RightOnThatAss

Donald Passman - All You Need To Know About the Music Business

What's the most eye-opening experience (whether good or bad) that you've had while working in the industry?

Sorry for the essay!

Haha I think it's his obnoxious punchline/one-liner catch phrases that "gets the people going?!" so to say. Plus just the amount of work he's put out and the tracks he's been featured on this year.

This article, whether you read it as a satirical piece or not, pretty much lays out a calendar of his 2012 career.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/64087/the-year-in-2-chainz

Haha sounds less catastrophic for labels now that you put it that way.

I noticed you didn't necessarily approve of 2 Chainz, but this is the first thing I thought of when you drove the point home about labels buying back rights in the short run to see profits later.

http://youtu.be/z5H3Ubfmmqw?t=23s