Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.
A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
I submitted videos and applications to talent agencies and TV shows; I drove to Vegas and visited agents. I was on 'America's Got Talent'; I played for free at venues in attempts to be 'found' and yet all the experts in the entertainment industry told me that what I did was not marketable and that I had to join a group or do more traditional music.
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
I'm an independent. I've signed with no label.