Thread 127259743

Which notable decease musician's legacy has been milked the hardest since their death?

Some examples:

Michael Jackson: They used a guy with a similar voice to fake three songs on his posthumous album. MJ has around 600 unreleased songs, why the hell did they need to create fake ones???

Nirvana/Kurt Cobain: They released pretty much every single audio recording from most of their shows, plus dozens (if not over a hundred) of voice memos, some of them are almost unlistenable for the general public. They also put out a couple of super expensive box sets.

XXXTentacion: The amount of posthumous releases, merch drops, and random features X has had since he passed is wild. It’s like they’re digging through every unfinished voice memo just to squeeze one more stream out of it. Had two franken-albums released since his death, the second one loaded with guest features. Team is still using his name to scam fans and his baby mama is currently exploiting their son Gekyume for clout of her own.

Pop Smoke: Similar to X's situation, but arguably worse. They changed almost every instrumental compared to what he originally recorded the vocals on. Even his first posthumous album, which was loved by the public and commercially successful, had stem edits done by the label.

Elvis: He has a new album every year. Did over a thousand shows when he was alive and every live show and demo he's recorded has been repackaged into an album.

Tupac: They released lo-fi versions of his albums and tons of posthumous albums.

Bob Marley: tons of random remixes and new posthumous albums. Not to mention ridiculous merch.

Anyone else?

they still need to make the nirvana biopic. and no last days by gus savant or whatever his name is doesnt count

>>127259827
Biopics are usually cringe. Besides, Nirvana already has multiple documentaries on them.

for me it's bob because i dont think he would like his random halfkids capitalizing on his name to sell coffee or weed grinders or whatever the fuck. some of his kids who actually knew him make passable music with a message, and that's fine, but the cynical monetization of his name to sell random shit to a white western consumer audience that never heard his real message is tough

>>127259842
I mean, I've seen his image on fucking towels of all things.

>>127259743 (OP)
>Tupac: They released lo-fi versions of his albums and tons of posthumous albums.
Don't forget the hologram concert and the AI verse Drake used to diss Kdot.

>>127259743 (OP)
It may have died down a lot but Jimi Hendrix from the 70s all the way to the 2000s was milked hard, every taped note released, bootlegged, sketchy overdubbed albums, a whole drama with his family taking over and re releasing everything all over again

>>127259743 (OP)
>Nirvana/Kurt Cobain:
>XXXTentacion:

I get the impression X's mom probably thinks she can build a cottage industry around her son the way Cobain's estate built a cottage industry around him. Only difference is, Courtney Love is at least cunning and clever whereas X's mom is dumb as a rock and doesn't know what the fuck she's supposed to be doing. That's why you see X's legacy being handled in such a terrible manner: his mom wants to turn him into a myth the way Kurt was turned into a myth, but has no idea how to do that.

>>127259743 (OP)
Signing to a (major) label is like signing an organ donor pass.

>>127260037
She needs to realize that her son wasn't too special, nothing you can build a myth around

>>127260062
>nothing you can build a myth around
He's still one of the highest streamed artists on Spotify. He also had an insanely dedicated fanbase.

>>127259842
>white western consumer audience
Bob Marley was half white I doubt he'd care.

>>127260117
Rastas are Black supremacists.

>>127259842
Watching his biopic trying to tiptoe around him being a philandering deadbeat dad was hilarious

>>127259743 (OP)
Didn't Diddy handle Biggie's legacy quite poorly?

Something tells me posthumous releases in the future will have to designate they're not AI.

>>127259842
>because i dont think he would like his random halfkids capitalizing on his name to sell coffee or weed grinders or whatever the fuck.
Lol, do you think his kids liked having him be absent in their lives? Love Marley but those kids have every right to make something off of their deadbeat father.

>>127260144
>supremacists
So... western.

>>127259842
His son made the Arthur theme song so its okay

>>127259743 (OP)
Are there any famous bands that don't milk their dead members to death?
I can only think of the Minutemen with D. Boon and maybe the Manics with Richey Edwards.

>>127259842
For sure he’s #1 most exploited, definitely more of a product than artist or someone people appreciate for his music these days.

>>127259743 (OP)
Depends on your definition of notable but the answer is obviously Muslimgauze, if he doesn't have the record for most posthumous releases I don't know who has

The beatles. They have re-released the same albums 10 times and released every demo, alt take and scratch track ever made. I'm surprised Paul has had time to have a solo career when signing off on all the beatles stuff must be a full time career in itself

>>127260037
Purely an Internet meme, nobody knows of him IRL.

>>127260144
So he hated half of himself?

All of those people being exploited and milked in death will pale in comparison now when the milking of Ozzy has really begun taken off.

>>127263030
*once the milking of Ozzy has really begun taken off.
Because its not even really started yet. She is at a calm before the storm with her recently activiated infitie money glitch now.

