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🚨 NEW EPISODE 💡. @BigSean takes us on a journey from his mixtape days in Detroit, to signing with GOOD Music, to overcoming music industry betrayals and becoming the artist he always wanted to be. Watch now:

Full interview with Joe Budden out now:

“I don’t see the benefit.” . Joe Budden explains why he thinks it doesn’t make sense for an artist to sign to a label in this current climate.

Season 4 Premiere with @JoeBudden is out now.💡. From his career as a rapper, to reality TV, to hosting Everyday Struggle. Budden has lived many lives in hip hop and media. Those passions finally converged as he built a podcast empire on his commentary of the genre, and.

Season 4 of IDEA GENERATION is right around the corner, but until then, here’s a special episode with @DenimTears founder Tremaine Emory. Emory sat down with @N_C_B to discuss his journey from retail employee, to landing in Kanye West’s inner circle, to breaking out and

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The next chapter begins. IDEA GENERATION is joining the Complex family.💡💡💡. Thank you to everyone who has supported IDEA GENERATION over the past 4 years. We couldn’t have built this brand and community without the involvement of each and every one of you. As entrepreneurs

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What’s the most important thing a musician has to do to break in 2024?.

“I know if you give it a listen… you’re going to come out of it feeling something.”. @KillerMike on his Grammy Award-Winning album 'MICHAEL' 🏆🏆🏆

Hopefully this dispute ends quickly, because while neither TikTok or UMG may feel much financial pain, there are a ton of young creatives putting out their content right now whose careers stand to suffer.

However, this does create an opportunity for independent artists—as well as those signed to Sony and Warner—to break through and stand out on TikTok now that over a third of their competition is gone. It also creates an opportunity for Instagram’s Reels and YouTube’s Shorts to.

Any creator on TikTok who has built a following using popular songs will no longer have access to many of the biggest tracks in the world. And emerging artists signed to UMG stand to lose out on one of the most powerful platforms for music discovery. TikTok may pay a fraction of.

So who does this war really hurt? Small creators on both sides of the aisle, of course.