"Who's song is it really? Producer/Beatmakers or the Artists"
I don't really concern myself with the labels of beatmaker or producer I just consider myself a person that does what ever I think will take a track to where it needs to go without overdoing it.
Recently though I had some beats for an artist I was real excited to work with. Our schedules really clashed and I wasn't able to be there for the recording of the track. This is a really talented indivudial but when I heard what he had done to MY track i was damn near pissed off.
Anyways this got me to thinking. This artists payed me good money for the track so was it really any of my business what he did too it. But I couldn't help but feel if I had been available to be more active in the direction the song took it would have turned out way better.
I'm not one to mince words so I told the artist I wasn't feeling what he had done to the track and that he had damn near ruined a beat I really love. But all he could say was he was getting a lot of good feedback on the track and that what he spit is what the track made him feel like spitting.
So like I said before. Who's song is it really? And does taking money for music relinquish your creative control?
1. "Whoever gets paid first..." In response to Reply # 0
it's that simple.
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3. "it's 50/50 really. but it really depends on the agreement." In response to Reply # 0
when you decide to collab, you split the money. i'm pretty sure that's how primo and guru do it. that's a standard as old as the music industry itself: the lyracist gets half, the songwriter gets half.
but if you ARE just selling the beat off... then yeah, it belongs to the artist at that point. They could act like a total idiot on the beat if they want to, it's theirs. and in the industry, the way it works today, convention dictates that it will say "Madonna" on it, not "Madonna and William Orbit".
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