>>127260037
Kurt inspired millions. X inspired memes.

>>127259743 (OP)
Freddy Mercury. Brian and Roger have been milking his death for decades now

>>127259973
Yikes that’s bad

>>127259743 (OP)
Anyone who has twice the number of posthumous releases than albums released when they were alive.

>>127260037
That, and X’s son is currently being exploited to hell.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKk27jyRc7r/?igsh=MWY0cG9seXRmbmpoeQ==

Cleo (X’s mom) and Jenesis (X’s baby mama) are trying to force him into the entertainment industry. He’s already a child influencer who’s entire childhood has been documented online.

>>127263030
Sharon will pass on before she’s able to do much. Isn’t she in shut health too?

>>127259743 (OP)
>They released pretty much every single audio recording from most of their shows
That's not even remotely true.

>>127262668
>They have re-released the same albums 10 times
Most of the US albums were just rehashes and rock n roll covers.

Elvis.

>>127265556
If/when she passes I will go offline for weeks because I will not be able to stand all the lionization and valoriazation of her that will wallpaper all media. Especially social media will be toxic. NPCs having their "R.I.P. Sharon she was so strong and inspiring" software installed is going to make me barf if I bring myself to engage with it.
The only ones I feel some sympathy for in that family are their kids and grandkids.
But I think her health issues are played up a lot right now because the media wants everyone to feel extra sorry for her loss.
Its all so fake. This entire world these people are in.

>>127266132
And PS. I hope she lives for many, many more years to come. Because Ozzy deserves a long break from her now.

>>127260066
That's just me. I bought a laptop and programmed a bot to stream that 24/7 (with the sound off of course).

That's how much I hate Drake.

>>127260144
not really, they are racial advocates but that doesn't equate "supremacy", they are seperatists and want blacks to return to africa, plus some weird christianity, vegetarianism, anti-homosexuality and weed. they worship guys like marcus garvey.
t. nazi who likes reggae.

>>127259743 (OP)
I will never forgive Courtney for publishing Kurt’s private journals so she could make a few extra bucks.

>>127262668
The only major Beatles reissues have been the 1987 ones, where the "standardized" catalog made its CD debut, and the 2009 remasters. Likewise, until 2017 the only officially released rarities were the Anthology discs. The dedicated album sets have increased the # of outtakes by quite a lot, but nothing out of the ordinary compared to their contemporaries. Bob Dylan and King Crimson are better examples of all-out vault dumping.

>>127264727
Gekyume’s mom needs to be arrested for child abuse.

>>127266298
What did you expect from the woman who had him killed?

>>127259842
I find it telling his legacy is mostly associated with weed.

>>127266132
And PPS. I get it though. They're all just flesh and blood. They all have their good sides as well.
I'm tired of being here. I want to tune out.

>>127266284
>t. nazi who likes reggae.
well that's a new one I'll give you that

>>127259743 (OP)
Zappa is pretty far up there. The Zappa legacy has actually caused some serious beef in recent years, where one faction is his son Dweezil and Zappa's own family (Zappa Family Trust), and the other side is a group of musicians he toured with in the late 70's/early 80's (thought of as the peak Zappa era by many) who called themselves The Zappa Band, but the family recently sued them over using their patriarch's name, so they had to change their name to The Band From Utopia. Zappa Family Trust still constantly releases posthumous content, sometimes even entire box sets, ranging from "very good live tracks" to "55 minutes of tape hiss and bad jokes made on studio time from 1962"

It's not even about the music getting milked. Go follow some of these dead people's official instagrams and other social media platforms and see all the stupid shit their estates have licensed their names to. I know Elvis and Allman Bros both have a whiskey or bourbon in their name.

>>127267372
Did he record every single show he did? I remember watching a vid of him in his vault and it was massive. It's insane to think his son and the rest of his family never saw a penny from any of those releases.

>>127262658
Came to post this. The thing with Muslimgauze too is that his shtick is so easy to replicate I would not be surprised if the posthumous stuff is only partially made up of his own material. That being said, Hummus and Sufiq are goated.

With Nirvana it’s crazy. With The Lights out released all the cool notable demos worth listening to. Then they released the album for Montage of Heck and it’s all just the shittiest demos with him just mumbling over chords, obviously just for him to listen to so he could remember ideas for songs. There’s no way he would want most of that shit released ever, he would take years to write songs before releasing them

>>127266298
Courtney is probably the only one that tops Sharon and Yoko in shamelessness.

>>127267747
Bloody hell, why?

Who’s running these people’s estates?

>>127267747
There's a right way and a wrong way to do it.

The problem is, the estates of these people insist on the wrong way because it's more profitable.

>>127259827
Who would play Kurt?

>>127269436
Can we get the city of Miami to name a street after Jah?

I miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe.

>>127259743 (OP)
Wasn't Marvin Gaye's first posthumous album a franken album?

