The music industry's exploitation of artists' creations, assets, and lives must stop. The music industry has become a feeding ground for the theft of generational wealth, and childhood dreams. Record deals have taken the place of loan-sharking, and predatory bank loans. In all actuality, organized crime's loan-sharking rackets never intended to reduce the borrower to a lifetime of destitute. They know that is not a profitable business model. And, even predatory banks only take all of your assets after you default on the loans. But, major record labels write the theft of both your current assets & future wealth directly into the record contract on day one.
In the music industry, major labels subvert both banking, and R.I.C.O. laws with fancy words like record contract, 360 deals, and artist advances. Can you name another business, or industry outside of trans-national drug trafficking that has a death clause attached to the job description. Name one business where an applicant gets hired, and never knows how much, nor how they are supposed to get paid. Ask yourself what industry can a person work for decades, and never learn how they are supposed to be compensated. Personally, I only know one...the institution of SLAVERY!!!
This book will show you how to level the playing field, and empower you as an independent artist. Once you learn what record labels do, and don't do for their artists then you can decide to take your own destiny into your own hands. You will learn how to start your own record label with a business plan. This book will provide you with a working knowledge about how artists are compensated for their hard work. You will learn the various forms of income, and how they are tracked, monitored, and collected. You will understand the difference between copyrights, mechanical rights, and the PRO organizations that help collect the money that is generated. This book also lists a multitude of ways an artist can monetize their work in various channels, and streams of income.
Once you have a working understanding of how you are supposed to be compensated, then this book will list several new technologies, tools, and apps to help you run your business independently of major record labels. Learn how Blockchain technology will protect you as an artist. See how you can use this same technology to build wealth in ways that you've never imagined. Learn to use NFT's as proof-of-ownership, to secure contracts, and create residual streams of income. In this book you will learn how you can use Blockchain technology to raise capital for future projects, and manage % of royalties for the investors. Finally, this book includes over 100 tools, and resources to help you with music marketing, placements, and business management. This book will help you take a deep dive into how the music industry works, and more importantly how you can chart your own course as an independent artist.
Flewellen, Rajah: - "I'm a certified Blockchain Consultant with a consulting business out of Estonia call Rabbit Hole Consulting. I'm the author of, "Building A Global Blockchain Bank". I've built Blockchain & Crypto learning courses on both the Teachable platform, and the DeSo (Decentralized Social) Blockchain. I am co-founder of one of the biggest artist & performing guilds in Atlanta, GA between the late 1990's - early 2000's called Nomadic Ciphers. For years, I was an early volunteer at WRFG 89.3 community radio station at a time when Hip Hop & Reggae were becoming major forces in Atlanta, GA. I also help create the Cipher Cafe for the Grand Finale of the National Black Arts Festival in the late 1990's - early 2000's."
