Music Industry

Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo is being sued by two Georgia producers who claim they were shorted advances and royalties relating to his album “Units in the City”.

Producers Cory Way and Teriyakie Smith filed the lawsuit last week against Shawty Lo and D4L Records in the Fulton County Superior Court. The producers claim they had an oral agreement with Shawty Lo and D4L Records, which was supposed to have amended their original, written agreement.

According to their complaint, the pair agreed to produce Shawty Lo’s album Units in the City, which was released on a Asylum/Atlantic Records in February of 2008. Continue Reading…

The Original 7vn just released their latest album “Condensate” and guess what? To steal a line from one of the homies, the album went dust. Know why? Because The Original 7vn’s album Condensate only sold 7000 copies mane.

Here’s what an insider revealed:

“With all that money Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam got. They could have paid for better promotion.

Jesse Johnson is back producing and he’s working with Sue Anne Caldwell. Sue was the one who brought crack into Prince’s camp. Sue is like the Superhead of the 80s. Continue Reading…

The co-founder of Sugar Hill Records Sylvia Robinson died this morning from congestive heart failure at the Medowlands Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey.

75 year old Sylvia Robinson, was a talented artist who recorded and wrote many hit songs but she also had a reputation for ripping-off her artist. Don’t believe me? Ask Grandmaster Flash.

Here’s what an insider had to say:

“Sylvia’s son Joey ripped-off everybody. Joey feeds Big Bad Hank crack. He broke up the group Sugar Hill Gang.

Joey tours with a fake Sugar Hill Gang group and he’s constantly ripping off European promoters. Continue Reading…

Jewell Capels is the songstress who wrote and sang the hooks for many major hit songs over at Death Row Records and elsewhere. Don’t believe me? Ask Dr. Dre.

On October 25, Jewell will be releasing her tell all book titled “Blood Sweat & Tears” and guess what? I can’t wait to read it.

Here’s what Jewell had to say about Snoop:

” The most hurtful thing to me was when Snoop Dogg went to Master P’s label, I hooked back up with him and Dr. Dre and we made “Just Dippin.” Then I made another song with Snoop called “Don’t Tell.” Snoop didn’t want to pay me! I admit I was kind of temperamental but who wouldn’t be if you were with a label and they robbed you of your credit and never really paid you for your work? I got some money from Death Row but it wasn’t even a fraction of what I should’ve been given. But back to Snoop, we had an agreement where I was only charging him $5,000 for two songs – and he didn’t want to pay me. I’ve never been paid for those songs either because we could never come to an agreement – yet they still put the songs out.”

Wait there’s more!!! Continue Reading…

This generation is spoiled. Know why? Because they want everything for free mane.

Now, people only expect to get music for free — What part of the game is that? Don’t they know musicians work hard to make songs? There are costs in making a good record, including a list of people who must be paid (the guitar player, bassist, drummer, keyboard player, engineer, back-up singers) and studio supplies (liquor, Kush and food).

More people are listening to music than ever before… – but they would rather download and steal songs off the internet mane. I wonder how those people would feel if I came to their workplace and stole 10 hours off their 40 hour a week pay check? People have no respect for the job of a musician. They say stuff like, “Music is free” that’s easy to say if you’re a journalist or a mailman. That’s why I say we need find a way to limit piracy and enfoce laws already on the books. Continue Reading…