I’ll post more episodes as I come across them

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the new single from BNE BAMM ft B.Linz$ brings brutal truths to the realities of life following the loss of a family member.

My man Craig Doby shot this video and sent it to me last night. I’ve already listened to it several times.

I decided I wanted to share it because shit ain’t always hopeful out here. This is real life.

go ahead and share this if you’re feelin it.

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this year’s most scariest costume is going to be a maskless face

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have now died, and millions live in fear and apprehension. The president of the United States gave them all a clear message on Monday as he left the hospital in a drug induced mania and took a helicopter directly to the White House- like any healthy, COVID infected medical refugee would do.

“nothing can defeat the power of lying”

(which also implies vampires)

AND THE DEPLORABLES ARE EATING IT UP

it’s like a freshly blended pumpkin smoothie of reinforcement for bad opinions.

either:

a. the president is so strong!

b. the coronavirus is all hype.

EITHER WAY

better turn off your porch light, unscrew the bulb, stop paying your electricity and move out of town otherwise expect a whole army of regular faced kids knocking on your door with their gun-carrying parents standing in the shadows encouraging their children to tell you the virus is fake demanding enough candy for dinner.

I SEENT THE PRESIDENT TURN INTO A VAMPIRE ON THE NEWS AND THEN DEFEAT THE POWERS OF THE NIGHT. HE HAD FANGS AND EVERYTHING!”

deplorable kid repeating what his deplorable dad told him

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The President made multiple shocking statements in front of millions of people tonight.

The most publicized one so far is where he told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by”- but the one he said a minute or so before that was by far the most shocking to me. The President began speaking about the suspected murderer of a man with ties to the Proud Boys, a nationalist organization guilty of bringing large gatherings of Trump supporters onto downtown Portland to harass the people they determine to be antifascist.

The President wrapped up his remarks by ranting about the dangers of “antifa”, but the meat of the matter is the sentence where he says he “had to send in the US Marshalls and they took care of business.”

I’ve watched enough mob movies to know what the heck this dude is talmbout.

that’s called a revenge hit

PS the point that Trump got right before that statement was for the face he made, not what he said- in case you were keeping score at home.

xxxxx5000g

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As the technology grew, music got more technical, complex and in demand. Others take credit for using music they don’t own. Nowadays, independent musicians are well aware of protecting their work for legal purposes. Through music licensing, you can be ensured of your asset/work being protected legally.

What is music licensing? Music licensing is the licensed used for copyrighted music. This allows the owner of the music to maintain the copyright of their original work. It also ensures the owner of the musical work to be compensated if their music is being used by others. The music licensing companies has limited rights to use the work without separate agreements. In music licensing, you could get your work licensed in the form of music, composition and songwriting.

During the music licensing process, there are terms that would be discussed by the groups involved. If you are an independent musician, you would be the licensor. You are the one responsible of the music created, thus you are the copyright owner of the licensed work. A licensee would be the music licensing company as they would be the one who will distribute your work to other industries. They will also collect the royalty fees as distribute them back to you if your music is included in live performances, TV shows, ads, campaigns, video games, etc.

There are also two kinds of contracts in music licensing, namely exclusive contract and non-exclusive contract. Exclusive contract means having your work licensed exclusively to a single music licensing company. Only a single company has the authority to distribute and market your work. If you signed an exclusive contract to your song or album, you cannot use the same music contents and get it signed by other music licensing companies. The agreement is exclusive and confidential to the licensor and the licensee.

Non-exclusive contract allows a second party to distribute your work and it doesn’t prohibit the licensor to sell their music to other music licensing companies or licensees. An independent musician can sign a non-exclusive contract to multiple companies using the same music content. Non-exclusive contracts are generally used to prevent an individual from being locked into a restrictive contract before their work gains popularity. This type of contract is designed to protect music artists from being taken advantage of in the early stages of their respective careers while on the process of getting their music out to larger audiences.

There are also cases which involves direct payment for used music content. This is called Sync Fees. Sync fee is a license granted by a holder of a copyrighted music to allow a licensee to synchronize music with visual media such as ads, films, TV shows, movie trailers, video games, etc. For example, a video producer is in dire need of music content for a certain project and is in a limited time of finding one.

In these cases, the artist and the music licensing company will be contacted directly for the possible use of the original work and negotiate the upfront payment involved. Sync fees can range from a few dollars to a couple of hundred dollars or up to thousands. The payment usually depends on how big and established a company is. If it is a well known company, there is a probability that the sync fee will spike up in value.

We need to understand that businesses nowadays are paying premium for music at an all time high. The influx and revenue generated on different industries are worth billions of dollars and the music artists who got their music licensed will get a big share of that money. The content of music is very important. Every single company need visual and audio content. You can’t do ads, shows and movies without having any music content.

Music licensing brings compensation for assets used. This is called royalty fees. A royalty fee is the payment collected by one party from another for the ongoing use of a copyrighted asset. You can get compensated if your work is featured on live public performances. For every live use of your music, you get compensated as you own the copyright of your work.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has collected over $941 million dollars in licensing fees and distributed $827.7 million dollars in royalties to its members back in 2014. BMI on the other hand, collected more than $1.013 billion dollars in license fees and distributed over $877 million dollars in royalties to its members during the year 2015.

Music licensing is the modern way of earning through music. In the past few years, the physical sales had gone down. Streaming music has taken over because it’s more convenient and practical with the help of the World Wide Web. With the rise of streaming sales, the figures that could be collected as royalty fees could spike up in the years coming. In fact, as stated in an Australian financial review website, streaming generated $2.5 billion dollars in US music sales last year, overtaking digital downloads as the industry’s biggest source of music revenue. As stated in the picture below, the global streaming of music is projected to reach greater heights in terms of revenue in the upcoming years.

The internet contributed greatly for the rise of music licensing and streaming. 20 years ago, the distribution of music hasn’t been exactly this big. Television shows and filmmakers are the top two industries that need music content. Today, there are more and more TV shows, films, commercials, movies, ads and tons of video games that need music content. It is safe to say that the internet opened the public eye about the opportunities involved behind it.

One of the most visited sites on earth is YouTube. People use, duplicate, rework, copy, revise and perform music from different artists around the world. It also has an influx of ads which contains music content. To track all these data, YouTube has a Content ID System. If your music is licensed, you can contact this site and they will take a look at their data and see if your work is being used by other parties. As the licensor, you have the authority to take actions such as mute the audio which matches your music, block a whole video from being viewed, track the video’s viewership statistics or monetize the video by running ads against it. Every country has different rules about it. But YouTube runs a lot of ads and monetizing work from this site is very probable.

If you are an independent musician, you must improve and instill professionalism in your craft to get your chances up of being signed by a music licensing company. With billions of dollars of revenue involved today, you want at least a slice of the pie. Monetizing your passion is never easy but taking the necessary steps to make it work is a must to reach success.

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