BRM: For those who aren’t familiar with your background, explain who you are.
M. William Krasilovsky: I’m Bill Krasilovsky and I’ve been in the music business since 1953. Before 1953 I went up to Alaska to be a pioneer. I was working as an assistant to the federal judge of Alaska. The judge asked me when I applied for the job, “Why are you coming from Brooklyn all the way up here to take a job with me?” and I said “I want to be a pioneer and this is the last frontier.” Well three years after having won some plaudits in Alaska I got a job with a civil liberties law firm in New York. Arthur Garfield Hays was the head of the legal part of the American Civil Liberties Union and I found pioneering opportunities in the music business.
What made you write this book, The Music of Business?
I find it to be very much like the blueprint for today’s actual music business. If you turn around in my office, you’ll see a picture of Fats Waller. This civil liberties law firm gave me the assignment of straightening out the rights of the son of Fats Waller, who had been taken advantage of by music publishers. One of the worst examples was a person who gave $500 to this great jazz pianist for his rights in “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a song which achieved worldwide success and is worth so much money that when I overturned the giveaway of the $500 deal, I was able to recommend that my friend - the son of Fats Waller - write a will, because he became very successful owning rights to his father’s catalog. The money was pouring in fast and furiously and he had a heart attack - because of the excitement when a Tony award winning show was given for the show Aint Misbehavin’ - and every week they were paying 4% of the box office for the rights to use the song from Fats Waller. That’s fun and games. That’s better than mentoring a 16-year-old.
I know you don’t agree with sampling. How much of your job now is dealing with copyright laws and sampling?
Well there are many lawyers out there looking for the opportunity to pay their school loans and sampling has been a wonderful happy hunting ground for lawyers. I looked up just the other day a song called “Yay Boy” from Africa, and I made $39,000 in legal fees that was honestly earned because I was able to go after a sample which could have been a lot cheaper if they had knocked on our doors saying, “We like the song ‘Yay Boy.’ We’d like to have permission to do it. Will you please tell me if $10,000 will be enough?” But if I got $39,000, obviously my client must have gotten well above $150,000.
Now that’s the happy hunting grounds for lawyers. Now, I don’t think that creative people should be stupid, and they shouldn’t just jump in saying, “Maybe they won’t catch me.” I don’t think they should necessarily have a lawyer by their side in the studio, although many people prefer it if they are executive producers. I’m not vain enough to say that everyone has to ask my permission before they make a mistake.... I’m also honest enough to say I’m old fashioned. I’m 82 years old; I like the songs of Porgy and Bess. I like the songs of Ain’t Misbehavin’. I like the songs that Quentin Marsalis uses in jazz. I am very happy to represent the widows and children of the great standard songs.
What other legendary artists have you helped?
I did a job for ‘My Funny Valentine’ for the estate of Lorenz Hart that takes in a million dollars a year. That’s awfully nice. It all goes to a favorite charity of this early deaf individual, Lorenz Hart. Now, today’s hip-hop generation, I think, are full of opportunists almost taking as bad advantage as Fats Waller was suffered when he died at the age of 41, having given away all his copyrights. Fortunately we have statutes that protect against improvidence and that’s what I specialize in.
That’s what I write about in my book - how to protect against improvidence, that means a lousy deal, how to unwind a lousy deal. In England I discovered you can unwind a lousy deal. Any deal that was made before 1956 can be unwound 20 years after the death of the composer. My god, the widow will be starving like 25 years after her husband died but nevertheless the statute in England was very concerned they said wait 25 years and then we’ll give you your copyrights back. We arranged under my guidance over $750,000 to be spent going up to the House Of Laws in England fighting the entire music industry of England and we got 40,000 songs back against improvidence. In America, we do it under the Law of Termination and again, I love having that in my book where I can educate people like you of how to get rid of a lousy deal.
How do you feel about people being subjected to a 25 % overall compulsory sample fee?
See, I know that you are educated. You know that there is a 9.1% license called a statutory rate for mechanical licenses and you’re trying to tell me that if Congress, in its wisdom, said that anybody can make a song into a record and say, “Screw you, I don’t want to have to beg anymore. I'm gonna give you 9.1% take it or leave it,” that’s the statutory thought about mechanical licensing, and what you’re suggesting is “Hey, lets go one step further, lets protect hip-hop,” and say everybody can say “I wanna take your ‘My Funny Valentine’ or your ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’ and I want to sample it and I’ll give you 25% and I get as much as 50%. So thank you very much”…get outta here.