>>127259827
Zoomers are too triggered by suicide. They can't even say the word. They say "unalived" instead.

>>127264727
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gekyumes-circumcision

>>127272660
that's because of tiktok censorship not that they're heckin triggered

>>127264727
Why the fuck do people want to meet a child that didn't even know his famous father before he died? What is even the point?

>>127259743 (OP)
Leadbelly
>They keep releasing new compilations every year, but because there's only a limited pool of songs, they just keep mixing and matching the different versions of them. The most recent albums are getting these shitty AI album covers, along with this fucking horrible remixing that adds this reverb effect. The problem with this is that most of the recordings are already low-fi, so it clips super easily and sounds like it was made in Bandlab or Garageband

>>127259743 (OP)
Maybe not to the greatest scale but some of the more egregious milking I've seen has been the soulless club kids who collabed with SOPHIE gushing over how precious she was since her death, endlessly teasing snippets to draw that fanbase toward them, and then repeatedly blueballsing so as to string along as much publicity and hype around their non-careers for as long as possible. For example Zio Liz has given like 3 separate release dates for Sunscreen so far this year that kept coming and then passing without event, and BC Kingdom posted a never-heard clip of Reverse N Stop on IG after repeatedly saying "this summer" for months in a row, then pussied out and said "sorry guys our page was hacked (shocked face)" like anybody's buying that a couple of hours afterward and when asked again if anything's coming out this summer a while later answers "no" with no elaboration as to what's changed. Literally just the worst kind of rich idiot adult children being cockteasing faggots to piggyback off an artist who eclipsed them in talent and reminds me why I don't fuck with that entire scene.

>>127274800
all of the dogshit hyperpop artist always has some hag mother who was an eastern european oligarch or some shit

Crucify Jakshits

>>127273493
They see X as a messianic figure and his son Gekyume as his father’s reincarnation. That’s why.

>>127259743 (OP)
>Kurt Cobain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvYMALs3ELM

>too much heroin in his system
>magic bullet
>no fingerprints on the gun
>last four lines of the "suicide note" were forged
>courtney's practice sheet
>kurt was going to divorce courtney
>courtney destroying the alleged rome "suicide note"
>kurt's death was never given a proper investigation. seattle police ruled it a suicide within hours
>courtney was ex-lovers with the medical examiner who examined kurt's body
>kurt's body was cremated almost immediately and the shotgun was melted down at courtney's request
>kurt was starting a relationship with kristen pfaff, courtney's bassist, during the last months of his life. pfaff ended up dead of an "overdose" just months after kurt
>hole's album was released days after kurt's death, making his suicide the perfect promotional tool for courtney
>no one close to kurt ever claimed he was suicidal
>courtney has never sued tom grant

>>127272660
fr fr og cobain pew pewed and unalived himself. no cap. teen spirit lookin ahh. bet.

>>127264727
Anyone who wants to see a CHILD at a meet-and-greet is most likely a predator.

>>127259743 (OP)
Soon it will be Brian Wilson and Ozzy.

>>127262812
yes. is the self-hating-mixed-race-guy/black-guy-raised-by-white-parents news to you?

>>127259743 (OP)
They are still milking Jimi Hendrix, Prince has the potential for never ending milking given the amount of unreleased music he left behind

>>127275289
Sophie came from a near-aristocratic business family and went to one of the ancient private schools, not eastern european

>>127277618
Didn’t they already release an album of Prince demos?

>>127271084
No one should ever honour a violent wifebeater.

>>127264727
Don’t know why this video makes me rage.

>>127260037
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were actually something beyond the aesthetic they became associated with. Nirvana were one of the last rock bands to blow up and be mainstream while also being "counter-culture", they had some edge and were a once in a lifetime kind of thing. I don't care for the hype or for the music, I listened to them in highschool and they're alright now. Nirvana were actually a band that could play their instruments and write songs.
X was an edgelord soundcloud rapper, they all sounded the same. His thing was that he was a decent looking guy that women wanted and his half dyed hair, and his "spooky" satanic image. His music wasn't inspirational or even good, it just existed in the right time period to get popular

>MJ has around 600 unreleased songs, why the hell did they need to create fake ones???

There's a chance they've already released the best of what's left. He was almost Kanye-level dysfunctional from the '90s on.

Jimi Hendrix have been releasing new material for decades

>>127278250

It WAS good, tho'. Kurt wasn't Van Halen, or even Hendrix, but he was still an expert at loading his songs with hooks, and nobody sounded like him when he came out. Even his imitators afterwards mostly didn't manage to get it. I really do think he was just getting started. I would've loved to see what he would've released if he hadn't been suicided by that psychocunt wife of his.

>>127268469
Yoko did nothing wrong

>>127259827
Filtered by based Van Sant

>>127266492
>Bob Dylan and King Crimson are better examples of all-out vault dumping.
Bob Dylan had things in his vault worth releasing, that's the difference compared to the beatles

>>127278250
X is still one of the top artists on Spotify and has millions of monthly listeners. He also influenced an entire generation of kids just like Cobain did.

