Former Relativity Exec talking about Eazy-E

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Former Relativity Exec talking about Eazy-E
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Alan Grunblatt, KOCH Records general manager formely of Relativity Records. You can download the entire interview/magazine here:

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Do you think it’s possible for a Swishahouse
or a Cash Money to really achieve mainstream
success without hooking up with an
Asylum/Warner or a Universal?

Totally, totally, 100%. When I ran Relativity
I had a staff of six people, and we had Bone
Thugs & Harmony and Eazy E and we sold
millions upon millions of records.

Why do you think everyone ends up signing
with a major? Just the money?

Yeah, yeah, it’s just the money. You know, it
gets pretty tempting. But it’s funny because
I tell Cam all the time that he reminds me a
lot of Eazy E. Unfortunately Eazy died very
young, but he controlled his masters. He sold
Ruthless and when he died he was worth
hundreds of millions of dollars. People never
gave him credit, but he was a brilliant guy.
He started N.W.A, you know. I think it all
depends on the situation, but the best thing a
label can do is own your masters. The future
of catalog sales for rap records is enormous.
Like here at Koch, we were fortunate to be
able to distribute the Death Row catalog.

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[Ry]

I miss Eazy man. I saw the Crossroads video the other day and that part where Eazy turns around really made me think about how things were when he was around. He never sold out to anyone. I think the west coast rap game would be different if he was still around...