JOYNER LUCAS BREAKS TALKS RECORD LABEL ENSLAVENMENT ON “THE JASON LEE SHOW”
“Record labels are like the worst loans you can get. They’re giving you the bag and they have the resources, but I didn’t really see the resource part. It was the worst loan in history.
Joyner Lucas has never been one to shy away from storytelling. Recently, the emcee took to “The Jason Lee show” and spoke on his own story as an up-and-coming rapper. In a sit-down interview with Jason Lee, Joyner,35, talked Karen Civil’s alleged money grab scheme, how the industry enslaves recording artists via 360 deals and how his experiences made him a better rapper/businessman.
The “Your Heart” rapper signed to Atlantic back in 2016, a deal that left him in debt and without ownership of his masters. Joyner spoke on how the deal left him broke and in debt to the record label.
“Record labels are like the worst loans you can get. They’re giving you the bag and they have the resources, but I didn’t really see the resource part. It was the worst loan in history.Imagine you going to the bank, and you borrow one million dollars and then you gotta pay them back eight million dollars before you can receive any bread back. Then they keep you in debt by throwing more money just to keep you enslaved to them and they own your masters”, he added.
On Karen Civil:
During the sit-down, Joyner spoke on learning the music business and how his experienced made him a better businessman. The rapper also touched on Karen Civil’s alleged money grab scheme. And claims he gave the music exec/media strategist $60,000 at the start of his career for consulting work. After Civil was paid she stopped answering Joyner’s calls and failed to deliver what she promised. During the interview Joyner admitted he wanted to quit music as a result
My son was on the way and you stole 60k from me before I got in the game @KarenCivil . I hired you as a consultant and below attached was the memo you sent me. I was desperate for help and you knew that. After you was paid you went ghost and didn’t expect me to pop. 😈 here I am pic.twitter.com/4JcBDfYOe7
“After all of this happened, I gave up. I called my investor, and I told him I was done. I felt bad because I watched this man spend sixty.so I was like that’s it. I felt just felt defeated. I was like f*ck this industry, n*ggas is robbing us. We didn’t know what we were doing, we were trying to break into the game and we was tryna hire people as consultants. After that whole sh*t happened I just felt defeated.”
Joyner has come a long way since his days at Atlantic. He is now an independent artist with a distribution deal through The Orchard. The rapper is also the co-owner of “Tully”, a music-based tech app.
Jasmine “Jayy Marie” Morales had an early interest in writing and as a teen joined True Star in 2009 where she was the member of the editorial team. Getting first hand experience in the world of journalism, soon after she got an internship in New York at Slam Magazine, where she was published numerous times during her time there.
While writing for True Star, she also discovered an additional passion — radio, and soon joined True Star’s radio program that collaborated with Chicago’s Power 92.3. It was in that program that Jayy Marie learned of her influential voice. Soon after she enrolled in the Illinois Media School where she earned her credentials in Radio TV Broadcasting with an emphasis in Sports Broadcasting and Production in 2017.
Still pushing her pen and sharing her voice, Jayy Marie is a mom of two, freelance writer for The Southside Weekly, lead producer for Chella H’s upcoming “So Who Gone Say It?” Podcast and Lead Journalist for Hip-Hop platform What’s The Word.