But for a way of commerce? I’m looking at it from the mechanics of hip-hop work. To produce a lot of records, the actual basis of hip-hop is sales.
Now listen to me on this. There was this song called “Pretty Woman” and it’s a song that was featured in a movie that launched the career of lots of important actors and actresses. And in “Pretty Woman” they say, “Tell me about the glories and wonders of the lovely hair and complexion of a pretty woman.” I was called in for “Ugly Woman” - that was a parody, making fun of the country folks who were wanting the pleasures of beholding a pretty woman. That was 2 Live Crew. Now that’s ancient history in your world, but 2 Live Crew were [popular] in the days of yesterday. The United States Supreme Court accepted my affidavit and the expert I brought in saying this is justified. You don’t have to pay one penny to make a parody, which is free speech. However, what you people wanna do is get on the back of a successful song and sneak it in there as the underlying theme song or the key part and say, “Hey, I’ll give you 25 cents on the dollar, aren’t you happy?” The answer is no, I’m not happy. You’re taking my child and adopting it for a weekend. Thanks a lot. Get outta here.
If I make a rap record or my brother makes a rap record, after that record hits the air commercially not only does the original record play, which I don’t get a part of that copyright, any remixes play on other stations, the artists themselves are actually allowed to restart their career. I feel there is an indirect price that would help both parties… because you have the digital age and because the inventory usage is much higher than a regular record. So they may consume 100 records a month in purchasing versus buying maybe one or two records in a month, which would be an old business model.
Now, you’re allowed to insult, if you’re gonna turn “Pretty Woman” into “Ugly Woman With You Hairy Legs.” That’s what they did for 2 Live Crew. That’s free and clear. You’re allowed a 100% to make fun of or to criticize or to write a music report in which you quote portions of what you’re criticizing…that’s 100% free. You’re saying to me, “It’s all money. Why doesn’t everyone get in the marketplace and peddle your soul into the rap audience because you’re discriminating against us young folks for not letting us have “As Time Goes By”? Now “As Time Goes By” is the trademark for Warner Brothers pictures and I’ve arranged for my clients to get paid every time that song is used and also to get paid when it’s not used - that’s the deal. If you want to make this into your trademark you have to give us a $50,000 year penalty if you don’t use it. I’m saying don’t adopt my children. I’ve got four of them. I like them very much.
Now, about mixtapes, at all radio stations, the promotional departments and actual music directors - not the programmers - turn a blind eye to mixtapes. Don’t you think the radio stations are required to at least pay something to help?
What you’re saying in your generosity is touching a sore wound of the music and radio industries. Radio and television contribute 8 billion dollars a year to ASCAP, BMI and CSAC for the right to have access, without kissing ass, to each of the owners of the songs. But they don’t pay one penny to the record companies for all of the Frank Sinatra or Ludacris records that are being played. They pay only the publishers and songwriters. It’s a sore wound, so congress has said, “Oh yeah, we have to do something about that.” So within the last few years they said, “Oh boy, we’re gonna do it. We’re gonna give money for digital broadcasting.” That’s when radio and television will pay artists and record companies, but artists and record companies are left high and dry on the billion-dollar payoff to ASCAP, BMI and CSAC. So what your saying is something where you could spend the rest of your life lobbying in Washington but so far it’s nickels and dimes going in for digital radio. How much digital radio have you seen so far that’s serious? It’s small time. And it might be growing but they’re saying we can’t book the establishment but we can insist that new media of digital has to perform a fair and honest shake. They pay ASCAP, they pay BMI, and they pay CSAC for publishers and writers. Always remember, the music industry consists of a sound -which is the master recording- and a song, which is the songwriter’s contribution. Arrangers don’t get paid.
If the RIAA and everybody knows mixtapes are an open wound, what you’re doing is encouraging copyright infringement instead of perhaps licensing it and saying “Okay, if you’re going to do a mixtape and DJ, then you can pay a certain rate and put it on the mixtape and maybe it goes through the actual government for watermarking.”
I’ll tell you, if I were hired at a couple hundred dollars an hour to consult with you I’d say, “My God, you seem to be right.” The movie industry has billions and billions of dollars and they are completely taming the music industry to allow cue sheets. Every time a movie is made they have a cue sheet for 23 seconds of “As Time Goes By” and 1 minute 4 seconds for “Ain’t She Sweet” and they go down the entire list so that that list is official. Now why can’t the mixtape people stop their jive-assing and write down or get a secretary to write down what they’ve mixed? And then they can inform them at BMI and CSAC what share of the broadcast billion dollars should go to the publishers and writers that are encompassed within the mixtape. Then, if it’s going to be a mixtape that’s on the digital then maybe they can tell SoundExchange, which is the equivalent of ASCAP and BMI, CSAC, for the artist and get a cue sheet. That’s my answer. Prepare a cue sheet. Do the homework. I don’t want to do it for you.
