
XXLMag.com attended Lauren Raysor’s press conference this afternoon (August 24), where the lawyer called for record labels to help regulate artists’ off-wax behavior.
As previously reported, Raysor is the attorney who helped put Bronx rapper Remy Ma behind bars for shooting her client Makeda Barnes-Joseph. The conference, which commemorated the two-year anniversary of the shooting, put the burden on record companies to provide guidance to artists.
“We have to tell the shareholders of these major corporations that they have to not take money and profit from kids that are killing themselves,” Raysor said. “They have a responsibility to tell these record labels that you at least have to do a little bit more for these young people, show them what the business is like.”
Raysor propositioned that labels put a “morality clause” in their artists’ contracts, providing monetary incentive for artists to not engage in violent or criminal acts. She compared the music industry to the NBA and NFL, both leagues that enforce codes of conduct.
“It is your outside behavior we are talking about,” she said. “We’re not talking about what you write.”
While a timeline of violence in hip-hop, citing everything from 2Pac’s murder to Remy Ma’s shooting, was presented at the press conference, the proposed morals clause was also revealed.
“The artist agrees to conduct himself or herself with due regard to public conventions and morals, and agrees that he or she will not commit any act of contempt, scorn or ridicule that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community, or ridicule public morality or decency, or prejudice the company, producer, and others in the public or in the industry in general,” the clause read.
Raysor says the next step is to meet with label execs in an effort put the morals clause into effect. –John Kennedy
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August 24th, 2009
at 5:09 pm
$ykotic/Don McCaine says:
Pierzy!!! Where you at???
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August 24th, 2009
at 5:21 pm
$ykotic/Don McCaine says:
Like I said in the last drop, this might fly.
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August 24th, 2009
at 5:24 pm
Brooklyn says:
raysor needs a man, she needs some dick, she’s too high strung. maybe if she had a nigga putting her to bed at night she’d be too tired and disinterested in fruitless causes.
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August 24th, 2009
at 5:50 pm
Mutada/Mullah Atari says:
Co-sig, Brooklyn.LOL $yk’s got a goot point too.
LOL
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August 24th, 2009
at 5:53 pm
Mutada/Mullah Atari says:
Oh, shit am I tripping or did they take Bol, post down about Camal’s new songs ? Guess we know whos getting the cover next month. SMH
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August 24th, 2009
at 7:24 pm
Wink says:
Entertainment industy and code of conduct…will NEVER happen. Period. Waste of breath.
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August 24th, 2009
at 7:50 pm
EmCDL says:
So basically she asking the record labels to babysit their artists right? Hell most of these artists need it!
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August 24th, 2009
at 8:38 pm
jjr rotem says:
they dont take shit like that over ast thahiphoptruth.com they would tell this bitch what is what. wait till tha relaunch on sept 15. shit is gonna be fuccking crazy.
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August 24th, 2009
at 10:29 pm
money Mitch says:
This will never fly for one a couple reasons! Number one hip hop is the biggest money maker in the industry and there are just to many wild and or ignorant mutha fuckas that would get fined until the media pressures them into releasing them and they lose more money by dropping them and two artists will just go strictly independent so they don’t have to deal with that clause. There are too many independent distributors for that to actually work.
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August 25th, 2009
at 1:10 am
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August 25th, 2009
at 6:02 am
foolio_iglesias says:
You do that,and take away a huge part of raps allure-rebelliousness and vulgarity!Although rap had its balls cut off a long time ago….
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August 25th, 2009
at 6:43 am
W N says:
Vanessa Satten is a fat white racist who is trying to pull a Benzino by hooking her brother Travis up with a gig at XXL, and promoting her wack a** production company “Team Satten” in the magazine and interviews. XXL Magazine has a history of putting African Americans in the most negative light. They have a discriminatory policy in their hiring process including going so far as to rid the magazine of African American editors. They criticized African American rappers for their use of negative words yet praised a white rapper for referring to African American women as n_ggers and b_tiches among many other racial slurs and epithets. They have instigated negative and sometimes violent wars amongst Blacks in the industry by printing false arguments and he said she said that aggravated tensions between former label maters, but most of all the magazine is failing one that has yet to contribute any significance in our community, and I ask that all advertisers stop advertising in such a discriminatory magazine.
