Introduction If you’re a musician or songwriter, you need to be registered with SoundExchange. What are digital performance royalties? Digital performance royalties are the money you get when your music is played on digital music platforms. You’ll be paid these royalties through SoundExchange, an organization that collects and distributes digital…

The dark reality of streaming services The music industry has a dark side that many do not want to discuss — greed. It’s the reason why record labels dominate and independent artists struggle to make a living, why streaming services give fractions of pennies to the independent artists whose music…

Attention MMA media you are failing. After one TMZ boilerplate softball interview and over a week to prepare, you managed to still get everything wrong. I won’t get into how MMA media and MMA fans seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Endeavor is. That’s another topic by itself for another day. In Dana’s latest outing in front of the media, he was greeted with softballs thrown right down the middle.

I like to start these sorts of pieces out with full disclosure. I am in fact what I like to call a recovering “hardcore” MMA fan. I use this phraseology because I have watched MMA since its inception. I was all in from the beginning as a fan due to…

I have been reporting on Spotify’s bad business practices for years. I recently did an article about their new opt-in policy where artists can get paid even less than fractions of pennies in exchange for an algorithmic boost as they call it. The new policy basically incentivizes artists to get…

I used to do a music industry commentary segment called “The Beat Goes In” that aired live every week on The Mixtape Show hosted by DJ Kawon. In said segment (circa 2017–2019) I predicted many things about the entertainment business that have since come true. One of my biggest contentions…

It’s no secret to anyone who has heard my podcast or followed my career to know it’s been a while since I made a song. Yeah, I did verses here and there for promotional reasons, but not a full song. After being in and around the music business in one…

Making any kind of thought-provoking content in these times is challenging. Now just the word “thought” isn’t what it once was. We’re in the age where the masses are taught to have only one train of thought. Big money corporations control all mediums of content creation. Posting content to mainstream…

With online censorship at an all time high, is it fair to say that one of the very fundamentals of what made the internet so special is in jeopardy? Mainstream websites and platforms are restricting and censoring content…