^ now that is funny. I think that goes on with every artist and label though, not just street level. When artists first work with you they love you and are glad just to have your help. aftert they get it they expect it, and after they expect it they neglect it and leave feeling like they were owed more, deserved more, and or could do it without u...but then when they doing it without you, they want the credit yet still use your ideas, your resources and talk about you like you aint shit. The sad part is that in almost every case they didn't have shit before you...artists in the indy world have the game fucked up 95% of the time. How much money should an artist make when they have no name, no record, and nothing to offer a label except the abiltiy to rap. Everybody can rap. Labels aren't making money off new artists dropping debut records for artists who don't register on the hip hop globe. It takes a lot of time and money just to build them a small fan base. Then instead of trying to build with the label, they leave and fuck the label but taking away any hope that the label could make make money with the artist in the future. The label loses money, and time, and the time invested is with the hopes that one day they will see pay off for the countless hours they worked to build an artist for free. I can also say that almost every artist that i know of that has left one of the more prominent NW labels has went on to do nothing, very little, or stayed at the same place in most cases... Infact the only ones that i can think of off the top of my head are the few cats who went on and dropped a record after leaving street level. I can't even think of another cat who left a label and dropped a project on they own or with another label... Which brings me to my bigger point. If you get to good place and ever think of going out on your own consider the fact that most who have left haven't faired so well thus far...
