Russ didn’t hold back when it came to sharing his thoughts on Roc Nation’s new distribution service.
On Monday, the “Losin Control” rapper responded to @Kurrco’s post about Roc Nation Distro by quote-tweeting, “An 85/15 split to press ‘upload’ is madness.”
“Major labels take 15% distro off the top too so it seems like they just modeled the business off of that,” Russ continued. “If you’re an artist, this makes no sense to sign up for imo.”
Russ has never been shy about calling out the music industry. In 2023, he went after the Billboard chart system, accusing it of undercounting his numbers after his album Santiago debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200.
“Billboard & Luminate took away ANOTHER 4,000 of my REAL sales over the weekend making that 10,000 sales total they took away from me while allowing major labels to fake their streams and sales and do monopolistic merch bundles (only major labels are allowed to do merch bundles because the only approved vendor is a major label vendor),” he wrote. “These numbers and charts are made up.”
He also told fans, “Billboard charts are inflated by fake data which is being verified by only one company, Luminate,” adding that both entities are “owned by the same company.”