>>127268220
If not every show, damn near every show. If a large portions of even the shittest Mothers Of Inventions shows are recorded, I can't imagine how thorough he was with official Frank Zappa releases

>>127259743 (OP)
Willie Nelson will be milked to death when he dies.

>>127259743 (OP)
A better question should be: which notable dead musicians HAVEN’T been milked?

>>127260044
This, and just like how President Trump will do something about the organ harvesting industry he should do something about the predatory music industry.

>>127259743 (OP)
/thread

>>127280895
>>127280895
>Trump will do something about the organ harvesting industry
Like when he pardoned Sholom Rubashkin in 2017?
K. Keep me posted.

>>127279719
That's true but I don't think we needed literally every remaining studio recording from the electric era released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bootleg_Series_Vol._12:_The_Cutting_Edge_1965%E2%80%931966#Collector's_edition_track_listing

>>127280240
No he didn't. X was an edgelord, nothing more. Lil Peep was more influential to the whole emo rap aesthetic than X. Lil Pump was arguably more influential than X, shit, Chief Keef was more influential than X. X was an edgelord, he wasn't writing material as good as Nirvana or Kurt. Nirvana produced Foo Fighters in its aftermath, say what you want about Courtney, she's a cunt, she's fucked up, she's a bitch, she's terrible but even Hole had live through this. Nirvana and their 3 albums, Foo Fighters and their whole career including their almost no skip first album, Hole and live through this. X never made anything even close to being as generationally influential as Nirvana or Kurt. What did he do? Add darker elements to hip hop? Biggie and three six mafia, horrorcore, gangsta rap, already did that. Add a bit of melody? Like no hip hop artist or rapper ever sung or got a bit melodic. He was a vapid soundcloud rapper, high on his own self-proclaimed greatness and enlightenment, no different than the rest of the soundcloud rappers that were the trend in 2013 or whenever the fuck he got popular. He just looked different, his sound might've been a tad bit different, but chief keef is the godfather to modern hip hop and trap. Kanye was more influential to all of it than X. X was just a moment in hip hop, like puddle of mudd or staind were to rock

>>127259743 (OP)
definitely Freddie Mercury. Not that he's any good but still...

>>127279279
I am not saying he wasn't good or that he needed to be van halen or hendrix. Kurt was so good at writing a song that he didn't need to be flashy, the songwriting spoke for itself. I don't listen to Nirvana but I used to in highschool and I don't care for the myth and larger than life story, Kurt was a guy with issues and killed himself. All the hoes thirsting for him and going "that's so sad :(" wouldn't have fucked him or given him a second thought when he was literally homeless and sleeping under a bridge. He was in a sid and nancy, whitney and bobby, kind of relationship with Courtney. Two junkies with millions of dollars each, a bad heroin habit, and all the chaos and freedom in the world to be as fucked up as they can be together. If "courtney" hadn't killed him, he was bound to kill himself eventually. He already tried in Rome. Kurt knew how to write a song, he knew how to do a lot with very little without it being redundant or pretentious "avant garde" art crap. We still talk about him and still like his music 30 years later.

>>127267372
Some of my favorite Zappa releases are the posthumous stuff

>>127281535

Kurt Cobain didn't kill himself.

>>127259842
This.

>>127259973
>>127277618
>>127278330
Who the hell is in control of his estate? It's not like he had any kids, right?

>>127278250
This.

Nirvana introduced millions of kids to the alternative rock scene whereas XXXtensioncord was simply riding a trend that had already started.

>>127281944
There is no way that nigger is going to heaven.

>>127283079
His sister IIRC

>>127260044
>Signing to a (major) label is like signing an organ donor pass.
Repill me on this.

>>127260117
>half white
Half Syrian jewish.

>>127283965
Syrians are white.

>>127259743 (OP)
>Tupac: They released lo-fi versions of his albums
When did this happen?

Bob Marley is the one that deserves it the most.

>>127266298
What was she supposed to do? She couldn't have Kurt and Billy write songs for her anymore so releasing good music wasn't an option.

>>127260228
A real biopic of him would be interesting, but the Hollywood shit was so tired in that movie, and they started it too late in his life

>>127281944
No words

>>127259743 (OP)
Zappa has "new" releases almost every year. The ZFT was set up to support his family after he died in '93 and it has succeeded. They have enough unreleased material in the vault to last another thirty years or more.

The Hendrix estate is sitting on a gold mine but of course they don't have nearly as much material to work with.

The Grateful Dead will be releasing stuff for centuries.

>>127260037
How responsible is Courtney for the commodification of Kurt’s image though?

>>127275805
Write a book.

