Record label

Like, but I was like, but once it started impacting, it started to impact my work.

like I was working at this record label and I remember I would not get done stuff done on time because of my OCD.

I remember I had never liked a job as much as I liked that job.

And I remember being like, okay, like I, if I want to keep this and I want to work here after college, like this is my life path is to work at this label with these people that I'm still close with to this day.

What changed to get you back into believing in your dreams from your early Cabrini days? It was my

job.

It was my working at this record label and the people I was around.

Zach, my manager now, who was my boss, was just like, he just was like, you can like, like he was like, he didn't, he was so supportive.

Um, and they, there's not one mention of Alone Tonight in this book, you know, it's, it's like this forgotten, uh, song that the studio executives wanted to make kind of the lead off hit of Duke.

And I just think that that is really interesting and says a lot about the influence that these guys had on, uh, their own trajectory.

Yeah, that's probably the keenest observation here, right? Because there's no mystery in the fact that record labels are going to take your material and they're going to do whatever the hell they want to with it, right? The more maturity you have and the more commercial success you have, that equation shifts to the point that you may be able to exercise control.

If you're a singer-songwriter, you're writing your own material, certainly you have control if your contracts are written correctly, but...

You know, you're sharing that control and that part can can be and historically very much has been hugely intrusive and it's destroyed careers and has wrecked people's lives and has done all kinds of awful, awful things.

We go up to 2003 in the formation of the record label Young Money, of which rapper Lil Wayne was a founding member.

In 2009, several of the...

Label's members formed a supergroup album called We Are Young Money, which featured artists like Drake, Nicki Minaj, DJ Khaled, and Tyga, all of them superstars of the industry, kind of like a super, super group.

They had two hits that hit top 40 off of that album, and one of them is right here.

their most recognizable single called Bedrock.

But I mean, going back to the conversation, I think it's, I think a lot of people romanticize the idea of starting a label.

You know? It's like, "Oh, I wanna start a record label because-"

They love the word, they love the word more than, than what it actually means.

They're just like-

back then.

So you guys yourselves made a conscious decision not to be available, but the record label kind of said we wanted

you...

Oh, it was more so...

[laughs]

Uh, but this is, uh, you know, my, um, you know, production and publishing record label, you know, c- uh, company.

And, um, it- I also do, you know, I have my own record label, so I make all my own releases, whether it's classical music or folk music or rock music and everything.

And I, I, I run the publishing for all those.

Yes.

And I think this one might have been put on here tongue-in-cheek, but this is track 12, Mr.

Record Label by Scott Hawley.

When he hears a

hit And he

couldn't write for shit But there's a plaque with his name on it Oh, oh, oh Says I need him Says I need him Oh, oh, oh But I'm paying his rent If Mr.

Record label went and crashed his record

This is actually, this has gone on here as a, this is my current obsession.

Okay.

Una delle cose strane della musica è che ha un proprio regime di proprietà intellettuale, copyright e tutto il resto.

È una delle cose che consacra l'associazione legale dell'industria discografica.

Ed è anche parte del motivo per cui c'è relativamente meno innovazione e invenzione.

Quindi complimenti a Suno e a tutti i suoi progressi.