On a latest episode of Membership Shay Shay, Hip-Hop legend Scarface informed Shannon Sharpe that he doesn’t care in regards to the music business anymore.
Identified for being a part of the Houston group Geto Boys and his hit track “Smile” with Tupac, Scarface mentioned he’s grow to be “very bitter” in regards to the music sport and has misplaced all curiosity in it. Sharpe requested if Scarface wants to listen to songs that pattern his music earlier than approving them. Scarface shortly shut it down: “I don’t care about nothing that gots something to do with the music sport anymore.
Very bitter about it.” His response caught Sharpe off guard, and he requested why Scarface feels that method.
Scarface defined that it largely comes all the way down to the contracts. He believes the music business is unfair and has been for a very long time. “The music business inside itself is incorrect,” he mentioned. He went on to say he’d like to check the contracts of teams just like the Beastie Boys to these of the Geto Boys, or Maze’s contract to Van Halen’s. “I do know it’s an enormous, massive distinction between the pay scales in these contracts. So I don’t care what they do with it,” he mentioned.
What Scarface is stating is one thing that’s been talked about for years, how Black artists typically worsen offers than white artists in the identical business. His frustration exhibits how deeply that unfair remedy has affected him, even in spite of everything his success. His feedback come at a time when different artists are additionally combating with labels. For instance, Drake is presently in a authorized battle with Common Music Group over a contract dispute tied to Kendrick Lamar’s diss monitor “Not Like Us.”
Despite the fact that Scarface’s music nonetheless will get respect and love from followers, he’s made it clear he needs nothing to do with the enterprise aspect of Hip-Hop anymore. For him, the enjoyment of constructing music has been taken away by years of being handled unfairly.
