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The top Hip Hop albums of the week, including Drake's "VIEWS," Rihanna's "ANTI," and Travis Scott's "Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight."

Budden did right by checking dude. The key to the music business (or any business for that matter) is to make money, not to have over paid professionals. If dude can do 30,000 without a PR pro then folks, for real that's a win. Artist want all this help from industry professional STANS but then wanna cry when they are on Behind The Music about they broke, because they (and I emphasize... THEY) chose RENT TO OWN FAME as a path to wealth. These artist want to look rich, not be rich, there is a difference. man if you need to be staffed up to get your folks to spend $1.29 on your single on itunes, that means you don't have a demand for your product (i didn't say your product wasn't good, I said there wasn't a demand. Big difference...) If you are fortunate enough to have a indie product that sells (Zay HilFigerr Juju On The Beat 45,000 in a week and then signed to Atlantic, Tech 9, Sage The Gemini, and a list of others...) then the indie system works for you. Other artist want to cut in the music industry VIP line and that cost (it's not for free...) You gotta do the math that works for you and your situation. Remember the industry doesn't make a hard product that goes into stores anymore (cd's records ect...) They sell RENT TO OWN exposure on a licensing agreements called downloads and streams, so how are they gonna justify all these expenses to keep their lights on, they don't make nothing that's tangible anymore. They literally sell fame to create revenue opportunities. That's called an advertising, marketing or PR agency. Not a record company. its's really only a record company if they make records (hard product) with selling the fame (just a thought #ItsABusiness...

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