>>127285817
Jesus fucking Christ

>>127275805
Kurt overdosed in rome. They knew he wasn't doing well. You're on the "courtney is a murderer" bandwagon but Kurt was suicidal

>>127289332
No one ever said the Rome overdose was a suicide attempt until after Cobain’s death.

Question: when did milking deceased artists become normal music industry practice?

>>127289668
Mozart was a child star but when he died at 35 he was far less famous. His wife Constanze worked hard to keep him relevant and remembered.

>>127289723
Interesting. I meant in the modern music industry though.

>>127289668
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley_albums_discography#Posthumous_compilation_albums

>>127259743 (OP)
pop smoke and juice world are pretty bad

>>127290305
kek

Juice Wrld

>>127277618
Prince took all his music off Spotify, he didn't like the business, then when he died they put it all back on immediately.

>>127271084
Why did they kill him?

>>127277590
Was he adopted? God damn these kind of white people suck

>>127259743 (OP)
>>127259842
I'll be real I think more white people get Bob Marley's message than black people do lmao

>>127290757
The message white people take from Bob Marley is: Smoke weed and use his image to signal that you love blacks.
White Bob Marley fans are some of the most brainless people imaginable.

>>127289595
You guys are so annoying I actually hope she did kill him just to spite you fags

>>127290401
>309 posthumous releases
Mein Gott

>>127290391
The worst was when Virgil made that dogshit album cover for Pop, basically a "graphic design is my passion" type thing. He got so much backlash that he changed it. Still bizarre that a high-end designer would pull off something that tacky.

>>127291518
But it's true. Courtney tried to kill Kurt in Rome by spiking his champagne with roofies. She waited THREE HOURS after finding his body slumped over on the floor before calling an ambulance. Most likely, she only called the medics because she knew he was still alive. There's also evidence Kurt knew Courtney tried to kill him in Rome from the things he said immediately following his treatment.

>>127259842
Bob was all for the money. He aggressively searched for fame and wealth his entire life. He would be proud of his kids capitalizing on it as well

>>127293007
don't forget pusha trying to diss drake in a dead mans album and thug told him to fuck off

>>127293052
What track was that exactly?

>>127293065
the thug song, his feature was removed

>>127259862
bob on a beach towel makes sense. i have a beatles beach towel, which is gayer and lamer

>>127273188
I'm glad I came back to this thread. Now I know this exists.

>>127269436
>j dilla
Can't believe he died of an illness where 90% of cases require no hospitalization and amount to a painful annoyance at most.

>>127292990
Almost 600 combined with the FTD collectors series

>>127290515
Multiple theories.

The mainstream narrative is that X's four killers were simply a bunch of low-life criminals who went out looking to rob anyone. They spotted X taking money from the bank, followed him to the motorcycle shop, killed him, and took his bag. This is exactly what they were convicted of doing.

A second theory says (((Drake))) was the one who orchestrated the hit. Drake was beefing with X and was humiliated when X posted a photo of Drake giving metzitzah b'peh to another man. So, Drake hired the killers to stalk X and eventually kill him.

A third theory says that X's mother Cleo and/or baby mama Jenesis had him killed. Cleo wanted X gone because she (and X) knew X would be going to jail for at least ten years with all of his legal charges (DV, false imprisonment, witness tampering, etc.), and so X was worth more dead than alive. Jenesis allegedly wanted X dead because she was jealous of X's ex-gf Geneva (the girl whom X was charged with abusing). Jenesis got pregnant with X's child right before he died in order to entrap him. X wasn't having that and ordered her to get an abortion (allegedly), so she orchestrated his murder on the basis of "if I can't have him no one can". Apparently, Jenesis was friends with the sister of one of the killers. Both of these theories are incredibly flaky so I wouldn't take them seriously.

The fourth theory is that the CIA killed X because X was going to reveal the existence of astral projection and many other esoteric secrets that the CIA has known for decades but hides from the general public.

>>127293168
He had a rare blood disease along with lupus that made it impossible for his body to heal. Yeah, lupus itself doesn't kill you but the comorbidities absolutely can.

>>127293252
>Drake killed him
>the CIA killed him
You honestly believe people with money would hire street dudes to carry out a hit? Drake has money and can afford to hire experienced assassins like mafia people.

>>127293298
>hire experienced assassins like mafia people
Those don't exist outside of fiction.

>>127293368
Why would a man with millions of dollars like Drake hire some stupid kids as his shooters? That's way too risky a gamble.

Besides, if Drake had anything to do with it, don't you think the killers would have ratted on him before the trial so they could get shorter sentences?

Elvis, Hendrix, Bob Marley, and Michael Jackson were all huge cultural icons with die-hard fans. It makes sense they'd have loads of posthumous releases and merch drops. Really would like to know who in their estates is making these decisions.

