Russ didn’t sugarcoat his opinion on Roc Nation’s new distribution platform.
On Monday, the “Losin Control” rapper quote-tweeted @Kurrco’s note about Roc Nation Distro, writing, “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 added, “if you’re an artist, this makes no sense to sign up for imo.”
Russ has always been outspoken when it comes to the music industry. Back in 2023, he slammed the Billboard chart system, alleging that it undercounted his sales, following the release of his album, Santiago, which debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
"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 said. "These numbers and charts are made up."
He then told fans, “Billboard charts are inflated by fake data which is being verified by only one company, Luminate,” which are “owned by the same company.”