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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it right.
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.
When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.
Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.