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Who actually gets dough, though?

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Portugoal:
If an artist is somewhat well known he can already ask for several K for just a simple verse. Imagine the numbers if they actually had a hit once.

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--- Quote from: Z the laidback Virus on May 10, 2017, 07:34:24 AM ---2. Used to be able to live off music income. This is where we presumably find a considerable number of has-beens who are still active and those who have had a consistent presence but only very shortly or never were in the commercial top-ranks. This is probably where the DJ Quiks, Xzibits, Cypress Hills, Dogg Pounds, Liks and the like hang out.
 
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  I think you are GREATLY underestimating how much anyone of these guys makes and how much catalog music actually can get someone who either produced or wrote the record.  It's not like music income is reserved exclusively to CD sales. 

Quik alone is going to be making some extremely good money, just off skill set, but let's save that for a moment.  Let's talk about established catalog.  Maybe Quik only has a gold album or two in terms of solo CD's and maybe a hit single here and there.  He's also produced on Black Album, Chingy's debut, Tony Toni Tone, and numerous others.  Every time those albums get bought, physical, digital, or whatever, he's making money off that.  Every time those songs get played on the radio, he gets a check, and trust me, they get played a lot in the West Coast region alone.  Every time, a video shows up on MTV Classic or one of those Comcast music channels, they get paid.  They show up in a movie that gets played on HBO all the time?  Paycheck.  Instrumental gets played during some MTV clip show?  Paycheck.  Rapper decides to borrow his lyrics or sample the beat?  Paycheck.  Now, all these paychecks are money he'd make simply off catalog music being in rotation.  If he slept all day and never left the house, he'd still be making that money.  There are thousands of radio stations across the world that play hip-hop music.  Menace II Society and Head of State get a lot of play on cable.  Xzibit, Cypress Hill, Kurupt, they all have music that gets similar play. 

Now, you break into their current musical ventures.  Quik is not just an artist.  He can produce, mix, engineer.  Those are skills that can command high dollar on the daily.  He's working with the Dr. Dre's, Snoop's, Ice Cube's, Game's, and everybody else.  Even if he were to break from that, if he were to on a lazy day, record one verse and make one beat, what do you think he could sell that for on the market to an artist?  That would be some money.  That's not even touching touring.  Trust me.  If these guys are good at managing money, they are all eating very well.

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even tho you are right you took this in another direction but yeah producers and ghostwriters make good money

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--- Quote from: Maudizzle on May 11, 2017, 11:08:16 PM ---If an artist is somewhat well known he can already ask for several K for just a simple verse. Imagine the numbers if they actually had a hit once.

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i think kdot only had like 10 or 12 guest verses on other people projects last year you know he made good money prob alot more money if e wasn't signed to aftermath which btw he never needed i think he will stay on aftermath/top dowg for loyalty

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40 Water is without a doubt one of the smartest rappers when it comes to turning 15 cents into a dollar as he was investing in property, land and other ventures way back in the early 90s and thats before the vodka, beer, wine and all the other things he does on the side. 40 gets it in and unlike the rest who rely on royalties and whatnot he creates independent income streams to stay fed.

There was a feature on him in a financial magazine back in the early 00s when he'd dipped from rap for a bit and they were astounded at his journey and how much he'd made as he was living next door to NBA stars at the time when rappers were going broke quicker than they were getting on as he has a very astute eye for the market.

Okka:
Cypress Hill? They sold like 20 million records. I think they're making more money than you think.

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