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Topic subjectTo Me It's Three Factors: Major Labels, Studios Closing, & Mixtape Albums
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2624838, To Me It's Three Factors: Major Labels, Studios Closing, & Mixtape Albums
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Mon Nov-07-11 01:18 PM
From what's been happening a lot lately is that major record labels have been seeing a decline on record sales so now they aren't willing to pay the money they use to pay so-called super producers for music that's not getting the same attention as before.

Studios have been closing up everywhere now that kats can make quality sounding music in there bedrooms and in small home studios, and a lot of the time most rappers are seeking small-time producers who got their own studio and can track their music and the rapper's vocals easily without it sounding amateurish and without paying money to do the same thing at some big name studio that most superproducers use to make rappers go to.

Also with everyone doing mixtape albums and it basically being an album of unreleased or rejected album songs, a lot of superproducers don't want those rappers to get a hold of their music, go thru the time to produce a song for them and it end up on a mixtape album they won't recieve a dime for; and if they do get the money upfront, they still won't see any points, residuals, & royalties from it though, so quite a few of them have been backing away from doing songs with some artists that are putting out tons of mixtape albums.