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What the industry takes — 22 cases of robbery you'll never repeat.
Twenty-two artists. Twenty-two ways the music industry took it. Little Richard sold 'Tutti Frutti' for $50. TLC sold 11 million copies of CrazySexyCool and filed Chapter 11 the same year. Florence Ballard of The Supremes died on welfare at 32 because her attorney was paid by Motown — the same label she negotiated against. The pattern is older than recorded music. The fix is older than the pattern. This Mile maps every robbery. Mile 11 (Tier 3 — The Protector) gives you the counter-moves for each one.
This is not motivational content. The cases are documented. The lessons are mechanical. Read them, then drill them in the quiz at the bottom of this page. Mile 2 unlocks when you pass.
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How to keep your masters and 80% of your profit
Master P refused the Death Row template in 1996 — took distribution-only deals with Priority/EMI, kept his masters, kept 80%. The single cleanest counter-example to TLC's contract.
Four channels we trust on this exact topic. Each one is a free education in itself.
Black financial literacy + music business deconstruction
Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings — the Black financial literacy podcast. Repeatedly interviews artists about the deals they signed and how they unwound them.
Hood-to-mogul deal stories
Gillie and Wallo. Real receipts from artists who lived through the 22 cases — direct, no PR spin.
Long-form artist interviews on contracts + money
Most-listened-to interview platform in Black culture. Master P, Jay-Z, Diddy, Nipsey — all walked through their deal structures here.
How No Limit Records was structured
Master P walking through the No Limit / Priority Records distribution-only deal in his own words.
Two books. Citation-grade. Read both before the Capstone.
The titan whose structural pattern lives inside this mile. Read straight off the public filings.
Concrete actions. Do them in order. Each one takes between 10 minutes and a long Sunday.
Watch Master P's full interview on Earn Your Leisure or Drink Champs (~60 min).
Pick three of the 22 cases. Search 'Wikipedia + [artist] + bankruptcy or contract' for each. Read the cited sources.
Open a doc titled 'My Vulnerability Report.' List every contract you have ever signed (jobs, loans, leases, deals). Five rows minimum.
Take Mile 1's pop quiz at the bottom of this page. Pass score is 80%.
The Hard Fence
We don't teach sovereign-citizen theory, strawman, A4V, redemption theory, or anything that puts you in federal court. None of it is real law. People go to prison for it. Read the full Hard Fence →