If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.
Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.
The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.
When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are doing.
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.
When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.
I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.
Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.
The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it's not genuine.
