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The Deluxe.
Buy back the beats.

The original 516R cuts are sitting in the vault — not because they weren't good, but because we never owned the beats under them. This round fixes that: we pool up, we buy the underlying production outright, and we release the Docket 516R Deluxe. Every dollar in is a deal on the record. Every deal is a split. Own it — the only way to beat it.

What happened — the honest record

Why the vault exists

When you enter the program, everything you make inside it signs to the corporation. That rule is what lets the cohort record, release, and get counted without anyone getting burned by a handshake. During 516R we cut originals on beats we leased but never owned — so the corporation did the disciplined thing: remade the production in-house, spent the budget on beats we could own, and released only what was ours. The original cuts — the first takes, the first energy — went in the vault, clean and waiting.

The proposition

Free the originals. Drop the Deluxe.

Pick your cut (or the pool).

Buy into the specific original you're on, or into the general buy-back pool that frees the whole vault.

Open a buy-in deal in the Market.

Kind: fund a project. Your amount, your name, on the record. Terms lock, both sides sign, the sheet prints — that's your certificate.

We buy the production outright.

Exclusive license or full buyout from each original producer — papered, no leases, no rented ground under our songs ever again.

The Deluxe drops. Your split lives.

Every buyer holds a recorded split on the cut they helped free. The release feeds the splits; the packets report the plays; your M Stock moves with all of it.

The numbers — what the market says

What buying a beat back costs

$20–$300Non-exclusive leases — what we had. Rented ground; can't build a deluxe on it.

$300–$1,000Typical exclusive license from an independent producer — the lane most of our beats sit in.

$1,000+Exclusives from producers with a name and a track record — priced by reputation, always negotiated.

Per beat, per producerThere is no fixed industry rate — every producer sets their own price, so every buy-back is its own negotiation.

The working model: at typical independent-exclusive rates, freeing the whole vault lands in the low four figures to mid four figures depending on how many producers say yes at what number. We price each beat with each producer before a dollar of the pool moves — the real quotes get posted to this round as they land, and no buy-in gets spent until the terms for its cut are locked in the Market.

The bigger machine

Trading music like positions

This round is the model for everything after it. A release isn't the end of a song's life — it's the listing. Post-release, the Market lets people take real positions in real records: buy into a remaster, a deluxe, a remix round, a video budget — and hold a recorded split that pays like the song pays. Your position is on a signed sheet, not a promise. Your M Stock ticks with every deal you close and every packet you file. The vault is the first exchange floor; the Deluxe is the first listing.

"I make a strategy, I'm all in — you a casualty of caution."

The round

Cohort graduates only

This page travels by link, not by search. The eight who graduated the program are the round:

Matthew McClusterXavier WashingtonOld JayOcho Gr8 Angel CastellanoLos FidelPaxton CobbEugene Izauzu

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