 This video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now this is a snippet from an interview with an artist by the name of J.Cane who's been doing a lot of things finding success for himself in the digital space but he actually had a hit in his own right some years ago that he had zero benefits from. And I'm gonna let him tell you why. Yeah that was my question. I was gonna say have you ever felt pressure to really get into that other bag of melodies and different types of beats? Oh yeah I have that. I have all of that. Me and Kato we have a we have a couple wrecks together where I'm actually not on that vibe. Like we have a record we done years ago when he was with Funk Value called Make Fine and the record was big actually it got big on me and it left me you ever like I had a record leave me I had a record that was playing overseas and like doing big numbers on the radio and I had no rights no I had no rights to it I had no no no publishing I had nothing to collect the royalties or anything and the record was open and when I came and done the record on the stage like I had a show and somebody called me I didn't want to be to do a show and and I came and you know and I played Maker Mind I did the song Maker Mind and it was like that's you and I'm like yeah that's me you know Streets 945 that's what it was Streets 945 was like where were you and I'm like where was I and it was like yeah man this record been playing over a year on the radio station Wow where have you been I was like I didn't know that but yeah but yeah the Maker Mind record but since how does that happen well I noticed that it had a hundred thousand plays on SoundCloud but I didn't have the pro so I didn't know where was getting played I didn't even know how to read the analytics or how to prepare tours and shows in different cities once you find out where mostly the fan base is or even how to get it to radio or how radio would pick it up or how would they would track the numbers or anything or media base or sound exchange I didn't know nothing about that I just knew about doing music and putting it on SoundCloud and that was it that's all I knew about but I had it for download on SoundCloud and so yeah when I went there I had over 50,000 downloads for the song but let me remind you I'm more of a M&M Rappie type guy I didn't really care for the record you get what I say I just put it up I saw I was getting plays I saw I had 50,000 downloads but I just was like oh people like it okay whatever you know I didn't care about it you know but when when I did the show they said man where were you do you have your copyrights do you have the things that you need for this song to be you know to make you money and I said no and so that's when they started sending me things like go to C-Sack and here go and then that's when they started sending me so it was like I was like yo I didn't notice I could have made so much money but I had no idea I had no idea about it I'm excuse me I'm grilling all right as always you'll be able to find the full interview at the link in the description once that interview becomes active I'm gonna be dropping in a few days but I would love to know you guys perspective on this because we always hear about the fact that yes you should have all your legal things in order you need to educate yourself on these things but it's interesting to hear about it from a standpoint of somebody who didn't get screwed he did not get screwed no one did him wrong necessarily they just didn't know how to even find the guy right he didn't even know what was happening with the success of his track he had just had no idea so not having access to the information not even knowing what was going on and then kind of being dismissive anyway where it's already not something that you care as much about it just created interesting situation I would love to know first of all there's any of y'all in the comments that have a similar scenario put that in the comment section below because I think it's gonna help other people but other than that this isn't just reminder to sign up organizations like C-SAC and being mine all that good stuff but it's also just reminder that you should be tracking the success of your songs you have to figure out a way to centralize or do the best you can a lot of these platforms make it a lot easier these days and you know just having the knowledge you're more likely to do it these days but especially when you're offering something like downloads if you see a lot of downloads you have to figure out how do I look into this because when you think about his situation right once people download it now you have no idea what they're doing with it I could be the top DJ in my city somewhere across the world and have a huge following and playing this thing that I downloaded you no longer have any kind of data anything to track from it so just keep that stuff in mind this video the full interview is definitely something dope and worth checking out again this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com and if you like this video go ahead like but if you like it might as well share it and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button