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Podcast: Earn Your Leisure
Episode: How Big Companies *Kill the Competition* & Control the Music Game
Description: In this insightful clip from EYL, host Rashad Bilal sits down with music industry legend David Banner to break down how big corporations take over independent brands and reshape entire industries—including hip hop and music. Banner and Rashad dive deep into the legendary Beats by Dre/Apple acquisition and uncover how companies often "buy to shelf"—buying a successful brand only to suppress it and eliminate competition.David Banner shares game-changing stories from his own journey, revealing how major labels and corporations systematically absorbed independent artists, distributors, and even mom-and-pop record stores to achi...