[shams93]

Yeah back in the 90s I was able to scratch out a living as a musician, but rent was $200 a month in 1992, the bar was very low back then. I did a recording session at Death Row Records that one I got paid $0 but Suge was not the kind of person you demanded payment from lol. Other gigs like DJing were more lucrative then to the point where I paid my rent and got food. But we didn't have cell phones or student loans. People had to buy our tapes to hear our music there was no way to hear it for free. Having only a couple hundred fans was good enough to survive back then you didn't need to have millions of listeners. Now if John Coltrane put out a Love Supreme in 2018 he couldn't pay people to listen to it. The hold that the majors have over music is heavier than ever. All my friends who still make a living from music are all signed to majors, I don't know anyone who makes $1 without being signed these days.

[scarface74]

but Suge was not the kind of person you demanded payment from lol

Just for the people who don't get the reference....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/1137910...

[bonniemuffin]

“The Death Row people had this big-ass fight and the f------ New Orleans Police Department – being that they’re also a little psycho – rode their horses into the hotel.”!

I'd pay money to see that.