Rico Nasty Quotes

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

Even if you have a contract you can be sold.

Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.

When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'

You can't sign just any contract.

When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.

I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away.

I did sign to Ruthless Records, but they didn't really support me.

I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

If we meet some people that are in love with NFG that are a major label, then we'll sign with them. If we meet people that are in love with NFG that are an independent label - and they have a plan - well, then we'll sign to them. It's completely up to us.

Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the 'Dare To Dream' project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope.