El DeBarge talks to Black Enterprise about giving up his publishing rights to Motown and what other artists can learn from his mistakes.
The legendary Teena Marie has passed as reported by CNN Contributor Roland S. Martin via Twitter. This is truly a sad day for the R&B community. Death is as real as life and birth. What this teaches us is to please take care of your family. No one is going to let you know when your day of death is. It will always be sudden. The only thing we can do is take care of ourselves and our families with the proper insurances: health insurance, life insurance, burial insurance, and disability insurance. I may have missed some but do NOT leave the family with a bunch of debt. RIP Lady T Teena Marie. We truly loved you!
This takes due diligence and finding the right home. Here’s where to start. All reputable labels are a part of a national well known network of distributors called The Alternative Distribution Alliance. If you are an artist and are dealing with a label who says they have all the right contacts to get you out there, they should have some deal and be visible to ADA. If they are not visible and you cannot check them out, they are fake.
I encourage all artists to go to the site and review each and every record label on there. Find out what type of artists and titles the label already has on deck. Many labels are niche labels that focus on either a specific region, a specific genre, or a specific type of sound. Find the label that fits your type by looking at what type of music they already release.
Master P never ever ceases to amaze me and push his family to new heights of music and entertainment. No artist is released without full merchandising in place just like we did it back in 1994. Great work to Cymphonique Miller!



















