Brymo has said he does not intend to be signed to any Nigerian music label.
But his position is may change if two conditions are fulfilled.
He said on Rubbin’ Minds he does not want to be signed to any label for now.
Brymo explained that he would sign a deal when royalty and piracy is eradicated.
“I wouldn’t take a deal in Nigeria right now,” He said.
“When those things [royalty system and piracy control] I just said are done it would be workable.”
He said labels in the country invest in artists without having a clear idea how to recoup it.
“If you put ₦20,000,000 on my budget how do you intend to make it back? From endorsement deals or concerts?”
However, The Wizard stated that endorsement deals and income from concerts are artists’ secondary source of income.
He pointed the primary sources of income of artists to include earnings from royalties and album sales.
“Endorsement deals or concerts, high art concerts: they’re secondary avenues of making money for us. Our primary sources of income still remains our mechanical royalties on radio, our record sales directly: those are like our primary sources of income.”
Brymo maintained that if the issues of royalty collection and piracy were not fixed, artists would never be free.
“If we don’t fix that we’d never be free. Because if you signed me up and you wanted to make your money back, you’d have to call your friends in telecoms companies so you can give me a deal.”
Way Forward
Brymo recommended that the only way to avoid that is to take full control of the royalty and record sales structure for artists.
In the past few years, Brymo has been about the only Nigerian artist agitating for the creation of a true royalty system for the music industry. His interview with Rubbin’ Minds reiterated his previously held views on how the music industry in Nigeria runs.