Music Industry Exploitation
Who would exploit a musician, band member, or the music industry?
I need to write a story about exploitation. I want to do it about music but I don’t know someone who would exploit anyone in the music industry. Keep in mind, the person being exploited cannot have any free will or say in the matter.
Thanks! 
It would help if it included insanity and a voyage somewhere…
There are plenty of stories about artists signing their lives away to managers and producers. You should read a book called “Have gun will travel” by Ronin Ro. It’s about Death Row Records. One of the stories in there is about Suge Knight holding Vanilla Ice over a balcony and telling him he would let him go unless he signed over half of his publishing to Suge. As I wasn’t there I don’t know if it is true or not but artists signing bad deals with shady middle men is a common story. It seems rampant in hip hop too – you shouldn’t have to look far.
Best of luck – I’d recommend you start looking at the search term “production deal” those can be nightmarish.
Rick
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