Music Industry

The Mothership – The iconic stage prop by the legendary funk collective Parliament – Funkadelic – has been acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture where it will help anchor a permanent music exhibition when the museum opens it’s doors in 2015.

Here’s what George Clinton had to say:

“I’m about to cry. They’re taking the Mothership! They’re shipping it out! …But I’m glad it’s going to have a nice home there. It isn’t the original Mothership. This 1,200-pound aluminum spacecraft was built in the mid-’90s an indistinguishable replica. The second ship went out on the road for a long time. Nobody knew the difference!” Continue Reading…

If a black artist in American can’t get booked for concerts in the U.S. they can jump on a plane and head to Africa for financial relief. Don’t believe me? Ask Ja Rule.

At the end of this month Ciara, Timbaland, Fat Joe and Lil Kim are heading to Johannesburg, Durban, Nelspruit, and Harare on a four date mini tour. What I’ve noticed about all four acts (Ciara, Timbaland, Fat Joe and Lil Kim) is that they are all washed up US acts, but in Africa they’re gigantic stars. It might be wise for acts like Ciara or Lil Kim to pack up and move to South Africa or Europe. Know why? Because that’s where they are making their money mane. Continue Reading…

Bangladesh is speaking out against Cash Money Records, claiming he hasn’t been properly paid for his music production. But this isn’t the first time the hip hop hit-maker has filed this sort of complaint. You may remember last year, Bangladesh sued Cash Money Records for $500K. Surprisingly, later that same year (after Lil Wayne’s release from prison), Bangladesh reunited with the Cash Money artist to produce Wayne’s 2011 hit song “6 Foot, 7 Foot” — and according to Bangladesh, his history with the label has repeated itself.

Here’s what Bangladesh had to say:

“It’s not about the money, it’s not about me charging him for the beat, because he’s Lil Wayne; he’s going to sell albums. You only really charge people that you think is not gonna really sell too much, so you want to get your money off top. You might not get it on the back -end because albums don’t sell no more.”

Bangladesh said because Cash Money wasn’t cutting him a paycheck, he’s willing to trade the “6 Foot, 7 Foot” beat for Lil Wayne to feature on his up coming album — but he says Lil Wayne and Cash Money Records stiffed him again.

Here’s what he had to say about that: Continue Reading…

Soulja Boy is crying about his the sales of his latest album ‘DeAndre’s Way’ — saying the album could have gone platinum, blaming his record label for shipping out just 18,000 copies. But the fact is only 13,000 copies were sold.

Here’s what Soulja Boy had to say:

“I wouldn’t have been able to go platinum first week anyway, because the label only shipped like 18,000 copies. So I wasn’t able to go gold first week or even 100K, none of that. They only put like 8,000 units in Best Buy. It was crazy. I didn’t know all of that though. I was just going off of, ‘My album is going to be in stores, so I’m going to promote it as much as I can. I’m not that type of person to just be out like, Hey, my label did this and I was in a situation with that.’ But I don’t want to get caught up in record-label-artist drama or nothing like that.
I just want to keep everything cool to make music, that’s all.” Continue Reading…

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