"A big part of this for me is putting on for other Independent Artists and showing other Independent Artists like hey, you don't have to be beholden to these record labels."
"The budding music scene would create an opportunity for those young men stuck in the cycle of violence to get out and forge another path through music."
"Cardi is now one of hip-hop's biggest stars, headlining major events like Rolling Loud."
"The wrong road can railroad your career the same as the wrong song or album can kill your career as a singer or rapper."
"Nas is one of the greatest writers of all time."
"If guys like Bruno Mars are singing about Gianni Versace 20 years after his death, that says he's fully embedded in our society and culture and has a profound legacy."
"We got to simplify these contracts. These contracts are intended to confuse and disempower artists."
"Tupac had treated Snoop well, giving him a platform on his iconic album 'All Eyes on Me,' and speaking highly of him."
"Drake's pen is one of the greatest we've ever seen in the game."
"Shania Twain: The woman behind the music has led a much more complex and fascinating life than you could possibly imagine."
"Garth Brooks: By some measures, he's more popular than the Beatles."
"Music is so much about timing, the releases are incredibly important... we're trying to get a good amount of people to spike an algorithm."
"I'm cocky about self-sufficiency, owning my masters, producing, mixing, everything."
"I've been in the music business long enough to understand her connection. I actually get it."
"The miseducation of Lauryn Hill became the best-selling album by a female rapper ever. It was also the first rap album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year."
"Stifling the creativity of young women in the music industry has happened for way too long and it's so unfair just because it makes you feel uncomfortable."
"My perspective is like, I can get an artist hot. I can make a lot more people pay attention to an artist."
"In 2002, he partnered with Houston legend Paul Wall, and the rest was history."
"We, the women, run this [hip-hop] right now."
"The music industry is the worst industry to be in."
"Swift's philanthropic journey began in 2012 when she bestowed a generous gift of $4 million upon the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum."
"Swift's inaugural album marked the commencement of her meteoric rise to chart-topping glory."
"Every time that Drake pops his head out, he's going to have the entire industry watching."
"When it comes to awards, both Fifth Harmony and Little Mix are no strangers to snatching win after win."
"Their album Glory Days has spent more weeks on the UK Top 40 Album Charts than any other girl group in history."
"The legacy of LA rap, bro, it's profound, bro. You know what I'm saying? So it don't matter if we're hot or whatever. Like our sound and our influence in the industry period, bro, it's just, it's so defining."
"Why is there always beefing? Why does everyone want to create a beef? I came up with the Missy Elliott era, where they had songs like Ladies' Night, where you had all the greats get on there and they put great music."
"The controversy surrounding Diddy raises important questions about accountability and the impact of power dynamics in the music industry."
"I've been on a mission to help music creators take their passion and turn that passion into a legitimate business."
"I'm super happy and super fortunate and super grateful to all the people that still spin stuff from the fall of ideals."
"Nine-time Grammy award-winning artist, producer, founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, entrepreneur and philanthropist."
"I'd like to thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce who felt that I was finally ready to walk in the footsteps of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent."
"They've defied all odds. A lot of artists, when they come in, they only last maybe a year, some lasting ten years, which is a good long run. But these two have lasted for three decades."
"Eminem and Jay-Z are perfect examples that if you don't have a great first impression, you can eventually become one of the best in what you're doing."
"Jay-Z influenced a lot of artists to get into business and to turn themselves into businessmen."
"It's a blast to work with other musicians that you've liked. It's not only about sharing the same beliefs and values, but also figuring out a way to support each other, no matter what."
"Let the music speak for itself; let the content create its life on its own."
"We were talking off-mic about some of the pressures that come along with being a new artist, having to deliver in this microwave era."
"Taylor Swift, the amount of songs she's written that have just like reached billions of views, there's nobody like her."
"If you listen to people like even Russ, I think Russ has been futuristic, progressive, and very knowledgeable in explaining his plight to become an artist, remain an artist but also talked about the importance of ownership."
"It's changed music. It's kind of amazing how Gibson has shaped the sound."
"We feel personally responsible as custodians of the brand."
"Black music is one of America's top exports. This country makes more money off selling Black talent than almost anything else she sells."
"At the beginning of the 21st century, musicians have come full circle and they've become increasingly dependent on live shows."
"Musicians from all sides of the war putting the pain they had suffered in the streets into their music and in the process making hit records that would generate big money in the music industry and creating big opportunities to build legitimate businesses away from the hard life of crime they grew up around."
"The music industry's been a roller coaster from the beginning until now."
"The radio also gave fans a new way to hear their favorite musicians."
"Through it all, he's retained a passionate fan base that basically ensured that every time he dropped a record, it skyrocketed to the top of the charts."
