 What's going on this your man Kobe welcome to another episode of counter Kobe Well, I just pretty much want to talk with you guys about different topics that have been going on in music this week So if you're new to the channel, make sure you hit that subscribe button Go and check out all the other content on brand man. Most of it is educational Just not this show but like I said, this is pretty much a way for me to see what you guys think on these various music topics See if we agree if we disagree if we can debate Or if we can just chop it up about it from a mutual neutral standpoint Outside of that come and follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Kobe to save you like I said I love to hear what you guys think on these topics. So you might as well come and show your opinions with me Let's talk about all of this stuff now what I've been said Let's go ahead and dive into today's topics Now the first thing that I want to touch on and if you know about this man If you know about this, you're probably just as equally disappointed as I am right And if you don't know what I'm talking about after I talk about it You are going to be just as equally disappointed as I am. So Cory, what are you talking about, bro? I Am talking about Tory Lane's versus in a scope now Tory Lane's has been very vocal about his beef and his displeasement Displeasement is that a word his displeasement with his record labor in a scope for a minute at least for the last couple of weeks He even took to Instagram. I would say about a week and a half ago. He posted a post It said in a scope records if y'all niggas don't stop playing with me I'm exposed was really going on in that fucking building Now it's speculation that he's mad at in a scope over his recent Chicks take five project now if you're not familiar with Tory Lane's you never really like checked into toy lane like that He's been doing this chicks take mixtape series since he's been an underground artist where he pretty much takes Popular r&b songs he samples them. He flips them and then he makes them his own thing and he puts them out So like I said, he released the most popular version of it today being chicks takes five and The rumor that's going around is that his team and him are mad that in a scope did not help to fund that project Now his manager. What's his manager's name? Excuse me if I get this wrong, but his manager Sasha Guten friend Spoke to DJ booth and what she pretty much said was that in a scope contributed, but they didn't cover all of our costs Tory is not afraid to invest in himself So if you know anything about just how music works, right? You know that one of the most expensive things in music is the sample clean process Shit, even the work that goes into clearing a sample is a lot for a small team to handle because you have to literally hunt down All the people who own the rights to these different songs and then get them to agree on a price So you know so that you can use it for your project your song your whatever so Just not even thinking about the marketing budget not even thinking about the publicity budget the art budget the wardrobe budget the video budget Tory Lane's definitely dropped the bag on Features alone and I'm thinking that me being a major label artists signed to a major label with just this large Staff that's supposed to be at my disposal, especially with you know I would think that Tory Lane's is a priority artist priority artist at in the scope You would think that the label would help him with that You would think that we either offset some of the costs or like I said put in some of the work to actually get these samples clear But it's not what Tory Lane's and his team have been saying they've saying that in a scope has had no helping that whatsoever So last night last night as I'm you making this video he took to Instagram again Once again getting our hopes up and he posted everybody meet me on my IG live at 7 p.m We gonna start this in a scope shit can't take this no more He then posted a separate post That says something like to my fellow artists if anything happens to me in any part of this process I did it all for my upcoming artists To be smarter with these deals and to be in a better position for your families and to be aware of the dangers Even when your business is right So what got me with this because personally I'm not the biggest Tory Lane's fans musically I think he's the cool guy seems like a very intelligent knowledgeable guy that knows what he's got going on And I do like that about him But he was pretty much painting himself to be the Batman or the Robin Hood of the underground or the indie artists community Right. I took it as him saying look I'm going to expose in the scope for some of these practices that they've been doing So that hopefully you the artist that's coming up can learn from this situation and not end up in the same position that I'm in And we don't see that too much from artists Especially major label artists who are in a prime position, right at the most we've gotten what like Metro Boomin and sunny digital Call it a couple a couple of heads like we get it every now and then we'll get a artist who kind of comes out and Talks about some of these situations some of these deals, but it's rare that we get it while they're in the deal living out the terms of the contract and Benefiting from what the label has to offer them But I guess if we take it from Tory Lane standpoints, he's feeling like I did all the work for this project I did all this to get I did all this to get together Do all the the back breaking label work on top of the work that I have to do as an artist to actually create the art You're contributing from me or you're profiting from it And we don't feel like you contribute enough to the project as a whole So I do see his point in this like I said I was very excited for him to take to IG live and added south for us. I waited bro Like I looked at it like seven ten my time here in Atlanta He wasn't on live my roommate brought the point like yo, bro, you don't know where this man at. He might be in LA I'm like great point. That's a good point. So I waited to about 10 15 my time 715 LA time still nothing woke up this morning and the original post that he posted saying he was gonna go live Had been taken down. So I'm guessing that whatever he was going through yesterday Either got resolved or it got sniffed out or you know, they hit him up. He's like, yo Cut