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18 Songs About How Record Labels Suck
Pink vs. L.A. Reid, “Don’t Let Me Get Me”
Quote:
LA told me, ‘You’ll be a pop star,
All you have to change is everything you are.’
Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears
She’s so pretty, that just ain’t me.
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Macklemore vs. Labels, “Jimmy Iovine”
Quote:
Thought it would be shiny and beautiful
Thought it would be alive and like musical
But it feels like someone died, it’s got the vibe of a funeral
There’s numbers on a chalkboard
CDs boxed in cardboard
Artists that flopped, that got dropped and never got to be sophomores
Graphic designers are sitting around
Waiting for albums that never come out
Complainin’ that they have nobody in house
“Rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting ****ed”
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Jadakiss vs. Interscope, Gang Starr’s “Rite Where U Stand”
Quote:
“You wanna know why I invest all my money into haze and into dope
Cuz right now, I’m currently a slave for Interscope”
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Nick Lowe vs. United Artists, “I Love My Label”
Quote:
Oh I’m so proud of them up here, we’re one big happy family
I guess you could say I’m the poor relation of the parent company
They always ask for lots of songs
but no more than 2:50 long, so I write ‘em some
They never talk behind my back
and they’re always playing my new tracks when I come along
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GZA vs. All Labels Everywhere, “Labels”
Quote:
Basically, everything in this entire song is a shot at a label (over 40 of them!), but here are a few choice lyrics:
You gotta read the label
If you don’t read the label, you might get poisoned
They know their mics are formed at VIRGIN
And if you ain’t boned a mic you couldn’t hurt a bee
That’s like going to Venus driving a MERCURY
The CAPITOL of this rugged slang is WU-TANG
Throw that A&R n—-a off the boat in the ATLANTIC
Now who’s the BAD BOY character, not from ARISTA
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Kid Cudi vs. Universal Republic Records, “Highs N Lows”
Quote:
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“I was high when the label said that I was dope / I was high in my eyes cuz I had hope”
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Jay-Z vs. The Industry, “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”
Quote:
Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over
Label owners hate me, I’m raising the status quo up
I’m overcharging n——s for what they did to the Cold Crush
Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us
We can talk, but money talks, so talk more bucks
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Mel C vs. label execs, “The Next Best Superstar”
Quote:
Make a joke; do the show, where does all the money go?
You’re living your dream
Crack a smile in denial; throw your morals on the fire
You’re living your dream
Sell your life; sell your soul telling everyone you know
You’re living your dream
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Amanda Palmer vs. Roadrunner Records, “Please Drop Me”
Quote:
Please drop me
I don’t fit on your roster
I’m tired of this pointless ****
Please drop me
What do I have to do
I’m tired of sucking corporate dick
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FULL LIST: http://www.buzzfeed.com/azafar/18-so...rd-labels-suck
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