Popular singer, born Kingsley Chinweike Okonkwo, better known by his stage name, Kcee, says most upcoming artistes are “hungry” and don’t bother to read through contracts given to them by record labels. The songwriter, who was formerly in the Hip Hop duo group called Kc Presh urged record label owners to ensure their new artistes read through their contracts and understand it fully before putting pen to paper. Most upcoming artistes are hungry, want to ‘blow’ in one day – Kcee.
The Five Star singer, who currently has a record deal with Five Star Music made this known in a chat with Hip TV.
He said, “Most of these guys are hungry, and they are not interested in reading your contract. You type a contract for an upcoming artist, of 10 pages. He’s not interested in reading the contract. All he’s interested in for you to put him on the camera and let him shoot a video. Put them in a studio to record music. And he wants to see himself in South Africa, London.”
Most upcoming artistes are hungry, want to ‘blow’ in one day – Kcee
In his advice to record label owners, he said: “Read it for them (new artistes) line by line, get your lawyer sit with them and they should get their lawyer or someone from their own angle. Because some of them don’t have family when they come to you, but all of a sudden, when they become huge and big, they have families and friends. They come to fight for them. Sometimes it’s hurting, some of these record label owners don’t find it funny. And away from that, the blessings that goes with that, you will lose it by the time you breach your contract. Because for someone to invest a dime in you, it’s like a risk because you don’t know if that person is going to make it. So when you now make it and you think you can do without the person, not in a proper way or fulfilling your obligations, trust me, even God in heaven is not going to be happy with you,” Kcee added.
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Recall that KCee was recently involved in a contractual face-off with Harrysong, who left Five Star. He worked with Del B, a record producer known for producing “Limpopo (Kcee song)”. Kcee and his longtime partner and friend Presh played as a duo for 12 years; their work together as music partners gave them both a few recognition until 2011 when they split, both chasing their own careers quite separately. They met in a church choir, were in the choir together till both entered for the Star Quest TV reality show together and won the show.
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