that shut up either way. Like I said, I was disappointed because I was looking forward to it because I like to see artists Are that shit out and let the rest of us know what's up so that we can all move a little bit smarter, right? Like why why say the danger for the next man when you can protect everybody? So hopefully Tory Lane doesn't renege on his comments Hopefully he does let us know what's going on in the situation. Like I said Speculations is that it's over the sample clearance and how much money it costs and how much work it took to make that happen Which they didn't really they don't feel like they really got any help from in the scope regarding that But like I said until he speaks on it, we don't really know But hopefully he add something out in the next couple of weeks because he didn't in his original Instagram post say We doing this shit for 30 days straight. I'm having everybody out. So let's pay attention. Let's see Let me know what you guys think. Do you think it's over the sample clearances? Do you think it's over something else? Do you think he even needs to talk about it? Just let me know what you guys think about that in the comment section below moving on Let's touch on this yellow card versus juice world lawsuit So I saw a lot of juice world fans just up in arms this week When it was announced that the band yellow card was still pursuing their 15 million dollar lawsuit against Juice world's team and Nick mirror and his production company for allegedly Simpling a song from that album in 2006 without giving them any credit giving them any compensation for it now. They did Extend the case out of respect for juice world's death right so it was been reported that the defense originally had until December 9th to pretty much get all their documents together and Yellow card extended it to February 4th. We made it very clear that they were still pursuing this 15 million dollar lawsuit Like I said, I saw a lot of a lot of juice world fans up in arms about this Which lets me know those guys don't know the business right because it is completely fair Completely honest for an artist who feels like their work have been used a sample to seek compensation Especially for a song that big now I think a lot of this negative backlash comes from the fact that Sting already took 90% of lucid dreams right earlier this year Juice water his team was in a league of dispute with the band sting over lucid dreams And he ended up losing about 90% of that song to sting they own 90% of that song So already what we're seeing is that the artist and his team and the label are splitting a very small part of the Pie right I'll be it probably expensive small part of the pie But still a small portion of the pie at 10% and then now we see yellow card coming in and affecting that 10% even more And like I said, man business is business like just because something tragic happened or something unfortunate happened Doesn't mean that it stops the legal proceedings up a business move. It doesn't feel like there's anything personal Yellow card even released a statement Saying you know how how unfortunate it was that we lost juice world and how they offered a condolences to his family and his fanbase and they didn't have to do that because it's not like this is a you know It's not like there's they're they're suing him out of malicious intent. It's just yo man It's our song and your song we would like to get paid for it. I even looked at it like this like Just like the sting situation if they wanted to they could have probably come in and taken Come in and take the rest of that 10% assuming it gets proved that it is their music So the fact that they asked for a hard number $15 million is completely reasonable to me because that song has definitely made way more than $15 million like that song alone not to mention all the other hits and classics No, not classics But other hits and to be soon will be soon classics that juice world has produced that is generating a large amount of money So $15 million when you look at like that isn't really shit when they could have asked for an entire percentage of the song for the Lifespan of that song. So I actually think they weren't pretty lean on this My guess being that they're probably familiar with the steam case to or maybe they just genuinely like juice world music They didn't want to do them like that. Like I said, like it's I think it's completely fair for artists to go Hey, you use my song. I would like to get compensation for this song Let's work something out. So Like I said, if you're if you're up in arms about this, you just you just don't know the business man This is this is completely fair to me. It's completely I think is I don't I don't see it ending in a really negative way I haven't really seen like Taz Taylor and Nick Mira speak too badly against or even really speak out about it Like I said, it was just something I noticed that juice world fans was just like on their ass about like, yo, man That's just fucked up. He just passed all these things But like I said, man business is business business has to go on despite certain unfortunate or tragic events And the biggest thing you can learn for this situation is if you're going to sample the song If you're going to use somebody else's song make sure you get it clear now We can't attribute that completely to juice world because Lucy adrenia was made before he was such a megastar artist And most artists that are not big don't even think about that. So if nothing else use this case as a study on Why you should be up on your business Even when you feel like no the business has a call to you because eventually you could be given a 90% of your song and 15 million and No one's gonna feel bad for you because it's completely justified Moving on I want to touch on your favorite rainbow headed rapper and his Sentencing pretty much. Um, this is probably the last time I talk about it six nine case for a minute just because at this point, I don't know what else can be covered on but Just the internet was just so up in orange this week about it I just felt like something had to be said so originally it was rumored that six nine was getting out That same day that this rumor started it was going around six now to be released today six now to be released in 24 hours However, what we let it saw was that was not the case and the official sensing that has been passed on to juice I'm not juice world to six nine is that he will have 