Busta Rhymes has been releasing records for thirty-five years and still owns them. On what streaming pays for that catalogue, he asks Brian Sozzi whether anyone would accept being compensated “a fraction of a penny” without feeling “your intelligence was being insulted.”
His verdict: “They don’t even have a name for the currency that is called fractions of a penny, because that name and that currency doesn’t actually exist.” Then the harder question: how do you audit a fraction of a penny? He would not rule out selling the catalogue.
Timestamps
0:00 “That currency doesn’t actually exist”
0:56 How he explains a thirty-five year career
1:45 Dillagence II, and the conversation with Ma Dukes that started it
3:47 What he hears in music today
5:29 Why he stopped worrying about what people think
6:13 What changed on this album and what deliberately did not
7:27 Growing up in a house full of music
8:00 The artists who influenced him
9:08 How the business of making music changed
10:39 Whether artists will ever make real money from streaming
12:25 Selling where streaming isn’t: vinyl, CDs, cassettes, merch
13:18 Whether he would ever sell his catalogue
14:44 What he tells his children about generational wealth
15:57 The business lesson that mattered most
17:12 How you build a team you can trust
17:56 The songs on the album he is closest to
19:33 Whether music can still bring people together
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