Immortal Technique?
Anyone else a fan? I've found a lot more people have heard of him in the last 3-6 months.
So what say you? Do you rate the socialist guerilla?
*for all those who don't know, Immortal Technique is an underground rapper who refused to sign to a large label as he would lose intellectual property rights and creative control of his songs.
The Aeson
18-07-2006, 00:12
Never heard of him.
Sounds like a good decision though.
Download download download!
Neo Undelia
18-07-2006, 00:14
Uh, rap? Not to my tastes. As for his career decision, I don’t care, it’s his talent, he can do what he wants with it.
Uh, rap? Not to my tastes.
Be gone.
Slaughterhouse five
18-07-2006, 00:23
lost my interest right about................
Immortal Technique is an underground rapper
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Anyone else a fan? I've found a lot more people have heard of him in the last 3-6 months.
So what say you? Do you rate the socialist guerilla?
*for all those who don't know, Immortal Technique is an underground rapper who refused to sign to a large label as he would lose intellectual property rights and creative control of his songs.
Then he can't be in terribly high demand, because if he's that marketable then the labels would have offered to let him keep those things in order to sign.
It's not necessarily the case that all music contracts contain such clauses.
I thought this thread was about how to reach immortality.
Boy, was I wrong.
Hydesland
18-07-2006, 01:12
Anyone else a fan? I've found a lot more people have heard of him in the last 3-6 months.
So what say you? Do you rate the socialist guerilla?
*for all those who don't know, Immortal Technique is an underground rapper who refused to sign to a large label as he would lose intellectual property rights and creative control of his songs.
I think he is an idiot for believing that all of t3h ebil corporations will refuse him creative control of his songs.
Bodies Without Organs
18-07-2006, 01:51
I think he is an idiot for believing that all of t3h ebil corporations will refuse him creative control of his songs.
I refer you to Warner-Chappell vs. Ice T, 1992.
Psychotic Mongooses
18-07-2006, 01:55
I refer you to Warner-Chappell vs. Ice T, 1992.
Or, he could just do what Rage Against the Machine did back in the day.
Make their own first album.... sell a shed load... and then get creative control over the rest in the contract.
Bodies Without Organs
18-07-2006, 02:03
Or, he could just do what Rage Against the Machine did back in the day.
Make their own first album.... sell a shed load... and then get creative control over the rest in the contract.
True, but if the direction you are going creates ill-will with the label they are likely to fulfill only the letter, rather than the spirit, of the contract. Better to stick with the smaller labels who actually share some of your primary views, in my opinion.