Kanye West seems to have been kinda quiet – by his standards at least – in recent weeks after that weird episode where he said he was running for President and held a very strange rally in South Carolina, but he’s back with a vengeance today having tweeted at least 100 times already about topics like his record contracts, the bible and a conspiracy theory that Michael Jackson and Prince were murdered.
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For those of you that don’t know, Kanye recently described himself as the new Moses as he attempted to buy back the master recordings from the record labels that have released them in the past. Most recording artists don’t own the masters, meaning that the label takes a huge chunk of the profit that they should be entitled to, so what Kanye is trying to do here is essentially a really good thing, but I’m not sure if mouthing off on Twitter is the way to go about it.
Anyway, the important link here is that Kanye thinks that Michael Jackson and Prince were killed because they owned the masters to their records. Here’s how he breaks it down:
Contracts in all industries need to be simplified now. Complicated contracts are how businesses, music companies and sports take advantage of talent We will expose these contracts and make them transparent now support new talent, startups and amend all old contracts
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
In the streaming world master ownership is everything… that is the bulk of the income … in COVID artist need our masters … it’s more important than ever before
I got J Cole number waiting for Kendrick and Drake
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
Che Pope got Dave Free’s number … will have Kendrick’s numbed shortly … I’ll keep you guys updated 😉 Remember they cut our tongues when we were on the boat … but noooooow…. slaaaaaavery iiiiiiiiis aaaaaaaaa chooooooooice 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
I need an army of angels to cover me while I pull this sword out of the stone … I need everyone’s prayers … I promise we will be free and own our masters but we must be faithful to God this time
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
No more killing each other No more threatening to take each other’s girls and wives … let’s show the world how great we truly are 🕊 we are God’s chosen people
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
The artist deserve to own our masters … artist are starving without tours … Ima go get our masters … for all artist … pray for me
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
I don’t wanna see no woke tweets or hear no woke raps … it’s show time … it’s a whole different energy right now
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
Let’s get it big bro … you and Michael passed so we can live pic.twitter.com/GIEWDhyepw
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
De La Soul can’t even get their music on iTunes
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
When you sign a music deal you sign away your rights. Without the masters you can’t do anything with your own music. Someone else controls where it’s played and when it’s played. Artists have nothing accept the fame, touring and merch
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
This is how it be when artist try to get our masters … the stairs are covered with lotion pic.twitter.com/1pyNK0xkWW
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
Thank you God bless you good night pic.twitter.com/UhZAAVwW6c
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
We’ve gotten comfortable with not having what we deserve … they allow us to have a little money from touring get some gold chains some alcohol some girls and fake numbers that feed our egos … but we don’t own our masters 🤔
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
We our supporting other people’s kids … we could spend our whole life in the music industry but our kids gotta go work for another company when they grow up
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
I am the only person who can speak on this because I made multi billions outside of music no musicians make billions inside of music I’m going to change this
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
I know a lot of musicians are not allowed to say anything but I can’t be muted or cancelled so I’m going to say everything as always
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
We sat back and watched Nick Cannon get canceled and we go to play ball in a bubble with black lives matter on our backs … brothers let’s stand together for real … there is no NBA or music industry without black people … fair contracts matter … ownership matters
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
People say it’s enough and I got my point across … the point isn’t across until we cross the point
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
We used to diss Michael Jackson the media made us call him crazy … then they killed him
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
The media tries to kill our heroes one at a time
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
UNIVERSAL WONT TELL ME WHAT MY MASTERS COST BECAUSE THEY KNOW I CAN AFFORD TO BUY THEM 🙏🏾
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
Everyone please cover me in prayer … I AM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND UNIVERSAL WONT TELL ME WHAT MY MASTERS COST BECAUSE THEY KNOW I CAN AFFORD THEM … BLACK MASTERS MATTER
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
MY CHILDREN WILL OWN MY MASTERS … NOT YOUR CHILDREN … MY CHILDREN … MY CHILDREN … MY CHILDREN
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
SONY YOU NOT OFF THE HOOK EITHER … ONE BATTLE AT A TIME
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
EVERYONE AT UNIVERSAL AND VIVENDI PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY LEGAL POWER AND USE MY VOICE UNTIL ALL ARTIST CONTRACTS ARE CHANGED STARTING WITH GETTING MY MASTERS FOR MY CHILDREN I WILL NOT STOP I PROMISE YOU IM AM PETTY AND VERY PERSONAL
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
I KNOW MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST WILL MAKE FOOLS OF AND PUNISH ALL WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN UNFAIR CONTRACTS
— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020
I mean everything he’s saying there about record labels exploiting artists is pretty much common knowledge I think so it’s not really that surprising and he willingly signed this contract in the first place, so I’m not really sure what he’s complaining about? Yeah, the system sucks but I don’t think there’s really any way around it, although fair play to Kanye for trying to sort it out. I expect he’ll forget about this in a couple of days though and just go on some other crazy crusade.
As for Prince and Michael Jackson being murdered because they own their masters, well that’s certainly an interesting theory, but I guess it requires you to look at record labels as some kind of mafia organisation that actively murders people who don’t agree with them. Whilst I agree that record labels definitely do take advantage of the little guy and could be comparable to the mafia in that respect, I think they probably draw the line at actually murdering humongous superstars.
Maybe I’m wrong though and this is how they’ve been doing it all these years? Everyone knows record sales soar when someone dies, although if the labels don’t own the masters then I’m not sure if their deaths would even benefit them as the money would probably go to their estates? I guess it stops other artists getting similar ideas, but it seems a bit much right? Answer me that one Kanye.
For more of the same, check out this leaked video of Kanye West lying to Taylor Swift back in 2016. Big news.
