For as long as the music industry has existed, information has been a weapon, and labels have always held it. Artists sign deals, records get released, streams rack up, and then somewhere down a long, opaque pipeline, a number arrives in a statement. Quarterly. Sometimes annually. Often unexplained. You made this much. Trust us.
Mr Eazi has done something quietly radical.
At @emPawaAfrica Publishing you don’t need to wait for your statements to see your catalog is performing, download statements etc. You can do it on your phone! Really cool 👌 pic.twitter.com/UDejhBaPIj
— Sir Eazi (@mreazi) April 30, 2026
One of the pillars I found @emPawaAfrica on is transparency to artists and producers, ensuring they not only receive their statements but can also audit them easily, & any discrepancies resolved swiftly. This is why I’m happy about the Pub writer portal! E go reduce explanation pic.twitter.com/EUB3juoCIZ
— Sir Eazi (@mreazi) April 30, 2026
In two screenshots shared on X, the emPawa Africa founder showed off the emPawaPublishing app — opened up to reveal a dashboard displaying catalog size, live earnings insights, top-performing songs, and a next statement date. Basically a real-time access database for his artists to monitor their publishing performance. It is, in the plainest terms, a seismic shift in the label-artist relationship.
The implications are significant. When an artist can see exactly how their catalog is performing at any given moment, every negotiation from then on is approached differently — and that shift in posture could fundamentally rewire how the music business operates.