Logic and Zarou turned down a $1.5M indie contract while broke
Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) · Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018) · Aug 16, 2021 · at 32:17
Hip-hop artist Logic and manager Chris Zarou discuss rejecting early multi-million-dollar buyout offers to maintain creative and business control over Visionary Music Group.
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“In front of us. And Chris had it. And I remember he said something really corny. It was really funny. Like he was just excited. He was like, how much you think our brand that we're creating is worth? And I was like, I don't know. And he was like, Well, somebody thinks it's worth 1.5 million. And mind you, it's like, bro, like 1.5 million dollars is a lot of money right now. Like it's like, let alone is like some super broke young kids. And so we turned it down and long story short. Yeah. We turned it down like it was nothing.”
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