Hasbro now owns Death Row Records! (NOT A JOKE!)

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22522]

Hasbro now owns Death Row Records! (NOT A JOKE!)

It is being reported that Hasbro, the toy company that owns Transformers, GI Joe, and My Little Pony, among other franchises, now owns the one of the most notorious rap music catalogues in existence, Death Row Records.

We truly live in clown world.

Hasbro Toys Buys Death Row Records: Best Memes & Reactions

I do not know which fandom will take this the hardest. The Hasbro fans watching their beloved characters sing some of the raunchiest rap lyrics ever. Or, Death Row Records fans being symbolically emasculated by watching the hardcore songs they love being sung by cartoon ponies.

Now, some franchises go well with rap. For example Deadpool. He just goes well with bling and rap. The original Deadpool movie and soundtrack taught me to appreciate rap music, to a degree.

But, children’s cartoon characters are not one of those things that go well with rap, especially hardcore rap songs.

[Branched offParticipant 10932]

It goes to show, if you make enough money, you become accepted by the capitalist funded liberal democracy, even if you don’t stand for anything it stands for.

It just takes numbers of people and revenue that leads to tax.

Hope MGTOW makes the number one anyway.

A woman is like fire -fun to play with, can warm you through and cook your food, needs constant feeding, can burn you and consume all you own

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3766]

I suspect many rappers will want to leave this s~~~show and create or move to another label that isn’t owned by a toy company.

[iMickey503Participant 12465]

Ugh, most rappers don’t care who they sign with. Most of them suck b~~~~. Only a few happen to make it. But they do like to act like rappers. 🙂

Well. Good for them. Death Row has very good catalog. Would be a great move to not have to pay as much to use music in their movies and media.

You are all alone. If you have been falsely accused of RAPE, DV, PLEASE let all men know about the people who did this. http://register-her.net/web/guest/home

[bladeParticipant]

Thats f~~~ed up . What next ted bundy doll and victims .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22522]

blade wrote:

Thats f~~~ed up .

I agree.

blade wrote:

What next ted bundy doll and victims .

The horror doll market is terrifyingly popular.

There are gender flipped doll versions of Freddy and Jason.

It has recently been announced that Mattel is making female barbie dolls of Darth Vader and R2-D2.

We live in clown world. The insanity of the world is only increasing.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

Faust For Science wrote:

Or, Death Row Records fans being symbolically emasculated by watching the hardcore songs they love being sung by cartoon ponies.

That would be fu​cking hilarious, actually. Imagine the look on soccer mommy Karen’s face when she hears what little Susie is listening to on her new rainbow pony DVD.

Now me, I’m waiting for the Tupac and Suge action figures to hit the walmart toy shelves. I figure that’s what this is really all about.

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

Fact check: Correction

Hasbro recently purchased Entertainment One Multimedia Company for $4 billion ($4,000,000,000)

E•One had previously purchased Death Row Records in 2013 and it was one of it’s assets at the point in time Has bro purchased E•One Entertainment.

It would be like buying a house for example: for $400,000 and after you pic up the keys from escrow and go to the house, you realize that the previous owner’s left a gas barbecue in the backyard and they are not coming back for it.

Hasbro paid $4 billion of E•One Entertainment.

Just to put things in perspective. Prior to E•One purchasing Death Row Records in 2013 for an undisclosed amount: Death Row Records wound up in bankruptcy court and was sold at auction for $18 million in 2009.

(With the prior owner Suge Knight facing legal problems and prison time)

Just to continue with additional perspective regarding Death Row selling at auction in 2009 for $18 million: In the world of music, publishing and record labels, that amount is peanuts. For example: a mid-size but virtually unknown label with non-platinum artists called Century Media sold in 2015 for $17 million. But not at an auction after going bankrupt. That was it’s value as a solvent, operating label at the time (purchased by Sony)

Hasbro will be cutting Death Row Records off it’s asset sheet by the end of 2019 as owning it does not fit the parameters of it’s business model.

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

Now. . .

With all of that being said.

I’m sitting here at 4am, drinking Total Domination IPA waiting for the sun to come up so that I can take another bong hit and jump out of a plane before most of the world wakes up and has breakfast.

So, I have no idea how I was able to put the entire Hasbro / Death Row Records situation in perspective while everyone runs around acting like Hasbro specifically purchased a label and it’s back catalog.

And, Sky-0’s not straight outta Comptom:

I’m straight outta a Twin Otter at 14,000 feet.

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

SpiderHerder wrote:

I suspect many rappers will want to leave this s~~~show and create or move to another label that isn’t owned by a toy company.

Death Row Records has not had an active roster of recording artists in almost a decade.

Its value resides in ownership of back catalogues and publishing.

Any releases in the last decade have been re-issues of prior albums already recorded. By artist that moved onto other labels when their contract with Death Row was over. (Typical recording contract in the US is seven years: with an opt out by either party at the five year mark. If an artist bails at the five year mark, they surrender the rights to their music. Ifvthe label pulls out early, the artist gets to keep any prior advance money and does not have to pay the label back for previously incurred production, marketing and tour expenses)

Anyway. Regarding Death Row Record recording artist ‘dolls’ or action figures:

A record label has the right to reproduce the image of an artist on

01: Promotional material
02: Records
03: Tour merchandise (t-shirts, etc)

But only during the period of time that the artist is currently signed to the label (Once again: typical recording contract is seven years) – not years later after the artist has moved on.

[Shadow1275Participant 1178]

Rap music is not music, every single rap song or “Mainstream Music” hit can be boiled down to female asses, random sex/hookers, drug usage, gang violence, or “Blame the white guy.”

He who is Brave is Free - Seneca

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Shadow1275 wrote:

Rap music is not music

It’s bad poetry by people that can’t sing.

(Have to give credit on that quote regarding rap music to Peter Steele of Type Of Negative)

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