>>127293252
Based CIA

>>127293368
Proof they don't exist? Because theres countless known hitmen that have been involved in high stakes assassinations and even turned informant and been to court for it just a simple internet search away. Just because the ITALIAN mafia in the US is supposedly small time now doesn't mean they're all make believe. Not to say Drake would hire such a person though, he has his pick of killers all across the globe.

>>127293558
Drake has ties to the Toronto mob.

>>127293558
Watch any "former mafioso speaks" type video on youtube and they all say they don't use hitmen and there is no network of hitmen doing murder jobs for them. Or read about it from law enforcement who have infiltrated the mafia like FBI agent Joseph Pistone - he details exactly how hits go down in his book, as he was supposed to be in on some of them.
If someone needs to get killed a member of the crew gets told to do it, usually an associate who is being proposed for full membership.
>countless known hitmen that have been involved in high stakes assassinations
Examples?

>>127293368
CIA uses professional assassins.

>>127290401
Milking the dead final boss

>>127293751
CIA do it themselves or they groom a hapless retard to do it.
If you're saying those CIA agents are also taking random murder jobs for gangs and rappers, then you meet the qualifications to be groomed by a fed.

>>127293841
The CIA uses Manchurian candidates, I'm aware. But those candidates are basically groomed into becoming professional assassins.

Again, there's no way the CIA or someone with as much money as Drake would hire some low-level birdbrains to kill X. That's way too risky. They would get someone with experience to do it so the target's death is a guarantee.

>>127259862
I've seen him on everything from tea towels to cigarette lighters to Halloween costumes to fucking boots.

What's next, Bob Marley toothpaste?

>>127277618
Who controls Prince's estate?

I'm convinced that most famous musicians who died by "overdose," "accidents," and "suicide" were actually murdered. I can't prove it, but knowing the shadiness of the industry and the death clause and all sorts of other Shylock shit it's obvious these record labels want their artists dead so they can capitalize on their deaths and promote them as "legends". An early untimely death is the greatest marketing ploy. Someone must be feeding these people poisonous drugs, rigging their cars and planes, and staging their suicides.

>>127268220
>Did he record every single show he did?
He certainly tried, though he often ran into the problem of most cities not having a decent place to rent decent recording equipment for these purposes. Frank eventually purchased a professional-level mobile studio (pic related), which is kind of like the "production truck" you see sitting outside the arena at a WWE show. Frank used this mobile studio to record just about every live show for the rest of his career and those recordings sound really good. This probably explains why he released so many live recordings during this era.

>>127278250
>His thing was that he was a decent looking guy that
wut

>>127296221
You don't remember? Part of X's appeal was that women thirsted over him. I'm not saying dudes were into him, or that they wanted to be him like a james bond archetype, but that part of why he was popular was cause of the female attention

>>127259842
i only met damian and ziggy but they are cool as hell and make great music.

ziggy is a great tipper and has insane weed

>>127296337
People called him corny until he died, then he was a legend.

>>127259743 (OP)
the jazz genre has been milking the big names from the 60s heavily for decades

>>127298364
Examples?

>>127267372
Motherfucker shat on acid freaks and potheads LARPING as a straight edge dude but noooooo he couldn't stop smoking his precious fags. Smokin' fags can ruin your singing voice, guess Tobacco is a working man's drug. And coffee you Adderal meth speed freaks. Just another pipeline to stimulant abuse.>>127281944
Rod Stewart can choke on a bag of dildos

>>127294891
>I’m convinced
>I can’t prove it

>>127298313
A legend to who? Who the fuck thinks X is a legend?

>>127262548
Nobody has an idea who the fuck you're talking about.

>>127298974
Unironically, Ye and Kendrick.

>>127298976
Forgive me, I forgot /mu/ became a pop star coomer board years ago

>>127298851

Caffine and tobacco don't count. Nobody goes to prison for something they did when they were drinking too much coffee or smoking too many cigarettes. They don't even spend too much time in the basement masturbating because of them. It's like counting asprin as not being straight edge.

>>127264727
Yikes that video was hard to watch. Poor kid.

>>127260037
Courtney is broke because she did the most idiotic thing by selling off Nirvava’s catalogue. She doesn’t make money from Kurt’s music anymore. I could easily see X’s mother doing the same thing if she was offered a big enough deal.

>>127281944
So this is what the future looks like

>>127293046
Well yeah. Imagine wage slaving like a cuck

>>127298976
retard

>>127260509
This

>>127262548
Depends on what you mean by “milking”.

>>127296337
X’s biggest fans were 15-year old suburban white firms for a reason. Didn’t even care that he was a violent abuser. In fact, I’d argue that’s what made him more attractive in their eyes.

>>127299167
Nobody cares.

>>127299397
Selling your publishing rights isn’t necessarily a bad thing since it’s a lot of money upfront. Like if X’s mom spends herself into a frenzy and realizes her son’s music isn’t doing the streaming numbers it once was it would make sense for her to sell stake in her son’s music to some agency in exchange for $50 million or so.

