Industry Consultants or Corrupt Check Chasers

This is from Ms. Kane's blog....gotta give her propz So here's the latest update on Chicago's industry. Unfortunately, there's not too many artists to speak on due to the fact that most established artists are picking up and taking their business to other markets (ie. Kanye, Ludacris, R Kelly, and the list goes on......) However we still have Twista here trying to start up an independent label--which is one of the things that I would commend him on if he hadn't fucked up our deal to begin with. So anyway I hear that Twista is turning to Janie Jennings close friend of Wendy Day (Rap Coalition) for help to run his label--once again he's putting his career and his artists' careers in someone else's hands. So I guess the topic of discussion for me today is what part have these so called industry consultants (ie Wendy Day, Janie Jennings) played in the breakdown in the Chicago Industry as well as the industry as a whole? Wendy Day the founder of the Rap Coalition-- a so called advocacy group which was formed to support, educate, protect, and unify hip-hop artists is said to have brokered deals for Cash Money Records, Master P, Psycho Drama, Fiend, and Twista. It seems odd to me that Cash Money says Wendy Day had no involvement in the brokering of their deal with Universal Records, also CWAL the original label who introduced Twista into the game-- putting out the Adriniline Rush Album also says Wendy Day had nothing to do with their success as an independent label or with spearheading Twista's deal with Atlantic Records and with the exclusion of Master P, the rest of these artist's careers have gone absolutely nowhere? Now here we have an "Advocacy Organization, which claims to support, educate, and protect artists?" The reality is that Cash Money's artists, Twista, Psycho Drama, Fiend, and many artists that were apart of these movements (including myself) in which Wendy Day brags about spearheading, have had the worst representation, the worst advice, and as a result the worst careers Hip Hop has to offer---this is a stark contridiction. Janie Jennings, I am told has gotten alot of her knowledge of the business from her close friend Wendy Day. The blind leading the blind huh? My concern is with the idea that these individuals are promoting themselves as a friend to the artist---however their only intention is brokering a deal--no matter if it is in the artists best interest or not. I have personally been involved in projects that both of these women were a part of, and both times there was a very sour ending--and when the shit hit the fan they were nowhere to be found. After they received their monies for the petty services they performed, they dropped the ball with no concern or further mention of "the artist". I plead with the Chicago Industry, and to the Black men and women that work in the music industry as artists to go out and find information on your own, educate, and protect yourself, stop putting your careers in the hands of someone who may not have your best interest at heart. Now I could be wrong here, Im just raising a question that you all need to think about as artists---who can you trust--really? Are these consultants simply as Twista once believed ("Just trying to get a check) or are they really putting forth an effort to help artists. Are they putting together panels and events for the benefit of the artist or is it just another way to generate income? We need to address these individuals and hold them accountable for what they say they stand for, so I am personally calling on Wendy Day as well as Janie Jennings to respond to these questions I have raised today---What's really good? Who's side are you on, who do you really represent--the artist or the label? And if you are a middleman between the two--how do you explain the conflict of interest that exist in that situation? As for Twista consulting with Janie to start another label situation, I say good luck---but you have to be a fool to not see your venturing down the same road which lead you nowhere to begin with homie---go back to the drawing board---smartin up........