"Hip-hop has never been respected by the Grammys. Black music has never been respected by the Grammys."
"With these goals in mind, BTS seemed to break the mold of the K-pop industry."
"Jay-Z was able to transition and still be relatable to the people my age... The lane is open, all I got to do is execute."
"The internet is not the streets. You're selling music to kids who look at you like a superhero."
"What a lot of artists suffer from is not knowing how to become the boss."
"He's the Jeffrey Epstein of the hip-hop world."
"Oh bro, they are trying hella hard to get rid of independent artists right now. What's wrong, mainstream? You don't like the competition?"
"Mainstream is taking an L because all the independent artists are killing it and being badass and original."
"The Grammys and music at large do actually have a race problem. That's word to Tyler, the Creator."
"We put out a song on Friday because when Billboard begins tracking the analytics..."
"Against all odds and against better judgment, today's artist wrote a song that went to number one on the Hot 100 and it sold over 6 million copies."
"I'm performing at the VMAs... I'm a pop star too, bro."
"Five years ago, the push and the drive everybody has behind this UK industry or music wasn't there. Now, all of a sudden, our music is the thing."
"I feel like the age of the super producer is not over; it's just a little bit more work that's different."
"Drake is like the next biggest thing... He's like the Black Panther of music."
"Harrison pushed boundaries, enjoying a successful solo career."
"My decision was 'do I want to stay at a company that's going to require a lot of non-creative time' or 'do I want to continue to make music?' So continuing to make music was what I wanted to do and what I decided to do."
"I have never seen a groundswell of fandom around someone the way Zach Bryan has experienced."
"2018 was without a doubt such an impressive year for K-pop, especially for girls."
"Corporate misuse of AI isn't threatening just the music industry here... it's about human creativity itself."
"Being innovative, having critical acclaim, and possessing lyrical skill are paramount in the conversation about the greatest of all time."
"It's just this effortless rhyme machine just splurting out word after word, and it was mind-blowing to witness as a performance."
"Every year he has a hit, whether it's an underground hit or a big mainstream hit, he has been consistent since 1998-1999."
"For 7 years in a row, 2010 to 2016, Nicki won the BET Award for Best Female Hip Hop Artist."
"The hottest technology in the music industry is something that was invented 70 years ago... the vinyl record."
"Being in YouTube is not being in the music business."
"There is no debate, Nicki Minaj is a living legend in rap."
"Being popular is whatever, being the man in the rap game is one thing, but having the bread to be able to really take care of your family is like Priority One."
"There's nobody in the music industry... who doesn't sniff out inauthenticity in a rock band, for example."
"Being a rapper is the most dangerous job in the world now because everything is mixed together."
"'Cause it takes from K-pop, which is dazzling and intense, and it's just a lot, and... But there's a kind of squeaky-clean commercialism to it."
"Tonight, I'll go head-to-head with the artist formerly known as Kanye West."
"This is no disrespect to Khaled or anyone, but this, you had every person in the industry, everyone on that album...and the fact that I beat him with this, that isn't parallel to all the popping music right now, was crazy."
"In sync is indisputably one of the most successful boy bands of all time."
"In the week after the special aired, *NSYNC sold over 500,000 records. More than half a million in one week."
"We live in the Golden Age of gear and in some ways the Golden Age of guitar music."
"Get ready for an outright songwriting brawl."
"This is as good as it gets. We're playing Shea Stadium. This is where The Beatles played. We're the biggest band in the world this year. And after this, it's going to be diminishing returns. I think we should stop now, at the top."
"At the end of the day, it's a very organic, authentic approach to the music industry, and that's never going to change."
"A sell-out to me would be doing something you don't want to do just for money."
"You never know; there's never a set path. You can't just go to university and get your degree and come out and go right, now I can work as a musician."
"The internet has changed the music business more than anything else in my lifetime."
"I saw my name on the credits, and it was just like, damn, the illest feeling."
"Despite the falling out, everyone involved in the making of Get Rich have gone on to have illustrious careers."
"50 Cent is to me a great example of someone who understood the business aspect of it before he had his deal."
"Marty lied about the circumstances regarding the Doom Eternal soundtrack and used disinformation and innuendo to blame me entirely for its failure."
"An independent artist can go on that platform and blow up overnight... does that not make the current paradigm almost preferable?"
"The most popular songs on Spotify may be because the algorithm has chosen for them to be."
"When we finished Nevermind, I went back to Wisconsin and was getting ready to start another project, and I think it was around the fourth of July, I had a party...and everybody stopped talking and stood around the table and listened to the record all the way through."
"I'm not the biggest fan of the group, but... there's so much work that goes into these things."