But shouldn’t the industry then create a mixtape cue sheet and make it available?
There’s a philosophic issue going on right now as to whether CDs should be outlawed more or less - not outlawed as much as law - but should be forgotten about as we go into the digital single song business. So that the costumer can pick the singles song and not have to buy ten more songs in order to listen to all the songs. That’s a major issue in today’s music business. Whether we should police singles as sort of ransom, trying to get people to buy the total album with all the money. And you’re saying the mixtape is supreme albumizing of the music industry because they have 20 mixed masters and 20 mixed songs and you just get a cue sheet? Do the job. Then you have to kiss ass and get permission.
But kids don’t get permission because they’re breaking records. That’s why I said they need a license, like a blanket fee that you can charge and make a place where you can actually print the cue sheets out and say, “Okay, here’s my cue sheet, these are the songs I’ve had to press on it. I’m giving you a copy of it, here’s my $150 that will go towards this copyright stuff for blanks in my community.”
Once again you’re saying that you think that the statutory rate should be carried over into the mixtape world. It’s the same thing you talked about recently on sampling. Please don’t take my children. Irving Berlin was one of the world’s greatest songwriters and he wouldn’t allow people to take his songs for compilations that would make a combined song with other people’s songs, which was like an early version of what sampling is. A mixtape is now the same thing. So again, don’t adopt my children without my permission.
How do you feel about hip-hop having additional tax benefits or tax breaks because there are so many unemployed young black men. Like, what they do for the music industry, what about something in the hip-hop community to help unemployed black men?
I have a young nephew who left the United States to become a citizen of Holland. He told me that he is very fortunate because in Europe they have something better than our National Endowment of the Arts. We have a nationally funded National Endowment of the Arts, which pays money to American jazz musicians, for example, to help support culture. In Europe, he got $100,000 for exploring and suggesting how they could have better video production for international cooperation of culture. In the United States, it used to be a happy hunting ground for young people to look for a grant on a National Endowment of the Arts. I call your attention to the fact that the conservative Republican majority in congress has severely cut back the budgets for the endowment of the arts. I’m 100% in favor of what you’re saying. Let’s have a cultural tax so that we can enhance more opportunities. I will say both ASCAP and BMI and CSAC do help young black jazz artists and I think maybe hip-hop has an element maybe similar to jazz.
Wouldn’t it make sense to put a tax on the actual carriers online? I would tax Verizon and all the telephone carriers an estimate of what we would lose. If you manufacture CDs, the people who manufacture this stuff, there will be a tax placed on the CD so even if the CD is out there, no matter who made it, there’s a tax on it. Wouldn’t it make sense to collect it from the actual distribution lines?
What you’re saying is an excellent idea and it’s already in the law. Blank tapes, blank CDs, pay a tax. Now, what you’re saying is, “Who the hell is getting it?” I think that money is probably put through SoundExchange. I’d have to explore it. Maybe I could find it in The Music of Business - in the 400 pages of my book, I think I do cover the tax.
I understand the blank tapes but for digital recordings, it doesn’t exist. When I put my copies online, the telephone companies become complicit in the crime. They should just add a fee, because they’re gonna pass it on to the costumer anyways. So add in $3 or $4 in tax to whatever the telephone user would bring in yearly.
I notice that you came to my office with an Apple computer. I have one too and I’m very interested, being an old man, in observing new technology. I pop in a CD that I get and my computer identifies not only who wrote the song but also the artwork. So we live in an age of computer technology where all of this can fed into a data bank and what your saying probably is, “Who’s gonna do the feeding, but lets get the money.” Let’s have that tax that you’re talking about and properly allocate it. You might have an excellent suggestion and I think maybe a little more investigation might show that it’s already available if we get people who are smart enough to use the technology of computers to split up the money. I know I was once an arbitrator for BMI and somebody said, “My songs get played in country fairs and in stadiums, and I don’t get my share,” and BMI said it would cost them $2 to count every song that was played at every country fair and that they couldn’t afford to pay that cost. Therefore, they take the country fair money and put it into the radio group saying that’s a fair way to allocate. And the poor jerk who was appearing in that particular matter was not being played on the radio he was just being played at country fairs and he didn’t get anything. Well, ASCAP has something where when you have a plea of poverty because of situations like that they do have an allocation of something like 2% of the right of money that’s available for special awards for - not needy - but deserving, special exceptions.
