 The reality of it is, bro, it's really the bigger arts for this in the smaller arts. Hey, bro, I thought you'd just deal. We not gonna go through the label at all. It's just gonna be me and you. And then shit gonna be cool. And then you don't gave, I'm saying 50 bands thinking you're getting the deal. And then, you know what I'm saying? You get cut out two months later by the label and they not give you the money back. They did that part. Let's get into this next topic. TJ's DJ, shout out to TJ. If y'all know TJ, he is BOB's manager, track backwards manager. He said, if you pay an artist for a feature, make sure you get clearance from the label so you can release it. I see all kinds of artists pay for features that they can't ever release because it wasn't cleared. If they do release it, it will be immediately removed from all DSPs and radio stations with a simple cease and desist letter. What is he saying? Yo, if you get a feature from Chris Brown randomly, but then his label has no idea about this, it can easily be blocked by the label. That's not anything official. You need to make sure it's cleared. So all these deals y'all think, oh, I got a feature, I got a feature. Do you really? Or is it just a feature that you can show at the family reunion on your Walkman or something? You know what I mean? Because once that thing's on the streaming platform, that shit ain't going. He's on your Walkman? I'm sorry, bro. I'm sorry, bro. I don't know where that came from. We're gonna let that ride. But no, you're right, man. And artists have to stop letting bigger artists finesse them and to bind these features that they're not gonna get clear. Because I've seen that, right? I do think there's a portion of artists that don't care that will in the shoot the shot. See if I can slide it through. Probably hoping that the song catches attention to the points where the label's like, we'll let that rock, you know what I'm saying? But the reality of it is, bro, is really the bigger artist finesse and the smaller artist. Hey, bro, I thought you this deal, you know what I'm saying? We not gonna go through the label at all. It's just gonna be me and you. And then shit gonna be cool. And then you don't gave, I don't wanna say Chris Brown. I wanna ruin him like that. But it's like, you gave whoever, big who the fuck, whatever, you know what I'm saying? 50 bands thinking you getting the deal. And then, you know what I'm saying? You get cut out two months later by the label and they not give you the money back. They did their part of the transaction, right? They did what they were supposed to do. You just didn't know the game. And then you ask out or whatever you paid. So, yeah, bro. Like, this is what will happen. And I first heard this from an artist that, you know, did I know? He got a feature from an artist that pretty much all of y'all would know. And he was like, 50 bands is the price of this feature if you want it. But he was willing to give it all up. It's damn near his life savings. 50 bands. However, if you pay this shit in cash, I'll give it to you for 30 bands. Reflect. Hey man, saving this 50K all my life, it'd be nice to hold on to 20K of that. So I'm gonna pay for that. Who's not gonna go with that deal? You still gonna get the exact same thing for less money? I just gotta pay it cash instead of credit card or whatever. Now, if you're not thinking about refunds and having to be able to call the bank and say, hey, that's not official, then whatever. But who's not gonna take that deal? So why are artists doing that? Why would a major artist do that? One, if I put this shit officially on my side, well, I gotta pay the label. I don't want the label to get any of this money. And depending on the artist's deal, out of that 50K, I might only be keeping maybe 10K, maybe 20K. So why don't I just charge you 30K, keep all that to myself, just like the candy at the gas station. I don't know if you know that, a lot of people at the gas station, like a lot of these gas stations are when they get paid cash. Candy is one of the main things that they would use for particularly back in the day, when they get paid cash, they don't report that. And that's why the candy was like so profitable for them because they didn't keep that to the size. Like I just bought this off the damn near candy lady like you're not really tracking the inventory, right? Yeah. Right? It's also a similar effect. It's like that inventory can't be tracked. Nobody knows. And then if something pops up and the label's like, yo, where did this come from? I don't know what happened. I don't know where that came from. You know, these producers just be taking my joints and leaking them out to everybody, trying to do a flip. I never said anything about that. We don't have it on paper, right? No paperwork, no system transactions, none of that stuff. All cash can't be tracked. So like TJ said, hey, if it's not cleared, then shoot, man. Shoot, it didn't happen. It never happened. It never happened, bro. Yeah, say that for your homies to brag at the family reunion or the next meetup. Stop what you're doing. We gotta interrupt you to let you know you can win $20,000 by submitting your music to tulost.com slash collab for the crown. We're looking for the best songs and we're partnering with Tulost. 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