"Which naturally led me to make music videos for that music, which then led me to discover that I was actually better at shooting video than I was at making music."
"Networking with music videos, as with most video, who you know is just as important as what you know."
"It wasn't they weren't getting the proper due... I want to put value on these producers."
"I want to create a platform where all the greatest producers, all the greatest top liners... you're leasing it because we live in a different world."
"There are conspiracies, Easter eggs, secret meanings, so much planning, drama, history, and messages to be decoded by her fans."
"Taylor Swift really is the music industry, and we are so lucky to be alive to witness that."
"I do think Hatsune Miku has changed EDM music as we know it and she's affected the industry as a whole."
"There are many albums that stood the test of time because the artist that made them, put their life into making them. Heart, soul, patience, personal experience, and a lot of musical ability."
"There's a lot of positive hip-hop out there. It's not degrading at all, that's non-violent, that's not profane, but a lot of the time it doesn't get the same push."
"The thing that I love about music these days is you can kind of put out a bunch of records and see what people really like."
"Many legendary artists have told me over the years... 'If Weird Al does your song, you know you've made it.'"
"He's always gone the extra mile to be respectful of the musicians he spoofs, which means he always asks for permission before including a parody of their song on an album."
"Working with this guy was a golden opportunity that only came by his request, with a steady stream of hit albums, a catalog of legendary songs, and so many unforgettable music videos."
"According to Al, it's rare for any artist to turn down one of his requests. He's actually estimated that 97 or 98% of all artists he's asked have given him the green light."
"This was a massively big record. Could not have had a bigger record."
"Even if maybe they made a few missteps at the beginning of their career as kids kind of stumbling through this thing, the fact of the matter is they're still here, they're still playing music for a living, and I don't know, I would call that a win."
"It's just if you asked me 9 or 10 years ago where they would be in 2020, I would have told you that they would kind of be in the spot that Asking Alexandria is currently occupying."
"Music is the only profession I know where people don't feel like they have to be professionals in order to make a lot of money."
"I would love to sign the next Future, Drake, YoungBoy, Baby. Like, [ __ ] I want to be the person to sign them and show them how to have a retirement plan, how to buy property, how to buy a neighborhood."
"Listen, it might sound weird, but I want people like Pitbull."
"I think about this, and you know, I see other artists who come and kind of, you know, when their contracts are up, what happens."
"Music, as a body of knowledge, can continue in an iterative fashion without having to worry about copyright in the legal system preventing this particular form of expression."
"If you have extreme talent...you have a dozen labels begging to sign you."
"Illmatic by Nas barely went gold when it came out. Today's first album as well, yeah."
"Every pop artist out there uses some form of pitch correction in their music, no matter how talented they are."
"The problem with auto-tune is that people have been led to believe that it only exists in this highly artificial sound without realizing that pitch correction is in literally all of the music that they listen to."
"Spotify gives 70% of the subscription and ad revenue to the musician, keeping just 30% for themselves."
"Over it had the biggest opening week for an R&B female artist since Beyoncé's Lemonade."
"I never wanted to make money with conflict; it was all about advancing the culture."
"I always felt Ace had some specialties. He was too nice to be where he was at."
"Glad I got publishing. Put my daughter through school. Jennifer appreciates that."
"The ensuring likeness voice and image security, or Elvis act, a bill updating Tennessee's protection of personal rights law to include protections for songwriters, performers, and music industry professionals' voice from the misuse of artificial intelligence."
"One rapper out of the many decided to respond in kind, none other than MGK, Machine Gun Kelly."
"The day you put out a hit is the day Diddy admits that he put out the hit that got Pac killed."
"White rappers are guests in hip-hop, never residents."
"Just keep hitting these festivals with the rest of the QC."
"It's definitely familiar. Even if it were just Kanye, it might still be worth writing about because he's such a singular figure, but it's obviously not just him."
"I think in 2020 between 2020 and 2022 we will have a clear-cut idea of who is taking that baton from Drake, Kendrick, and J. Cole as far as a newer guy."
"Drake to have been on the charts 478 weeks of the 522 weeks."
"The music industry is archaic, inefficient, and unfair."
"Why would you focus on 30 minutes of music when nobody is even listening to three minutes of your music?"
"I'm blown away by how much and how different of an escalation this is compared to their debut."
"The Godfather of J-pop was the man that could pull a nobody from a crowd of millions of people and turn them into an international sensation, a freaking star maker."
"No Jumper became a hotbed for emerging SoundCloud rappers."
"God of War Ragnarok would not have been the same without you guys."
"They gotta love you for you. They gotta want your streams for you."
"Shout out to all the up-and-coming artists who I see rocking arenas. That's a real fan base."
