If You Make Beats, You Don’t Deserve 50% + Rapper’s Shows Flopping (MEC Podcast 167)

If you make beats, do you deserve 50% of the song? If you know about the music business, you’ll know this is a trick question, but these types of questions mislead us into making career mistakes. Be careful who you trust in the music business education space. Also, many rappers including DaBaby, are cancelling their shows because of low numbers. We explain why this could be a bad idea.

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00:00 – Intro
01:40 – Producers Who Don’t Sample
06:06 – Rappers Cancelling Shows
16:18 – Don’t Cancel Shows– Do This!
17:51 – Shows are Hard
20:41 – Russ Cancels Tour
27:20 – The Future of Touring
29:07 – Fake Mental Health Crises
30:29 – They’re Lying About The Music Business
32:43 – Producers Don’t Deserve 50 Percent
35:27 – Mechanical Royalties
36:39 – There’s no Accountability in the Music Business
37:34 – This Could Hurt You
39:55 – People Love Wrong Information