HERES THE SALERY OF A RAP ARTIST ON A MAJOR...

[Justin]

MOST ARTISTS ARE BROKE... THATS REAL TALK..

 

[smuggla]

justin is speakin real talk. a lot of you that are arguing are missing his point. hes not talkin about everything else the artist does, hes just speakin from a record sales standpoint. going gold on a record doesnt always mean big loot. and a lot of well known artists dont have a lot of money. i personally know 2 artists that are pretty well known in sac/bay and one would think that they would have hella money. Im not going to say who they are because i dont need to air dirty laundry but i can tell you that they are not makin the big skrill. shit sometimes i have even spotted them when we go out n shit. anyway...good shit justin.

 

[CALIBEATS]

THE BEST WAY TA DO IT IS START YOUR OWN RECORD LABEL, LIKE MASTER P OR MAC DRE THAT WAY YOU GET EVERYTHANG, AND IT'S A PLUS IF YOU MAKE YOUR OWN BEATS, LIKE FIRST DEGREE. THEN ALL YOU GOTTA PAY FOR IS DIDTRIBUTION, AND STUDIO TIME IF YOU AIN'T GOT ONE.

ALL A RECORD LABEL DOES FOR YOU IS PROMOTION.

 

[Justin]

correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it better to be independant than be on a major label? If you do all the work (produce, mix, master, market etc.) you keep all the royalties cuz you aint payin no one. The only downside is the lack of distribution and exposure that a major label has, but if you go mainstream you get most of the profit cuz you did all the work. So if a cd costs around $15 you get approximately that amount per unit sold. It seems an artist has to pay other people and at the end he/she is left with nothing because 1% here, 5% there, another 10% there etc. adds up. I know little about the business side of the music industry so I might be wrong, but it makes sense that hard work pays off literally when an artist is tryna get paid.

A ARTIST WILL NEVER MAKE $15 A UNIT SOLD... KEEP IN MIND THAT AN ARTIST IS THE LAST TO GET PAID, PROMO GETS A CUT MANAGERS GET 20% AND EVEN THE RECORD STORE YOU BOUGHT IT FROM GETS SOME OF THAT MONEY... READ THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS THREAD ALL QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED..