Sir Mix-a-Lot Explains How Publishing Beats Out Royalties

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• HO

  @HoodMelodyFilms · 11 years ago

  MORE INDUSTRY TIPS FROM THE OG'S PLEASE......

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• TE

  @terminalva · 8 years ago

  Guys like Mix-A-Lot and Young MC are stellar examples of how even a single smash hit can have you eating forever.

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• OV

  @OVERDOSE7002 · 11 years ago

  Every time that I hear this brother speak, I have more and more respect for him.

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• SP

  @spre · 11 years ago

  I handed you the pen you wrote that with. lmao

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  @00ElChupacabruh · 11 years ago

  I was in the studio with you, whatchu talking bout? I handed you the pen!<br><br>LMAO

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• MS

  @ms.jackson5684 · 8 years ago

  Sir mix alot has aged really well 😄

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• KI

  @King_Mac80 · 8 years ago

  You never know when a movie might ask to use your song for its soundtrack and either blow up a song that was once irrelevant or spark new life into a old hit.

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• NA

  @natedogg5708 · 4 years ago

  This dude is just as much of a legend as any other emcee from the 80s and 90s plus he wrote and produced em

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• AL

  @ALGREEN540 · 8 years ago (edited)

  This man has lived and will live comfortably without having to work the rest of his life off of ONE song. Mad respect

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• DR

  @drfangaz-pronouncedlikefan4019 · 7 years ago

  Sir Mix A Lot is a real one. I reached out to him on Myspace bacc when it was a popular outlet. He gave me permission to remake his classic record, &quot;Posse On Broadway&quot; . All he wanted to do was hear the finished song 3efore releasing it. He didn&apos;t ask for money or who I was.

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• JS

  @jsanker95 · 11 years ago

  More interviews like this please, we need more sir mix-a-lots and less bobby schmurdas

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• DE

  @Debonair73 · 11 years ago

  One thing that amazes me is that you got all these kids that want to do music but none of them read books about how the music industry works. &nbsp;All You Need To Know About The Music Business by Donald Passman covers all the basic stuff on how you make money in the music business as an artist. &nbsp;This book first came out in 1994 and has like 9 editions over the years. The first story in the book is how the Happy Birthday Song is a 2 million dollar a year business because everytime you hear it in a TV show or movies the publishers gets a check.<br><br>I bought this book and it immediately made me money because it told me how to license a song to cover it and sell it legally like you see all these Youtube musicians do. &nbsp;This was back in 2007-2008 when hardly nobody was doing this shit. &nbsp;You can license a song for 9.1 cent a copy from the Harry Fox Agency and now it&apos;s multiple services that do it and do your own version and sell it on iTunes and put it on Spotify and everything.

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