24 months throughout the third 24 months with his 13 months He's already done counted as time serves five years of supervision 300 hours of community service and a 35,000 dollar fine now When you really look into the details of it, this is a very light sentence Like I said, he got 24 months with them counting the 13 months that he's already served as time served Meaning that he really only has about 11 months and that's not even including good behavior and all the extra stuff That starts to go into account for once the sensing or once the time being served actually starts On top of that once he get out He's not going to be the same six nine that some of us know and love because he's going to be being watched for five years Meaning that he can't go on these test my games to world tours He can't do all this ignorant stuff that he was doing before because he is going to run the risk of ending up right back in jail One thing that I will say I Appreciate about the judge on this case is that at least at least it seemed like he wasn't going for six nines Bullshit as far as trying to play the victim and painting himself out to be this, you know kid who got romanticized by These fairy godhood niggas who put money up to fund his dreams the judge was not going for that The judge was making it clear to six nine that he was very aware of the roles that he played in All of the activities of the game pretty much saying that yes, you're right There are certain members that we could not have gotten without you You were very instrumental in that but let's not sit here and pretend like you didn't incite or start A lot of these various serious crimes that had us looking at them, you know for the last couple months in the first place Are you where the catalyst for a lot of these things? So one of the things I'm gonna read some of these messages here. So judge Engelmeyer These are some of his statements. This is him reading out to six nine during the court So for the better part of the year you were part of a violent game so that there's no misunderstanding Here's a specific account of those acts first cane trippy red you decide to shoot at a member of trippy red's entourage What else next was chief Keith he was in New York you were in LA You offered 20,000 to shoot a chief keep outside of W hotel. You later gave 10,000 Then you in LA a rival was live streaming in Smurf village Jordan offered to shoot you said, okay When you play guilty you admit it to attempting to commit murder on April 3rd 2018 with a record label in Texas. He's talking about rap a lot records You drove to 40th Street in 8th Avenue Kefano Jordan robbed the musicians at gunpoint and mr. Hernandez I've given it a lot of close thought including your cooperation the following of my thoughts and this is going to take a little while You are in custody for 13 months I agree you deserve a great deal of credit for your cooperation I appreciate it the means whether at your expense of mine But I need to say non-trade was violent not to be glorified cooperation of criminal insiders is a necessary tool Imagine the members of non-trade free today that there was the slashing victim I have no doubt that the process of cooperation has for you been cathartic for all these reasons You deserve a very substantial reduction and you will receive. I followed some of the commentary during the trial I took it much of it and good fun That was kind of weird, right? So the lawyers admitting I saw the memes. I seen the talk around it It was comical. I enjoyed it. But the end of day. This was some serious shit You're gonna have to do some serious time for it We can't just slap you on the wrist and let it out Even though I will argue that 24 months with 13 months serve is a slap on the wrist because I'm pretty sure we all know people Who've done a lot less that have gotten worse serious times shit even the rest of the non-trade members who were prosecuted I think the lowest sentence serving that was given was five years and Some of those people like I said weren't even the the ones who incited a lot of the criminal acts That actually really put them on the FBI radar this year, right a lot of those things Were done by six nine and then now he tried to hop out of it and cop the plea of oh, you know, I'm just a kid I didn't know any better like as I was wooed by these fairy god-hood niggas who had bread to put me up and help me chase my dreams so The only thing that I'm going to be interested outside of this because like I said, I don't agree with the light sentencing I'm not saying that I wanted him to get life for 40 years But something that at least set an example like if you're going to use this case as an example to show to the rap community Or whatever community you're trying to speak to that hey It's okay to cooperate and work with the police and talk to the police when it's saving lives Then you should also set the example of but if you were in cooperation with these people that would still be Consequences for it, but we will thank you for it. We will appreciate you for it We didn't get that so I'm looking like he's not gonna come out with really anything to learn I'm interested to see his rebrand because I a thousand percent believe that he's going to just jump into the Latin music market Like we're gonna start seeing six nine on songs with like bad bunny and Cardi B in Spanish And he's not gonna come back into the rap world whatsoever. So I don't know like I said, that's that's all pretty much at this point When there's more that's worth talking about outside of this This was just significant because of the rumor that was going around and then like I said the actual sentencing with the 24 months plus time Serve plus the five years of supervision 300 hours of community service and the 35,000 dollar finder. He's probably gonna pay the day he gets out. So Slap on the wrist for a major artist like six nine now lastly what I want to talk about is Kind of goes towards the whole artists and mental health conversation that we have if you look at the episode Why I talked about summer Walker and why she counseled a lot of her show dates Alluding to a lot of it being due to the fact that she just didn't feel in a well mental space This relates to that same conversation and some of those same sentiments that I was talking about about how we don't really talk a lot about How major artists are probably going to certain forms of just PTSD or mental health disorders from being