As a corporate owner of music and movie copyrights, I believe that I have a unique perspective on how the industry affects the society and our government. In my world and yours the stock market is at a historical all time low, April 15 2009 will soon be here and it will be time to file and pay your taxes.
The “Radio One” stock I bought years ago at $11.00 is now worth $0.52 and I am not happy about it. I know it is a company in debt but it is run extremely well in this turbulent financial environment and I have a confident business understanding of what Kathy Hughes and her low profile son face in their challenges to make me money as a stock holder over the next (10) years. I have long term skin in this game, faith in the free market system of capitalism and this makes
this scolding financially personal.
Senator McCain, I did not think I would have to address you for anything but I see you can’t control your mouth, yourself or any of your political associates.Senetor McCain, you have acted dishonorably for (2) years and have encouraged others to follow in your path. I see you can’t stop yourself. You are a coward. Stop speaking on the Banking system or Wall Street. I know we had this conversation already. Shut the fuck up. (Sorry First Lady for the language but I have to be frank with this particular coward) You are muddling the issues on purpose at the expense of the public good.
Senator, we are at war and you are acting in a treasonous manner when you collude with fellow republicans on your planned financial information misdirection of the American citizenry 8.1 % unemployment, 13.1% for American Blacks, 651, 000 Thousand Jobs lost in February and you are following the direction of a known drug addict (not talking about your wife)to “slow everything down” when Americans need help.” Operation chaos” during the election was fine but the election is over. I know you
love to get your political cues and philosophy from actor’s and radio personalities but you are forgetting you lost the election and must respect the new administrations Idea’s until they are proven wrong .A decade of manifested failure that the president is dealing with demonstrates you are morally corrupted.
Senator, you cannot correct what you are unwilling to confront. The “Free Market” and Wall Street are reacting just as they should at this time. Robber Barron’s and career financial criminals do not like that President Obama is setting rules for the financial road (real regulation).The financial criminal element has to exit the market and they are doing so with anger. Hip –Hop capitalist are glad to see them exit. Your Financial TV pundits cried for then President -Elect Obama to leave the “market” to its own correction. (40) Days in as President he is fixing everything else that can be fixed until he has to deal with the market to respect your cries and then your TV pundits say he is not clear on how or what needs to be done. This sounds like bullshit to us. TV Pundit, Mr. Kudlow said the president is “declaring war on investors, entrepenurs, small business, large corporations and private equity and venture capital funds”. Mr. Cramer another TV pundit says the Obama administration is “destroying the life savings of millions of Americans” and this is “the greatest wealth destruction I have seen”. CNBC’s president Mark Hoffman we see is not on his job and has been compromised in this time of real war and has become a propagandas. The disrespectful cowardly behavior only shown to this new President and Vice-President who by the way won’t murder if you don’t go along with their programs shows all this talk to be a “tough guy” act. Hip-Hop see’s the fake concern over debt, deficits and grandchildren. Hip-Hop can also see the scared bitches you and your fellow congressmen have been the last (8) years. Remember Former President Bush is ok with Hip –Hop because we like his dad. The respect you seek from us has to be earned in American dollars. I suggest you shut the fuck up; you are hurting our customers with your foreign aided propaganda and we are not forgiving to treason.
RNC Chair Mike Steele, for your own information, in the eyes of American Hip-Hop Capitalist you have made yourself an irrelevant side show. Apologizing to a known draft dogging drug addict shows you are unintelligent, inarticulate and cowardly. Stop reaching out to Hip Hop in the press at this time. Mr. Steele you are insulting our business community and our customers.
President Obama, at some point you are going to have to use your war powers to get so called news outlets to deal in true financial reporting or commentating. I’m not suggesting you act like Russia’s Putin. The death of journalist Anastasia Burou is not what Hip-Hop is looking for but this bullshit propaganda about socialism and communism has to stop. The Chief of staff better come up with something better than wait for them to make a mistake. We are American capitalist that knows some of our
fellow citizens were stealing from the American public till. We also know some citizens are afraid to confront these fellow American criminals. The thing is our collective bills have to be paid and Hip- Hop will never live under Chinese rule. The stock market is not a guide to the future. Let the people know this Mr. President.