"His story is one of rags to riches. It's inspiring, motivating, and one of the biggest events in recent music history."
"Cardi B started in the strip club. That's pretty big, right?"
"TikTok has had a real impact on the entire music industry."
"Wherever you land on your opinion of Ronnie Radke, there's no doubt going from a prison cell to the top of the charts will be enough to permanently cement him in rock music history."
"I just have like a lot of respect for people trying to make it in music like I really respect when people are trying to just."
"Gentlemen, you have just recorded your first number one."
"While he wasn't considered a traditional singer, he made up for it with his status as a brilliant ringleader."
"They say they not gonna put out records where people cuss and degrade women, but even the people who wrote all these songs never get paid."
"Let's take this [ __ ] number one spot on Billboard and let's show the music industry what the [ __ ] we're made of."
"I could literally be the first independent rapper ever to get a number one pop song on Billboard."
"That's a rap Haven. Where were you doing these shows? The Forum. Where would you?"
"Rap would look so [ __ ] different if a lot of those people were still here."
"They really pushed the boundaries of the music industry at the time."
"Yo just when you respect a bushel for days we give you Drake for days different dynamic." - EJ
"We made the blueprint for how to be an album's artist in a streaming era."
"If I look 10 years out with all the platforms we already have and imagining those which are yet to be introduced, I just can't see a world of a dominant major label system."
"My album is June 24th, where you go, you can't stop me right, I'm invincible."
"If you want to sell a million records, then you need to meet one million people."
"This era in terms of style had to be her most distinct out of all of her eras."
"Taylor Swift has always been making big moves in the music industry."
"It is my goal in life to be that example and I think it will hopefully trickle down and more artists will see that because it only makes sense. It's only fair."
"For McCartney to appear in the middle of punk with Mull of Kintyre was a massive anomaly but not really not really knowing McCartney that's the sort of thing he would do."
"When there's only one type of song playlisted, it drives home the message to artists that you need to dumb down your material."
"Sandy Denny represents one of the most important female singer-songwriters to have graced British music."
"If you don't like the song, don't ask me if you can use it on TV and then slag it."
"Neil wrote 'Limelight' in the late 70s to express his discomfort with the constant attention that came with Rush's megastardom."
"Kanye's impact on culture can't be overstated."
"It's so refreshing to have a popular rapper be on the positivity tip."
"If you're not using TikTok or any platform to boost your career or your brand new music, you're foolish."
"There's a peace of mind that comes with it because you know then your favorite artist, people that you look forward to their careers in the future, have a very reliable backbone to it."
"This was the year of the underground hip-hop album."
"Women ran rap again this year—they killed it."
"Trolling does not equal success, power, and popularity. Authenticity, good music, success."
"I think the um the song transcends and lasts longer and I believe I'm firm believe that if it's a great song people come back to it in a few years time anyway so I'd rather collaborate with people that um really excite me."
"Rapper Little Simz has become one of the top players in her field, and that run is going to stay clean as a whistle with this year's 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.'"
"So yeah, given how third and fourth gen usually stay within one concept, it might not be out of the question for them to never go back to their previous concepts. But honestly, you never know."
"If Cyrus had simply reached out to the sweet feminist for a collaboration to begin with, that would have truly been the best of both worlds."
"I've really had an admiration for Megan Thee Stallion and many female rappers like her that use their body and their sexual prowess and their wiles to not just make their money and stuff like that but to just express themselves."
"The loss of such a vibrant and influential individual sent shock waves through the music community."
"Kanye's allowing us to come out from his label, from his artist, from his president, that means you're sharing some of the sentiment too."
"A unique direction... characters of a video game now as musicians."
"We should have ethical ways to consume music that isn't at the expense of culture and artists."
"I think this might do close to 500,000 first week, but I actually think this might do close to 500,000 first week."
"Increased accessibility is a huge factor in the popularity of kpop."
"Korea's music industry is worth an estimated 5 billion dollars."
"You cannot fix a debt problem with more debt. In the end, this solution is unsustainable."
"You know, they're dying out there, 15 years old, getting shot 15 times with the AK."
"It's crazy how that scenario kind of fit with him, and he's really the Tupac of the generation."
"It's such a fragile environment, the music industry."
"If you're not an elite singer, that place would destroy you."
"Sadly, you kind of have to do this today in attempts nowadays to get a record."
"Colorism is a real thing... I wasn't thinking so deeply into it when I was making the song."
"The new initiative in rap is not waiting outside the radio station, it's hustling to get your own video recorded and put it out."
"I think we are already on a good path; a lot of new female DJs are coming up."
"With Lawrence Horn's roots in Detroit's music industry."