Producers and beatmakers are being told they have to pay to get their beats on major projects.  We talk with entertainment attorney Adam Freedman about why these scams exist and how he's fighting the scammers in court.

Earl Sweatshirt says he doesn't even like writing 3rd verses. Old Town Road is only 113 seconds long. Why are songs getting shorter? Also, TikTok plans on competing with Spotify and Apple, and they have WAY more users. What could this lead to?

Tory Lanez called out Interscope and the internet jumped to conclusions. When rappers call out their labels, who wins? And YouTube announces that they will report views to Billboard charts. Does this even matter for smaller independent and unsigned artists?

In the wake of so many tragic deaths of iconic rappers, we ask, what responsibility, if any, falls on the record labels?  We also explore the fear and paranoia in the producer community, featuring guest Leaux Fi.

DJ Booth tweeted that publishing was the most important aspect of a musician's career. Dame disagrees and debates with Pain, and we talk with entertainment lawyer Karl Fowlkes about royalty points, Noname, and race and Hip-Hop.

Is YouTube going to destroy producer and rapper careers because of the new COPPA lawsuit? Will they start demonetizing and deleted beat and music videos? Also, how many artists can a manager manage? We discuss it in today's episode.

A lot of people claim all music sound the same these days: Are producers to blame for this?  Also, Instagram's algorithm is making a lot of people mad.  Is it limiting our reach?  What can we do to break through?

Why do so many artists and producers sign bad contracts?  Why don't producers stand up for themselves?  Will they get blackballed if they do?  Entertainment lawyer Karl Fowlkes joins us to discuss.

You can promote your music for free, but what if you had a small budget saved up?  We discuss what services we would spend money on and how we would make every dollar count.

Are low streaming rates the biggest problem for independent artists?  Pain and Dame don't think so and explain why streaming royalty rates are problematic, but not as much as you might think.