Kanye West already owns some of his Masters, contract pages in tweet reveal details

Kanye West in a long Twitter rant on Spetember 17, 2020, expressed his desire to own his Masters and or music rights. But w Variety's report suggests that Kanye alrey owns some of Masters he is publicly demanding from Universal and Sony. This information has been gained from contract pictures  rapper shared with fans in his tweets. 

Kanye alrey owns some of his Masters from UMG

Kanye West is latest artist to demand owning his Masters and rights to publish his music. So to get his point across to Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV Music, Kanye posted multiple tweets about this issue. In a series of tweets, West also posted pictures of some of se contracts.

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But w, according to Variety’s report, Kanye west alrey owns some of his Masters. A source also confirmed same to media portal. While Kanye was trying to bring about a change in working of music industry, his move is receiving backlash. Since many of Kanye’s mentioned contracts are more profitable for him than label who produced his music.

This backlash also comes from fact that many musicians are t as lucky as him to enjoy privileges he receives through his contracts. documents posted by Kanye West on his Twitter has invited more scrutiny towards his own G.O.O.D. Music label. Kanye’s label was founded in 2004 and since n is being distributed by Universal Music Group.

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Kanye’s music label has several artists under its belt. Many of se artists are under same contract that Kanye West opposed in his Twitter rant. According to media portal’s report, Kanye West has signed ten contracts with UMG. Each contract supposedly has gotten better for him and puts him in an vantous position.

In one of documents shared in his tweets, a contract from 2014 suggests that Kanye West entered into a pressing and distribution deal with Universal. While Universal manufactures and distributes records masters are owned by ar company. In this case, report suggests that Masters are owned by Kanye’s music label.

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