Normally I wouldn't get involved in this sort of arguement, but I recently had this same situation with the said rapper that is the point of this discussion. After working with him for many years and hooking him up with Mac Dre, Suga T, E-Dawg, Mr. D.O.G, and numerous other rappers that I worked with. The said rapper recently sold a verse that I had done for him, and made it very clear to him that if he sold any of my verses to anyone else that he would need to properly compensate me, as I only wanted to appear on songs with him, that he was paying me for. And being that we were doing business together I would give him good prices on the verses.
While visiting the studio one day, one of my people came across a rapper who was writing to a song that I was featured on, that was going to appear on this rappers album. I had not been made aware of this, the said rapper had not reached out to me regarding the sale of the said song. Upon reaching out to him, he wouldn't answer his phone when I called, and told my people that he wasn't going to pay anything else, and didn't care about our agreement regarding my verses.
Upon talking to said rapper on 3 way convo, as he wouldn't answer the phone when I called, we got to the bottom of this situation, and it was worked out eventually. However, this shit shouldn't have ever happened, as we are suppossed to be men, and a man's word is his bond. Had my people not went to the studio that day he would have RESOLD the verse and wouldn't have told me shit.
I have always repsected the said rapper, as he always handled his business on time, and worked hard, but as of late, there has been some rather questionable business going on, and I can attest to it, as I was a victim of said rappers actions.
Said rapper also attempted to sell songs from one of the artists that I manage. These were songs that my artist had written, and said rapper attempted to sell them to another artist in Arizona. I was alerted via the artists manager in Wyoming, as we conversated about other topics, and brought the subject up that his artist would be RESINGING my artists songs. We were never contacted by said rapper, and he was going to accept money, and wasn't going to contact us about the transaction.
I don't know what has come over said rapper, but he has been constantly RESELLING peoples work after being asked not to do so. Said rapper has worked hard to establish a fanbase, but has also conducted some rather shady business, that has damaged his reputation. The person that he sold my verse to actually posted in this thread on his behalf, and was actually the one that took care of me in terms of getting the financial side worked out so that everyone could be happy.
Hopefully this will all get worked out, but there is fact and truth to the subject that is being discussed. I am not here to ruin said rappers reputation, but after years of helping the growth of said rappers career, the defendant in this case treated me like I was a fuckin boo boo head.
Everything isn't about somebody hating on somebody else, some of this shit is about straight up bad business practices.