A short excerpt from a Worldwide Ty YouTube video about artists and contract negotiations. SPEAKER A discusses the dilemma artists face when offered money on unfavorable contract terms, contrasting the pressure to accept with the leverage afforded by having "fuck you money" to refuse bad deals.
When you are working as an artist, making some noise, someone brings you a contract with some money on it, right? Yeah. The terms can be terrible, but you need this bread. You got some fuck you money. You can tell them where to put that contract at, take your money and keep running it up. But most people from, like an artist standpoint, are rarely in a position to say fuck you. Yeah, you always in a position to say fuck you in my mind, yeah.