A boycott will soon ensue in regards to everyone who advertises in this magazine which puts African Americans in the most negative light and promotes a violent and degrading lifestyle. None of the editors for the magazine have grown up in poverty or been subjected to violence and drugs, yet they encourage this lifestyle amongst African Americans. They have no community development ties of breaking such negative behaviors, and they continue to profit off the negative social issues African Americans continue to be adversely affected by.
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August 25th, 2009
at 6:43 am
BB says:
I have noticed that LA Recording School advertises in XXL magazine which is part of Harris Publications. http://www.XXLmag.com XXL Magazine has a history of putting African Americans in the most negative light. They have a discriminatory policy in their hiring process including going so far as to rid the magazine of African American editors. They criticized African American rappers for their use of negative words yet praised a white rapper for referring to African American women as n_ggers and b_tiches among many other racial slurs and epithets. They have instigated negative and sometimes violent wars amongst Blacks in the industry by printing false arguments and he said she said that aggravated tensions between former label maters, but most of all the magazine is failing one that has yet to contribute any significance in our community, and I ask that all advertisers stop advertising in such a discriminatory magazine.
A boycott will soon ensue in regards to everyone who advertises in this magazine which puts African Americans in the most negative light and promotes a violent and degrading lifestyle. None of the editors for the magazine have grown up in poverty or been subjected to violence and drugs, yet they encourage this lifestyle amongst African Americans. They have no community development ties of breaking such negative behaviors, and they continue to profit off the negative social issues African Americans continue to be adversely affected by.
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August 25th, 2009
at 7:42 am
parks mcfly says:
Fuk this fat bitch wtf.
Did she get railed and flaked by some rapper?
“The artist agrees to conduct himself or herself with due regard to public conventions and morals, and agrees that he or she will not commit any act of contempt, scorn or ridicule that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community, or ridicule public morality or decency, or prejudice the company, producer, and others in the public or in the industry in general”
Shes basically saying the TIs should take away free speech and probably what rap is all about wtf. I dont adovate stupid shit but wtf. As if the label machine doesnt bullshit everybody as it is.
I smell a new delores tucker.
Any producer what to slap a dumb slut?
Pierzy/McCaine check this ‘fuk eminem’ diss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uh0_WO_Ii0
http://www.myspace.com/rordogmac
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August 25th, 2009
at 10:04 am
Curtis75Black says:
This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech. This is basically about keeping these reckless ass wannabe rappers in place, sort of what the NBA, NFL are doing !! Say what you want, act it out and its on you.
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August 25th, 2009
at 1:54 pm
vhingrhamesonyo'momma says:
now hold up a minute! she said “monetary incentive” to behave, i fux wit’ dat. Shit, let a label tell me they’ll throw a extra couple 0’s on that royalty check every year not to fuck a nigga up and I might not even leave the house smell me? it’s all about the guap kiddies! Labels dish out a a lil’ more gaup a mole for me to smoke and buy shit wit’, fuck it I’m in the crib smokin and recordin 24/7! if you think about it it’s no diffrent than any other nine to five, they pay you to put that suit and tie on and act accordingly and that’s what you do so as mcaine said this might fly.
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August 25th, 2009
at 4:09 pm
DownSouth says:
Unfortunately the shareholders are not going to be willing to give up dough to save the kids from themselves. Whenever an idea benefits a group of people, it’s almost always a drawback for another group of people :(
DOWN SOUTH!!!
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August 27th, 2009
at 6:39 pm
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August 28th, 2009
at 11:06 am
SosoDeff says:
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