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" You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert. "

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" When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from. "

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" Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry. "

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