transparency 

Big & Tall Records is clear like glass; total transparency for the artist. We offer a totally open contract that allows the artist freedom to choose. Our unique business model allows us to act as quickly as the internet moves. Making artists the sole proprietor and owner of everything created during their stay with Big & Tall Records. We protect the artist from less honest representation and predatory practices. You only pay us as long as you need us we simply take a small percentage of the earnings of the tracks created in house with Big & Tall Records. So you still own your songs, you can take your work with you anywhere in your back pocket. Your music assets will never be the property of Big & Tall Records. This unique approach to structuring a label and publishing that manages its own front end cost is ground breaking and forward thinking and keeping up with the fast paced changes required in the realm of artists in today's brutally competitive market. 

blocked on platforms 

I was shadow banned by Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google. I posted a video that was considered against their terms and service and somehow all of the other platforms seemed to have blocked the search terms Big & Tall Records due to this video. Turns out it had much more far reaching consequences as our numbers spontaneously began to dwindle the instant we had this viral video. All search term visibility for our tag Big & Tall Records was immediately shadow banned. They were even wise enough to track us down trying to make new aliases to try and get around the bans. Since all of our business relies on the  online transfer of goods (musical digital streaming and digital purchases) in the social media and DSP marketplaces. The numbers that were growing steadily every day naturally suddenly dropped to zero. The growth stopped on all channels and all organic play counts on all platforms began to lessen. In other words they turned us off. We appealed these decisions hundreds of times only to be blocked by Instagram's tech support or accounts being limited. (A symptom and side effect of finding out if you are shadow banned is to try and pull out an ad on any of the platforms and it will somehow break. Any creation of the ad will be stopped and throw errors.) Since the ban 3 years ago we have seen our numbers slowly and continually die. But our site is exploding with interest because of our new way of running a record label and more broadly we believe that right now is a sea-change for the record industry as a whole.

Issues: 

Many people being blocked for speech, this has adversely effected the art world. Since the big companies want even their artists to adhere to the narrative. 

Art is inherently a free thing. These current platforms like Instagram, X (Twitter), Youtube, Spotify 

Vastly favor narrative over artwork. Their algorithms designed to suggest material that gets the platforms the most clicks (money), by driving thee clicks towards current narratives in the political world; it has dulled the artist’s voice to a dull background noise; unless the artist is a willing mouth piece for the current narrative. As soon as the artist has out grown their usefulness or kicks against the system at all. The industry chooses instead to bury its opponents even if they aren't directly opposed. Out of convenience they silence everyone contrary to the narrative, since creating nuance and discussion isn't what they are looking for. They are looking instead for a response. A click, an angry message, a share to shame the other party. These pedantic and thinly veiled charade have all but obscured art. Since its quite easy to silence "off-topic" voices through the sheer mass and magnitude of the narrative and propaganda itself. The dust they stir up is so suffocating that it seem as if nothing is happening without their declaring it first. This has hidden the already subtle small voice of the artist. Since what the artist may want to say something different than the current narrative.

At Big & Tall Records we hate this. And we call it what it is: Bullshit (with a capital B). We don't believe artists must create their work for some narrative or serving some political idea disguised in color masquerading as artwork. When it is nothing more than a shameful mimicry of art. This is what artists have been reduced to. You either shout along with the mob or they silence you. 

We all gotta make a buck. Artists gotta make a living too. Not everyone is gonna be famous, but there are a lot of audiences out there. Artists live in a time where matters of the state, politics, and general internet chaos drowns out the artist. With a deck so stacked that its impossible to make enough money to live on. With no transparency, and exponentially more exploitative practices than pre-internet times. Artists can only hope to make a voice if they jump on some political movement or ideology that is popular to try and bolster their careers. Making very poor artist/political activist parodies out of many careers (such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and many others) driving artists to conform or to be avoided by the algorithm (or cancel culture), or possibly just overlooked simply because their systems are designed to only favor what is already popular. Which is paid for by millions and millions of ad dollars to propagate such fame in search engine optimization. 

When it comes to record labels and their gold mines; they aren't about to give up their precious cash cows without a fight. It's 'till death do we part. They will own your songs to your grave. And even after you're dead your loved ones may never see any earnings from the artist. Often they put death clauses in contracts disavowing the relatives and un-fit to manage the royalties themselves and instead place in a trust to later be stolen while the label bides their time. If you are in a position like Kanye you are looking at these rivals becomes enemies, these friends become foes, become the governing authority over your intellectual property suddenly. And now you and the entity have beef. What's going to happen to Kanye you ask? For kicking against the machine while being a part of the machine? If you become the squeaking wheel in their gravy train? Would they kill you as they killed others? Would they kill your career for going the wrong way? Would the kill your family? How far would the narrative go to keep a powerful influence like Kanye silent. To take your knight off the table without even a fight? What if he got angry? What if he suddenly realized his peril and drew his sword rather than dying in the Def Jam's graveyard? Kanye's situation illustrates the lengths the media will go to keep powerful people silent. If only they knew their power. To take back what is rightfully yours: the ability to speak in any form you choose. 

What we do: 

Since the world has gone digital the idea that artists would be free was only a mirage. In reality the digital world has trapped artists even tighter in their chains than pre-internet days. With impossible-to-exit contracts, and now they control the very streaming platforms and the narratives, and if you don’t follow the narrative your income as an artist is at hazard. I’ve watched you episodes regarding Kanye being shut down and leverage of his intellectual property looming over his head unless he changes his public narrative. Labels and DSP (spotify, youtube, instagram) should have no say as to the content of the artist’s expression. The very idea that some royalty hungry system. 

Digital systems have made censorship as simple as turning a 1 to a 0. If you disagree with them.

Everything traditional record labels provide Big & Tall Records provides;  but we do the exact opposite of every single predatory practice of traditional record labels. We don’t hide sales, streams, or revenue. Our contract can be terminated any time. You own everything even if we should part ways. You are the sole owner of your content. We stay 100% out of your intellectual property. You only pay us when we work for you. It’s as simple as that. 

We are seeing a sudden shift in artists wanting to leave Hollywood and the music industry as a whole looking for an alternative. And Big & Tall Records has solved it. You just don’t rip off the artists. It’s quite simple. 

The way Big & Tall Records operates is from an entirely different philosophy. We want the artist to be successful, and free. We strategize alongside our artists and pool resources. We want the artists to be extremely successful. Because we believe the world would be a better place if artists were the ones in charge. That is our simple philosophy. Wealth and freedom to the greatest minds of the time. Not controlled until the death of their careers. 

Big & Tall Records will never censor or encourage censorship of any kind. Big & Tall Records and publishing are a safe haven for all protected speech. 

Traditional record label models will take you for a free ride while the artist foots the bill. These bills can easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. In extreme cases, like Justin Bieber, who currently owes his label some odd 23 million to cover the expenses of his tour. In these expenses its more corrupt than government. Since there are literally no checks and balances at all. Middle men of middle men of middle men taking Justin Bieber for a free ride. Big & Tall Records does nothing of the kind. We invest our own resources and pool resources with the artist. We help manage budgets and we keep our artists in the know. This allows for a transparent and far more economical approach to touring and cost management for production companies employed by the label.