Hit-Boy taking over 2020 and beyond. . .
Hit-Boy talks Kanye West response, after years of declining to mentioning their fallout in the public. For many years, Hit-Boy has remained quiet, regarding his situation with quietly leaving G.O.O.D. Music.
With Kanye West even acting like he never worked with the southern California musician, both parties went their separate ways and remained cordial in the public eye. That was until last week, when Kanye admitted he stopped working Hit-Boy because of jealousy collaborating with Beyonce for her self-titled album on multiple tracks.
Considering how Hit-Boy helped curate Kanye’s biggest single of his career, we’re puzzled why he wouldn’t want somebody with creative juices like that in his camp. Below, you can take a look his comments about the Kanye situation, as well as more importantly breaking down the harms of nasty publishing deals.
Why He responded to Kanye, finally:
Just watching Kanye—obviously he always goes on these sporadic rants, but some of that stuff was resonating with me. A lot of people on Twitter were like, “Why even throw the Beyonce shit in there?” I’m going to tell you why. He on Twitter preaching, “I love all my brothers and we need to stick together and all this shit.” But I feel like [he] put me in a position where I was battling the “system” and I was battling with my brothers. Because it would be different if Kanye was like, “Your shit wack now, I’m not using you.” But nigga, you telling me because you saw me working with somebody else that you’re not going to pick my beats?
That was my whole point. It’s just like, [Beyonce] wasn’t the only person I worked with when I was on GOOD [Music]. Bro, I worked with so many artists and I never heard anything until I locked in with her. So that just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. And I had to bury those emotions for years. The way he was speaking just sparked me to tell my side. This is how I feel. Like I’m fighting, to me, two oppressors. Corporations and somebody that is supposed to be a true mentor to somebody like me.
Honestly, bro there were points where I’ve been driven damn near crazy over this, man. Being in a position where I know how ill I am, but then people’s general perception after I stopped working with GOOD was that I wasn’t basically doing shit no more. It’s like every single year I’m catching big joints, I’m still doing shit. But it’s not connecting as much because of the brand. You know what I’m saying? And also, when I was doing “Niggas in Paris” and all these records, you never heard Kanye in no interview shouting me out.
I never had no [producer] tags, so people didn’t fully connect it. Even with a tag, people still might not connect the shit. So it’s just a crazy uphill battle, man. And I finally was able to shed some light on how I feel about it. I feel like most people would have been like, “Fuck Kanye, bitch ass n—-.” But I tried to just put it in a way that people could digest it and understand where I’m coming from on an intelligent level.
Discussing His nasty contract situation:
We’re just in a much more exposed time. People know a lot more than they used to about the industry. They know what’s real, they know what’s fake, for the most part. People still obviously can be fooled, but it’s just more open. Obviously Kanye posted his whole contract, and people are dissecting that. So I could speak from it personally. I was literally one year out of high school, no education about this shit. There’s not much that you can learn, there’s not a lot out there to tell you how real it is, like how fucked up it can be and how much you need to protect yourself early to then be straight later on in life. For me, I was just bumping my head until I got to this point where my back was against the wall and I knew I had to just say something.
It killed me, dog. I’m watching shit, like The Last Dance, I’m looking at [Scottie] Pippen like, “N—- my contract worse than Pippen.” Shit, like I’m 14 years in and they ain’t had to really invest no real money into me. It’s just messed up. We’ve got to find some type of way to really educate the next generation man, because there’s not a lot out there. If you look online, there’s no real information on how to get out of a publishing deal. How to really avoid a terrible publishing deal. And it’s not like I’m on a decline. I literally am on the number one album [in the country] right now. So it’s like bugging, I feel it’s connected with people.
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still classic Chauncey. . .