>>127259743 (OP)
>Anyone else?
Prince; entire shelved albums have been released. mostly good stuff

Bowie's catalog is milked dry at this point. most of the posthumous releases are live albums

>>127299397
Courtney probably knows how to fuck.
I'm in love with her

>>127298974
X inspired millions of zoomers to be better people.

>>127259842
Most of the white kids who listen to him couldn’t explain the most basic aspects of Rastafarianism.

>>127300513
Hybristophilia is extremely prevalent among white girls. It's the underlying cause of most of their beliefs and views.

>>127303169
Yeah, that's why they're all falling in love with Luigi.

>>127260037
What cultural impact did X really have? Cobain and Nirvana were trendsetters who introduced millions of people to alternative rock. X rode the trend of SoundCloud rap and did nothing to innovate a genre that was already a year into its popularity.

>>127295048
Thats amazing. A mike love and lady gaga connection to zappa. Wtf

>>127298976
You mean you dont cuz you're a retard

>>127275805
Dylan Carlson killed Kurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZddSICEyGA

>>127268426
Montage of Heck was criminal.

>>127262548
The Beach Boys prior to Brian dying, at least. Yeah, you'd get the slideshow of Carl and Dennis during concerts, but Mike hated Dennis for sure amd maybe Carl too.

>>127304243
Didn't Dennis fuck Mike's daughter?

>>127304250
I think he married her or at least got her pregnant.
Some of the guys who have worked Becah Boys shows have said that Mike would come up to them and talk shit about Dennis when they had to do the slideshow for him.

>>127273540
FFS

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned (MF) DOOM yet.

>>127259743 (OP)
Miles Davis - it seems like every 18 months they come out with some additional "tapes" or "remasters" of his shit

Charles Mingus too

They seem to have chilled with John Coltrane, but he was kinda getting that treatment for a while too

>>127303273
>that's why they're all falling in love with Luigi
assuming they aren't old enough to have had insurance reject a claim or do rescission because some policy form checkbox didn't get checked.

>>127307729
He only has one posthumous release to my knowledge.

>>127308363
His private journals were recently held hostage by his former manager.

Jimi Hendrix. His family and relatives are still milking him to this day.

any black artist

>>127302625
lol no

>>127310003
Who the fuck is making these decisions???

>>127264727
Posting kids to social media should be illegal.

>>127310556
His sister IIRC

>>127259743 (OP)
Jimi Hendrix. stepsister whose running the estate (who barely knew him yet for some reason changed her last name to Hendrix) would release a recording of Jimi taking a shit if she thought people would buy it

>>127259743 (OP)
Juice WRLD, that zoomer rapper who OD'd

>>127259743 (OP)
>Elvis
Apparently Elvis supported over 100 people at some point during his lifetime.

>>127312904
He only has two posthumous releases though. I do agree that those releases have been dogshit.

>>127259743 (OP)
>Had two franken-albums released since his death, the second one loaded with guest features.

I know he’s a schmuck, but I wish Todd in the Dhadows would do a Trainwreckords episode on Bad Vibes Forever. When it came out, a lot of X fans said it was a major stain on his legacy and it did laughably awful in terms of streams/sales. A bunch of songs that had nothing to do with each other that were hastily cobbled together with features tagged on in order to make something resembling an album. It also brings up the question of when do posthumous releases cross the line of being unethical and simply put out for the money-grab. X’s mom says she had to put it out because X had contracts he needed to fulfill but they could have released more merch or got the samples cleared in his SoundCloud stuff.

>>127259973
And still they haven't released the RAH gig in all it's glory. Absolute shambles.

Prince Estate has a lot to sift through

Least milked? Maybe Joni Mitchell or Steely Dan

>>127259743 (OP)
debating hip hop

>>127273188
good times

>>127313348
There are X fans who will say BVF isn't that bad in retrospect because most of it was material X planned on releasing anyway.

>>127259743 (OP)
Maybe Marvin Gaye due to his talentless children establishing terrible precedent in in music copyright law to turn an easy dollar.

>>127259743 (OP)
most:
Buckley
Cobain
Ozzy

not in terms of releases or merch
but in terms of disproportionate media/public response in relation to their actual popularity when they died

least:
Bowie
MJ
Maurice White (leader, lead singer, and songwriter of Earth, Wind and Fire who were the 2nd-best selling group of the 70's)

>>127314796
Why Ozzy?

>>127259743 (OP)
>>127259842
>>127293401
Merch drops actually make sense because merch sales are where the artists' estates make most of their money. There is very little money to be mad in music anymore. Frances Cobain makes more money when you buy a Nirvana T-shirt than when you stream Nevermind a thousand times.

>>127259743 (OP)
How did Pac get milked more than Biggie? Bigger vault?