Jay –Z, reports that you are trying to get Tina Turner (of Ike and Tina) to talk to R&B singer Rianna is Outstanding Hip- Hop leadership. Snoop (“ain’t nothing change, still down with Farrakan”*PE*) Dogg visiting the Nation in our behalf is something you need to be thanked for. Thank you for showing concern and respect for our elders.Beyonce, Mrs. S. Carter I did scold you last time for making so many hits you only left crumbs for your competition. I, Ike Jackson was wrong to scold you. Since you are the First lady of Hip-Hop, if competition talks shit you are allowed and encouraged to destroy all competition and leave no sales for these ungraitful, crybaby artist and their hating musical benefactors.Forgive me, and take all customers now.
As for the rest of Hip-Hop if you continue to entertain these “News Press” cowards, you will continue to do things in fear that are not in the interest of the United States of America.(God bless it) The Financial criminals knew what they were doing. The financial victims know who did what to them. Do not get involved with the bullshit. Focus on your new digital business models, buy stock from strong human capital companies and get this money in 09.
This is Ike Jackson and you have just been scolded.
As a corporate owner of music and movie copyrights, I believe that I have a unique perspective on how the entertainment industry affects the society and our government. In my world and yours, U.S. President Obama has only been in office close to 4 weeks but he must be scolded.
President Obama, I like your Housing plan (announced in sore loser Senator McCain’s home state of AZ) but, it is time to bring in the unmanned drones. Seventeen-thousand troops in Afghanistan is not a good look; it is not a winnable war. No wonder why Russia’s de facto leader, Putin, is so willing to help you move troops to that area. If you continue on this course, you will run our outstanding military into the ground and take the country’s security with it. I know you know the history of the financial ruin of Russia and the unconquerable terrain of Afghanistan. As a former airborne reserve soldier, it is time to bring out the unmanned drones. You don’t know what I mean by unmanned drones, President Obama, and that is why you are being scolded. Five-thousand unmanned drones should be produced using GM plants for battle use and training in Afghanistan. We are at war Mr. President. I know we have a four year gap of training for unmanned drone pilots but that dilemma sounds like a job stimulus package to me. The less physical soldiers we use in that area the better. I know for a fact President Obama that all U.S. enemies, I repeat, all United States enemies, will fear you if they know you have 5,000 unmanned drones with trained pilots at your disposal to handle difficult theaters of war. Step your game up.
I know you are a gracious man President Obama, but grace is undeserved forgiveness and at this time I must remind you again we are at war. The press of the United States of America has been compromised. US media outlets are being used as instruments of instability against our country during this time of war, which is a treasonous act. A British broadcaster on the Fox business channel who is reporting misinformation will not be tolerated. The United States is not a business it is our home. As a capitalist I “do” business in The United States of America. Mr. President now is the time to use your wartime powers to create “C-span Financial” so true financial issues may be discussed without corporate spin. This would also force media outlets to speak from truth.
Mr. Murdock, Owner of the NY Post & Fox TV outlets, is a foreigner and should have his TV and Radio stations taken away and sold to native born American citizens. Hip-Hop is offended and we are watching you trying to hold back a violent response to your paper. We see and understand your “monkey assassination” cartoon. It may take some time for my fellow Americans to understand this attack and threat on the Presidency, but they will. Hip–Hop understands the habit of being someone’s financial bitch is a hard one to break. Now that President Obama is not allowing The NY Post’s & Fox news outlet constituents to rob you anymore, they are scared. Don’t be killed on their behalf. We find nothing funny and neither should you.
That brings me to the Republican Party. Hip-Hop rests in the fact you don’t give a damn about the American people. My favorite president Bush Sr. (our former top killer) tried to get the Republican Party right by reasonably raising taxes and you put him out of office. (I still have not forgiven your party for the lack of respect shown to him at the past convention) Why the fuck are you people talking and acting like you are still in charge? Rush Limbaugh's concept of a 54% /46% split in power is bullshit. Our republic does not work that way. Move to England if you wish to operate like that. Rep. John Shadegg says, ”There could be some fun in the minority” and also says,” When we held our guys together, that had people extremely exited”. Republican Party, this is not a game. Shut the fuck up. You are obstructing efforts of the majority to solve a profound crisis that you created for the country. I have to say El Rush Bo is right to give President Obama advise to politically destroy you. (Rush said if he were President Obama he would have gone after and destroyed the Republican Party in their weakened state)
50 Cent, if no one in Hip-Hop thanks you for stimulating the Hip-Hop market place with “you tube” - Beef , I will. Creative and safe marketing tactics need to be employed and you have inspired others like Camron (New Album out soon) to follow. All you bitch ass motherfucker’s (sorry, First Lady for the language) stop crying and participate, Everyone in Hip-Hop knows if any harm comes to the subjects of ridicule rapper’s like 50 Cent will get Law enforcement attention .I suggest you sensitive rappers with no digital business model need to participate and make a diss record and get this MONEY or you will be out of the Hip-Hop business in months instead of years.
