Does anyone know if you can also use your publishing company as your label?

[Double_Cheeseburger]

people need to stop wanting to be rappers and start going to college. i got an idea...

tell him to stab himself in the neck with a #2 pencil.

 

[Large Dick Freddy]

He's in college, last semester. Waited to finish and have a plan b.

Now..

Anyone care to give any intelligent insight?

 

[ThaChozenWun]

Im pretty sure you could, I have no expierience in it and there probably isnt too many people on this board who would, your best advice is to contact someone whos in the busniess or market.

 

[Large Dick Freddy]

Im pretty sure you could, I have no expierience in it and there probably isnt too many people on this board who would, your best advice is to contact someone whos in the busniess or market.

Yeah I sorta caught that a second after posting, oh well.

We've been studying a lot on doing it the complete organic, indie way, and I just needed to see if we could cut out that high price tag of a label......as opposed to running it from the publishing company, which will only cost around 25-100 to start.

 

[ThaChozenWun]

Yeah I sorta caught that a second after posting, oh well.

We've been studying a lot on doing it the complete organic, indie way, and I just needed to see if we could cut out that high price tag of a label......as opposed to running it from the publishing company, which will only cost around 25-100 to start.

Yea I believe Ron Artest started his label through his publishing company and Ive heard of a few indie labels being started that way. I know for a fact labels can be used as a publishing company so I have no reason to think it couldnt be reversed.

http://www.rapcointelpro.com/Starting An Indie Label.htm

that should answer alot of your questions.

 

[Large Dick Freddy]

Yea I believe Ron Artest started his label through his publishing company and Ive heard of a few indie labels being started that way. I know for a fact labels can be used as a publishing company so I have no reason to think it couldnt be reversed.

http://www.rapcointelpro.com/Starting An Indie Label.htm

that should answer alot of your questions.

I've been all up and down rapcointelpro actually, that post's been bookmarked for months and I've been referencing it, as well as other sources. Cool, thanks.

 

[Michael_Malice]

people need to stop wanting to be rappers and start going to college. i got an idea...

tell him to stab himself in the neck with a #2 pencil.

Damn my stomach hurts after reading this shit.................too damn funny!

 

[Nato Jenkins]

More often than not, a publishing company an record label are two different entities. They are sometime owned by the same person, but are seperate because of how a pulishing company functions. Would this person publish/distribute other artists?

 

[Yung_Souf_Money]

nobody should you what to do and what to be

 

[SoulRattler of Venom]

NO!!!!!! Please don't try that. You'll be putting yourself in a ditch. There is alot of paperwork, money, time, and legal bs you have to go through to start a label. A publishing company takes no time and little effort to establish. There's a difference between the two for a reason.

 

[Large Dick Freddy]

More often than not, a publishing company an record label are two different entities. They are sometime owned by the same person, but are seperate because of how a pulishing company functions. Would this person publish/distribute other artists?

Eventually, but for the time being the publishing company will be for his own sake.

 

[Large Dick Freddy]

NO!!!!!! Please don't try that. You'll be putting yourself in a ditch. There is alot of paperwork, money, time, and legal bs you have to go through to start a label. A publishing company takes no time and little effort to establish. There's a difference between the two for a reason.

Lol thanks fam, yeah that's what I'm getting at as I continue researching.

 

[FlightKing]

I started an LLC. Only cost me 80 to incorporate in my state.
Not super concerned with publishing from the onset because I'm unknown and don't expect to sale anything yet anyway. Essentially, it's a holding company while I grow.
Phases...

 

[silent k]

I started an LLC. Only cost me 80 to incorporate in my state.
Not super concerned with publishing from the onset because I'm unknown and don't expect to sale anything yet anyway. Essentially, it's a holding company while I grow.
Phases...

I did that too for around $89 and only took around 10 minutes max...

 

[tellemwhyumad]

record labels and publishing companies are two different entities they can't be the same because there would be a conflict of interest

but all major labels are affliated with their own publishers who share the same parent company

for example Warnell/Chappell Music is the publishing company responsible for the publishing of the labels on Warner Music Group

 

[Large Dick Freddy]

I started an LLC. Only cost me 80 to incorporate in my state.

Not super concerned with publishing from the onset because I'm unknown and don't expect to sale anything yet anyway. Essentially, it's a holding company while I grow.

Phases...

Exactly how did you guys accomplish this? I've been researching LLC's but to me it seems more confusing than to start a pub, but I'm more interested in trying the LLC route.

 

[UPTOWN]

what do you need a label for ??

 

[white715]

Yeah but a publishing company won't front you the money to make an album or videos or promotion but if you have the money for that yourself you can keep alot more of the money you make off of your work, I heard somewhere before that Master P did something to that effect and he got like 50% of the profit.

 

[InMyLifeTime91]

once u got a publisher do u need someone to distribute the album?