Without an understanding of the audit clause, and of the basic contracts (and 360 deals), musicians keep on lining up to get locked into contracts where the big money is just an advance on future royalties, a loan structured such that it can never be paid back, and that rolls into future contracts for the length of the term. And rarely does a musician have the ability or the right to get into company books and find out what is going on. At least an employee gets a paycheck to take away; musicians in the industry are basically rolled back into sharecropping if they are not forearmed with basic music business knowledge.

The Freedom Guide for Music Creators is my offering of the basic music business knowledge — nine chapters, under ninety pages. It is available on Amazon, but I prefer that people buy it from Marcus Book Stores, the oldest African American bookstores in the country. My name links to the Marcus page. I have no desire to see even one more Black person sharecropped in the industry; enough is enough, provided that musicians, or those who love them, takes the necessary steps to get the knowledge they need!