I Always Had This Energy Level That

A Lot Of The Hip Hop Artists Don't Write Music. They Write Words.

The True Beauty Of Music Is That It Connects People.

But I Did Mine Through A Production Company. All The Music I Did, I Gave To The Production Company. Then The Production Company Would Give The Record Company The Album. I Used To Do All My Albums Like That. It Was Fantastic. But Now, Understand, I Have Never Planned To Do Anything With These Other Tapes. The One That Are Released, Like The Virgin Ubiquity You Have There, I Wasn't Going To Do Anything With That Music. One Day, I Was Talking To This Guy That Owns Bbe Over In England, And I Said I've Got Some Tapes And Stuff That You Might Be Interested In, And He Went Berserk.

The Majors, They Have To Control The Distribution, The Record Outlets, The Radio And, In Some Cases, Even The Venues. And Downloading And Pirating Have Also Put Pressure On The Majors.

Most Artists Have Contracts Directly With The Record Company, And When They Do Music, All Of Their Music Is Owned By The Record Company. But I Did Mine Through A Production Company.