Jerry Heller
Jerry Heller is the co-founder, along with the late Eazy E., of Ruthless Records and he has been accused by most of his former artists of sticking them for their paper. This is the same guy who says he tried to pattern some of his business practices after Berry Gordy’s.
So many record company execs have followed his “formula”.
Yep
So many record company execs have followed his “formula”.
Yep
Why can’t whole postings be on one page?
Why can’t whole postings be on one page?
The article never fully explained what tactics Berry Gordy used that were considered dirty. And there’s too much click and see which forces a reader to continue with the subject or just close the page.
The article never fully explained what tactics Berry Gordy used that were considered dirty. And there’s too much click and see which forces a reader to continue with the subject or just close the page.
In the case of Gordy, it wasn’t about the artists hiring their own crappy lawyers, the way Berry worked was that he offered you a contract and you signed it right there on the spot or the deal was off the table. There was no going home to look it over, there was no bringing in your own lawyer. He liked you and you have a few minutes to decide to turn your life over to him. Nothing more to discuss. There was even one guy who took the contract home, looked over it, still wanted to sign and Berry told him no. We all know the stories of how piss poor many of those artists were before Motown so they saw it as their only way out of the hood. I learned that from a book I read about MJ. The only person on Motown that seemed to flourish was Smokey and that’s because he wrote his own hits and wrote hits for others so they weren’t about to go messing with their cash cow.
In the case of Gordy, it wasn’t about the artists hiring their own crappy lawyers, the way Berry worked was that he offered you a contract and you signed it right there on the spot or the deal was off the table. There was no going home to look it over, there was no bringing in your own lawyer. He liked you and you have a few minutes to decide to turn your life over to him. Nothing more to discuss. There was even one guy who took the contract home, looked over it, still wanted to sign and Berry told him no. We all know the stories of how piss poor many of those artists were before Motown so they saw it as their only way out of the hood. I learned that from a book I read about MJ. The only person on Motown that seemed to flourish was Smokey and that’s because he wrote his own hits and wrote hits for others so they weren’t about to go messing with their cash cow.