Snoop Dogg, how can you do a business deal so outstanding and forward-looking with MTV and not have more press? No one is doing what you did. I applaud you I expect you to fire you publicist. A bigger deal in the media should have been made about your business venture. Forbes anyone? As a leader in Hip-Hop business I expect you to brag just a little bit more.
As for the rest of Hip-Hop the digital revolution is taking place before your eyes. (12) Year old’s don’t give a fuck about Mix Cd’s and CD albums. In (4) years they will be our core customers. Are you prepared to capture their attention and make digital sales or are you stuck in the past (or your past CD glory). Like I told President Obama about war in the 21st century .We are in a sales war with every one. Don’t sleep (Rock, country, R&B, Folk etc.) step your game up. If you don’t feed your customer’s someone else will.
Until next time, this is Ike Jackson and you have just been scolded.
As a corporate owner of music and movie copyrights, I believe that I have a unique perspective on how the entertainment industry affects the society and our government. In my world and in yours, an African-American is now the President of the United States of America. Hip-Hop is pleased so I will be brief. Our work has just begun.
President Obama, I am not going to scold you yet, settle in but keep in mind you have one thing to do for Hip-Hop (Mr. & Mrs. S. Carter performing and Diddy being included in inauguration activities does not count, that was a start that just made us feel BIG last night) in return for our past support now that you are our Commander and Chief. For the sake of our republic, restore the faith of the people in government. The people must now understand they are the government and must have faith in themselves to move forward.
Some of the American citizenry are still very financially irresponsible, frightened ,racially divided and are acting unreasonable and childish when it comes to solving present challenges we face as a country. Most are more than capable of executing meaningful solutions. This will not be tolerated. We are at war. If any citizen is afraid at this time to grab the reigns of history by being of service to the country under your leadership then they should be removed from whatever position of public trust that they enjoy and let the adults that are now in the room handle our country's business. The echo chamber of media outlets lacking faith and wavering in the belief of our countries return to greatness angers American Hip-Hop patriots. How could the Chief Justice of the United States of America forget the place of the word, "faithfully" in your oath? I suspect he didn't. I suspect he was letting you know he personally has lost faith in our great republic. Mr. President, you corrected him as you should have and I appreciate that.
That one situation let me know that our beautiful First Lady holding words of our Lord to support you brought the right man to this job (Mrs. Obama is so fine and intelligent, don't be offended Mr. President, I am just speaking truth today). Let me explain what this request of restoring faith in our system of government means to Hip -Hop. I have to be honest with you, over the next 10 years there will be at least $15 Billion dollars in taxable global sales growth for all Hip-Hop goods and services. New digital business models give us unprecedented reach to our customers and I want at least $1 Billion Dollars in sales for my own corporation. Eight of those years will be on your watch President Obama. This shit is so real (excuse the language) even I, Ike Jackson Digitally released a new album worldwide ("Original Breaks & Beats Volume 2: Love Supreme"). The first 10 of 300 Masters to be released by my corporation to the public for sale one week before you became president today. I may not be able to collect on all my domestic sales if this cowardly mentality does not cease. I subscribe to the words of Hip-Hop's Mr. Scarface "If I can't eat than you can't either" and now that you, Mr. Obama are in charge of the country now and I like your first usage of executive orders. I advise you not to let this treatable national weakness of character interfere our newly found profit centers. These digital sales opportunities & profits will not be denied from us no matter who runs the country or the money supply. (Note to world bankers, Hip-Hop will get at you violently if you interfere with this President's work. Be clear, don't think we can't see your movie releases and timing of history channel specials) to the rest of Hip-Hop, our task of responsibility is laid out for us. Pay your taxes happily and get to work on obtaining those billions of dollars. Personally, I was working with my younger brother when you, President Obama, were sworn in (check out youtube). You motivate all Hip–Hop American capitalists and we thank you for your clear direction. Good luck and God bless you President Obama. God bless the first lady .God bless the girls and God bless the United States of America. Until next time, this is Ike Jackson and you have just been scolded.
