah because you become their investment when they site interest in you how bizarre would that be to tell somebody to pay me to sign you
Prince was so sharp mentally.
I’m lost asf 😅
He flicked on that Gemini mode and said what WB think they own Prince..ok den, Now im Paisley and produce for Miley 😅 hell yes dude
You Sell your Invention for 20 Million! Then that Company makes One Billion off of that Invention! The Inventor got Screwed!.
It's better you deal in percentages not a figure...
#justice #nohonoramongstthieves
Jay was frustrated at Prince schooling him
he is actually frustrated a black man schooling him
Jay know::::
Dayum 😒
I dont get it
Me either
They offer you 20 million flat for that one album if that album makes 60m you only got twenty million of it ... and the record company comes out on top.
Record labels are thieves and they suck the life of artists. They gave Mariah Caray a small percentage of her earnings.
As I understand it, $___ record deal usually means they’re (the label) going to put up that amount of money to make and promote the music. It’s an advance, a loan. So ALL the money made from the music needs to go back to them (the label) first. THEN it depends how much of a share the artist gets from the album sales (what uses to be sales anyway). So a cd or whatever maybe sold for $18 but the artist may only be entitled to like $1-2 per copy sold. It can get very complicated with publishing and songwriting royalties and mechanical royalties, etc, but the leading figure of “$20 MILLION” can be very misleadingz
In a recent interview, musician Prince addressed the issue of record labels' contract deals, criticizing them for being too restrictive and favoring the labels over the artists. He argued that these contracts often tie artists down for long periods of time, limiting their creative freedom and preventing them from pursuing other opportunities. Prince also expressed concern about the lack of transparency in these agreements, stating that many artists are unaware of the true terms until it's too late. He urged for more fair and equitable deals that prioritize the best interests of the artists and allow them to maintain control over their own careers.
He sounds like drake a little
Thank god Jay doesn't run a music company because by paying artist half they won't make enough profit to run their company. Try 90% company and 10% artist. Artist are more desperate than companies are. They get tons of songs sent to them everyday!
She really wasn't, it was 20 million dollars in advance money per album, she also makes huge amounts from royalties.
Royalties are a very small percentage to the artist. Publishing beats out royalties
@@DenzelHarrisonOfficial You don't understand. Number one record alone doesn't mean anything. If you have the number one record and own your own publishing then that's a big deal. Prince owned his own publishing and that's going against the grain and making enemies with the record companies because that's when you become a threat. He and Michael Jackson were big powerhouses because in the industry.
@@donteprince8846 and they both ended up dead. Strange…
@@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459 Yes that's how it works. They're worth more dead than alive because of the insurance policy the record companies have on the artist.
@@DenzelHarrisonOfficial so did TLC ... That means nothing if you got a bogus contract or deal
LMFAO salty af
That math is deceivingly wrong. No artist gets even close to 50%, Carey only gets about 20% which is way higher than most others
Still the fuckin Man though, so awesome how he tried to get others to demand their rights back too
The sad part is that Mariah really flopped in that moment in time with her movie and Soundtrack
I also belive half is too much...
Mariah's sales:
- Mariah Carey sold 6kk;
- Emotions 3.6kk;
- Music Box 8kk;
- Merry Xmas 5.8kk;
- Daydream 8.5kk.
If she got only a 1/3 of this example, 6 bucks per album, she would have got 36, 18, 48, 35 and 48 million. The sales continue with time, I just used USA sales and this money would now become 185... USA only!
"Check this out",. How do you actually know how many records have been sold ? 🤸♂️🤼♂️🤼♀️🤼🧘♂️🧘♀️