>>127259743 (OP)
The Beatles

Holy shit I love when you find the dumbest post in a thread full of retarded zoomer posts… this one is golden…
>>127314796
>ozzy
Holy shit are you dumb. He just died. “But the concert and all the media coverage!”. Right, he just died, retard. Not enough time to judge.
>buckley
A guy who 90% of any generation does not know. A guy significantly less popular and well-received than this father. Ask someone to name a track not hallelujah.
>Cobain
Basic bitch answer. Handsome guy committed suicide while his band was the biggest. The doc’s and books were unavoidable.
>maurice white
lol Jesus fucking Christ “hey guysh did you know Earth Wind and Fire was big but the individuals names aren’t well known! Totally irrelevant person to this conversation. Why would he have been milked? Not a massive solo artist. The band has been included on ten million tv infomercial compilations.
>MJ
“lol” the Jackson estate has milked more than everyone else on this list combined. There are multiple members of the family who live to do MJ business.
>bowie
Holy shit my son haha again what the fuck…

https://youtu.be/8nY9UflMPZM

I’m genuinely curious what YouTube grifter you kids are getting your disinformation from.

>>127302773
>Most of the white kids who listen to him couldn’t explain the most basic aspects of Rastafarianism.
Rastafarians can't explain the basic concepts of Rastafarianism. It's mostly schizo-babble from low IQ people taking ideas and concepts from other religions and mashing it together. Listen to Bob Marley talk for any length of time and his lack of intelligence is palpable but since he made some good music and talks about peace and love he's seen as "wise" to superficial and myopic people.

>>127317650
>Jeff is less known than his dad
Peak /mu/tard myopia

>>127317650
>Handsome guy committed suicide while his band was the biggest.
See:
>>127275805

>>127320491
Based Courtney!

>>127262548
rush i would say, they have been pretty respectful to peart

>>127317605
Yeah the final Beatles track that was released a few years ago used AI to clear up John's vocals.

>>127259743 (OP)
Elvis

>>127259743 (OP)
Bach

>>127275777
Makes sense when you realize about half of zoomers are autistic.

>>127259827
>and no last days by gus savant or whatever his name is doesnt count
i like when he uses the loop pedal and makes the screamy song. usually when a movie or a tv show has to make original music its always the most awful shit you ever heard in your life

>>127260144
i thought he converted to egyptian orthodox christian at the end

>>127264727
>no dad, awful women to raise him, and forced to do bullshit so his family can leech off him and his dead father
poor kid.

>>127259743 (OP)
from a pure monetary value, possibly prince
hes a special case tho since not only was he super big, he was also super autistic about always having full control of the rights of his everything, and not just whoring it out to literally anyone who asked. so only after he died were the labels able to get a hold of it and whore it out to everyone who asked
prince used to not even rly have a youtube/spotify/anything internet presence because he was just too autistic

and then theres his vault, which is pretty bottomless. so expect a new prince album to drop occasionally for the next century or so

>>127265556
Kelly and Jack will continue to milk that shit until their last breaths

>>127327761
>Millennials shown in the video
>ZOOMER ZOOMER ZOOMER
ZDS faggots need to get banned permanently so they finally kill themselves and make this board a better place

>>127330046
*Ethiopian Orthodox

>>127330046
He did convert.

>>127264727
Gekyume should have never been born in the first place. X was going to take Jenesis for an abortion the day he was killed, which is why he was taking her to the doctor. X decided last minute to go motorcycle shopping and got clout martyred while doing so. Jenesis decided to keep the baby because she wanted one last piece of X. That’s selfish af and she basically birthed Gekyume into trauma.

>>127330856
Yeah and once he died all his music immediately appeared on YouTube and Spotify.

>>127259743 (OP)
Elvis and Hendrix and it’s not even close.

>>127317650
Grace

>>127259916
>the AI verse Drake used to diss Kdot
that was funny af tho
gets a pass for sure

>>127335644
Again I’m certain that record labels will soon be creating fake AI songs from dead musicians and passing them off as the real thing.

>>127259743 (OP)
2pac easily. Look how many albums they milked out of him. Movies. Etc. all for a bunch of wiggers and wannabe black mexicans to gobble up.

>>127259827
Nirvana blows, but this film is actually good and you have shit taste.

>>127336319
It's already happening. I've seen AI King Von songs for instance.

>>127259743 (OP)
It's Elvis.
Look up Orion (there's a great documentary about him called Orion: The Man Who Would Be King - even if you're not a fan of Elvis, and I'm not a fan of his at all, it's a great watch) and how Sun Records used this man, who really did naturally sound like Elvis, to sing contemporary songs Elvis never could have sung to make people believe he was Elvis and that Elvis was still alive.
Even people who had known Elvis legitimately thought it was him in these recordings.

>>127290515
Clout

>>127259842
>random shit to a white western consumer audience

Oh, a lying racist, eat shit bitch
You know NOTHING at all

>>127302773
Racist liar