VMP’s Winistorfer admits the company has had a similar issue “once or twice,” declining to get into specifics. In their case, I don’t know what the situation is between and.
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He acknowledges potential reputational damage but adds, “We fully license from whoever owns it. 2: World Domination and Tear Da Club Up Thugs’ CrazyNDaLazDayz were “bootlegs.” Get on Down’s Papa D says he tried to reach DJ Paul via direct message but didn’t get a response. That philosophy of dealing directly with licensees-whether it’s the artists or not-went awry when DJ Paul claimed on Twitter that Get on Down’s reissues of Three 6 Mafia’s Chpt. “It really does vary from release to release.” “However, Nas promoted it-or whoever runs his Instagram promoted it,” adds Papa D. That’s the ideal situation.” Nas’s team wasn’t directly involved in a 25th-anniversary reissue of It Was Written. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can get the artist involved. Get on Down’s Welch says, “We’ll send in requests to companies to see if they’ll be interested in licensing. (And yes, there will always be bootleggers.) More often, reissue labels strike deals with whoever has the rights. Since rap reissue labels offer previously recorded material, they bring items to market through licensing deals. Multiple label owners spoke to Pitchfork about their inability to meet rising consumer demand major labels monopolizing production capacity navigating a shipping landscape marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, heat waves, and geopolitical issues like Brexit and reckoning with the effects of structural racism on marketing campaigns and label ownership.Īrtists themselves don’t always clear reissues. Now, the market is undergoing its own unique growing pains-many like those in the vinyl industry at large. As hip-hop has grown more popular than ever, casual fans are creating unprecedented demand for reissues of best-sellers as well as hard-to-find original pressings. Over the years, the demise of CDs and the rise of digital downloads and then streaming led to a bigger customer base than just hardcore crate-diggers who already own OG copies of Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). But hip-hop vinyl has its idiosyncrasies, from the dominance of independent labels to a bottomless appetite for outlandish colored vinyl and gimmicky packaging. The past decade or so has seen a flourishing market for all styles of music on vinyl-in the first half of 2021, sales of the format have grown 108 percent.
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