When Prince went off script explaining how record labels give out bad deals.. 👁️😳

追加: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Artists don't get paid anyway. There's maybe 10 or 12 of them that have semi-decent [music] deals and the rest of them are, you know.

[00:00:07]>> Like Mariah Carey just had this big $20 million like the That's like a huge deal, right? [music] >> So, you you feeling that?

[00:00:14]>> I mean, what am I missing?

[00:00:15]>> O- Okay, let's do some math.

[00:00:17]>> Okay. Okay.

[00:00:17]>> If you signed me to a record company [music] or record deal, let's suppose you have a record company. How much would you give me the albums sells for [music] $18, right? $18.

[00:00:27]All right. How much of that would you give me?

[00:00:29]>> Half?

[00:00:30]>> Half? Half sound good? All right. Check this out.

[00:00:34]I- If I sell a million copies, I'm going to have $10 million, right?

[00:00:41]Roughly $10 million. If I sell 2 million copies, I got $20 million. If I just sell 3 million copies, I got $30 million. Now, who has the biggest record deal?

[00:00:52]>> Oh, I see. Yeah, right. Okay.

[00:00:53]>> Right? So, Mariah kind of got screwed.

[00:00:56]>> Really?