Kanye West v. The Music Industry

“I Think Prince and Mike was tryna warn me” - Kanye WestKanye West has taken up the personal mission to bring change to the oft-criticized music industry. He did so by taking to twitter, peeing on his grammy and exposing his own contracts. There are over a hundred pages of contracts on Twitter for all the world to see. Kanye has set forth a 7 point plan to ‘push the’ music industry into the 21st century’. He declared that he is the new Moses. But he isn’t wrong.  His criticism of the music industry echos so many others, most notably Prince...whose fight with Sony Music lead to him changing his name to a symbol. There is a lot to talk about so let’s break it down!Emily’s Videos About This EpisodeLawyer Reacts Videos about Kanye WestResources & LinksKanye Twitter LinksKanye pees on his Grammy. Photo of Prince & Statement about Michael“I need to see everybody’s contracts…”Text conversation possibly with legal“When you sign a music deal you sign away your rights…”“We’ve gotten comfortable with not having what we deserve….”“Artists deserve to own our masters….”“I’m the only person who can speak on this because I made multi-billions...”“I’m going to personally see to it that Taylor Swift gets her masters back. Scooter is a close family friend.”‘We used to diss Michael Jackson the media made us call him crazy..then they killed him’ “All Artists Must Be Free”ArticlesKanye West's War Against Record Contracts Could Actually Work -- for Kanye, Anyway Universal will ignore artists' unrecouped balances when it pays out Spotify share money… thanks to Taylor SwiftPrince Warns Young Artists: Record Contracts Are 'Slavery'