I want to be the force which is truly for good. | | | | Cardi B making money moves in Atlanta, Aug. 19, 2017.
(Paras Griffin/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I want to be the force which is truly for good.”
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| | rantnrave:// Two things to consider before deciding if you want to invest in EMINEM's future royalties via a DENVER startup called ROYALTY FLOW. One, you won't be investing in Eminem. You'll be investing in FBT PRODUCTIONS, the company that originally signed him in 1995 and owns pieces of several hit albums and tracks but hasn't worked with him in nearly a decade. Is it a little creepy to invest in an artist without in fact investing in the artist? Or is that an inadvertently perfect way for any investor to play record company exec? Two, who's going to count your money? This is not a commentary on Royalty Flow, its parent company, ROYALTY EXCHANGE, or FBT. It *is* a commentary on the historically fuzzy notion of music industry accounting. Who's going to do your audits, and how? Then again, maybe you're a full-on Eminem Stan who wants to own a piece of "STAN," in which case don't let me stop you. I've made worse, less-thought-through investments than that. "It's a unique opportunity for that person to have the pride associated with it when they listen," Royalty Exchange CEO JEFF SCHNEIDER tells the DETROIT FREE PRESS. "They can associate it with the fact that they're earning a little bit when it gets played." Talk about an emotional connection... In knocking TAYLOR SWIFTs "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO" off the top of the HOT 100, CARDI B's "BODAK YELLOW" becomes the first song by a solo female rapper to hit #1 since LAURYN HILL's "DOO WOP (THAT THING)" in 1998. (The record-keepers aren't counting IGGY AZALEA's 2014 #1, "FANCY," because it was aided by CHARLI XCX on the hook.) Let that 19-year gap sink in while noting that it was Swift who kept NICKI MINAJ from achieving the same feat with "ANACONDA," which stalled at #2 behind "SHAKE IT OFF." And while reveling in the fact that a brash, down-to-earth, stripper-turned-reality-TV-star-turned-rapper who takes no prisoners but basically gets along with the competition is the woman who made this happen. PITCHFORK's KRISTIN CORRY wonders if Cardi B has opened "a new lane for female rappers—one that has little to do with seeking permission from male gatekeepers, pandering to white culture, or criticizing other women for their sexuality." MusicSET: "SINGLE-MINDED: Cardi B, 'Bodak Yellow'"... MEGHAN LINSEY on taking a knee while singing the national anthem before the TENNESSEE TITANS–SEATTLE SEAHAWKS football game Sunday: "You’re making a choice when you walk out there, however you handle it. If you don’t take a knee, it’s like: what do you stand for?" For a country singer in Nashville, it was a ballsy move, and reactions from the country media have been mixed, YAHOO!'s CHRIS WILLMAN reports. Least surprising epithet hurled her way: "DIXIE CHICK wannabe"... Authenticity alert: Is MIDLAND the road-worn country bar band it says it is, and does it matter? KYLE CORONEOS levels the accusations while noting that the band's much-hyped debut album, ON THE ROCKS, "is as good as advertised"... RCA RECORDS prez TOM CORSON reportedly headed to WARNER BROS.... Congrats to my friend ANDY GENSLER on his new gig at OAK VIEW GROUP... RIP ERIC EYCKE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Pitchfork |
| Hit-making songwriters and producers reveal the ways they are tailoring tracks to fit a musical landscape dominated by streaming. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| The Canadian man who has spent 30 years keeping interviews interesting. | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| Years later, I still can’t escape the pounding beat of “Lose Yourself.” | | |
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 | REDEF |
| In which a regula, degula, schmegula girl from the Bronx tosses off a spirited freestyle, assumes ownership of summer 2017 and earns the first #1 single by a solo female rapper in two decades. And in which she lets you know she's now rich enough to walk out of a shoe store with two pairs of Louboutins. | | |
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 | LA Weekly |
| Despite its understated and decidedly uncommercial feel, Simon Green's music has become wildly popular. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Herb Alpert discusses his aim to fulfill his desire to “make uplifting music at a time when the whole world feels like it could use some.” | | |
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 | The Fader |
| An oral history of the cult 2001 movie soundtrack, featuring interviews with Rachael Leigh Cook, Babyface, Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo, and more. | | |
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 | Detroit Free Press |
| Investors can buy into Eminem's hit music catalog as the Detroit rapper's production team puts royalties up for sale in a pioneering deal. | | |
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 | Invisible Oranges |
| Remembering the soul singer on the anniversary of Black Sabbath's "Vol. 4." | | |
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 | Music x Tech x Future |
| What will the next format be to usher in a new music industry, like the record did in the 2oth century? The 20th century saw the rise of consumerist culture as a response to mass production causing supply to outgrow consumer demand. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| He has two platinum LPs, he's dating Kylie Jenner, and his shows are so wild they've gotten him arrested. Now, he's got much bigger things in mind. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| Black creative and economic self-determination within the music industry didn’t begin with Chance the Rapper, or Prince, or even Motown. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Music |
| “I was absolutely terrified walking out there,” country singer Meghan Linsey admits, speaking of her journey to the microphone at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, where she performed the national anthem before a Titans game Sunday afternoon (Sep 24) -- and then took a knee. | | |
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 | Stereogum |
| "I've seen hate marching down the streets." That was Stevie Wonder, a surprise guest at last night's (Sep 24) Concert For Charlottesville, talking to a crowd of tens of thousands of people who really had seen hate marching down their own streets. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| In 1977, five misfits from Ohio took a rock-and-roll classic and mutated it beyond recognition. (This piece was adapted from “Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time,” by Ray Padgett.) | | |
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 | MusicAlly |
| Ticketmaster International's SVP of insight and marketing Sophie Crosby has addressed the debate around secondary ticketing and online touting. | | |
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 | The Common Reader |
| At the end of "Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century," Klosterman makes the curious curatorial decision to group seven essays about heavy metal before concluding with four essays about death. | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| How the genre-smashing artist used a classic instrument to find a new voice. | | |
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 | Mass Appeal |
| The making of an unconventional classic, 15 years later. | | |
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 | Hypebot |
| Is music becoming more about the experience than the music itself? It seems Gene Simmons of KISS may have just cracked the code on how to sell music: you don't sell the music, you sell the experience of buying the music. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | From her first mixtape, 2016's "Gangsta B**** Music Vol. 1." |
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