Akon

Forever.

Then everybody gets their piece of that.

But the writer gets it, the producer gets it, the label distributor gets it, whoever owns the masters gets their piece, like that, and it all breaks down.

That's a different hit.

Because sometimes hits come and they go.

But classics stick around for a long time.

So if you... And this goes back to the Michael... So the goal is to make classics.

This is why Mike had so much power.

Because he owned catalogs that was filled with classics.

He owned the Beatles at one point, I think.

Elvis Presley.

Yeah, it was alleged that at the end of the day, he owned too much, like he owned too many shares of Sony to where he controlled it.

So it was alleged that because he didn't want to sell, they said, okay, cool, we're going to pressure you to sell.

And if not, then we're going to devalue you to the point where it's not worth that much.

Holy shit.

And that's where that came in to devalue him.

And what is devaluing him do to the records?

Oh, it doesn't really do much to the records itself, but it does...

To his financial situation?

Yes.