in the spotlight so much. So 13,000 did an interview with Rick Rubin for his broken record podcast Which if you never listen to the podcast a thousand percent recommended It's just Rick Rubin having conversations with different music professionals and creators about their headspace and where they're at And it's it's dope man Like Rick Rubin is a really cool interviewer because he's so chill, right so in the interview 13,000 pretty much was asked or was talking about why we've never gotten a solo under three thousand project and if we're going to get a solo under three thousand project and He left the sentiments of he would like for there to be one, but he doesn't feel like it's coming So let me read out some of these quotes, right? So I haven't been making much music, man That's what hundred thousand is saying to Rick Rubin. I haven't been making much music man My focus is not there. My confidence is not there once the attention is on that world the world goes away and I was reading the interview and he talked a lot about just how being scrutinized by the public Just kind of put this pressure on him that made him not want to create going into it He talked a lot about how you know very same sentiments that a lot of artists talk about I was making it for fun It was just me and my friends and then it got to a point where there was so many people looking at us That it just wasn't the same and it made him feel anxious and anxiety over the whole thing and just kind of like lock himself away from the world and This is something that I honestly feel like a lot of major artists deal with whether they talk about or they don't like I'm willing to bet you that if there was some type of a mental health survey that went throughout the music industry If the industry as a whole cared enough to have that conversation I'm willing to bet that something like 60 to 70 percent of the artist probably really suffer from some type of mental health Issues just because of the things that you go through being a famous icon Like just some of the treatments that you get not the good treatments not the free stuff and the jewelry and I said But I mean like the people treating you like a cage animal The the relinquishment of your privacy once you get to that point the ownership that the world feels around you and your art That if this was any other profession, we would be sending them to psychology I mean it's so cautious to talk about this and get help But because it's music artists we kind of look at it like oh man, you know suck it up make your art We love you what do you have to complain about and that's not right? It's not right at all. I wholeheartedly believe that there should be some type of psychiatric fun For music artists at least when they sign to a label to where they can go sit in the building talk to a therapist Talk to psychiatrists work through some of those issues And then come out in a better headspace to be able to talk to and give us the fans the product and the music that we want because No matter how you feel about it or feel about these artists if they're not in the right mental space They're either going to give us shit product Or they're not gonna give us anything at all and then we have a situation like hundred thousand where we don't hear from Their artists for years and years and years until something like this comes up So I commend hundred two thousand for being one of the forefront of the artist talking about it I know he hasn't been the only artist that talked about it. Like I said, there's been Joe Butting there's been some Walker, but I commend him for being a legendary act Coming and talk about it from a legendary standpoint like the standpoint from him Just being in the basement with the rest of the dungeon family to him becoming a Superstar today and just how they make you fit has made him feel so if you have not listened to the interview like I said It's on Rick Rubin's podcast or broken record podcast is their most recent episode. It's only like 57 minutes long So it's not even that long of a conversation But you get so much out of it, especially if you're an artist Who's trying to become famous to shine become a well-established artist Or if you are an artist who's a well-established artist and you feel this way I know it helps to know that someone out there who's bigger than you that feels the exact same way also So like I said, thousand percent recommend that everyone go and check that out and lastly man I got to leave y'all with some user recommendations or at least what's coming out today So we got Gucci main East Atlanta center number three Gucci always releases a project around Christmas time He's gonna sound pretty much young thug has dropped the deluxe version of so much fun There was a lot of talk around that pretty much that was that's being regarded as one of the best Albums of the year and we're you know, I'm a young thug fan So I'm excited to see him in the year off with a deluxe version of the album Not even just because it's young thug But because we haven't gotten a deluxe version of an album from an artist in a minute outside of that camera and drops His purple haze two album cameras doing a really nice press run and talking it up making sure we know this is coming out Emily chopper is dropping his cottonwood EP Currency is dropping his back at Bernie's album SOB and RBE drops there strictly only brother's album and then pop corn has dropped his vanquish album That's all the new music releases I know for today if you know anything else drop those in the comment section below like I said I'm always looking to be put onto the music and see what you guys are listening to or at least that interested in seeing You know what's coming out. I like seeing new music from other people's worlds Outside of that. That's all I got for you guys today Like I said come and follow me on Instagram and Twitter at code to save you Let me know some of your topics on some of these things. Do you think that yellow car should drop the lawsuit against juice? Well, do you feel hundred three thousand on his mental health issues regarding his music? Do you agree with six nine sentencing or do you think Tory Lane's needs to just shut the hell up? Or he needs to go ahead and air out in a scope Let me know all of that on Instagram or Twitter or in the comment section below other than that Like and share this video hit that subscribe button if you haven't and I will see you guys next week. Peace